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Sweetworld
Here’s the reel from London-based boutique animation studio Sweetworld. Founded in 2006 by Yasmeen Ismail and Sandra Salter, the studio …
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Te Wei (1915-2010)
The master of Chinese animation, Te Wei (Sheng Tewei), has passed away at age 95. Te Wei, a pioneering animator and cartoonist, was …
SVA’s Computer Arts Community Shines At SIGGRAPH 2025
SVA’s MFA Computer Arts program made a strong impact at SIGGRAPH 2025, with student volunteers, alumni, and faculty contributing throughout the conference.
Instinkt by Mustafa Kandaz
This animated short was made with post-it notes and markers for Dutch channel RVU. They asked several animators to illustrate and …
The Little Cloud – a Filmstrip
I did a post about Cathedral Films back in 2007 when we found a connection between this religious film strip producer and Bill Hanna and …
Virus Attack
Cartoon Network may be trying to attract teens through live-action, but never fear – they haven’t left animation completely behind. …
Graeme Hawkins
One of the most fulfilling aspects of blogging on Cartoon Brew is every so often discovering the young filmmaker who loves to experiment …
Trunk Train
Zé Brandão, who runs Copa Studio in Rio de Janeiro, sent me this cute TV series pilot he made as a co-production with two Brazilian …
Bill Plympton and Pat Smith Argue About Pink Elephants
Scribble Junkies, the new commentary blog by animators Bill Plympton and Pat Smith, is heating up. Yesterday, Bill posted about why he …
Cameron Bitter Because Oscars Snubbed Animated Characters
(Pocatar image by Chad Regan) An article from today’s Hollywood Reporter says that Avatar producer Jon Landau labeled the Oscars “a …
HOW-TO: Big Pants Mouse Comic
Gabe Swarr, an animation director at Nick by day, is the creator of the Big Pants Mouse comic strip which appears weekly at …
Watch All Five Oscar Nominated Shorts Online
UPDATE: We’ve got links to all five Oscar-nominated shorts again. Here they are: Watch French Roast. Watch Granny O’Grimm’s …
The Little Boy and the Beast
A delightful trailer for The Little Boy and the Beast (Der Kleine und das Biest), a six-minute short directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe …
Two Animated Films Nominated for Best Picture Oscar
News media stories about the Oscars are cropping up all over and all of them are parroting the same factoid: Up is only the second time …
Oscar Nominations: UP nominated for BEST PICTURE
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. Nominated for BEST ANIMATED FEATURE were: Coraline – Henry Selick The …
Irish Animation Booming
Ireland’s animation industry is still relatively small, but according to this piece in the Irish Times, it is robust and growing. A few …
Drift by Theo Tagholm
The dreamlike morphing imagery in Drift creates a mysterious and original style of movement that I haven’t seen before in any …
Moonshine: Brewed on the Dark Side of the DreamWorks Moon
A few years ago, a group of DreamWorks artists banded together to create Scrambled Ink, an indie comic anthology that was eventually …
Yuri Norstein in San Francisco, NYC and Olympia
As you may have gathered from yesterday’s post, Yuri Norstein is currently in the US. He’ll be making appearances in other cities besides …
Princess and the Frog Tops $100 Mil
After nine weeks in wide release, Disney’s Princess and the Frog limped across the $100 million mark last weekend. It generated $757,000 …
FRIDAY in LA: Yuri Norstein at USC
Heads up, Angelenos. The USC School of Cinematic Arts invites you (or anyone who can get to USC this Friday) to participate in a …
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