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TrashCan Roxanne Reviews the Ottawa Animation Festival
Jerry and I both attended the Ottawa International Animation Festival and, like everyone else, had a wonderful time. Everyone that is …
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Kirsten Lepore Talks about “Bottle”
I wrote about Kirsten Lepore’s short Bottle last month, and enjoyed it so much, that I asked her to answer a few questions about her …
Behind-the-Scenes at Pixar Animation Studios
Behind-the-Scenes at Pixar Animation Studios Supervising Animator Bobby Podesta at the Charles M. Schulz Museum November 6, 2010, …
The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation
The Hub, a network owned partly by toy company Hasbro, launched a little over a week ago with new animated series including Strawberry …
5th Annual San Francisco International Animation Festival
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS FIFTH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 11—14, SPONSORED BY …
Weekend Brew Review
For some unknown reason, people are always asking me for advice on pitching a series or getting a job in animation. If I knew how to do …
Chris Robinson Talks about the Ottawa Animation Festival
The Ottawa International Animation Festival takes place next week. If you’ve never been, GO! It’s a wonderful event to catch up with …
“The Flintstones” turn 50
The first episode aired on ABC on September 30th 1960. Yup, The Flintstones turn the big five-o today. Everyone should sing Happy …
“El Gran Vázquez” Animated Sequences
Spanish Brew reader Roberto González sent in a link to these fun animated segments from the new Spanish biopic El Gran Vázquez. Roberto …
Thomas Kinkade Improves the Disney Classics
Christian painter (and former Ralph Bakshi employee) Thomas Kinkade, who once allegedly urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure outside the …
Buy Ward Kimball’s House
Here’s the ultimate animation collector’s item: the San Gabriel, California home of animation legend Ward Kimball is currently for sale …
Titmouse opens a studio in New York
Animation studio Titmouse (Metalocalypse, Megas XLR) has opened a New York studio in the Tribeca district of Manhattan. The image above …
Jerry’s October event calendar
If you can’t find me in October, you aren’t trying hard enough. But before we discuss October, tonight Cartoon Dump (9/27) returns with …
Creating Chewbacca
Great weekend read: Michael Heilemann explores how George Lucas created Chewbacca, or rather how he…um…borrowed…it from somebody …
A side-by-side comparison of Disney’s “Orphan’s Benefit”
Michael Ruocco, who discovered a lost Fred Moore animation scene on eBay recently, created this side-by-side comparison of the 1934 …
Bill Littlejohn (1914-2010)
Word has just reached us that veteran animator Bill Littlejohn passed away in his sleep last night. He was 96. Littlejohn was born in …
Saturday Book Review
If you ever wished one of the creators of a cartoon series on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network would just explain everything about how they …
November 19-21 in Burbank: CTNX Part Deux
First off: In case you haven’t bought your tickets yet – the CTN Expo is two months away. Anyone who attended last year knows that this …
Saturday Book Review
Here’s a roundup of few new books that several publishers and authors were kind enough to send my way: ANIMATED PERFORMANCE (Ava …
Kihachiro Kawamoto, RIP
It’s not a good week to be a Japanese animation legend. Stop motion animator and puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto, passed away last Monday at …
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