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MILES THOMPSON’S CALIFORNIA
My good friend, Miles Thompson, a full-time painter and sometimes animation artist, is currently working on his next solo art show, which …
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Award-Winning 2D Animation Tips From The 2024 Cartoon Animator Contest
Learn nine pro techniques from 2024 Cartoon Animator contest winners to boost your 2D animation skills with creative rigs and smart motion tools.
BREW HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: THE SCOTT BRADLEY CD
Here’s a new item that needs to be on every Brew readers’ X-mas wish list. Screen Archives Entertainment/Film Score Monthly has just …
Animation Show 2007
Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt have announced the line-up for the third edition of the ANIMATION SHOW. Having seen all the films in the …
THE Conservative crusade against cartoons
In the 1950s it was comic books and rock & roll, in the 1990s it was video games and the internet. Now Steven Benen on The Carpetbagger …
John Canemaker’s Oscar Experience
What does it feel like to be nominated for an animated short Oscar? Atlanta animation director Ward Jenkins was curious to find out so he …
RUSSIAN ANIMATION SPY STORY
Who ever said being a distributor of animated films was boring work? Here’s an amusing newspaper article from a few months back about …
ART INSPIRED BY FAMILY GUY
Talk about scraping the bottom of the artistic barrel: the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills is currently hosting an exhibit …
FPS Charity Auction
Feel good this holiday season by participating in FPS MAGAZINE’s annual charity auction which runs through November 29. All proceeds, …
FESTIVAL REPORT: 2D OR NOT 2D
Animator Nancy Beiman (of the Rochester Intitute of Technology) sent in this first hand report from 2D OR NOT 2D FESTIVAL held in Everett …
Oswald To Get Lucky in 2007
One of the most interesting animation stories of ’06 took place last February when Disney acquired the rights to one of Walt’s earliest …
Don Hertzfeldt: CGI is mostly nouns
Indie filmmaker/stick-figure master/ANIMATION SHOW co-founder Don Hertzfeldt talks extensively about his work in this new AWN interview. …
New Animated Bits Around the Web
Joel Trussell of WAR PHOTOGRAPHER fame has finished a great looking spot for the anti-smoking campaign Way2Quit. Check it out …
PRIVATE SNAFU IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Today’s NEW YORK TIMES has an ARTICLE that discusses how animation was used during the 1940s and ’50s to teach valuable medical lessons. …
WORST. PEANUTS. EVER.
Did you know Charlie Brown’s parents were organ donors? When Charles M. Schulz agreed to using Peanuts characters for MetLife’s …
UNDER THE HOOD
The San Francisco Society of Illustrators is letting everyone know about the event PIXAR UNDER THE HOOD: The Making of Cars happening a …
TIME TRAVEL
Dan Hollis has been working in radio for the past 10 years as both the sales manager for Hackettstown, New Jersey radio station WRNJ and …
CEREAL OBSESSION
After old comic books and classic animated cartoons, the number #3 most influential art to aspiring animators has to be on cereal boxes. …
POTAPYCH: THE BEAR WHO LOVED VODKA
If you watch just one animated short this week, make it POTAPYCH: THE BEAR WHO LOVED VODKA by Darren Price. Produced as part of …
Greatest Soap Commercial Ever
“A girl finds some soap in the woods that turns her into a slut.” That’s the description I found for this risque Lux Provocateur soap …
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