Events

Looney Tunes in Allentown

Opening on Sunday, June 24, 2007, The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons will fill the Allentown Art Museum’s Kress and Rodale …

Feature Film

Persepolis trailer

As enthused as I am over the big budget, widescreen Hollywood animated blockbusters en route to the cineplex this summer, I’ve been …

Ideas/Commentary

The Saga of Todd Goldman

Todd Goldman is a talented artist whose t-shirt/apparel company David and Goliath, Inc. made $90 million in 2004. That’s hardly a …

Animators

Flickr Animation

Animator Dan Meth (of Hebrew Crunk fame) just completed an animation experiment. He animated his latest film while getting drunk in a …

Classic

Vintage Cartoon Articles

Charles Shopsin has been semi-regularly posting old articles on early cartoon production, from 1920s-1930s science and mechanics …

Animators

John Canemaker Events

Two upcoming John Canemaker events in the New York area: The Tribeca Film Festival will salute the animator with The Animated World of …

CGI

Ugly CG Peanuts

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

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 …

Animators

J.J. Defends 2-D

Go J.J.! Animator J.J. Sedelmaier has written an editorial for latest edition of Create Magazine making the case for animation …

Shorts

Alexei Karayev’s Welcome (1986)

What would happen if some Russians took a Dr. Seuss story and turned it into a paint-on-glass animated short? The results would be …

Anime

PAPRIKA trailer

Click here to see the exciting trailer for the new film by Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), Paprika. Watching this …

Animators

Chris Ishii’s Lil’ Neebo

I was bummed when animation artist Chris Ishii passed away in 2001 because I’d had his phone number on my desktop for quite a while and …

CGI

The Mouse Goes Mo-Cap

“Hi! I’m Mr. Mo Cap! I’m the future of animation!” I woke up this morning to the news that Disney is entering a partnership with …

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