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HARRYHAUSEN IN DALLAS
To all our friends out in Dallas, Texas – take note: legendary stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen will be discusing his craft and …
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Aardman and Canemaker Win Oscars
Congrats to our friend John Canemaker for winning the Best Animated Short Oscar, for his film THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED …
Tachiguishi Retsuden
TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN is an upcoming Japanese animated film by Mamoru Oshii (GHOST IN THE SHELL) and Production IG. It is yet another …
Doogal Tanks
Well, that didn’t take long. Congrats to our friends at the Weinstein Company for releasing the first CGI bomb of 2006, DOOGAL. The film …
WIRED ON SCANNER DARKLY
Good article on the CG rotoscope technique used in WAKING LIFE and challenges in making the forthcoming A SCANNER DARKLY in the latest …
The New Yorker Cover That Wasn’t
This story is more about illustration than cartoons, but Bill Joyce is a familiar face in animation nowadays. He was the production …
The (Mis)Marketing of Feature Animation
The FPS MAGAZINE blog has a thought-provoking piece by Marc Hairston about how Disney – not having learned anything from their clumsy …
Happy Birthday, Nina Simone
Today is Nina Simone’s birthday (Feb. 21, 1933-April 21, 2003), and to commemorate the date, here’s a soulful stop-motion music video for …
Dear Mr. Iger,
Now that you’ve returned a creative producer – an animator, no less – to head Disney Feature Animation and Imagineering, and you’ve …
Oswald South of the Border
Mexican reader Uriel Durán writes to let us know that Oswald is popular nowadays in Mexico, as well as Japan: The situation is that in …
Comments on CARS Clips
Pixar previewed a couple clips from CARS at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. Here’s a description of the clips shown. More …
FREE JIMMY
SLIPP JIMMY FRI (FREE JIMMY) is Norway’s first CG animated feature, and also the country’s most expensive film production to date, with a …
Sylvain Chomet Commercial
Check out this commercial for insurance company Winterthur by THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE director Sylvain Chomet. The animation and …
RADIO BREW
MEDIA ALERT: Brewmaster Jerry Beck will be making an appearence on MOVIE TALK, a radio show on New Orleans BizRadio 990am Saturday …
Dedini, Arriola and Ketcham Speak
Here’s the best thing I’ve found online this week: a three-part video interview from 2001 with all-star cartoonists living in Carmel, …
OSCAR FEATURE NOMINEES – NO CG
The nominees are:Howl’s Moving Castle (Buena Vista) Hayao MiyazakiTim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Warner Bros.) Tim Burton and Mike …
2006 Animation Predictions
Better late than never. Here are a few thoughts from your Brewmasters – Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi – about what might happen in animation …
Lasseter at Disney
Paul Briggs, a story artist at Disney Feature, shares on his blog the story of his first encounter with John Lasseter this week. An …
Disney+Pixar=?
Former ANIMATO! editor (and current PC WORLD editor) Harry McCracken asks the questions that are weighing heavily on the collective mind …
Disney/Pixar News Roundup, Pt. II
The NY TIMES reports that Disney may announce their acquisition of Pixar as early as tomorrow. According to the TIMES, “the deal would …
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