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Mary Blair Show Preview
“The Art and Flair of Mary Blair” show opens this Saturday at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. More than fifty pieces of original …
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Most Honest Book Title Of The Year
I like the honest name of this new how-to book: How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3. Forget …
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.
November L.A. Comic Con
My friend Bruce Schwartz runs the Comic Book and Sci-Fi Convention at the Shrine Auditorium (near USC) in Los Angeles each month. And he …
What Makes Mickey Move? (1934)
Our friend Charles Shopsin has unearthed yet another vintage article about animation in the 1930s from the pages of Modern Mechanix. This …
Lucky Luke
Once again, another Euro 2D animated feature that looks intriguing – and with no U.S. release planned whatsoever. This is the latest …
Cartoon Dump Live – Tonight!
Citizens of Los Angeles – please note: tonight we are once again presenting Cartoon Dump Live at the Steve Allen Theatre in Hollywood. …
Rebecca Sugar Gets It On
Frankly I’m not sure what’s more disturbing: drawings of the Terrytoons characters Sourpuss and Gandy getting it on, drawings of …
Profiling Joel Trussell
It used to be that you had to live in Los Angeles or New York to make it big in the US animation scene, but today a whole new breed of …
“Mirador” by Hvass&Hannibal and UFEX
“Mirador” is a charmingly designed if not exceptionally animated music video for the Danish group Efterklang. It is directed and designed …
Acme’s Show of Shows on DVD
If you have any desire to watch and own some of the best animated shorts of the last twenty years, Acme Filmworks has just released 18 …
Cartoon Dump #6: Sir Gee Whiz
Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Happy Harmonies… and it all came down to this: Sir Gee Whiz On The Other Side Of The Moon. Needless to …
Popeye Animators ID
Popeye-lovers unite! The new classic Popeye DVD has ignited a long dormant interest in the East coast animators of the Max Fleischer …
Kent Butterworth’s Attila
Cartoonist Kent Butterworth (Tiny Toons, Sonic, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures) has done what other animators only dream of, he’s …
From Avant-garde to Pop Culture
Historians Jayne Pilling (from London, editor of A Reader in Animation Studies, Animation: 2D and Beyond, among others) and Giannalberto …
No Need To Create, Just Transcreate
The Wall Street Journal has a depressing article about a growing trend in the cartoon world: ‘transcreating’ cartoon characters, in which …
Schulz book update
Good Grief! The conversation continues on our post about the Michaelis bio of Charles Schulz. Schulz son Monte adds some additional …
Dean DeBlois’ New Film
Everybody knows what Lilo and Stitch co-director Chris Sanders is up to nowadays, but what about the film’s other director, Dean DeBlois? …
It all started with a… toy?
How did this one get by me? Did Walt Disney name his most famous creation after a toy, Micky Mouse (sic)? On eBay today, someone is …
C.L. Hartman Animation Reel
The grandson of Golden Age Hollywood animator C.L. Hartman has posted a reel onto YouTube of commercials animated by Hartman at John …
Un Regard Moderne (Paris)
Storefront and interior. Click for bigger version A few months ago, I solicited suggestions from readers about what to see and do …
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