Disney

Walt Disney Treasures live again!

It was announced late Friday and posted on several other websites since: the Walt Disney Treasures will go on. At least, for another …

Classic

Popeye DVD

Here it comes! The first official release of the classic Max Fleischer cartoons on DVD, from Warner Home Video (who own the master …

Books

Publishers Like Animation Artists

One of the more inspiring trends recently has been seeing book projects by animation artists being picked up for distribution by …

Shorts

NFB’s Hothouse

Every year, for the past four years, the National Film Board of Canada has been running a neat program called Hothouse. The idea is …

Feature Film

Animated Feature Watch

An animated week at the movies. Meet The Robinsons and TMNT are expected to be #2 and #4 at the nation’s box office this weekend. More …

Anime

Tekkon Kinkreet

The L.A. Times wrote about this film last month. We told you about it exactly one year ago. From the studio that brought you Mind …

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 …

Disney

Tim Onosko (1947-2007)

I didn’t really know the late Tim Onosko personally, but I always admired his writings. We’d corresponded a few times throughout the …

BrewFilms

Mark Kausler’s It’s The Cat

Today we are very proud to add a new title to the CartoonBrewFilms library. Mark Kausler’s engaging and heartfelt homage to 1930s …

Disney

Keep Moving Forward

This isn’t a review or critique of Meet The Robinsons, but I saw the film today at a screening at the El Capitan, in 3-D. In a …

CGI

Ugly CG Peanuts

Good Grief! Some drawn characters just shouldn’t be rendered in 3-D. A German telecommunications company, Combots, is selling …

Ideas/Commentary

An Open Letter

Dear AOL/MSN/Yahoo/NBC-Universal and News Corp., Congratulations on the news of your new company to compete with YouTube. The …

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 …

TV

El Tigre Beat Boards by Dave Thomas

A quick follow-up to yesterday’s El Tigre review: the show’s supervising director Dave Thomas also has a blog where he’s posting many …

TV

REVIEW: El Tigre (Nickelodeon)

My introduction to Jorge Gutierrez’s work was at the 1999 CalArts Producers’ Show. It was a screening of his CG short Carmelo. If I …

Disney

Der Fuehrer’s Face

David Lesjack, on his Toons At War blog, has begun series of posts about Disney’s 1942 Academy Award winning short Der Fuehrer’s Face. …

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