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What Tex Avery And Frank Zappa Both Knew About Making Great Entertainment

Want to understand why entertaining cartoons are all but impossible to produce nowadays? You can have the answer in just two short …

The Mass Animation project headed by former Sony Pictures Animation exec Yair Landau continues to receive press, most recently in an …

Viacom is asking Time Warner Cable for a raise – and if they don’t get it they will pull their channels off the cable service AT MIDNIGHT …

The Animation Guild blog linked to this Variety article about the financial woes of animation outfit Imagi Int’l, which has studios in …

The big animation layoff news of the past week came out of Oregon-based Laika. The Oregonian reported that the studio laid off 65 people …

The official Rankin/Bass website has a disturbing front page story that alleges Warner Bros. is witholding millions of dollars owed to …

The CG animated feature Delgo opened last weekend and nobody went to see it. According to Box Office Mojo, Delgo had the worst opening …

Just a week after the news about Nick’s downsizing in New York comes this rumor about NY studio Animation Collective. A reliable Cartoon …

There’s a war brewing in the animation software world and Cartoon Brew is right in the thick of it. In fact, I only became aware of the …

(photo from Paint Monster blog) The holidays just got a little less jolly for NY animation artists. I’m hearing reports that among the …

Here is a message from Treat Studios co-founder Matt Layzell: Thanks very much for the attention but we’re not actually connected to …

Not enough people talk about animation budgets and salaries and I think that’s a shame. It’s hard to produce good work without knowing …

The new blog Market Saw keeps readers updated about the latest 3D craze sweeping the feature animation biz (and movie industry as a …