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Artist of the Day: Jeremy Sorese
A look at the work of Jeremy Sorese, Cartoon Brew’s Artist of the Day.
Previously on Cartoon Brew
‘House Wanders, Bird Water Full’ by Veronika Samartseva
Veronika Samartseva is an animation director from Germany, who specializes in analog animation techniques. Her award-winning films have been shown at international festivals worldwide. After her graduation from HFF Konrad Wolf Babelsberg, Veronika joined the Berlin-based animation collective Talking Animals. Recently she started teaching animation at the BTK University of Design.
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.’
This Sunday in London: Spend The Afternoon with Richard Williams
This Sunday at the BFI Southbank in London, the British Film Institute, in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, will present the UK/European premiere of the reconstructed work print of Richard Williams’ “The Thief and the Cobbler.” Williams will discuss the film afterward with film critic David Robinson.
Artist of the Day: Jeff Turley
A look at the work of Jeff Turley, Cartoon Brew’s Artist of the Day.
KLIK! Animation Festival Arrives in San Francisco and Portland
West Coast residents are in luck: if you can’t make it to an international film festival, the festival is coming to you.
Japanese People Can’t Let Go of ‘Frozen’
Every time you want to stop writing about “Frozen,” it breaks another record. This weekend, the Disney smash hit remained in first place at the Japanese box office for an incomprehensible eleventh weekend in a row.
‘Aug(De)Mented Reality’ by Marty Cooper
Using a unique animation technique involving traditonal animation cels and his iPhone 5s, Hombre_mcsteez turns everyday life into an odd creature infested cartoon universe.
‘Birds’ by Zeitguised
A lighthearted essay on contextualized characters. Reconstruction follows deconstruction.
This Week in Animation History: Disney’s Day of the Dead Problem, Wayne Allwine and ‘Shrek 2’
A look at animation history via Cartoon Brew’s archives.
‘Ping Pong’ Recap: ‘Yes, My Coach’ (Ep. 7)
Kaio finally tries to poach Smile, Peco gets into the National Training Center with a little help from the old lady, and we learn about coach Koizumi’s storied past. This episode was largely devoted to character development, and finally brought into focus just what a complicated web of character interrelations Yuasa has woven out of the original source material, much as he did in Mind Game. There was no single major driving plot element, but rather various themes and plotlines gradually converging. By this point it feels like what we are seeing is more Yuasa than Matsumoto.
Artist of the Day: INSA
A look at the work of INSA, Cartoon Brew’s Artist of the Day.
Have We Reached ‘Peak Art-Of Book’?
It was bound to happen: Chronicle Books appears to have reached ‘peak art-of book’ with the upcoming publication of “The Art of Planes.” It’s no longer possible for anyone to collect every ‘art of’ book published, and frankly, with titles like this, why would any discerning artist want to?
Joanna Davidovich Premieres ‘Monkey Rag’ Online
Joanna Davidovich is a freelance animator based in Atlanta, Georgia. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she has been working as an animator, designer, and storyboard artist on commercials, on-air content, and TV shows since 2005. Her animated short film “Monkey Rag”, which debuts online this afternoon, has been making the festival rounds since it was completed last July.
25 Beautiful Stills From the New Anthology Feature ‘The Prophet’ (Gallery)
The producer of this year’s most intriguing and visually eclectic animated feature may well end up being the Mexican/Arabic actress Salma Hayek, who screened a work-in-progress version of her pet project, “The Prophet,” last week in Cannes.
Introducing Cartoon Brew’s Untold Tales
As long as I’ve loved animation, I’ve been fascinated with the personal stories of people who work in the animation business. Not simply, “What character did you make?,” but WHY and HOW did you make it? I became actively involved in documenting those stories when I published the print ‘zine “Animation Blast,” and it’s something I’ve never stopped doing. For me, it wasn’t just about talking to a handful of familiar directors and animators, but to talk with everyone, especially those who had worked quietly in the trenches and whose stories hadn’t yet been told.
‘Mouse in Transition’: ‘Disney’s Newest Hire’ (Chapter 1)
The first chapter of Steve Hulett’s memoir about working as a writer at Disney in the late-Seventies and Eighties.
‘Big Hero 6’ Teaser Uses Comedy to Sell Superhero Film [UPDATED]
Here’s the teaser for the Marvel-derived “Big Hero 6,” Disney’s next animated feature which will be out in November.
‘Food’ by Siqi Song
This is an animated documentary short film about FOOOOOOOOOOOD! I interviewed people their opinions about food, and animate real food based on the soundtracks with stop-motion technique.
‘Entertainment Weekly’ Caves In To Andy Serkis, Replaces the Term ‘Animation’ With ‘Digital Makeup’
“Entertainment Weekly” has published a piece on the upcoming “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” without once mentioning the terms ‘animation,’ ‘motion capture,’ or ‘performance capture.’
Microsoft Aims To Please Artists and Creators with Surface Pro 3 Tablet/PC
Yesterday in New York City, Microsoft unveiled the Surface Pro 3, the latest iteration of its fully-featured PC/tablet with pressure-sensitivity and an abililty to run any PC-based creative software from Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite to Toon Boom, Maya and ZBrush, to post-production filmmaker tools like Assimilate’s SCRATCH and RED’s CineX.
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