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SHARK TALE STEREOTYPES
Dreamworks is getting flak over the use of Italian American stereotypes in its new movie, SHARK TALE. While DreamWorks maintains that the …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
ALVIN IN CG
In case you were wondering what ever happened to Alvin, Simon and Theodore:”Fox 2000 Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Animation and …
Re:Anima Joint Master In Animation Has Opened A New Call For Applications
The program offers an intensive two-year exploration of animation from an artistic perspective in Ireland, Belgium, or Portugal.
CAL ARTS TRIBUTE AT MOMA
The Museum Of Modern Art in New York is planning a big film-and-video tribute to CalArts that will take place in late 2005/early 2006. …
More on Duane Crowther
Oscar Grillo writes this nice memory of how he was inspired by Duane Crowther’s work: Duane was not only a great animator. He was a …
Unidentifed Flying Kimball
Ward Kimball is the only animator I can ever imagine being caught up in this sort of stuff. This ARTICLE recounts Ward’s involvement with …
THE JACKALOPE BOYZ
Warner Bros. animation director Mike Milo (Xiaolin Showdown) has a new flash animation:Sorry for this shameless self-promotion but I am …
UPDATE: SONY BUYS MGM
Scrappy and Gerald McBoing Boing shake hands with The Inspector and Hoot Kloot – It’s official:Sony has purchased the United …
SHARK TALE TRADE REVIEW
The first review of SHARK TALE is in. “Bottom line: An amusing cartoon that lacks real satirical bite.” Read the whole review on The …
Independent Japanese Animation
Last month I sung the praises of Benjamin Ettinger’s anime blog AniPages Daily, but it’s worth doing again. During the past couple weeks, …
GO BEHIND THE SCENES AT PIXAR
The Second Annual Benefit for the Cartoon Art Museum will be held Saturday, October 2nd at Pixar. Pixar Animation Studios will host the …
GOODBYE MICHAEL
Good news in Toon Town: Michael Eisner is leaving Disney. The catch? It’s the long goodbye: he’s going in 2006 when his contract …
More George W. Films
New Yorkers can see BUSHWHACKED!, another Bush-related film festival, this weekend at the 8th annual RESFEST. Here is a description of …
Flash for Animators
Eddie Mort and Lili Chin REPORT on their blog that Macromedia is developing a new version of Flash geared towards animators and …
Dubya Animation Fest
Hargrove Entertainment is currently soliciting films for the GW Bush Animation Festival. The selected shorts will be screened …
FRANK THOMAS (1912-2004)
Frank Thomas, the second-to-last surviving member of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” group of supervising animators, passed away on September 8, …
CARTOON SNACK BREAK
I’m still hungover from two mind-blowing nights of classic cartoons with John K. at the Egyptian theatre. So while I recover, here’s an …
Creativity: MacFarlane Style
Artist/creator Seth MacFarlane speaking about the difficulty of creating new episodes of FAMILY GUY: “I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh! We used up …
CLASSIC CARTOONS
Very busy time for me this week.I’m hosting the John K. Classic Cartoon night, tonight, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Don’t miss …
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