This Weekend in NYC: MoCCA Arts Festival
The annual MoCCA Arts Festival, presented by the Society of Illustrators and Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art, takes place this weekend …
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“Carrot and Stick” by Derek Iversen and Miles Hindman
Derek Iversen, a writer on SpongeBob SquarePants, writes with some news: Today Nickelodeon released Carrot & Stick, a short that I …
How The School Of Visual Arts Sets Students Up For Success
From studio visits to guest speakers and an annual career fair, SVA provides a diverse array of opportunities for students to develop their professional voice in order to succeed.
Artist of the Day: Joanna Quinn
Millions of people are likely to be familiar with the colorful cartoon bears that savor wiping their butts with softer than average …
BREAKING: Disney Shuts Down LucasArts; 150 Staffers Laid Off
The shake-out from Disney’s $4 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm continues. This morning, Disney shut down LucasArts, the 31-year-old …
Artist of the Day: Joe Pitt
Joe Pitt, a designer on Wreck-It Ralph and director on the Disney show Gravity Falls, posts personal and professional work on his blog, …
Exclusive: Unseen Home Movie Footage of Walt Disney
This rarely seen footage of Walt Disney trying out a scale railroad was filmed 65 years ago.
Pixar Announces “Finding Dory,” A Sequel to “Finding Nemo”
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres announced on her show today that Disney-Pixar will make an Andrew Stanton-directed sequel to Finding Nemo …
Artist of the Day: Signe Baumane
Signe Baumane is making an independent animated feature film called Rocks in My Pockets, which has a website here and a production blog …
What Every Animation Student Should Know About Title Sequence Design
Art of the Title, an addicting resource with dozens of high-def clips, recently posted their Title Design Finalists for the SXSW 2013 …
Gennie Rim of GR Works Talks About “Ladies of Animation”
Gennie Rim, who worked for the past decade at Pixar and Disney as a production coordinator and artist manager, opened the GR Works …
Artist of the Day: Uli Meyer
Uli Meyer runs a studio in London which has examples of its film, TV and commercial productions here. The real ‘meat and …
“Thumb Snatchers From the Moon Cocoon” by Bradley Schaffer
Thumb Snatchers From the Moon Cocoon is an unabashedly wild, funny, action-packed gem of a cartoon. Self-conscious references to B-movie …
He-Man’s Five Gayest Adventures
When it comes to the classic Filmation television series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, it’s not much of a stretch to find …
Walt Kelly’s Even-More-Lost “Pogo” Storyboard
Here’s a little added-bonus to the recent post about Walt Kelly’s self-animated Pogo short.. Before he began animating, Walt Kelly laid …
Nigerian Children Can Attend the Pinky and the Brain School
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
I think so, Brain, but why would a school in Nigeria name themselves after us?
“The Lindy Cubes” by Josep Bernaus
Barcelona-based Josep Bernaus gets a lot of mileage out of basic cube forms in his short The Lindy Cubes. The expressive movement was …
Artist of the Day: Gary Leib
Gary Leib loves Halloween. Two years in a row Gary has created an original Halloween window installation at Desert Island in Brooklyn. …
Bruce Timm Steps Down As Warner Bros. Animation Supervising Producer
Veteran artist Bruce Timm has stepped down as supervising producer of Warner Bros. Animation’s action series.
Tippett Studios Lays Off 40 Percent of Its Staff [UPDATED]
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that the Berkeley-based VFX studio Tippett Studio has laid off 40% of its workforce, or …
Double Fine Releases Trailer for Crowdfunded Game “Broken Age”
Double Fine has released a teaser trailer for its point-and-click adventure game Broken Age, which raised $3.3 million on Kickstarter …
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