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This Is How Film Fundraising Worked Before Kickstarter

Fred Mogubgub was among the New York animation scene’s innovative figures of the Sixties and Seventies. One of his most famous artistic …

Film critic Patrick Goldstein recently wrote his last piece for the LA Times. The article, “Wanted: A Few Good Mavericks”, is about the …

LeSean Thomas, the supervising director and creative producer of Adult Swim’s Black Dynamite, spoke at TEDxSinchon about his experience …

Genndy Tartakovsky on making Hotel Transylvania: “I took all the aesthetics I like from 2-D and applied them here. I don’t want to do …

Last weekend we broke the story about Mike Tracy, a veteran teacher at the Art Institute of California–Orange County who is being …

The standard of being a good teacher tends to be the same at most schools. It involves sharing one’s experiences and knowledge, pushing …

I’ve always known that South Park is produced on an uncommonly fast production schedule, but I never realized how brutal that schedule is …

Comedian Patton Oswalt delivered an inspiring keynote at last week’s Just For Laughs Comedy Conference in Montreal. He presented it in …

Over two years ago, we instituted a strict “no links to crowdfunding” policy. In other words, we will never post links to any fundraising …

If you missed Brad Bird’s talk in San Francisco about “The Disney Treatment: Walt’s Versions of Classic Stories,” the Walt Disney Family …

Animator Ken Harris becomes a meme. Via Reddit. (Ironically, Harris was one of the fastest animators at Warner Bros. and would often …

The Hub has responded to yesterday’s brouhaha caused by this Care Bears press release from their pr agency, BWR Public Relations. …

Swiss animator Oswald Iten has written an enlightening analysis of the different approaches to narrative and characterization used by the …

In this LA Times story about the resurgence of stop motion animated features, Travis Knight, the producer of Laika’s ParaNorman and one …

Labor violations in the visual effects industry are nothing new; they have simply become more public thanks to a vocal online community …

The video above features DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg speaking about he importance of honoring his studio’s employees. …

Dear Glen, Since last Friday’s news that you’re leaving Disney, you’ve launched a new parlour game What Will Glen Keane Do? Everyone …

Thirty-seven years! That’s the length of time that Glen Keane worked at Disney Feature Animation and it’s the figure that stood out to me …

It’s the time of year when many of our student readers are finishing up their student films, and inevitably there will be lots of …

* Oriental DreamWorks, the joint venture between DreamWorks and a consortium of Chinese investors, has announced that its first feature …