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Annecy 2009: The Year Shorts Went Mainstream

The official selections have been announced for the 2009 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Of particular interest is to see …

Toronto screenwriter Denis McGrath imagines what kind of notes today’s industry executives might give to Chuck Jones’ classic Warner …

Earlier this decade, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began handing out Oscars for best animated feature, I viewed it …

Danny Hayes, a guy who worked on Coraline, complains in Bitch magazine that the Coraline production was too much of a boys-only club. …

Even though Motionographer posted this advertisement for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, I felt it was important to post it again on …

Randy Nelson, head of the in-house Pixar University, gives a 10-minute talk that offers insight into character traits the studio looks …

Click image to enlarge. (from an idea by Jake Friedman)

The image above is of Charlee, a fan of the Avatar series, who protested the live-action film’s racially questionable casting choices at …

A lot of people online are talking about the forthcoming live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s animated TV series Avatar: The Last …

Last week’s post about Frank Zappa, Tex Avery and the place of executives generated a lot of feedback, including this email from Bruno …

Film reporter Patrick Goldstein, in today’s LA Times, writes about movies that are long shots for the Oscar’s Best Picture nomination. …

Want to understand why entertaining cartoons are all but impossible to produce nowadays? You can have the answer in just two short …

Recently three-dimensional paper sculpture/cut-out/origami has exploded as a major trend across multiple disciplines including animation, …

Jim Capobianco, Pixar story artist and director of the short Your Friend the Rat, is nearing the end of production on Leonardo, a …

I’ve discovered over the years that studying a studio’s movie advertising and film promotion collateral is often a good way of gauging …

Favorites of 2008? Cartoon Brew co-editor Amid certainly chose several that could have/would have made the top of my list. However, upon …

This is the time of year that news and media organizations begin the avalanche of annual “best of” lists and the like. The thought of …

I was sorting through some files the other day and came across some of the more amusing summer vacation photos I’ve taken. Last year I …

If you read just one article this week, no, make that this month, make it Kevin Kelly’s “Becoming Screen Literate” from last weekend’s NY …

Within the last two weeks I saw Disney’s Bolt and rewatched Pixar’s Wallâ€¢E (as well as moderating a Q&A with writer/director Andrew …