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Cameron Bitter Because Oscars Snubbed Animated Characters

(Pocatar image by Chad Regan) An article from today’s Hollywood Reporter says that Avatar producer Jon Landau labeled the Oscars “a …

News media stories about the Oscars are cropping up all over and all of them are parroting the same factoid: Up is only the second time …

Take a look at this distasteful work-for-free ad that Virgin Records posted on the Anime Studio Forum under the title “Volunteer your …

Inspiring piece in the NY Times about the growing trend of indie film distribution, and its historical roots in indie filmmakers like …

A documentary by Marine Lormant Sebag about Nina Paley’s struggle with copyright while making Sita Sings the Blues. It’s difficult to …

A video in which Jim explains that, “the thing that people need to keep very strongly in mind is that this is not an animated film.” So …

I was thinking today, If Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has enough animation in it to be eligible for Best Animated Oscar, and A …

This list of do’s and don’ts for indie game designers is also incredibly relevant to anybody making an indie animated short. For …

A checklist of happenings in the New York animation scene during the 2000s, courtesy of ASIFA-East prez David Levy. It’s a commendable …

Nate Berg writes in The Architect’s Newspaper about the expanding use of animation in architectural practice, both in presentations for …

While killing time at the airport magazine stand, I found this oblivious error in an article about The Simpsons vs. …

This business case study of Ferran AdriÃ ‘s restaurant elBulli restaurant has nothing to do on the surface with cartoons, yet the …

From the November 2 issue of The New Yorker: “The trick is, from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be …

We’ve already linked to this, but this interview with Ralph Bakshi has some really shrewd insights peppered throughout. One of his …

Veteran animation director Gene Deitch and his wife Zdenka were invited to the Xiamen International Animation Festival (Oct. 30th-Nov. …

An article in National Geographic discusses the results of an “uncanny valley” test on monkeys. Researchers showed monkeys three versions …

Here’s something the great Art Babbitt uttered in 1941. “I look forward to the day when real artists who are more than craftsmen, who …

Recently I revisited The Visual Craft of William Golden, a book published in the early-Sixties about the legendary CBS creative director. …

I was going to write a post about this, but my friend Pete Hammond at the L.A. Times beat me to it. This has been a pretty good year …

Carlos Ramos, the creator of Nickelodeon’s The X’s, ponders on his blog, Why can’t we have more hand-drawn animated features like Pete …