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Sick of Indian Animation Yet?

An enlightening interview with the heads of the Indian animation studio Padmalaya Telefilms can be found HERE. The execs discuss various …

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DISNEY WARTIME CARTOONS TONIGHT

I WANT YOU to join me and Disney producer Dave Bossert at a special screening, tonight, of 35mm restored prints of Walt Disney World War …

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GREG BURSON ARRESTED

Animation voice actor Greg Burson, best known for Yogi Bear and Bugs Bunny (“Carrotblanca”) was arrested at his home in Tujunga. Early …

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The TV Animation Business Part 5

How Companies Keep Their Costs Down: Co-production Imagine this scenario. You live in the United States, but when you turn on your …

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BEST BUY BARGAINS

Tipped by a reader, I made a trip to a local Best Buy in search of a intriguing DVD set of Abbott & Costello features Universal is …

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The TV Animation Business Part 4

How Companies Keep Their Costs Down: Outsourcing Because the number of channels is growing proportionally faster than the number of …

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India’s Talent Crisis

Continuing our coverage of the Indian animation scene, here is an article from THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS that reports while India is expected …

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WonderCon Report

Pixar artist Ronnie del Carmen has a report and photos from the San Francisco comic convention WonderCon which took place last week (see …

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Animator Volus Jones, RIP

Animator Volus Jones passed away on May 3 at the age of 90. He worked in animation from 1934 through 1982 at studios including …

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ON THE FRONT LINES

What can I say? It’s amazing!I never thought I’d live to see the day they’d release restored, perfect copies of DER FUEHRER’S FACE, …

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JOHN SEELY 1923-2004

John Seely recieved music credit on six Warner Bros. cartoons released in 1958 – when Milt Franklin and the Warner studio musicians went …

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APPLESEED TRAILER

Have you seen this trailer for the CG/2-D anime feature APPLESEED?Not sure what I think of it myself – but it’s a good trailer.

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The TV Animation Business Part 3

What If You’re Not a Multinational? The multinational corporations are not the only companies making animated TV series. But if …

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LORENZO

I had a bittersweet experience yesterday, during a screening at the Disney studios.I saw Mike Gabriel’s new five minute animated short, …

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The TV Animation Business Part 2

How Multinational Corporations Thrive As I mentioned in the last installment, the paradox of the TV business is that the increasing …

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DISNEY TREASURES

Oh boy! I’m excited!They go public on May 18th, but I just recieved an advance set of the long-delayed

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Fractured Fairy Tales

Anybody who thinks their life is pathetic will feel a lot better after reading this. Micah Ian Wright, a former writer for Nickelodeon’s …

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EAST COAST SCREENINGS

Hair HighWe plug a lot of Los Angeles screenings here, but we have a lot of east coast friends too – and I’ll do my best to post …

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