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No Need To Create, Just Transcreate

The Wall Street Journal has a depressing article about a growing trend in the cartoon world: ‘transcreating’ cartoon characters, in which …

There was a front page article in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal about the brickfilm community. Brickfilms is a general description …

There are plenty of gems to mine in this AWN article about the new live-action/animated Cartoon Network series Out of Jimmy’s Head. …

Adam Yaniv, an animator at Rhythm & Hues by day, recently pointed me to this small personal project he created as an entry in Heinz’s Top …

Be sure and check out this terrific article by animation veteran Floyd Norman about how Walt Disney offered creative latitude in his …

The advent of blogging has added a new dimension to the discussion about animation, especially as it pertains to artists themselves …

WHO: Obese fanboy with a thick accent hailing from Mexico WHAT: The guy was talking to one of the dealers WHERE: San Diego …

As an ex-theatrical film distributor myself, I’m always following trends in the industry as it evolves due to new technologies and …

Is anyone employed in the U.S. as an “inbetweener” anymore? Has the computer taken that over, too? Our pal Eddie Fitzgerald has …

Quick Stop Entertainment has a lengthy interview with Bloom County and Opus creator Berkeley Breathed. Breathed talks about the earlier …

Last week I checked out the CalArts Producers’ Show, the year-end screening where the best student films from the school year are …

Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …

The most interesting writing and interviews about animation can no longer be found in any particular magazine; rather it’s spread out …

Are The Simpsons and Family Guy creatively bankrupt? Is the Pope Catholic? The New York Sun’s David Blum wrote a sharp commentary about …

Todd Goldman is a talented artist whose t-shirt/apparel company David and Goliath, Inc. made $90 million in 2004. That’s hardly a …

This is an amusing anecdote from Rocky & Bullwinkle writer Bill Scott which took place back in the early-1950s while he was working at …

The advice in the video above from guitar legend Dick Dale is geared towards musicians, but everything he says applies equally well to …

It’s amazing the things one can find in old magazines. Below is an article I recently stumbled across in issue 16 of Lithopinion: The …

Dear AOL/MSN/Yahoo/NBC-Universal and News Corp., Congratulations on the news of your new company to compete with YouTube. The …

Russian animation director Fyodor Khitruk once said in an interview that the best award he ever received was when Disney director Woolie …