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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 …
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Ugly CG Peanuts
Good Grief! Some drawn characters just shouldn’t be rendered in 3-D. A German telecommunications company, Combots, is selling …
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 …
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 …
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 …
PAPRIKA trailer
Click here to see the exciting trailer for the new film by Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), Paprika. Watching this …
Oscar ’07: The fallout from the “Happy Feet” win
Happy Feet won. Does it matter? The sad fact is, it may. I won’t deny that Happy Feet was a well made, entertaining film. I liked …
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 …
How To Become An Animation Executive
It turns out that John Kricfalusi isn’t the only TV animation creator who is vocal about his dislike of contemporary animation execs. …
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 …
Id These Pig Cels
Brew readers with a keen eye and a vast knowledge of Disney TV and movies, here’s a question for you. These cels (above) were recently …
Josie Visits Bill and Joe
This is pretty funny: a 1970 JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS comic where the characters visit the Hanna-Barbera Studios to learn how an animated …
Academy Award Nominees & Analysis
The nominees were announced today.Best Animated Feature CARS (Pixar)HAPPY FEET (Warner Bros.)MONSTER HOUSE (Sony)Notes on the Feature …
Persepolis
“When my parents came to the studio, nobody breathed. Imagine you are drawing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and suddenly a big mouse and …
Footage from Disney’s Enchanted
The first footage for Disney’s upcoming live-action/2d-animated film ENCHANTED has appeared online. A few seconds can be seen at the tail …
REGINALD MASSIE
Screenwriter Jeff Massie, an executive board member of The Animation Guild, has started blogging about his life and stuff he likes, …
More Kaj Pindal
Following our mix-up about Kaj Pindal, we received an email from Michael Carter, Pindal’s producer and partner on the new animated series …
Animation Still Key At Nickelodeon
While Cartoon Network continues to abandon cartoons in favor of live-action productions, this article in yesterday’s NY TIMES reaffirms …
Trippy Commercial by Hans Fischerkoesen
I pointed to some surreal French animated commercials last week, but they don’t come close to this mid-century theatrical spot by German …
Classic Animation on Flickr
Today marks the launch of the Animation History Archive on Flickr, a new group I started where we can all share interesting visual bits …
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