How Animated Are the Animation Oscar Nominees?
The Oscar nominations from yesterday are stirring a lot of controversy in the animation world: the animated shorts for how uniformly …
The Oscar nominations from yesterday are stirring a lot of controversy in the animation world: the animated shorts for how uniformly …
Ryan Larkin, Canadian animation legend-turned-panhandler, who was the subject of Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winning short RYAN, is creating …
Circulating amongst animators this week was the shortlist of possible Oscar nominees in the Animation Short Film category. The final …
You won’t find a funnier commentary about the pathetic creative state of American animated features than this short called OUTSIDE THE …
The fourth in a series of holiday gift-giving suggestions from your pals at Cartoon Brew. If you pick up one dvd of foreign animation …
Joel Trussell of WAR PHOTOGRAPHER fame has finished a great looking spot for the anti-smoking campaign Way2Quit. Check it out …
Yesterday, Cartoon Network released the trailer for their first original live-action production RE-ANIMATED. We’ve already discussed this …
Meet my new friend, Dave White. In his commentary published on MSNBC.com today – titled “Talking-animal movies are ruining my life” – he …
With all the recent discussion here about pitching in TV animation, this is an event that is timely and also somewhat ironic. On Monday, …
With several big budget funny animal epics opening almost weekly, 2006 may well go down as the year of CG feature burnout. But 2006 may …
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 …
For those of you in Los Angeles who can’t make it up to Ottawa this year, the American Cinematheque has an alternative for you. UNSHOWN …
Wow, lots of responses to last week’s post, “Is My Animated Short Worth a Penny”. The general consensus seems to be that while these new …
There’s been a lot of buzz in recent months about services like YouTube that allow filmmakers to host and share videos. A BUSINESS 2.0 …
Flash animator Nate Pacheco is working on translating the hard-edged, yet organic, style of mid-century illustrator Charles Harper into …
Yesterday’s LA TIMES published a case study that explains how incompetent Hollywood types make animated features. Worthwhile reading. (If …
Wanna see a new animated movie voiced by Paul Giamatti, Brad Garrett, Sean Astin and Evan Rachel Wood? Then get yourself over to Belgium, …
Here’s the most intriguing 2006 animated film I’ve heard about. Actually, it’s the only intriguing 2006 film I’ve heard about, but that’s …
2006 begins – and I’ve just updated my running list of animated features. It’s going to be an interesting year for theatrical animation. …
Fellow Brewmaster Jerry Beck, modest individual that he is, sometimes doesn’t promote his own books enough, so I feel compelled to do a …