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Should I Post My Film On-Line?: A Filmmaker’s Perspective

Tiny Inventions wrote a fascinating blog post about the pros and cons of immediately distributing their short Something Left, Something …

Responding to my comment about the difficulty of writing anything interesting about Pixar nowadays, Brew reader Matt said: It’s hard …

Ed Wynn on TV network executives in 1950: “You know what an executive is to me? An executive is a man who gets $50,000 a year, has a …

“It’s not a gay lobster but still funny” – a response by “reddplague” to Harry Partridge’s anti-Go! Animate cartoon rant. For the …

Last year I wrote about how the family of British animation legend Bob Godfrey was uploading his films to YouTube. Now they’ve removed …

A Jack Kirby panel custom-drawn for traditional animators. Read more about the panel HERE. (via Super Punch)

New York animation director and ASIFA-East president David Levy has written a trio of helpful books aimed at young artists entering the …

Hadn’t checked in a while and was curious to see what the most viewed pieces of animation on YouTube and Vimeo currently are. The results …

The image above contains the response to the tragic natural disasters in Japan by a douchebag named Alec Sulkin, who happens to be a …

On President’s Day (February 21), Titmouse asked its animators to spend the entire workday animating their own ideas. The only rule was …

Few people in the animation community take the Oscars seriously as a barometer for what is cutting-edge or innovative in animation, and …

Read the article on The Huffington Post.

Don’t mess with Trey Parker and Matt Stone because the simple act of threatening the creators of South Park will land you 25 years in …

How’s this for a startling fact: There aren’t all that many animated films in the immaculately curated Criterion Collection. In fact, …

The “Walt Disney hated Jews and blacks” accusation is one of the most vile mistruths tossed around about the old man, yet a quick browse …

Taking a page from the playbook of hip hop musicians who peddle their CDs in tourist areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn animator Mark …

Some of the commenters in the post about Disney’s disastrous foray into “urban” fashion failed to grasp how embarrassing it is for a …

If you’re a regular reader of the Brew, then you might already be familiar with the companies discussed in today’s Wall Street Journal …

Salon, of all places, published an excellent piece about animation character design. They interviewed designer Shannon Tindle (Coraline, …

Two highly anticipated animated features. Both with one-word titles, starting with the letter “R”. And now, both with a strangely similar …