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James Cameron: “I’m not interested in being an animator”
In last week’s LA Times, James Cameron continued to assert his position that Avatar isn’t animation, though at least he’s acknowledging …
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Animated Euro-Trash
Each year I’m dismayed at the lack of U.S. distribution for several high quality theatrical animated features, out of the dozens of …
Crowd-Funding Animated Shorts
The crowd-funding path for short filmmakers is finally gaining traction, and established animation filmmakers have begun experimenting …
Cameron Bitter Because Oscars Snubbed Animated Characters
(Pocatar image by Chad Regan) An article from today’s Hollywood Reporter says that Avatar producer Jon Landau labeled the Oscars “a …
Two Animated Films Nominated for Best Picture Oscar
News media stories about the Oscars are cropping up all over and all of them are parroting the same factoid: Up is only the second time …
Outsider Art Becomes Animated in The Future
The video above is about The Future, a twelve-minute animated short drawn and voiced entirely by artists who are members of League …
Performance Capture Technology circa 1966: AnimaScope
Mo-Cap, Shmoe-Cap! Move over Robert Zemeckis – your ideas are old hat. Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope in 1917 and, thanks to …
Animal Drawing Workshop with David Colman
Character designer and story artist David Colman (who is also the author of The Art of Animal Character Design) will be holding a weekend …
Avatar, The Animated Film That Wasn’t
I was thinking today, If Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has enough animation in it to be eligible for Best Animated Oscar, and A …
Charlie Chaplin to be CG animated in India
You know this can’t be good. A press release from Mumbai brings news of a new television series to be based on legendary screen comedian …
Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema 2009
The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema is back for its 9th edition, and festival organizer Joseph Chen has compiled another fantastic …
Jonathan Demme To Make An Animated Feature
The book cover illustration above by Rachell Sumpter is responsible for one of the more intriguing animated feature announcements I’ve …
Halloween Animated Spook-tacular!
For the second year in a row, Brewmaster Jerry Beck will be programming a selection of strange and creepy Halloween related animated …
Sony and Frederator to develop Animated Movies
Get your feature film pitches ready. The Hollywood Reporter just announced that Sony Pictures Animation and Frederator Studios have …
Anima Mundi: Call for Web/Cell Phone Submissions
The 17th annual edition of Anima Mundi, South America’s largest animation festival, is coming up this July in Rio and São Paulo. The …
From the “Not Everything Needs to be Animated” Dep’t.
A memo to real estate agents: The market is bad enough. Creepy, poorly animated CG spokespeople aren’t going to increase your sales and …
David Ferguson’s Animated Shorts
Adventure Time creator Pen Ward recently turned me on to the work of Glasgow-based animator David Ferguson, who posts his work at …
Animated Spaces / Animated Bodies
This Friday, the University of Southern California is presenting a free evening of animation-based installations and performances. The …
Re-Animating Live-Action Films
Artist Christopher Panzner is promoting a new animation technique that he has dubbed Re:Naissance, which is essentially rotoscoped key …
LA Filmforum to screen Animated Documentaries
Los Angeles Filmforum is a local organization that regularly screens experimental and avant-garde films, documentaries, and animation. …
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