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New Books you should know about* (*if you don’t already)
Here are several new publications that were sent my way during the past month that I think Cartoon Brew readers will like, or love or at …
Month: May 2011
Meet Jennifer Yuh Nelson, the director of ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’
The Korean-American director of Kung Fu Panda 2, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, is (I believe) the first female Asian director of a major animated …
How Netflix’s ‘Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight’ Balances Classic Comic Roots With Modern CG Aesthetics (EXCLUSIVE)
Production designer Aurélien Prédal explains the visual strategy, shifting styles, and aesthetic challenges behind the global series adaptation.
“a.breeze.from.mt.Parnassus” by Vitaliy Strokous
Vitaliy Strokous is a name to remember… Here’s his second year CalArts film, an ode to noncomformity:
“Koko’s Earth Control” (1928) by Max & Dave Fleischer
Max and Dave Fleischer (and animator Dick Heumer) explain it all in this 1928 classic cartoon. If you had to recommend one cartoon …
“Vestmanna Eyjar” by Einar Baldvin
Back in February, Amid post Einar Baldvin’s Cal Arts thesis film, Catatonic. Baldvin just completed a musical piece in collaboration with …