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The Little Boy and the Beast
A delightful trailer for The Little Boy and the Beast (Der Kleine und das Biest), a six-minute short directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe …
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Two Animated Films Nominated for Best Picture Oscar
News media stories about the Oscars are cropping up all over and all of them are parroting the same factoid: Up is only the second time …
Irish Animation Booming
Ireland’s animation industry is still relatively small, but according to this piece in the Irish Times, it is robust and growing. A few …
Drift by Theo Tagholm
The dreamlike morphing imagery in Drift creates a mysterious and original style of movement that I haven’t seen before in any …
Moonshine: Brewed on the Dark Side of the DreamWorks Moon
A few years ago, a group of DreamWorks artists banded together to create Scrambled Ink, an indie comic anthology that was eventually …
Yuri Norstein in San Francisco, NYC and Olympia
As you may have gathered from yesterday’s post, Yuri Norstein is currently in the US. He’ll be making appearances in other cities besides …
FRIDAY in LA: Yuri Norstein at USC
Heads up, Angelenos. The USC School of Cinematic Arts invites you (or anyone who can get to USC this Friday) to participate in a …
Mr. Magoo Boxer Shorts
Just when I thought they couldn’t sink lower than Mr. Magoo Boxer Shorts. Imagine taking off your jeans and impressing your lady with …
Modern Mickey by Paul Rudnick
There is a humor piece by Paul Rudnick in this week’s New Yorker that takes a swipe at the forthcoming Mickey Mouse videogame Epic …
Phillip, the Safety Egg
Mike Owens made this at Puny in Minneapolis. “It’s our first in house short developed from a character that has lived in my subconscious …
Six Points Fellowship
Six Points Fellowship is looking for applicants for its 2010 cycle. The fellowship is designed for emerging artists in the New York area …
Kanizsa Hill by Evelyn Lee
A man is shot and can only survive as a head and a body who exist independently from one another. The forgetful body desperately collects …
Cartoons of 1939 blog
Film historians have long declared the year 1939 the pinnacle of Hollywood movie making. But what about the cartoons? Cartoon buff …
For the Birds Controversy
The Internet which is always looking for a good controversy is trying to stir one up over a Pixar short. Lineboil.com pointed out a …
iPad as an Animation Tool?
Like so many others, I was eagerly anticipating Apple’s iPad, but the device falls shorts in many areas, including in its usefulness to …
Kung Fu Magoo emerges on DVD
It’s been over a year since we heard anything about Classic Media’s attempt to revive Mr. Magoo in something called Kung Fu Magoo. Our …
Send Your Love to Disney Legend Bill Justice
Bill Justice working on “A Symposium on Popular Songs.” From Miehana’s Flickr. If you’re a fan of Disney legend Bill Justice, here’s …
See Through by Jokelate
We don’t see much independent animation from China – but you really need to see this one. After working on it alone for three years, a …
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist Debuts in February
The Illusionist, the long-awaited follow-up feature from Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville), will debut next month at the Berlin …
Fantasy City by Tatsuo Shimamura
I’m not going to pretend like I fully understand what’s going on in this short–alienation and dehumanization in modern society is …
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