Disney’s Paper Cut-out Animation
I’m a longtime fan of the incredible (and overlooked) stop motion paper cut-out animation sequences created by Bill Justice and Xavier …
I’m a longtime fan of the incredible (and overlooked) stop motion paper cut-out animation sequences created by Bill Justice and Xavier …
In light of some amusing controversy over a recent entry, I thought it would be an appropriate time to point towards this blog post, …
Duct tape + empty wall + 24 hours = Interesting animation experiment. (Thanks, Karl Cohen)
Ron Stark of S/R Laboratories in Westlake Village, California, sent me his latest animation auction catalog and it’s loaded with goodies. …
(click for full-sized chart) Designer Allister Roberts recently created a chart documenting the use of jazz in animated shorts between …
Recently I became curious to find out what is the most viewed original piece of animation on YouTube. The answer turned out to be a bit …
Move over, UCLA Festival of Books and BookExpo America. The 2nd annual Animation Book Look is the place to be. The Creative Talent …
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences new lobby exhibition, Ink & Paint, opens to the public on Friday May 16th. It highlights …
Michael Sporn has been scanning some beautiful photos and artwork from Bob Thomas’s classic long out-of-print 1958 book about Disney …
Sad news from our favorite touring cartoon festival, The Animation Show. Don Hertzfeldt, who co-founded the Show with Mike Judge, …
Nothing says more about the sad, pathetic, desperate, moribund state of the US TV animation industry than the fact that Seth MacFarlane …
Volume 2 (2007) of the Society for Animation Studies’ peer-reviewed on-line journal is now available for download (as a PDF or html file) …
The American Cinematheque and the Art Deco Society are presenting a lecture by David Pacheco, Walt Disney Art Classics creative art …
Courtesy of Marc Schirmeister, The Asifa Hollywood Animation Archive has posted the complete 18-page Crimebuster story from a 1942 issue …
Does this look familiar? Steve Stanchfield (Thunderbean Animation) — forever on the outlook for Preston Blair swipes as he travels …
The new blog Market Saw keeps readers updated about the latest 3D craze sweeping the feature animation biz (and movie industry as a …
Steve Hulett, over on the daily must-read The Animation Guild blog, lists all the known union projects currently in production in L.A. — …
I’ve neglected to acknowledge the release this week of Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection. It came out last Tuesday and it’s …
Last week I had the pleasure of being the guest speaker for Dave Levy’s animation career class at SVA (School of Visual Arts). It was a …
Licensing old songs has been a staple of TV advertising in recent times, but could licensing animated shorts become the next trend in the …