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Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema
I wish this festival were in Los Angeles – or anywhere in the United States. But I’m thankful it’s presented anyplace at all. Located in …
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Animated Documentary About Pablo Ferro
Mark Webster of Motion Design blog offers a preview of a fascinating film which I hadn’t heard of: a full-length animated documentary …
Brickfilms and the Amateur Animation Community
There was a front page article in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal about the brickfilm community. Brickfilms is a general description …
Animated Movie Titles
It’s funny how movie title sequences have now been moved to the back of the film. But that hasn’t stopped filmmakers from producing the …
A Disney Animation Filmography
At the Ottawa International Animation Festival last week, attendees recieved a unique little publicity piece. An eight-inch round …
Animated Manhattan
Inspired by the book Celluloid Skyline, which examined the depictions of New York in live-action film, the blog Ironic Sans has a …
Ratatouille is the Best Animated Film Since…
I was talking to my good friend Victor Haboush yesterday and he had an endorsement for Ratatouille that I just had to share. He says, and …
The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm
When the CIA isn’t busy destabilizing other countries, they apparently like to help animation studios create cartoons. At least that’s …
Len Lye’s Post Office Films
Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …
More Classic Animation on DVD
Not to be overlooked in this year of great classic cartoon DVD releases (the The Little King and Cultoons collection is subtitled …
Classic Seventies Advertising
Chris Padilla recently hipped me to some visually striking animated spots from the 1970s. Chris actually showed some of these commercials …
Animated Feature Watch
An animated week at the movies. Meet The Robinsons and TMNT are expected to be #2 and #4 at the nation’s box office this weekend. More …
Announcing CartoonBrewFilms
We are happy and excited to announce the launch of CartoonBrewFilms.com, a new site that makes the world’s finest animated shorts …
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 …
THE Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema
I’ve been complaining for years about the fact that very few of the animated features produced outside the U.S. ever get distribution (or …
CARTOON BREW FILM OF THE WEEK: TIM TOM
I first saw this film back at SIGGRAPH 2003 so it’s not exactly new. But the film has stuck with me, and it holds up quite well. Now that …
ANIMATED FEATURES OF 2006
2006 begins – and I’ve just updated my running list of animated features. It’s going to be an interesting year for theatrical animation. …
KIDTOON FILMS
Following up on my post below about the theatrical release of the new TOM & JERRY movie, Michele Martell of KIDTOON FILMS wrote in to …
LA REMINDER: Classic TV Commercials Screening
3 pm on Saturday @ the American Film Institute: Jerry Beck & ASIFA-Hollywood present rare animated TV spots from the 50s and 60s. Details …
John Hubley’s Navy Films
After posts about Flora, Blair and Kimball, how could I resist posting about another cartoon design genius, John Hubley (1914-1977), the …
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