Elle Michalka

Artist of the Day: Elle Michalka

Elle Michalka is an artist from Texas who attended CalArts for a couple of years before leaving school to work in animation on …

How Disney Bought Lucasfilm

Good long-read in Businessweek about how Disney bought the Star Wars franchise and Lucasfilm. The article is short on major revelations, …

Daniela Strijleva

Daniela Strijleva

Daniela Strijleva is a character art director for Pixar. Her blog is where you can find more of her personal projects like the …

Gina Thorstensen

Gina Thorstensen

Take a look at Gina Thorstensen’s work on her blog and website. She creates illustrations, puppets and animation with a variety of …

Inside Spain’s Grangel Studio

Carlos Grangel has had a long career in animation, working on DreamWorks features from The Prince of Egypt through Kung Fu Panda, and …

CartoonBrew.com Hires Four New Writers

Cartoon Brew is expanding its editorial staff. Today we welcome four contributing writers to the website. The new contributors each …

Disney Releases “Planes” Trailer

The trailer announces “From above the world of Cars…Disney’s Planes.” Now that Disney owns Pixar, the calculated blending of brand …

LOST FILMS: “El Sombrero by Bob Balser

Fans of classic animated shorts are undoubtedly familiar with John and Faith Hubley’s 1964 short The Hat, but there was another short …

Call for Entries: Animation Block Party

Celebrating its tenth edition this summer, Animation Block Party will take place between July 25-28 in Brooklyn. The festival, which is …

Till Shrek Do Us Part

DreamWorks cosplay is hardly as widespread as Pixar cosplay, but when people dress up as DreamWorks characters, it’s a thing of beauty. …

What’s Up, Ward Kimball?

I’ve received dozens of emails this week asking about the status of my Ward Kimball biography. Apparently, Amazon sent out emails to the …

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