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Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood
Chuck Jones (1912-2002) sketches himself as a boy “conducting the ocean” in a new documentary short directed by Peggy Stern, Chuck Jones: …
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Disney’s first channel
Once again John McElwee has an intriguing post about animation on his Greenbriar Picture Shows blog. This time he reminisces about the …
Good News: The Princess and the Frog trailer
Disney has posted a teaser trailer for their return to hand drawn animated feature films, The Princess And The Frog. If the film is as …
The Animation Soundtrack
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Normand Roger on The Animation Soundtrack, on Sunday, August 10, at 7:30 …
Animation Block Party ’08
Brooklyn’s homegrown cartoon festival Animation Block Party will return for its fifth edition from July 25-27. Over 100 animated shorts …
Endangered Species by Tony White
Endangered Species by Tony White (Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook) is so insidery that it’s doubtful it’ll ever find a mainstream …
Kung Fu Panda Writer Can’t Stand Katzenberg
Dan Harmon, one of the writers of Kung Pu Panda, has written an entertaingly long rant about how much he disliked working on the film and …
Dumm Comics Roundtable
As written up on the Brew yesterday, Dumm Comics is a new daily comic site launched by some of the today’s top talents working in TV …
Chomet’s Illusionist footage to debut at Cannes
(click for full-size image) The Hollywood Reporter notes that the first footage from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist will debut this …
Woodies with Walter Lantz
Back before Walter Lantz created Woody Woodpecker, he liked to draw ‘woodies’ of a different kind. Animator Marc Deckter offers an …
Portishead Videos by Nick Uff
Nick Uff’s new videos for Portishead songs “The Rip” and “We Carry On” are two of my favorite pieces of animation so far this year. This …
Unpaid Stars of the Movies
This 1930 article from Popular Mechanics magazine (below) tries to explain the process of recording sound for animated cartoons in …
Brad Bird on Ollie Johnston
Ollie Johnston’s cameo in Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant We asked Brad Bird, Oscar-winning director of Ratatouille and The Incredibles, if …
The Disney Company on Ollie Johnston
(Above: Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas and Walt Disney flank seated Ollie Johnston) Howard Green just sent over the official …
John Canemaker on Ollie Johnston
Oscar winning animator, animation historian and author of Disney’s Nine Old Men, John Canemaker sent in this tribute to Ollie …
Ollie Johnston 1912-2008
The end of an era. The last of the Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston, passed away today in Sequim, Washington at the age of 95. Jenny …
Andy Knight, RIP
According to a note posted by PaulD on this message board, veteran animator and director Andy Knight, died last Thursday, April 10, at …
Pixar art exhibit at L.A. Auto Museum
Starting this Saturday the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles (at Fairfax and Wilshire) will be hosting an Art of Cars Exhibition. …
Stan VanDerBeek
(Photo © Amy Drown) I’m currently fascinated with the work of avant-garde filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984). There seems to be …
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