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Milt Kahl at the Academy, 2.0
Let’s try this again. If you were turned away from the Milt Kahl event last month, the Academy wants to invite you to an encore …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
Great, Now We Have To Start Calling Him Dr. Lasseter
This photo comes from davedoo’s Flickr page. The accompanying caption: Saturday, May 2, 2009: A lovely day as Pepperdine University …
Artists Behind ‘Frozen,’ ‘Corpse Bride,’ And ‘Up’ Teach Character Design In New Course From The Creators U
Five leading designers share practical exercises, drawing demonstrations, and lessons from creating characters like Ellie and Sadness.
Pinocchio Trade Ad from 1940
While researching a book that I’m currently working on, I discovered a four-page ad published in the March 4, 1940 edition of The …
Mish-Mish Effendi
About a year ago, Milton Knight sent us a link to a excerpt from a rare series of Egyptian cartoons created in the 1930s by the …
1933 Mickey Mouse gum card w/Walt Disney
I was rummaging through my files last night and found this old beat-up Mickey Mouse Bubble Gum card from the early 1930s. I don’t know if …
Sita Sings the Blues: A Free Culture Success Story
Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues–now a film that everybody can (and should) watch–continues to make an impact in surprising and …
Alisa’s Birthday
I’ve kept my eye on an intriguing Russian animated film Alice’s Birthday, which I’d mentioned here several times last year. Looks like …
Bass+Crippen+Freberg=”Sale of Manhattan”
The animation above aired on the 1962 ABC special “Stan Freberg Presents The Chun King Chow Mein Hour: Salute to the Chinese New Year.” …
Let’s Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile
Apparently it’s the season for children’s books by animation artists. A couple weeks ago, we wrote about the new kids’ book by Tom …
Cartoons at the Academy
I previously posted about the Academy’s upcoming Monday night series of 1939 Oscar nominees (May 18th through August 3rd). With each film …
The Princess and the Frog Trailer
The trailer for The Princess and the Frog aired for the first time today on Disney Channel. (Thanks, Aldon Spears)
School of Visual Arts Student Screening Review
I attended a couple year-end animation school screenings yesterday in Manhattan–one for NYU students and the other for School of Visual …
Yooouuutuuube.com
Yooouuutuuube.com is a site that allows users to create a frame-by-frame video wall display using any YouTube video link. The effect is …
Pixar opening shorts studio in Canada
Pixar is opening a satellite studio in Vancouver which will be dedicated to producing short subjects. According to a story in The …
Max Fleischer’s Screen Song Patent
Submitted for your educational pleasure – another historical find from our friends at the Van Eaton Galleries: The patent for Max …
Forbes Magazine on Animation
Forbes.com just posted a rather flimsy column about animated features, discussing how much money they make and claiming there are “45 or …
From the “Not Everything Needs to be Animated” Dep’t.
A memo to real estate agents: The market is bad enough. Creepy, poorly animated CG spokespeople aren’t going to increase your sales and …
Celebrate 80s Pop Culture in Philly
The Autumn Society of Philadelphia is curating an art gallery show in June for the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters and other 80s pop …
EXCLUSIVE: Early Review of The Princess and the Frog
I don’t typically republish reader comments in separate posts, but a Cartoon Brew reader named Michael saw a rough cut of The Princess …
“Mr. Wobble’s Nightmare” by Joel Trussell
Following this recent post, many readers demanded better animated and funnier fruit people. So I present to you Joel Trussell’s new Kid …
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