Mark Kennedy’s Drawing Tips

Disney story artist Mark Kennedy has been posting a wonderfully informative series of thoughts about design and drawing on his blog …

LA TIMES ON ANIMATION WRITERS

Large front page story in the Sunday Calendar Section of the L.A. Times today on animation writers – particularly feature animation …

Flickr: Disney in the Fifties

My latest Flickr set is comprised of photos from the collection of animation legend Ray Aragon. The photos were taken in June and July …

THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO

I’m way overdue in mentioning this traditional hand drawn adult feature now in production at IDT Film Roman in Burbank.I was visiting …

Mickey Mouse is Dead

If you’re in Edinburgh, Scotland anytime in the next week, you may want to check out a play called MICKEY MOUSE IS DEAD writen by Jessi …

Eric Goldberg Speaks

Animated-News.com has a nice in-depth interview with recently-returned-to-Disney artist Eric Goldberg. He touches on a lot of subjects …

NORMAN McLAREN

Tomorrow night, August 18th, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills will present A Salute To Norman McLaren, …

George and Mahmoud

Found this piece on Cold Hard Flash. It’s not clear who made it, but Aaron Simpson writes that it’s “part of an anti-war campaign staged …

Recommended Blogs…

There’s so many animation artist blogs out there nowadays. We can’t possibly link to all of them, but we’ll try to link to the best of …

Flickr: Cartoon Modern Yearbook

I’ve been tinkering around with Flickr the past couple days (so maybe that should be spelled ‘tinkring’) and the results are the …

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

A bunch of fine articles were sent our way…First, The New York Times ran a small piece in yesterday’s Sunday edition, about our friends …

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS??

The Sunday L.A. Times mentioned that a new film called ROMEO AND JULIET: SEALED WITH A KISS was being released in southern California …

THE SHELL SHOW WITH MAE QUESTEL

This is a lot of fun…An MP3 of The Shell Show (January 16th, 1937) starring Joe Cook, with special guest Mae Questel (as the voice of …

A REPORT FROM BRAZIL

Sounds like John Canemaker, Bill Plympton and hundreds of South American animation fans had a great time at the Anima Mundi festival last …

NICK MAG’S LIVE JOURNAL

One of the coolest things about Nickelodeon during the past 12 years has been its print magazine, particularly “The Comic Book” section …

The CG Glut Continues…

There’s an interesting article in VARIETY about the lukewarm box office performance of recent CG animated feature and the countless other …

8-Bit Opera

Whoever thought Salome’s “Dance of the Seven Veils” done in 8-bit graphics would be laugh-out-loud funny? Christian Zagler’s SALOME IN …

AFRO SAMURAI

Forget those mo-fo snakes on the plane. Samuel L. Jackson is voicing the lead character in an original Spike TV anime series AFRO …

Loco Roco Commercial

Back in January, we mentioned how cool the Sony PSP game LOCO ROCO looks. The new LOCO ROCO tv commercial is similarly worth pointing out …

23 of 120