Cartoon Culture

Popeye Bonus Material

Here’s a couple of odds and ends that won’t be found on any Popeye DVD collection anytime soon… Sounds like Jackson Beck Allen …

CGI

The Making of Pencil Test

With SIGGRAPH 2007 now wrapped up, I thought it might be appropriate to link to the video below about a CG animated short that debuted …

Animators

A Word With Lou Romano

Here’s a short and amusingly awkward interview with animation artist and voice actor Lou Romano (Ratatouille’s Linguini). It’s funny how …

Animators

A Few Good Blogs

Three good artist blogs you can’t go wrong with… Alberto Mielgo is among those animation artists today whose work really excites …

Animators

R.I.P. Alexander Tatarski

I just got word that Alexander Tatarski, an internationally known and praised animator, has passed away. He died yesterday at age …

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Popeye Beer ad

Please forgive all these Popeye and Woody Woodpecker posts, but here’s a YouTube find I had to share: a 1980s British Carling Black Label …

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Woody and Popeye

Next week the Popeye collection goes on sale. While we wait, here are two recent vintage commercials that didn’t quite make it as …

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Jack Zander Interview

Animation World Magazine has an interview with 99-year-old animation veteran Jack Zander whose career includes stints at studios like …

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Scary Green Giant

Stop motion animator/historian, Ken Priebe, thinks he has found the creepiest puppet animation ever:

Shorts

Cupcake Hitler

What if Hitler were a cupcake? For those who were wondering why they don’t make World War II propaganda cartoons like they used to, …

Shorts

Boris Kolar’s Woof, Woof!

I love the work that came out of Zagreb Film in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. These years were responsible for some of the funkiest and most …

Feature Film

Imagination by Eric Leiser

Eric Leiser, a recent grad of the CalArts Experimental Animation program, has completed his first feature film, Imagination, which …

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