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More In This Month’s Wired
Another reason to get your hands on the issue of WIRED that Jerry mentions below is that my pal Jon Gibson has a nice piece in there …
Amid Amidi
Animation Festival Done Right
The WEBSITE for the Ottawa Animation Festival (September 22-26, 2004) has just posted details for all of their screenings and …
Pixar’s Growing Pains
Here is a FOLLOW-UP to this STORY from a few days ago about Pixar’s plans to expand their Emeryville campus. Unless the Emeryville City …
Seonna Hong Show
The talented Seonna Hong, whose BG paintings can be seen on MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT and TEACHER’S PET, has a painting show that opens …
The Art Of Silver
With the plethora of sketchbooks being published by animation artists nowadays, it takes a little extra effort to stand out from the …
Seinfeld+Animation=Tonight on NBC
Airing on NBC tonight is THE ADVENTURES OF SEINFELD & SUPERMAN from 8:44-9 pm. The live-action/animated combo will be hawking American …
JACK BRADBURY, R.I.P.
Golden Age Disney animator and prolific “funny animal” comic book artist Jack Bradbury passed away last week at the age of 89. Mark …
Emeryville Turning Into Pixarville
The SAN FRANCISCO GATE has a piece HERE about Pixar’s ambitious expansion plans. The studio has a 20-year, $325 million development plan …
Linkin Park’s “Breaking the Habit”
Sunday’s LA TIMES had a short piece on the new Linkin Park music video “Breaking the Habit” which was supervised (and according to the …
SIMPSONS Voice Actors Still Fighting?
The NY DAILY NEWS reports that even though Fox Television announced over a week ago that they’d reached a deal with THE SIMPSONS voice …
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A JOB?
A nicely done black-&-white Fleischer-style anti-Bush cartoon spot. It was written and directed by Tom Neely and Greg Saunders, and …
Thanks Mark!
A hearty thanks from Jerry Beck and myself to Mark Mayerson for being our first guest contributor, and a superb one at that. Over the …
Katzenberg Genius Moment of the Week
Here’s a photo of Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and Jack Black at the Cannes Film Festival riding atop an inflatable SHARK TALE pool toy. …
Cat-astrophic Cartoons
I think I’ve spotted the big new trend in CG animation: eerie, quasi-realistic looking orange cats. Alright, it’s only SHREK 2 and …
AAAGGH! MY EYES!
SHREK: FROM THE SWAMP TO THE SCREEN is hands-down the ugliest “art of” book I’ve ever seen for an animated film, which is probably owing …
Tim Biskup’s 100 Paintings
Tim Biskup’s new book 100 PAINTINGS is tiny – about 5″ x 5″ – but that’s because the 100 paintings in it are even tinier – 3-1/2″ x …
Sick of Indian Animation Yet?
An enlightening interview with the heads of the Indian animation studio Padmalaya Telefilms can be found HERE. The execs discuss various …
India’s Talent Crisis
Continuing our coverage of the Indian animation scene, here is an article from THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS that reports while India is expected …
SIMPSONS Voice Actors Swimming in D’oh
The LA WEEKLY’s Nikki Finke writes a fascinating account of the childish behind-the-scenes maneuvering that went on during the recently …
WonderCon Report
Pixar artist Ronnie del Carmen has a report and photos from the San Francisco comic convention WonderCon which took place last week (see …
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