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What’s DreamWorks Doing?

This article, which was originally published in the WALL STREET JOURNAL earlier this week, offers some details on DreamWorks Animation’s …

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Josie Visits Bill and Joe

This is pretty funny: a 1970 JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS comic where the characters visit the Hanna-Barbera Studios to learn how an animated …

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Oswald At Your Service

(Click on pictures for a larger version of each) Aren’t these cool? Too bad we may never get a chance to buy ’em.Disney character …

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Academy Award Nominees & Analysis

The nominees were announced today.Best Animated Feature CARS (Pixar)HAPPY FEET (Warner Bros.)MONSTER HOUSE (Sony)Notes on the Feature …

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Primal Screen’s Sundance Openers

Atlanta-based Primal Screen has produced two preshow animation pieces – “Fireplay” and “Spark City” – for the 2007 Sundance Film …

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Persepolis

“When my parents came to the studio, nobody breathed. Imagine you are drawing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and suddenly a big mouse and …

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Divorce In Disneyland

LA WEEKLY’S Nikki Finke is reporting the breakup of Roy Disney’s 51 year marriage to his wife Patty.The only reason I posted this is …

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Frederator Award Party

Frederator Studios is hosting a party for animators next week at Cinespace in Hollywood. The event is to celebrate the first year of …

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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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Fred World

Art director (Little Mermaid) and production designer (Jimmy Neutron) Fred Cline has just started a blog. Cline was mentored by Lee and …

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Jaws Of Life

“Jaws of Life” is a freshly styled music video for the Canadian band Wintersleep directed by Sean Wainsteim (with James Mejia). Wainsteim …

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Classic Italian Commercials

Last month we posted links to some vintage French and German animated commercials. Now here’s a here whole bunch of 1960s and ’70s …

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Zombie Redenbacher

Files this one under “Commercials For People Who Can’t Get Enough Of Polar Express and Monster House.” Apparently the people who own the …

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Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s

Jeff Jonas, an artist at Sony Online Entertainment and the the son of Golden Age animation artist Homer Jonas, has written some hilarious …

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The Disney Strike of 1941

Kip W has posted some amazing animation artifacts on Flickr: coverage of the 1941 Disney strike as reported in New York’s leftist daily …

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