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THIS WEEKEND: Animation Seminars at the Egyptian
Sorry for the late notice, but if you are in L.A. this weekend you might check out the animation panels going on at the Egyptian Theatre …
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WIA NYC Animation Festival Returns For Third Year, Celebrating Animation And Community
On November 1, WIA NYC will showcase 28 animated films by emerging students and established independent filmmakers at SVA Theatre.
A Christmas Carol Opens Today
Robert Zemeckis’s A Christmas Carol opens today to a chorus of negative reviews and a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A particularly …
Curious Pages, a blog of illustrated children’s books
My favorite site of the moment: Curious Pages, a newly launched blog about obscure but outstanding children’s books from the 1800s all …
Five Nominees for Best Animated Feature?
The potential gamechangers in the Oscar race (clockwise from upper left): The Missing Lynx, A Town Called Panic, The Secret of Kells, …
Live Action/CG Yogi Bear sounds like a boo-boo
According to today’s trades, Dan Aykroyd has been cast as the voice of Yogi Bear in Warner Bros. new CGI hybrid flick, Yogi Bear, and …
A Town Called Panic
Sixteen animated films are needed to enter and qualify in order for five animated features to be nominated for a Best Animated Feature …
Even Monkeys Hate Robert Zemeckis
An article in National Geographic discusses the results of an “uncanny valley” test on monkeys. Researchers showed monkeys three versions …
Seventy Years On…
Here’s something the great Art Babbitt uttered in 1941. “I look forward to the day when real artists who are more than craftsmen, who …
A Preview of Prep & Landing
A three-minute preview of Prep & Landing was released online today. It’s a TV special from Disney Feature Animation directed by Kevin …
Maxine Patin
As a historian, I get a real kick whenever I discover that somebody I had no idea was still alive is, in fact, alive and well. Such is …
Rebecca Dart
I was blown away earlier today when I discovered the work of Rebecca Dart. She has a fantastic sense for funny appealing shapes, and …
New Despicable Me trailer
The first teaser was encouraging. This new trailer has lowered my enthusiasm. But I’m not one to judge a film by its previews. I’d like …
Cartoon Network Going Commando
Yeah, this is another post ragging on Cartoon Network as is spirals down the drainpipe of doom. I was at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood …
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Thursday in Hollywood: The Telephone Book
The 1971 X-rated feature The Telephone Book screens Thursday evening, November 5, at the Egyptian Theatre. The film, described as a …
Fantastic Mr. Fox
What a year. Coraline, Up, Ponyo, 9, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs – topped off with The Princess and The Frog and Fantastic Mr. Fox. …
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Titles
Todd Hemker and Soyeon Kim of Yellowshed recently directed the end title sequence for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Hemker discusses …
Pellet Gunn by Tim Beckhardt
I saw Tim Beckhardt’s Pellet Gun in Ottawa a couple weeks ago. It’s a student film from RISD. I liked the crisp linear style and it made …
NFB’s iPhone App
Wow, how quickly times change. A few years ago, while I was researching my book Cartoon Modern, I traveled all the way to Montreal to see …
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