Essential Viewing: Art Babbitt Documentary
Mathieu Vierendeel has posted onto YouTube the fascinating 1987 documentary Animating Art which examines the life and art of legendary …
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It’s a Cartoon Modern World
Dear Brew readers, please indulge this shameless late-night post. I discovered a new fact tonight: nothing perks one up at 1:30am like …
Ibermedia Next Backs 14 New Tech And Open Source Animation Projects
Ibermedia Next, an initiative organized by the Ibermedia Program, has announced the results of its call for animated projects that …
Kit Kat’s Ultimate Break
This nicely crafted, character-driven viral advertisement, The Ultimate Break, was produced out of Paris based Akama Studio. I don’t …
Aardman’s The Pearce Sisters Online
After being denied an Oscar nod for Best Animated Short, Aardman has posted Luis Cook’s award-winning short The Pearce Sisters onto …
Stop, Look and Listen on TCM
Back in April, we posted to a YouTube link of Chuck Menville and Len Janson’s Oscar nominated live-action pixilation short, Stop, Look …
Marcell Jankovics’s Fehérlófia
Every so often I find out about such an awesome piece of animation that I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never heard about it before. Tonight …
Visions of Frank dvd
Visions of Frank is a dvd that came out last year collecting eight animated shorts by Japanese animators, all based on Jim Woodring’s …
Lili Chin and Eddie Mort Abandon Flash
Everybody has been jumping on the Flash bandwagon these past few years, but could 2008 be the year that animators begin abandoning the …
1934 Lantz studio photo on ebay
Another great eBay find. The seller wants too much money for this admittedly historic Walter Lantz studio staff photo. Anyone got $4 …
Family Circus
We already have enough problems identifying the sex of Tweety… Now this: Today’s Family Circus by Bil Keane (father of Disney …
The 3D Machine
Congratulations to our friends Joost van der Bosch and Erik Verkerk of Ka-Ching Cartoons, who just finished a new 3D cartoon short which …
Popeye Ali Baba stills
It was common practice back in the golden age to release publicity stills for every Hollywood feature, short and cartoon. Cartoon …
Mystery Frame
Anyone know the name of the cartoon this scene is from? No prizes… just thought this was a cool image from a classic cartoon I was …
Oswald Comic Strip
Recently sold off on ebay was a series of six sample comic strips for a purported Oswald The Lucky Rabbit daily comic strip from the late …
Diznee’s Aladin
I’m back, with more madness from the same studio that brought you Animal Soccer World. Someone has just posted (on YouTube) their …
Lost Classics from Zagreb Film DVD & Contest
Last year saw the release of lots of rare animation (Popeye, Lantz cartoons, Oswald, etc.) but perhaps none so rare as a dvd that came …
Minotauromaquia by Juan Pablo Etcheverry
Minotauromaquia is an intriguing stop motion short I saw a few years back in Annecy. It’s directed by Spaniard Juan Pablo Etcheverry. The …
A Child’s Metaphysics by Koji Yamamura
According to the website of Koji Yamamura, he has completed a new short entitled A Child’s Metaphysics. The film, which premiered last …
Ratatouille vs. Persepolis
The Oregonian has a short but interesting article about what animation artists in Brad Bird’s home state, Oregon, think about the Oscar …
Do Artists Improve With Age?
Do artists improve with the passage of time or do an artist’s skills begin to deteriorate at a certain age? Animation director Will Finn …
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