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Eddie Fitzgerald’s First Animation Job
Cartoonist Eddie Fitzgerald tells a hilarious story on his blog about his first animation job in 1979 at Filmation and his experiences …
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RIK MAKI AT VAN EATON GALLERIES
Rik Maki began his career as a baseball pitcher in the minor leagues for seven years before trading in his wooden bat for a wooden …
Rediscover Chris Lavis And Maciek Szczerbowski’s Oscar-Nominated NFB Gem ‘Madame Tutli-Putli’
A look back at the Oscar-nominated short and the innovative artistry of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, directors of ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls.’
Hans Bacher’s Book and LITTLE MATCHGIRL
Hans Bacher (art director of MULAN) has posted on his blog some tantalizing page spreads from his forthcoming instructional book, …
Monday Morning Inspiration: MUNRO and ERSATZ
Animation fan Kenny Bullard has recently been posting some terrific, difficult-to-find independent animation on YouTube, including Will …
Mediocrity in TV Animation
Story artist Jenny Lerew has posted a perceptive rant about mediocrity in TV animation. Of course, she’s right, but unfortunately I don’t …
THE 2006 CG IMPLOSION
Reason #7 (of 12) for the Implosion: The trailer for EVERYONE’S HERO.
Disturbing Disney Toys from Japan
Don’t ask…because I don’t know. UPDATE: Mike Guerrero writes to let me know these are called Cubees, and they’re produced by a company …
ANIMATOR PAINTS NURSERY LIKE 1930’s CARTOON
Cartoon film collector Joe Busam recently post this slide show of his progress painting a nursery, in the style of a generic early-1930s …
Great new commercials by Chuck Gammage Animation
Toronto-based Chuck Gammage Animation recently produced a couple appealing and cartoony hand-drawn PSAs for “Sport-in-a-Box”, a new …
There’s Hope Yet for CG Feature Animation
Mark Mayerson has a short but insightful commentary about the (sad) state of CG feature animation in the US and the hope that exists …
RARE BUGS BUNNY CLIP
You won’t see this as bonus material on the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION dvd series. Here is the rare 1944 George Pal Puppetoon, Jasper …
BITTER FILMS DVD
Don Hertzfeldt writes us:I thought the cartoon brewery might like a heads-up about the big Bitter Films dvd due for release this summer. …
FAIRY BERRY
FAIRY BERRY was one of the student films in competition at Annecy. It’s a CG work by Thomas Guittoneau, Yacine Sefsaf, Virginie Giroux …
PARK FOOT BALL by Grant Orchard
With the World Cup in full swing now, it’s a perfect time to share Grant Orchard’s two-minute masterpiece PARK FOOT BALL (2005), which …
But Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are in it…
The new trailer for Warner Bros.’s upcoming ANT BULLY is posted HERE. It looks like a pretty good CG film…especially if it was …
Annecy Caricatures
Animation artist Cholki Han was inspired by the Annecy pics I posted yesterday and did some amusing caricatures of folks in the photos …
NEW PINK PANTHER COMIC STRIP
Last year Tribune Media launched a new syndicated Pink Panther comic strip, by Bill and Eric Teitelbaum (Bottom Liners), and they are …
ARGLE BARGLE
Self-professed “animator, actor, comics artist, archivist, director, collector, writer, historian, painter, packrat, recluse, hermit, …
Annecy 2006
I’m back. Thanks to Jerry for holding down the fort and keeping the Brew updated while I was having an awesome time in Marseille and …
1960s THEATRICAL CARTOONS
John McElwee, on his Greenbriar Picture Shows blog, recalls the horror of 1960s theatrical cartoon shorts:These were dark days for …
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