The SAN FRANCISCO GATE has a piece HERE about Pixar’s ambitious expansion plans. The studio has a 20-year, $325 million development plan …

Sunday’s LA TIMES had a short piece on the new Linkin Park music video “Breaking the Habit” which was supervised (and according to the …

The NY DAILY NEWS reports that even though Fox Television announced over a week ago that they’d reached a deal with THE SIMPSONS voice …

A nicely done black-&-white Fleischer-style anti-Bush cartoon spot. It was written and directed by Tom Neely and Greg Saunders, and …

A hearty thanks from Jerry Beck and myself to Mark Mayerson for being our first guest contributor, and a superb one at that. Over the …

Here’s a photo of Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and Jack Black at the Cannes Film Festival riding atop an inflatable SHARK TALE pool toy. …

More than a dozen 700 pound statues of Mickey Mouse will soon appear in Portland, Oregon, as part of a year long Disney Company …

Oh, this looks good!A new trailer for Pixar’s The Incredibles is up – posted here – and it’s hilarious. Any doubt that this will be …

This is going to be my last contribution to Cartoon Brew. I’d like to thank Jerry and Amid for having me as a guest for a few weeks …

It’s rare in TV animation these days for the director to be in the same location as the animators. On Monster By Mistake, we were …

I think I’ve spotted the big new trend in CG animation: eerie, quasi-realistic looking orange cats. Alright, it’s only SHREK 2 and …

SHREK: FROM THE SWAMP TO THE SCREEN is hands-down the ugliest “art of” book I’ve ever seen for an animated film, which is probably owing …

I’m not into video gaming, but I am into classic cartoon characters. Images from the forthcoming Astro Boy Playstation game look pretty …

This just in from John Tebbel:Great news. The power of Chuck Jones triumphs.Due to the pitching in of lots of folks, chief among them …

We should note the merger yesterday of Universal and NBC. Their new tagline is “Imagine The Possibilities”.NBC-Universal is the only …

Directors don’t always have input into character designs for a TV series, but they should. There are many design issues that have …

Via Boing Boing, here’s the latest fad in Japan: Food preperation designed like your favorite cartoon stars!Enjoy Hamtaro, Doremon, Hello …

Tim Biskup’s new book 100 PAINTINGS is tiny – about 5″ x 5″ – but that’s because the 100 paintings in it are even tinier – 3-1/2″ x …

Dave Bossert, who produced the

The job of directing an animated TV show varies with each production. There’s no single way to approach it and how much power a …