The Last Terrytoons
The cartoons posted below are two semi-rare TV pilots. They are not particularly good and I direct you to them only for historical …
The cartoons posted below are two semi-rare TV pilots. They are not particularly good and I direct you to them only for historical …
In case you missed your chance several months ago, voice actress Janet Waldo (Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop, etc.) and animation writer …
‘Mushka’ was little more than an idea when a lunch reunion with Richard Sherman inspired Deja to bring that concept to life.
In this article Jeffrey Katzenberg talks about how little he knows about animation, which shouldn’t exactly come as news to anybody who’s …
This Saturday, May 24, 2008, Women in Animation will present a salon featuring Virginia Davis, the original star of Walt Disney’s Alice …
A quick update about last week’s story about the new Israeli animated feature Waltz with Bashir. The Hanuka brothers–Asaf and …
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 + empty wall + 24 hours = Interesting animation experiment. (Thanks, Karl Cohen)
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal attempts to make sense of the spectacular box office failure of Speed Racer, which raced to …
The Telus World of Science in Vancouver, which I believe is a children’s museum, is hosting an exhibit called Disney: The Music Behind …
Ron Stark of S/R Laboratories in Westlake Village, California, sent me his latest animation auction catalog and it’s loaded with goodies. …
One more plug for the The 2nd annual Animation Book Look this afternoon in Sherman Oaks. The Creative Talent Network and Van Eaton …
In case you were wondering what Tom & Jerry were doing: Here they are selling cars – in Germany! I’m sorry, but these commercials …
Ryan Peterson, a student of Media Studies at Vassar College, created this mini-film (technically an animatic) about the Michael Eisner …
While DreamWorks debuted its umpteenth cookie-cutter ‘hip’ animal comedy, Kung Fu Panda, at the Cannes Film Festival this past week, it’s …
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 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 …
Talk about dedicated cartoon buffs. There’s a group of Pixar fanatics who are spending months building their own life-size replicas of …
(click for full-size image) The Hollywood Reporter notes that the first footage from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist will debut this …
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. …
I’m fascinated by the continually emerging stories of women who worked in creative positions at Disney during its Golden Age. Women …