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BLUE SKY BLOG JAM

It’s a shame the latest Scrat short was removed from GoogleVideo yesterday, but today the Blue Sky artists have another treat for us. …

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THE NIGHTMARE IN 3-D

The other night I had a chance to screen the 3-D version of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. All things considered, the folks …

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NOTHING LIKE THIS

Okay, check out this cool music video based on a track by the late hip-hop producer J Dilla. Nothing Like This was produced by Brooklyn …

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BILL MELENDEZ PODCAST

Bill Melendez (of Disney, Warners and UPA) is one of the last surviving animators from the golden age still working today. Of course his …

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WALT’S VAULT 28

Just last week I’d been posting on the upscale urban merchandising initiative Warner Bros. is promoting in an effort to contemporize the …

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ANIMATED FEATURES BY SOLO ARTISTS

With several big budget funny animal epics opening almost weekly, 2006 may well go down as the year of CG feature burnout. But 2006 may …

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PATRICK OWSLEY’S BLOG

Cartoonist Patrick Owsley has started a blog. He’s one of the rare few character merchandising artists who seem to be channeling the …

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HORNSWIGGLE LIMITED EDITION

Hornswiggle, the cartoon short I produced for Frederator’s Random Cartoons show, will be broadcast on Nickelodeon sometime in 2007. The …

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MAD ABOUT THE CHESHIRE

In case you missed the Gallery 1988 Cheshire Cat show, We’re All Mad Here, don’t fret. The good folks at Vinyl Pulse have posted most of …

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DATE WITH DIZZY (1956)

What an awesome way to start a Monday morning! Josh of the Jazz:Animated blog has posted onto YouTube the difficult-to-find 1956 John …

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LIMBO

Check out the breathtaking sample animation and concept art for a new video game called Limbo. It’s being developed by designer Arnt …

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LOONEY TUNES MURAL IN HOLLYWOOD

I got some photos of the bizarre DRx Looney Tunes mural in Hollywood, which I mentioned in this post a few days ago. It fills an entire …

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Terry Teachout on Why YouTube Rocks

Despite some missteps on YouTube’s part, like the unnecessary removal of dozens of public domain cartoons from its site, I’m still a huge …

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Most Ironic Exec Quote of the Week

We’ve known since April that Cartoon Network is abandoning its original programming charter and slowly moving into producing live-action …

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