3-D

We Swear, It’s Not A Gimmick

To paraphrase a well-worn saying, With employees like these, who needs enemies? The DreamWorks employees interviewed in last weekend’s NY …

Business

The State of DreamWorks Animation

The NY Times published a lengthy piece last week about how DreamWorks Animation is performing financially. None too shabby is the Times’ …

Ideas/Commentary

More Anger about Avatar

The image above is of Charlee, a fan of the Avatar series, who protested the live-action film’s racially questionable casting choices at …

Books

2009 Animation Book Preview

While the Internet has killed off the print animation magazine (or at least the demand for such publications), it hasn’t yet diminished …

3-D

Dreamworks to broadcast 3D MvA trailer

Leave it to Jeffery. No stone is left unturned in promoting a Dreamworks animated feature. Now comes word that the studio will telecast a …

Anime

Tezuka’s Amazing Three

Perhaps the most obscure of the pioneering anime series imported to the U.S. in the 1960s was Osamu Tezuka’s The Amazing Three. Why has …

Animators

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 …

3-D

3D Animation Movies: Fad or Future?

The new blog Market Saw keeps readers updated about the latest 3D craze sweeping the feature animation biz (and movie industry as a …

Old Brew

ESURANCE SPOTS CONFUSING?

The Esurance animated commercials – produced by Ghostbot and Wild Brain – look great, but are they good at selling car insurance? Ad …

CGI

OLI’S CHANCE

OLI’S CHANCE is a new German short that I discovered on character designer Harald Siepermann’s blog. The film can be viewed HERE (Windows …

Animators

Toy Story 2 Requiem

This is a genius trailer mash-up of TOY STORY 2 and Darren Aronofsky’s gritty REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. (Click on the image above to watch the …

Animators

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 …

Old Brew

THOUGHTS ON THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE

Saw THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE last night. It’s a kid’s flick, but a really funny, really good kids flick. I liked it a lot.I’m …

Old Brew

NEW TOM & JERRY MOVIE

Going on sale January 18th 2005 is Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars:”Tom and Jerry mistakenly stow away on the first manned mission to …

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