Animators

Animated Movie Titles

It’s funny how movie title sequences have now been moved to the back of the film. But that hasn’t stopped filmmakers from producing the …

Cartoon Culture

Animated Manhattan

Inspired by the book Celluloid Skyline, which examined the depictions of New York in live-action film, the blog Ironic Sans has a …

Feature Film

Augenblick Animates The Ten

Animation Magazine has a good article about the new art house movie The Ten and the Flash-animated sequence in it produced by Augenblick …

Internet/Blogs

Dead Animators on MySpace

A bit of a curious trend worth noting is the growing number of MySpace pages dedicated to legendary animation artists. While the pages …

Chuck Jones, Ken Harris, and Ben Washam
Animators

Animators at Work

Animator David Nethery has created a wonderful photo album of classic and contemporary animators at their animation desks.

Classic

Terrytoon Animators at work, 1939

Asifa-Hollywood’s Animation Archive has unearthed and posted a rare silent 8mm film shot by animators at Terrytoons detailing the process …

Books

The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm

When the CIA isn’t busy destabilizing other countries, they apparently like to help animation studios create cartoons. At least that’s …

Comics

Calvin and Hobbes Animated!

We may never see a Bill Watterson-approved animated version of Calvin and Hobbes but the following student film from Italy is a nice …

Events

Animagination

Youth Opportunities United (aka YOU) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of abused and neglected children in …

Comics

Chris Ware Animates

Superstar cartoonist/designer Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library) apparently animates too. Here’s a four-minute segment he did for …

Illustration

Animators Up for Pulitzer Prize

The journalism trade magazine, Editor and Publisher is reporting that the three cartoonists reported to be Pulitzer Award finalists all …

Cartoon Culture

A Coffeeshop for Animators

Finally, somebody has combined two of my passions: coffee and cartoons. Flip Cafe is a coffeeshop in Bangkok that, according to their …

Old Brew

Pixar Animators’ Roundtable

What happens when five Pixar animators get together to talk animation? The results are in this Spline Doctors podcast. The participating …

Old Brew

The Re-Animated Ryan Larkin

Ryan Larkin, Canadian animation legend-turned-panhandler, who was the subject of Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winning short RYAN, is creating …

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