How Porter Airlines Bucks the Trend With an Animated Mascot
Porter, a regional Canadian airline, has quietly built a unique brand through print and animated ads featuring a jet-setting raccoon …
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 …
This is the only animator-for-hire ad you need to read on Craigslist this week.
Last week, I flew out from Los Angeles to New York to attend the annual Dusty animation screening at the School of Visual Arts. I watched …
Last week after word got out that Disney was seeking to trademark “Día de los Muertos” in preparation for its 2015 release of a Pixar …
In last weekend’s NY Times Sunday Magazine, the paper published a profile of artist Paul McCarthy in connection with his new show WS …
Fake CG animation was a big deal in the early-1980s. What can digital animators today learn from this short-lived trend?
The line between animation and video games has long been blurred. There was the Saturday Supercade on CBS in the mid-80s, where Frogger, …
The new print issue of Mother Jones (May/June 2013) has a fascinating piece about DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and his …
Audiences can instantly recognize a cute cartoon character when they see one, but why are memorable cute characters so difficult to create?