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Presto and Glago’s Guest
Was privileged to see two new CG shorts last week: Disney Animation’s Glago’s Guest and Pixar’s Presto. Both films couldn’t be more …
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Annecy Countdown
One half of Cartoon Brew, namely me, will be attending the world’s largest animation festival next week. If you’re going too, drop a …
Disney Artists To Self-Publish Rocket Johnson
In recent years, many artists at feature animation studios like Pixar, DreamWorks and Blue Sky have become involved in self-publishing …
Making Sense of Speed Racer‘s Failure
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal attempts to make sense of the spectacular box office failure of Speed Racer, which raced to …
Upcoming Chronicle Books
I received the Fall/Winter 2008 Chronicle Books catalog yesterday, and there are a few animation-related books that should be of interest …
Wall-E Builders
Talk about dedicated cartoon buffs. There’s a group of Pixar fanatics who are spending months building their own life-size replicas of …
The Making of a “Wall-E” Picture Book
Illustrator Ben Butcher has done an interview with Grain Edit about his illustration process on Lots of Bots, a graphically-striking …
The Disney Company on Ollie Johnston
(Above: Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas and Walt Disney flank seated Ollie Johnston) Howard Green just sent over the official …
Geri’s Game Remakes
Readers may recall that last year I posted about a group of Brazilian film students who had created a scene-by-scene live-action remake …
Justin Wright (1981-2008)
Sad news out of Pixar. Story supervisor Ronnie del Carmen reports on his blog that newly minted Pixar story artist Justin Wright passed …
Wall-E Trailer
Pixar has released the final trailer for Wall-E before its June 27 release. All I can say is that I really want to see this film! And …
Flip #11
There is a reason I plug Steve Moore’s online FLIP magazine every month: It’s damn good! The latest edition, now up, features the amazing …
And the Oscar went to…
At the Academy Awards tonight the Oscar for Best Animated Feature went to Pixar’s Ratatouille. The Oscar for Best Animated Short went …
Best. Birthday. Ever.
Yes, it’s me with my June Foray Award. I just got in from a wonderful night at the Annie Award ceremony, and yeah, it’s my birthday …
Brad Bird Interviews
Brad Bird has done a couple radio interviews in the past week which are worth a listen. The first interview refers to him as “Big Bird” …
Why Don Hertzfeldt Probably Won’t Win An Annie
There are five nominees for Best Short Subject in this year’s Annie Awards, which will be presented by ASIFA-Hollywood tomorrow …
Anton Ego Plush Doll
As a follow up to my previous post on plush dolls (and I promise this will be the last one for the time being), I just found out they …
Ratatouille wins Golden Globe
Congrats to Brad Bird and Pixar. Ratatouille won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature at their non-event/press conference …
Enrico Casarosa Talks Miyazaki
GhibliWorld.com offers a superb in-depth interview with Pixar story artist Enrico Casarosa in which he talks about Hayao Miyazaki’s …
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