“Boats” Explains How Animation Blockbusters Are Made
Is there anything more worthy of lampooning than bottom line-feeding studio executives unapologetically infecting a once-trusted movie …
Is there anything more worthy of lampooning than bottom line-feeding studio executives unapologetically infecting a once-trusted movie …
One of the better-known shorts made by John and Faith Hubley is Moonbird, from 1959. This film came about when the Hubleys made a secret …
Sometimes a TV commercial is just a TV commercial. But not this time. This new spot for auto insurance company GEICO is noteworthy for …
Well, it’s that time of year again. A couple animated films perform below-average at the box office and the mainstream media begins …
Nickelodeon has rolled out a new set of promos for their upcoming slate of animated shows in a series of behind-the-scenes clips embedded …
Luke Epplin writes convincingly in The Atlantic about the supremacy of the ‘magic-feather syndrome’ in kids’ animated features, which is …
The Wall Street Journal published a story last weekend about Hollywood’s struggle to recoup its costs on big-budget tentpole films, but …
Director Henry Selick (Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas) states the obvious about the American animated feature …
Porter, a regional Canadian airline, has quietly built a unique brand through print and animated ads featuring a jet-setting raccoon …
The potted history of animation’s shifting demographics should be familiar. Once, animated films were aimed at general audiences. Over …
Flawed film premises weren’t invented in the last decade. In 1977, a gentleman named Lorenzo Music was developing an animated feature …
Among the juicier dramas surrounding the production of the megahit Despicable Me 2 is Al Pacino’s sudden departure from the film. Six …
Twitter’s six-second looping video platform, Vine, is not revolutionary, but it is an important evolutionary development in online video. …
And maybe we can even learn a thing or two from them.
Just by looking at this “bar code”, can you tell what animated movie this is? Go on, take a guess: Give up? It’s Bambi. For …
The We The People petition website is run by the White House and bills itself as a site that gives “all Americans a way to engage their …
Identifying the next Jeffrey Katzenberg or George Lucas isn’t something easily done, but a columnist at the Washington Post has figured …
Every decade or so, there is talk of an animation museum in the United States, and while none has ever been built, two new museums on the …
Recently, Ben Shapiro at Breitbart.com alleged that Margeret Loesch, CEO of the Hub, the network that brought you My Little Pony: …
Many people online have already criticized the premise of Monsters University, which appears to want to be both a raunchy college life …