Listen to Phil Tippett’s Great Tip To Artists At the Annie Awards
A simple tip to artists from a stop motion master.
Ideas/Commentary
Disney Princesses Gone Mild
A recent blog post on the Guardian brings up a common misconception: that sexualizing Disney characters is somehow daring or cutting edge.
Pixar Makes Painterly CG: New Research Could Change The Look of Their Films
Last summer at SIGGRAPH, Pixar presented a paper offering some clues about one of the major new directions that CG feature animation is headed. The paper, “Stylizing Animation By Example,” explored how filmmakers could achieve more expressive rendering styles that disregard the perfect boundaries of computer graphics rendering and mimic traditional painting techniques.
Where Cartoon Brew Readers Are From: 2013 Edition
Find out which studios, schools, and countries visited Cartoon Brew most frequently last year.
Walt Disney Was No ‘Gender Bigot’
While we’ve already debunked Meryl Streep’s accusations that Walt Disney was a “gender bigot,” let us use her commetns as an opportunity to dig even deeper and find out what actions Disney actually undertook to encourage the advancement of women at his studio.
How BingTangHuLuer Is Building China’s Indie Animation Community
Yesterday we looked at “Boonie Bears,” a Chinese attempt to emulate Western-style computer animation. But at the risk of overgeneralizing contemporary Chinese animation on the basis of their most derivative and commercial efforts, I wanted to offer another perspective.
Popeye and “One Piece”: Two Tattoos, One Idea
Take your pick: a tattoo of a classic Golden Age American cartoon character or a popular contemporary anime character.
“Random Acts”: Creating A Space for Independent Animated Films in Britain
In October 2011, Britain’s Channel 4 began airing a new initiative entitled Random Acts; this was designed as a space for …
The Most Viewed Cartoon Brew Posts of 2013
We reveal the top 30 Cartoon Brew posts of the past year based on the number of pageviews each post received.
Our Favorite Cartoon Brew Posts of 2013
In 2013, we published more content on Cartoon Brew than ever before. Here are some of our favorite pieces from throughout the year.
Criterion’s First Animated Feature Release in 20 Years: A Sign of Things to Come?
On February 18, 2014, the Criterion Collection will do something that they rarely ever do: release an animated film.
New Markets for Animators: Crime Re-enactment Films
Here’s a new and potentially lucrative market for animators: recreating alleged crimes with computer animation.
British Animation Landscape is Robust but Underfunded, New Report Reveals
Animate Projects, the non-profit organization that supports experimental animation in Britain, has always been keen to adapt. Officially …
Will the Animated Short Oscar Become Relevant Again This Year?
There has been noticeable grumbling and griping within the animation community over the past few years about the Animated Short category …
The Disney Architecture Legacy of Michael Eisner
In 1990, when the Dolphin and Swan hotels opened at Walt Disney World, it marked the start of the ill-fated Disney Decade, a plan …
“Turmoil in the Toy Box” Revisited
Author Phil Phillips spent the 1980s warning parents about the occult forces in children’s TV animation. While his notoriety has passed, fear of the messages in cartoons still exists today.
Must-Read Commentary on Pixar, Joe Ranft and the “22 Rules of Storytelling”
In 2011, Emma Coats, a now-former Pixar story artist, tweeted out a series of twenty-two storytelling tips she’d picked up during her …
Bill Watterson: I Have Zero Interest in Animating “Calvin and Hobbes”
The notoriously reclusive Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes,” speaks about why there will never be an animated version of his classic comic strip.
Joanna Quinn Says Disney Animator’s Comments Are “Complete Rubbish,” Animating Women with Emotions is Easy [UPDATED]
Last week we reported on the controversy sparked by Frozen’s head of animation Lino DiSalvo following his comments about the difficulties …
“Frozen” Head of Animation Says Animating Women is “Really, Really Difficult”
Disney’s Frozen won’t be released theatrically for another month-and-half, but it’s already melting into one giant slushee of controversy.
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