Events

Annie Award Nominees 2009

ASIFA-Hollywood announced its nominees for the 2009 Annie Awards this morning. For Best Animated Feature, Sony’s Cloudy With a Chance …

Pixar

The Academy (Shorts) Short-List

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today its short-list of the 10 animated short films that will vie for …

Bad Ideas

Chinese rip-off of Presto

Trying to find a free online version of Doug Sweetland’s Pixar short Presto, reader Michael Rianda instead found this: a Chinese …

Events

Next Weekend: CTN-X Animation Expo

Next weekend (11/20-22) is the CTN Animation Expo, and that’s where I’ll be with several hundred of my friends. It’s a convention/trade …

Events

CTN Expo Update

Last month we told you about the animators expo shaping up for this November in Burbank being organized by former Disney character …

Events

Spark Animation ’09

Spark Animation ’09 is taking place next week in Vancouver. I wasn’t blown away by the line-up for the event’s first year, but this …

Advertising

This Week at the Movies

I was flipping through the paper today – the entertainment section – and came across a trio of the ugliest movie ads I’d ever seen. The …

Animators

Happy Birthday, Bud Luckey!

As a change of pace, here’s some happy news about a veteran animation artist: today is Bud Luckey’s 75th birthday. Luckey’s career …

Feature Film

Ice Age Enters Record Books

A fact that took me by surprise: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is now the fifth-highest grossing animated feature of all-time at the …

Events

SDCC ’09: More Books!

In the run up to the Comic Con next week, I’ll be posting on several unique events and items that might be of interest to our readers. …

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