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John Canemaker in the NY TIMES
Yesterday’s NY TIMES (use BugMeNot to bypass registration) had a piece by Charles Solomon about John Canemaker’s Oscar-nominated short …
Amid Amidi
Tachiguishi Retsuden
TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN is an upcoming Japanese animated film by Mamoru Oshii (GHOST IN THE SHELL) and Production IG. It is yet another …
Doogal Tanks
Well, that didn’t take long. Congrats to our friends at the Weinstein Company for releasing the first CGI bomb of 2006, DOOGAL. The film …
Classic Cartoon Video Podcasts
Michael Barrier posted an article excerpt on his site from yesterday’s WALL STREET JOURNAL that said the Vintage ToonCast, which is an …
Don Knotts, RIP
Don Knotts has passed away. He’ll always be remembered as Barney Fife and Raph Furley, though Knotts also had a lot of animation to his …
The New Yorker Cover That Wasn’t
This story is more about illustration than cartoons, but Bill Joyce is a familiar face in animation nowadays. He was the production …
Evolution of a Disney Character
Master character designer Harald Siepermann has been doing some exceptional posts on his blog where he discusses how he arrived at the …
Animation Storytelling: The Pitch
Story artist Jenny Lerew has written another wonderful piece on animation storytelling, this time with a discussion of the story pitch, …
“Remixing the Magic” in LA TIMES
Alex Chun has been writing some excellent animation/pop culture-related pieces for the LA TIMES in recent months, and his most recent …
The (Mis)Marketing of Feature Animation
The FPS MAGAZINE blog has a thought-provoking piece by Marc Hairston about how Disney – not having learned anything from their clumsy …
Happy Birthday, Nina Simone
Today is Nina Simone’s birthday (Feb. 21, 1933-April 21, 2003), and to commemorate the date, here’s a soulful stop-motion music video for …
Puffy Blog
The guys and gals of the HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI crew at Renegade Animation have put up a blog HERE. There’s a lot of talented artists on the …
Oswald South of the Border
Mexican reader Uriel Durán writes to let us know that Oswald is popular nowadays in Mexico, as well as Japan: The situation is that in …
Cartoon Brew Film of the Week: WELCOME TO GLARINGLY
There’s a lot of animation nowadays that has a retro-pixel look with blocky graphics. None I’ve seen execute the look as elegantly as the …
Aardman’s Johnnie Walker spot
This is an interesting, if not entirely successful, CG ad for Johnnie Walker produced by Aardman Animations. The one-minute spot brings …
Highly Recommended Reading
Visit HERE for an excellent blog post by feature story artist Jenny Lerew discussing simplicity in animation storytelling and how it …
Andrew Stanton Interview
How cool is this – Pixar animator Andrew Gordon has done a three-part podcast interview with co-worker Andrew Stanton, the director of …
Comments on CARS Clips
Pixar previewed a couple clips from CARS at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. Here’s a description of the clips shown. More …
Meddling Michael
Did Michael Eisner attempt to break up the Disney-Pixar merger?Use BugMeNot to bypass NY POST registration.(Thanks, klahd222)
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