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Happy 70th Birthday, Hayao Miyazaki!
Happy birthday to Japan’s most successful and influential animated filmmaker of all time, Hayao Miyazaki, who turns 70 today! I’ll take …
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Jason Carpenter Talks About his Annie-Nominee “The Renter”
I’m glad we haven’t compiled our year-end list of favorites yet because last weekend I encountered one of the best shorts I’ve seen in a …
“Yogi Bear” Getting Bashed by Critics
What did you expect? The Hollywood trades are out with their luke-warm reviews of the live action-CG Yogi Bear feature, which opens this …
“The Forbidden Forest” by Keith Rondinelli
Creepy and atmospheric animation is hard to pull off, but Keith Rondinelli does it with style in his dark and hallucinatory short The …
2011 Sundance Short Film Selections Announced
The Sundance Institute announced its short film line-up this morning for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The festival, which runs from …
Mike Scully receives WGA Animation Lifetime Achievement Award
Los Angeles — Veteran animation and television writer Mike Scully has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America, West …
The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation
The Hub, a network owned partly by toy company Hasbro, launched a little over a week ago with new animated series including Strawberry …
“Red Head Speedskater” and “Spaceman Stu” by Oliver Conrad
Terrific photo-collage style and overall art direction in “Red Head Speedskater,” a music video for Airpushers directed and animated by …
Interview with John Canemaker about Two Guys Named Joe
John Canemaker’s eagerly anticipated book, Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft, will arrive in stores …
New Yorker Profiles A Cartoon Schlepper
This week’s New Yorker offers a towering 11,000-plus word profile of self-described “cartoon schlepper” Haim Saban, who made his money …
Lipsett Diaries Trailer
An enticing trailer for Lipsett Diaries, a short directed by Theodore Ushev (Drux Flux, Tower Bawher). It’s rare to see animated imagery …
John Canemaker’s New Blog
John Canemaker (far left) with John Kricfalusi, Frank Gladstone and Glen Keane Finally! Our friend, the esteemed animation …
Masterpiece 2.0, An Interactive Stop-Motion Animation Project
Masterpiece 2.0 is a social media animation project by Dutch artists Baschz and Selfcontrolfreak, and according to them, “the first ever …
A Free Animation Book Idea For You
Concept art from John Hubley’s Finian’s Rainbow This repost of John Canemaker’s article about John Hubley’s unproduced feature …
Beware The Deep Archives and David Scheve
I’ve never had to write something like this before because I’ve never had a consumer experience quite as awful as this. I hope to prevent …
John Stanley
I’ve always been aware of John Stanley, the comic book writer and artist best known for his classic Little Lulu stories (drawn by Irving …
Die Konferenz der Tiere
The trailer for an upcoming German CG feature, Die Konferenz der Tiere, co-directed by Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe at Constantin …
“The Story of Weston Woods”
I’ve been watching Weston Woods productions all my life and I never really realized it – and you probably haven’t either. I don’t know …
Thanksgiving Weekend Box Office Report
An impressive three animated films reached the top ten at the North American box office last weekend. Robert Zemeckis’s A Christmas Carol …
Lost UPA Cartoon: Howdy Doody and his Magic Hat
Gene Deitch has written this plea before, but he’s not ready to give up hope. The first cartoon he ever directed – for UPA no less – is …
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