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Early Animation Wiki

I am happy to announce the creation of a new resource for cartoon research: The Early Animation Wiki. This site is the creation of …

Shorts

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Here’s a couple of odds and ends I didn’t around to posting this past week. First up, Chris Jones spent six years making The Passenger …

Disney

Snow White in Apples

An appropriate Thanksgiving Day post: food artist Prudence Staite was commissioned by Disney to recreate scenes from Snow White and the …

Feature Film

Planet 51 talkback

I was at the CTN Expo last weekend and completely forgot to see Planet 51. Am I missing something? If you saw it, I’d love to read your …

Animators

CTN wrap up

One last post and a few more snaps from CTN yesterday: Peter De Seve signs copies of his new book A Sketchy Past for a huge crowd. …

Classic

Mish-Mish in National Defense

We’ve posted about Mish Mish cartoons before – but here’s a new one you gotta see. The character was the star of a popular Egyptian …

Events

Cartoon Dump Tonight!

Duncan Trussell and Dana Gould are our guest comedians for tonight’s live Cartoon Dump show in Los Angeles. We are now on Monday nights, …

Comics

The Sunday Funnies 11/22/09

This week’s comic strips with references to classic cartoon stars. Above Mark Parisi’s Off The Mark from Thursday (removed by request …

Events

Day Two: CTN Expo with Don & Gary

And on the Second Day, the CTN Expo became Comic Con for animators. Day 2 at CTN-X was wall-to-wall with attendees, standing room …

Pixar

The Academy (Shorts) Short-List

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today its short-list of the 10 animated short films that will vie for …

Animators

Day One: CTN-Expo is a hit!

First a few quick snaps: Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells) and Donnachada Daly Lou Romano (center) gives a young artist some …

Music Videos

Children In Need music video

Every year, the BBC airs a Children In Need charity fundraiser. This year they produced a stop motion music video which, especially for …

Classic

Two by Two (1966)

I got into a discussion with a friend last week about the horrible theatrical cartoons of the 1960s. I call them “drive-in cartoons” …

Events

Academy Salute to UPA in New York

I just found out that as part of its monthly Monday Nights With Oscar film series in New York, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and …

Events

ToonSeum

A new museum of animation, cartoon and comic art has opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It’s called ToonSeum and it just had its grand …

Anime

Dante’s Inferno

Starz Film-Roman is producing this new animated direct-to-video feature, Dante’s Inferno: the Animated Epic, through animators in Japan …

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