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Gabe Swarr’s Value Meal

Animation director-designer Gabe Swarr has launched the first designs in his new T-shirt line called Value Meal. “I like food,” says Gabe …

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Animation Blog Season

The summer of 2005 will go down as the animation artist’s blog renaissance. Artist blogs have been cropping up at an unbelievable rate …

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Ryan Larkin on the comeback trail

Ryan Larkin, the celebrated wunderkind of 1960s Canadian animation whose downfall was the subject of Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winnning …

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CINECON & JANET KLEIN

This’ll be slightly off-topic. I’m plugging my whereabouts the next five days. Tomorrow night I will be in two places at once. First I’ll …

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EMPRESS CHUNG

Who says traditional animation is dead?Not Nelson Shin – the Walt Disney of Korea. His epic labor-of-love, EMPRESS CHUNG, has finally …

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THE NEW GUMBY

The current owners of National Lampoon have partnered with Art Clokey Productions to recraft the original Gumby TV series into an “edgy, …

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Ruben Apodaca, RIP

I was saddened to hear that Ruben Apodaca passed away last month at age 73. I didn’t know him well, but met him a few times to work on a …

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London Bloggers

A couple days ago, I mentioned a couple new bloggers who work in the London animation scene: Gerben Steenks and Stephane Kardos. Now, two …

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BEHIND “CORPSE BRIDE”

We will be having a contest the week of September 12th relating to Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE. Warner Bros. will be giving us prizes and …

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RENEGADE COCOA PUFFS

Wanna see what Renegade Animation does when it isn’t working on PUFFY AMI YUMI?This spot for Cocoa Puffs combines cel animation and …

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NEXTOONS: DAY #3

My pick from last night’s competition: A SIXTY SECOND TRAGEDY by Dane Webster.&#149 Nextoons site

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Eurovision Art Contest

The Eurovision Art Contest is a monthly drawing contest where artists create an illustration based on a specific theme. The contest is …

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DISNEY’S CINDERELLA

CINDERELLA (1950) played an important role in setting the Disney feature animation style of the 1950s, it inspired key attractions at …

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NEXTOONS: DAY #2

I missed Day #1.But my vote on Day #2 goes to Jessica Borutski’s I LIKE PANDAS.&#149 Nextoons site

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Frank Espinosa Talks Rocketo

There’s a good article about Frank Espinosa, creator of the new comic book ROCKETO, at Comic Book Resources. The article includes some of …

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Saul Bass

Here is a terrific interactive gallery of Saul Bass title sequences. It’s by no means every film title he did, but the majority of his …

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Brief Note from Amid

If you’ve emailed me anytime in the past few weeks, chances are you haven’t received a response. Crazy book deadlines will do that. I’m …

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Donating in Honor of Joe Ranft

UPDATE (3:55pm): Ronnie Del Carmen has details of where to send donations and cards. Click HERE. UPDATE (9:34am): Hold off on donations …

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