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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 …
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How Can We Make Adult Animation Truly Adult?
The potted history of animation’s shifting demographics should be familiar. Once, animated films were aimed at general audiences. Over …
Ward Kimball Explains to a Hollywood Producer Why An Animated Film About A Snail Is A Stupid Idea
Flawed film premises weren’t invented in the last decade. In 1977, a gentleman named Lorenzo Music was developing an animated feature …
Once and For All, Al Pacino Proves the Worthlessness of Celebrity Voice Actors
Among the juicier dramas surrounding the production of the megahit Despicable Me 2 is Al Pacino’s sudden departure from the film. Six …
An Appreciation of Twitter’s Vine Format
Twitter’s six-second looping video platform, Vine, is not revolutionary, but it is an important evolutionary development in online video. …
Love Them or Hate Them, The Minions Are Here To Stay
And maybe we can even learn a thing or two from them.
Movie Barcode Compresses Entire Movies into A Single Image
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 …
Why Does Barack Obama Hate Brad Bird’s “The Incredibles”?
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 …
“Washington Post” names Nick Weidenfeld The “Next Jeffrey Katzenberg”
Identifying the next Jeffrey Katzenberg or George Lucas isn’t something easily done, but a columnist at the Washington Post has figured …
The Five Biggest Challenges of Building a Film Museum
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 …
Is The Hub’s “SheZow” The First Transgendered Cartoon Character For Kids?
Recently, Ben Shapiro at Breitbart.com alleged that Margeret Loesch, CEO of the Hub, the network that brought you My Little Pony: …
The Most Inappropriate “Monsters University” Movie Tie-In
Many people online have already criticized the premise of Monsters University, which appears to want to be both a raunchy college life …
The Only Animation Ad You Need to Read on Craigslist This Week
This is the only animator-for-hire ad you need to read on Craigslist this week.
From Animation School to the Real World
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 …
Digging into Disney’s “Day of the Dead” Problem
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 …
The NY Times Compares Walt Disney to Hitler for Apparently No Reason
In last weekend’s NY Times Sunday Magazine, the paper published a profile of artist Paul McCarthy in connection with his new show WS …
Max Headroom And The Strange World Of Pseudo-CGI
Fake CG animation was a big deal in the early-1980s. What can digital animators today learn from this short-lived trend?
“DuckTales Remastered” Pushes Video Game Nostalgia To New Heights
The line between animation and video games has long been blurred. There was the Saturday Supercade on CBS in the mid-80s, where Frogger, …
Why Jeffrey Katzenberg is Considered Among the Most Powerful People in American Politics
The new print issue of Mother Jones (May/June 2013) has a fascinating piece about DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and his …
Why Is It So Difficult to Make Cute Cartoon Characters?
Audiences can instantly recognize a cute cartoon character when they see one, but why are memorable cute characters so difficult to create?
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