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Classic Italian Commercials
Last month we posted links to some vintage French and German animated commercials. Now here’s a here whole bunch of 1960s and ’70s …
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Animation Show Arrives In Theaters and On DVD!
Today is a big day for our friends at the Animation Show. It marks both the theatrical premiere of their third edition as well as the …
Re:Anima Joint Master In Animation Has Opened A New Call For Applications
The program offers an intensive two-year exploration of animation from an artistic perspective in Ireland, Belgium, or Portugal.
Zombie Redenbacher
Files this one under “Commercials For People Who Can’t Get Enough Of Polar Express and Monster House.” Apparently the people who own the …
Footage from Disney’s Enchanted
The first footage for Disney’s upcoming live-action/2d-animated film ENCHANTED has appeared online. A few seconds can be seen at the tail …
Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s
Jeff Jonas, an artist at Sony Online Entertainment and the the son of Golden Age animation artist Homer Jonas, has written some hilarious …
The Disney Strike of 1941
Kip W has posted some amazing animation artifacts on Flickr: coverage of the 1941 Disney strike as reported in New York’s leftist daily …
Iwao Draws Fred
Here’s a short video of Iwao Takamoto drawing a famous Hanna-Barbera character not designed by him. The video was posted by background …
Girls Drawin Girls
Girl animation artists drawing girls. Cool. It’s a new book, it’s a gallery show, it’s an event on January 20th at Pehr Space in Los …
The Golden Age Of Anime
Forget Astro Boy! Digital Meme has announced an upcoming release of a new DVD collection of vintage Japanese anime that predates Tezuka’s …
Pixar Animators’ Roundtable
What happens when five Pixar animators get together to talk animation? The results are in this Spline Doctors podcast. The participating …
China and India’s Animation Boom
The animation industries in North America and Europe may be healthy, but the numbers presented in this newspaper article from Chinese …
Save The Treasures
Who’d ever have thought that CHIP AND DALE (1947) would be a more obscure Disney short than DER FEUHRER’S FACE (1943)? Or that THE TRIAL …
Casper Comics
Leslie Cabarga and I are conspiring to get you to be friendly to Casper – his comics that is!I’ve made no secret of my love for the …
Another Live-Action Show On Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” line-up has ordered a pilot for yet another live-action project. This one is based on a series of online …
Music At The El Cap
Starting tonight, The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood is running a sing-a-long revival of MARY POPPINS for the rest of the month. The El …
Soapy Waters
Stripper’s Guide, a blog dedicated to newspaper comic strips, yesterday posted samples of George Stallings’ little-known comic-strip …
Adventure Time
If you couldn’t make it to the ASIFA-Hollywood screening of Frederator’s new Random Cartoons last night, here’s some good news. They’ve …
Steve Krantz (1923-2007)
We should note that producer Steve Krantz passed away last Thursday in Los Angeles from complications of pneumonia. He was 83.Krantz is …
Peter Kleinow (1934-2007)
Another of the old guard of animation, Pete Kleinow, has passed away. He was both a stop motion animator (with Art Clokey), and a renown …
Upcoming Ratatouille Books
In addition to THE ART OF RATATOUILLE, there’s a couple other books based on Pixar’s upcoming RATATOUILLE that are worth mentioning here. …
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