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A Response to Hoodwinked’s Director
HOODWINKED writer/director Cory Edwards recently defended criticism of his film on Animation Nation. The primary purpose of Edwards’ post …
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HOODWINKED: THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS
Cory Edwards, director/writer of HOODWINKED, defends criticism of the film and discusses the process of its production on the Animation …
Rebecca Sugar Returns To SVA To Celebrate ‘Lonely Magic’ Music
The ‘Steven Universe’ creator reunited with SVA alumni to celebrate ‘Lonely Magic,’ sharing music, animation insights, and a live performance.
Ovi Nedelcu’s DESENE
Animation character designer and PIGTALE comic creator Ovi Nedelcu has just released a new book of his drawings and designs called …
Story Boredom
Story Boredom is a new blog with lots of great drawings by a bunch of feature storyboard artists. The artists use nicknames so it’s not …
Norm McCabe (1911-2006)
Animator/director Norman McCabe passed away last Wednesday at age 94. McCabe had a long and impressive career in animation from animating …
CARTOONS ON EARLY TV
Film buff John McElwee has started a blog, Greenbriar Picture Shows, devoted to his love of old movies. His comments are witty and he …
CARTOON BREW FILM OF THE WEEK: CLIKCLAK
For the third week in a row, our film of the week hails from France. Very much an unintended coincidence and we’ll certainly start …
CLASSIC DISNEY SHORTS ON IPOD
Yesterday, Amid and I joined Roy Disney, Don Hahn, David Stainton, Leonard Maltin and several others at a preview screening of a …
LADY & THE TRAMP
Disney recently restored its CinemaScope materials on LADY & THE TRAMP (1955) for a forthcoming DVD release. But to experience the film …
HOOD VS. EVIL
The erosion of the animated feature continues. The Weinstein Co. and Kanbar Entertainment said Tuesday that they’ll team up on a sequel …
Happy 77th Birthday, Popeye
Above is a fun painting by Brew pal Tom Neely celebrating Popeye’s 77th birthday today. Popeye first appeared as a character in the …
THE WHITE COUNTESS
(click on images for larger versions) NY-based studio Asterisk recently completed a thirty-five second piece for the Merchant Ivory film …
ANNIE AWARDS
Asifa-Hollywood’s 33rd annual ANNIE AWARDS event is coming up on Saturday February 4th. Tom Kenny (Spongebob Squarepants) will be hosting …
DreamWorks Bloggers
There’s something I don’t understand, and probably never will understand, about DreamWorks Animation. With so many incredibly talented …
Eldon Dedini (1921-2006)
(click on image for larger version) A legendary magazine cartoonist with an inimitable style, Eldon Dedini, passed away last Thursday …
ROGER EBERT ON CHUCK JONES
Ebert on animation in today’s Chicago Sun-Times.
Elephants by Kricfalusi
Blackwing Diaries has posted some interesting John K. drawings of elephants which I hadn’t seen before. According to Jenny’s blog, these …
Why I Like Animation
People ask me on occasion why I like animation. It’s a difficult question to answer, and one that I’ve rarely (if ever) answered to my …
CARTOON BREW FILM OF THE WEEK: TIM TOM
I first saw this film back at SIGGRAPH 2003 so it’s not exactly new. But the film has stuck with me, and it holds up quite well. Now that …
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