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Web Roundup: Brave Hair, T. Hee, And Animation’s “Onion”

FX Guide offers an in-depth look at how Pixar created the curly red hair of Brave’s Merida including a 30-minute audio podcast with Pixar …

Once upon a time, way back in 1937… MGM decided to produce its own cartoons and set up a studio on the lot. They ended their …

The Walt Disney Family Museum announced yesterday their first major special exhibition, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of …

The consummately cute Fifties-era Hallmark booklet below was drawn by Louie Schmitt (1908-1993) and painted by Stan Spohn (1915-2012), …

Golden Age animator Phil Monroe (1916-1988) is rarely discussed, even amongst animation cognoscenti, which is unfortunate because he had …

It’s been exactly one year since we first told you about Tom Stathes’ ambitious Bray Animation Project website. Both it and its …

The complete output of animation produced by UPA may never be definitively collected, as they produced a large quantity of material for …

Animation voice actor Richard Beals (aka Dick Beals) passed away this week at age 85. Nobody has a better obit online than Mark Evanier, …

Swiss animator Oswald Iten has written an enlightening analysis of the different approaches to narrative and characterization used by the …

Watching Kontraste by Sieglinde Hamacher makes me realize I’ve never seen any East German animation. From what I’ve read, their state-run …

Kaj Pindal, who turns eighty-five years old this year, ranks up there as one of my all-time favorite animators. Pindal typically works …

Jake Friedman emailed yesterday to tell me about BabbittBlog.com, a site dedicated to all things Art Babbitt. Jake has been researching a …

If not for the cutting and pacing of the film, it would be easy to imagine Walerian Borowczyk’s Les Astronautes had been made today–and …

Ya’ know, I was just thinking that I haven’t done a post about Little Audrey in a long time. So to remedy that, here’s a fun children’s …

The documentary above offers a fascinating look at the Key Frame animation system designed by Marceli Wein and Nestor Burtnyk at the …

CONTEST IS CLOSED! WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY. I’ve got two copies to give away of TCM’s 3-dvd UPA Jolly Frolics set. It’s …

I watched all the UPA theatrical shorts back when I was writing Cartoon Modern, but seeing them restored on TCM’s new 3-DVD “Jolly …

Dark Hall Mansion, who produces those cool Peanuts Specials limited edition posters by Tom Whelan, are at it again. This time they’ve …

Here’s a little treat I’d never seen before – and I don’t see it listed in any of the filmographies: a rare ten minute Felix the Cat …

To fully appreciate Opus III by German filmmaker Walter Ruttman, it’s worth it to first look at a typical cartoon from 1924, such as this …