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Your Feet’s Too Big by Nancy Beiman
What a great way to start the week! Your Feet’s Too Big (1983) is a beautifully drawn short by animator/author/teacher Nancy Beiman, set …
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Conan Capture
Conan O’Brien recently visited ILM where, among other things, he created some motion capture movement. It’s in the second half of the …
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.
China’s unlicensed knock-off of Disneyland
It’s the Crappiest Place on Earth! It’s one thing to bootleg a DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean, but it’s quite another to rip off an …
Astro Boy wants a Hybrid
Osamu Tezuka’s biggest stars endorse the Toyota Prius on its 10th anniversary. (via Japan Probe)
Designing Magoo Express (1955)
There’s a big post at the Cartoon Modern blog about Sterling Sturtevant’s character design work on the 1955 short Magoo Express. The post …
Madame Tutli-Putli
The indie animation blog Hydrocephalic Bunny informs about a very interesting looking new stop motion short out of the National Film …
The Flintstones jump the shark
(Thanks to Ira Gallen for posting this)
ASIFA-East Animation Festival
This Sunday, May 6th at 6pm, is the biggest annual animation event in New York City, the 38th ASIFA-East Animation Festival. Awards, …
Lantz DVD Update
Look! Universal has posted a teaser page to promote the Woody Woodpecker DVD coming out on July 24th. Note that pre-orders can be …
Looney Tunes #150
COMIC SHOP PICK-OF-THE-WEEK: DC’s LOONEY TUNES No. 150. It’s an all-star extravaganza as Daffy details his long, illustrious movie …
How Many Licks Does It Take To Make It CG?
Let’s remake a classic hand-drawn animated commercial… in CGI… Are ad agencies so deprived of original thinking that …
Canemaker at Apple Store Soho
Apple and indieWIRE are presenting several Filmmaker Talks at the Apple Store Soho during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Tomorrow our …
Kim Deitch presents Serial Queens
I love old movie serials, and really admire Kim Deitch’s graphic novels. Strangely enough both converge at the Silent Movie Theatre in …
FLIP
Is it possible to have an animation magazine about animators, written by animators, and edited by an animator? It is… and animator …
Brew Radio: TONIGHT!
Just got a last minute call to appear on a radio show tonight (4/30) at 11pm Pacific (2am Eastern). I’ll be discussing classic cartoons …
Neal Gabler on Disney at LAT Book Fest
I took a break from my deadlines on Saturday to see Mike Barrier discuss his Walt Disney biography at the Los Angeles Times Festival of …
McLaren Remixed
FPS Magazine informs us about Norman, a new mixed-media stage production that combines the works of an animation legend with live …
The Curious Absence of Humor in Primetime Animation
Are The Simpsons and Family Guy creatively bankrupt? Is the Pope Catholic? The New York Sun’s David Blum wrote a sharp commentary about …
Ken Anderson Sketchbook Drawings
Don’t miss this charming set of sketchbook drawings by legendary Disney production designer Ken Anderson, posted at Mark Kennedy’s always …
Too Art For TV, Too
The first one was a big success, so here comes Too Art for TV, Too, the second annual exhibition of personal art by New York’s animation …
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