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More about the closure of Wild Brain San Francisco

It’s been a tough year in San Francisco. First, The Orphanage shut down, and then we reported earlier this month that Wild Brain is a …

Here’s a shocker: people aren’t willing to spend their hard-earned money to see a Broadway musical with a lead character that looks like …

…but that ain’t gonna happen, though part of me wishes it could. Turner made this statement in an interview today with Bloomberg …

Joe Murray is in the planning stages of a new site called KaBoing TV, which he envisions as “an all cartoon, all animation channel, not …

Earlier this week, Wild Brain co-founder Phil Robinson and Wild Brain producer Amy Capen officially announced the launch of a boutique …

In this economy, any work is better than none, but as I pointed out last week, there are some offers you may want to think twice about. …

A Cartoon Brew reader pointed out this blatant ad on Craigslist asking animation artists to work on a Cartoon Network pilot with no …

Canadian animation studio Fatkat has shut its doors. The studio employed 100 people at its peak providing service work on shows like …

Forbes.com just posted a rather flimsy column about animated features, discussing how much money they make and claiming there are “45 or …

In case you haven’t been following news developments in the “real world”: Gawker is reporting that the “suspected Israeli operative” …

When one thinks of David Stainton, the former president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, what are the first two descriptive terms that …

We heard last week that the MyToons site had shut down for good. MyToons, for those who don’t know, was a “social networking” site for …

Artist Christopher Panzner is promoting a new animation technique that he has dubbed Re:Naissance, which is essentially rotoscoped key …

Now that Michael Eisner has purchased the ailing Topps baseball card company, he’s finally in charge of a company that has to use all of …

The latest issue of Fortune has a short article in which Jeffrey Katzenberg offers a few tips on how he keeps his artists happy. There’s …

The NY Times published a lengthy piece last week about how DreamWorks Animation is performing financially. None too shabby is the Times’ …

Yesterday, Stu Maschwitz, the co-founder of San Francisco-based visual fx house The Orphanage, announced on his blog that they’re …

Rumors start making their way around the Internet last night, on websites like FirstShowing.net and the Animation Guild blog, that the LA …

Blogs were abuzz last week after it was revealed that Disney CEO Bob Iger took home $30.6 million in salary and bonuses in 2008. So what …

Last week’s post about Frank Zappa, Tex Avery and the place of executives generated a lot of feedback, including this email from Bruno …