Advertising

Classic Seventies Advertising

Chris Padilla recently hipped me to some visually striking animated spots from the 1970s. Chris actually showed some of these commercials …

Books

The Ralph Bakshi Book Project

I’ve known about this for a while and am excited that I can finally let everybody know about it. Pals Jon Gibson (of I Am 8-Bit fame) and …

Animators

Elbert Tuganov (1920-2007)

Pioneering Estonian animator Elbert Tuganov has passed away at age 87. Chris Robinson, author of Estonian Animation: Between Genius and …

Comics

Chris Ware Animates

Superstar cartoonist/designer Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library) apparently animates too. Here’s a four-minute segment he did for …

Disney

Pinocchio Scene by Scene

There is an important Disney history triple-play going on at three of our favorite blogs. Michael Sporn got the ball rolling last year …

Animators

Jules Engel on Bambi

These three caricatures, above, are of Jules Engel enacting part of a storyboard on Bambi. Don’t strain your eyes. Click here to see a …

Internet/Blogs

Dookie-Poo

There have been many cartoon characters based upon… uhh, shall we say, doo-doo. From Spumco’s Nutty, the Friendly Dump to South …

Classic

ALICE in 35mm

A few years ago, Ray Pointer (aka Inkwell Images) put together a superb DVD collection of seven Alice Comedies, Disney’s 1920s silent-era …

Animators

Ryan Larkin (1943-2007)

Canadian animation legend Ryan Larkin passed away on February 14 from brain cancer. Larkin directed and animated the 1969 Oscar-nominated …

Animators

Brad Bird Podcast Interview

Pixar animators Adam Burke and Andrew Gordon of the Spline Doctors blog have posted a terrific 53-minute podcast interview with Brad …

CGI

Foodfight

Click here to see the large size version of this promotional image, above, from Foodfight. Can you spot the product placement? …

Old Brew

Leibovitz Meets Disney

USA TODAY writes about the new Disney print ad campaign which features Annie Leibovitz photographs of celebrities dressed as Disney …

Old Brew

Meet Zombie Redenbacher

One more interesting fact about this spot: it was directed at Digital Domain by none other than David Fincher (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN), who …

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