Corny Cole loses home in California wild fires
Legendary animator and CalArts faculty Corny Cole has lost his home and everything in it during the recent fires in Southern California. …
From fully-animated features to vfx-driven live-action films, animation is an integral part of the theatrical marketplace today.
Legendary animator and CalArts faculty Corny Cole has lost his home and everything in it during the recent fires in Southern California. …
$9.99 is a new clay animated feature-length movie opening in Los Angeles for an Oscar qualifying one week engagement on December 12th. …
A local LA animation student who asks not to be named sends in this rumor that’s too juicy not to share: Just a bit of info from one …
The website Art of the Title has posted the 2D-animated Dream and End Credits sequences from Kung Fu Panda along with production notes …
Michel Ocelot’s animated feature Azur and Asmar will open October 17th for a one-week run at the IFC Center in New York City. This film, …
Attention Angelenos! Nina Paley’s incredibly wonderful full length feature film Sita Sings The Blues will have its Los Angeles Premiere …
I alluded in an earlier Brew story that Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville) wasn’t happy with his short-lived directing stint on …
The Seward Street blog, run by a DreamWorks animator, notes that Chris Sanders is no longer directing Crood Awakening at DreamWorks and …
Amid and I are still in Ottawa immersed in animation. One film we haven’t seen is Igor, which opened all over the U.S. and Canada this …
Today’s L.A. Times features a story on Waltz With Bashir, the sure-to-be-controversial animated feature from Israel, being screened at …
Last year Joe Dante (Looney Tunes Back In Action) established a terrific website called Trailers From Hell, featuring audio commentary by …
A 35-minute collection of classic Saul Bass film titles with narration and insights by Bass himself: (via Smashing Telly)
The LA Times reports (with several errors) on the passing of Morris Sullivan, the man who financed the Don Bluth studio and produced An …
As the line between live-action and animation blurs, there are more and more controversies about what qualifies as animation. Is A …
I saw an unexpectedly great live-action film last night–Tarsem’s The Fall (view the trailer here). The film’s production design is …
Is this bus stop ad from Norway part of the official DreamWorks marketing campaign or did they receive some assistance from the public? …
Hurtling 3-D objects at viewers is not a substitute for quality filmmaking as last week’s weak opening of the 3-D animated pic Fly Me to …
Try as he might, illustrator Jake Parker couldn’t make sense of the world that Pixar created for Cars. He writes: And that leads me to …
Over at OMGlists.com is an article on Seven Films That Killed Studios. Two on the list are animated features. There is no denying …
For those (like me) who keep score, it’s interesting to note that as of this week Pixar’s Wall•E and Dreamwork’s Kung Fu Panda are …