Lunch with Disney’s “Alice”
This Saturday, May 24, 2008, Women in Animation will present a salon featuring Virginia Davis, the original star of Walt Disney’s Alice …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
Hanuka Brothers Art for Waltz with Bashir
A quick update about last week’s story about the new Israeli animated feature Waltz with Bashir. The Hanuka brothers–Asaf and …
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.
Three Interviews
Links to a few nice creator interviews I’ve recently run across: Wired offers a nice interview with Nina Paley in which she discusses …
Duct Tape Animation
Duct tape + empty wall + 24 hours = Interesting animation experiment. (Thanks, Karl Cohen)
Making Sense of Speed Racer‘s Failure
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal attempts to make sense of the spectacular box office failure of Speed Racer, which raced to …
Disney Music in Vancouver
The Telus World of Science in Vancouver, which I believe is a children’s museum, is hosting an exhibit called Disney: The Music Behind …
Animation Auction
Ron Stark of S/R Laboratories in Westlake Village, California, sent me his latest animation auction catalog and it’s loaded with goodies. …
Today’s Book Look
One more plug for the The 2nd annual Animation Book Look this afternoon in Sherman Oaks. The Creative Talent Network and Van Eaton …
German Car Commercials starring Tom & Jerry
In case you were wondering what Tom & Jerry were doing: Here they are selling cars – in Germany! I’m sorry, but these commercials …
Disney History 1984-2008
Ryan Peterson, a student of Media Studies at Vassar College, created this mini-film (technically an animatic) about the Michael Eisner …
Waltz with Bashir, An Animated War Documentary
While DreamWorks debuted its umpteenth cookie-cutter ‘hip’ animal comedy, Kung Fu Panda, at the Cannes Film Festival this past week, it’s …
Upcoming Chronicle Books
I received the Fall/Winter 2008 Chronicle Books catalog yesterday, and there are a few animation-related books that should be of interest …
Forces Of Good
Forces of Good is a fun blog that I would plug even if its writer Stefan Blitz didn’t just post an interview with me. Blitz has also …
Wall-E Builders
Talk about dedicated cartoon buffs. There’s a group of Pixar fanatics who are spending months building their own life-size replicas of …
Chomet’s Illusionist footage to debut at Cannes
(click for full-size image) The Hollywood Reporter notes that the first footage from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist will debut this …
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Inside UPA Update
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on my latest book Inside UPA but there’s a couple important reasons to write about it now. …
The Disney Girls
I’m fascinated by the continually emerging stories of women who worked in creative positions at Disney during its Golden Age. Women …
Woodies with Walter Lantz
Back before Walter Lantz created Woody Woodpecker, he liked to draw ‘woodies’ of a different kind. Animator Marc Deckter offers an …
Remembering Joe Grant
Today is Joe Grant’s 100th birthday (or the 100th anniversary of his birth). Howard Green sent us these pix with a note, “He passed away …
Bolt Character Designs
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but unfortunately, none of those words are appropriate for printing on this blog. Even …
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