Cartoon Brew TV #16: Love on the Line
Cartoon Brew TV is back from the holidays and we’re ready for action–19th century style! This week’s offering, Love on the Line (2008) …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
Animation’s 2nd-Class Status
Film reporter Patrick Goldstein, in today’s LA Times, writes about movies that are long shots for the Oscar’s Best Picture nomination. …
From The Classroom To The Silver Screen: Discover Animation Mentor’s Student Showcase & Alumni Legacy
The world of animation is as much about storytelling as it is about technique. Animation Mentor’s latest student showcase is a testament to this fact.
Tonight at L.A.’s Silent Movie Theatre
Sound cartoons… Disturbing sound cartoons. Cartoons too violent, too scary, too depressing and, though made decades ago for all ages, …
2009 New Year’s Greeting by Art Grootfontein
Every year around the holidays I receive a whole slew of animated greeting cards. The new year’s greeting below by French artist Art …
Comics and the American Jewish Dream
Wanna meet three comic art legends? The YIVO Institute in New York will be presenting one-on-one interviews with three comic book …
Cartoon Mojo Launches
A new site launches today: CartoonMojo.com. It’s a video sharing site in the YouTube mold that focuses exclusively on animated shorts. In …
Cel-ebrating Animation’s New York Roots
We’ve plugged the forthcoming It All Started Here! several times already, but once more couldn’t hurt. I also couldn’t resist posting …
T28 teaser trailer
Already deep in production on Astro Boy and Gatchaman, the creative heads at Imagi Studios now have their sights set on another classic …
New Paintings by JJ Villard, Morgan Kelly and Jeremy Bernstein
“Edward Gorey at the Bowery” by Morgan Kelly Need something to do tomorrow evening? Then head on over to Atwater Village for the …
Times Up! What are your favorite Looney Tunes?
The Looney Balloons above remind me that today is the deadline for you to contribute your personal lists of favorite Warner Bros. …
Steve Martin in Disneyland Dream
A postscript to my post last week on the Library of Congress selection of the home movie Disneyland Dream to the National Film …
What Tex Avery And Frank Zappa Both Knew About Making Great Entertainment
Want to understand why entertaining cartoons are all but impossible to produce nowadays? You can have the answer in just two short …
New Music Video by Dax Norman
One-man creative powerhouse Dax Norman, whose short film The Last Temptation of Crust we featured in episode 4 of Cartoon Brew TV, …
Disney’s Secret of the Magic Gourd
If you believed Roadside Romeo was Disney’s oddest co-production; or if you thought Disney couldn’t sink any lower than producing the …
Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics
The UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Center for Visual Music (CVM) are presenting a program of rarely screened 16mm and 35mm …
That Guy With The Glasses reviews Nicktoons
And let me also take the opportunity to plug this book.
Animation Trends: 3-D Papercraft/Cut-out Animation
Recently three-dimensional paper sculpture/cut-out/origami has exploded as a major trend across multiple disciplines including animation, …
Winter Song
Songwriters Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson released an animated video for their holiday single Winter Song. The animation was …
Animation Month on Shokus Radio
It’s “Animation Month” for Stu’s Show on Shokus Internet Radio. The current voice of Porky Pig, Bob Bergen, kicks off things with an …
Pixar’s Jim Capobianco Offers Advice on Short Filmmaking
Jim Capobianco, Pixar story artist and director of the short Your Friend the Rat, is nearing the end of production on Leonardo, a …
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