BARRIER AND BIRD

Michael Barrier writes about THE INCREDIBLES in today’s L.A. Times.

GREAT TO BE NOMINATED – Part II

Tulips Shall GrowFor the last three years, you can usually find me and Marea on Monday nights hanging out at the Academy of Motion …

SEE THE OSCAR SHORTS – NOW!

Pssst! Hey, Bud! C’mere… Here’s a good tip: for the next four hours – till midnight Eastern Time (9pm Pacific) – you can download three …

CALVIN & THE COLONEL SCREENING

A reminder that tomorrow afternoon (Saturday February 26th at 3pm) I am hosting an Asifa-Hollywood program devoted to the rarely-seen ABC …

FLEISCHER MEMORIES

Harry McCracken laments the loss of the former Fleischer Studios building in New York – 1600 Broadway – with pictures, at Harry-Go-Round.

MR. BUG GOES TO EBAY

MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN (1941), Max Fleischer’s second and arguably best animated feature film, is considered a classic by animation buffs – …

Toy Fair and WonderCon reports

Lili Chin has a report on Toy Fair in New York City and Ronnie del Carmen writes about WonderCon in San Francisco. Good reading and pics.

Klasky Csupo Drawing LEssons

Looks like Christopher Hart may have some new competition. Behold, animation and drawing lessons from Klasky Csupo. What’s next – singing …

Hack My Robots Book

Amazon has enabled the “Search Inside This Book” feature on my recently published book, THE ART OF ROBOTS, and because a handful of names …

JJ Villard Show in LA

Recent CalArts grad J.J. Villard is having his first LA solo exhibition at Cirrus Gallery (542 S. Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013). …

David Stone Martin Lives ON

Tom Neely, director of BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A JOB?, wrote in about yesterday’s post, which included the Bird cover by David Stone …

Drawings that swing

This has nothing to do with animation, but everything to do with good drawing and design. It’s a Japanese website that has an extensive …

Frédéric Back

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will be holding it’s 9th Annual Marc Davis Lecture on Animation Wednesday March 23rd at …

Ottawa 05 Preview

The Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 21-25, 2005) has issued a call for entries for its 2005 edition. Entry forms are …

Animators All Wet

Check out the recent diary entries by MGM animator Irv Spence…apparently in February 1944 it was raining like crazy in Los …

Bob Boyle’s Wubblog

Here’s another production blog called THE WUBBLOG. Bob Boyle explains it all: After seeing your post about the production blog of Nick …

Blogging Persephone’s Production

Nick Cross, an incredibly talented Canadian artist who worked on REN & STIMPY: ADULT PARTY CARTOON, has started his own plog (or …

A SCANNER DARKLY

Submitted for your approval: the trailer for A SCANNER DARKLY

Monday Morning Inspiration

Here’s a work by Bay Area animation veteran Charlie Canfield called HIDE & SEEK. Download it HERE (23mb). It’s a light minute-and-a-half …

Tonight: Plympton at the Nuart

One more time. Tonight at 7:30pm at the Nuart Theater (11272 Santa Monica Boulevard) is another screening of the new 2005 ANIMATION SHOW …

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