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The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is putting a special emphasis on animation this year, and has announced that Disney's "Big Hero 6" will be the opening night film of their 27th edition.
How did Aymeric Kevin and his team manage to produce so many quality backgrounds on such a short schedule? Aymeric speaks to Cartoon Brew about the background art of "Ping Pong."
My wrestling match with Ken Anderson now over, I returned once more to Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman and Larry Clemmons, working on the story end of "The Fox and the Hound."
There are many ways to create animation, and most of them are tedious and life draining. It's pretty common to find animators incorporating some combination of chair and desk as a prison of their practice, where they trudge through their work while simultaneously wasting away. Tobias Stretch has no appetite for that lifestyle, and uses the world as his stop motion playground.
We heard rumors of layoffs at DreamWorks last week, but they weren't confirmed by a reputable source until yesterday evening when the animator's union, The Animation Guild, posted an item about it on their blog.
The first chapter of Steve Hulett's memoir about working as a writer at Disney in the late-Seventies and Eighties.
Laika does amazing work as an animation studio, no doubt about it, but the studio's history is somewhat less admirable. The company was built on top of Will Vinton's eponymous Portland studio in a shrewd corporate takeover by multi-billionaire Nike co-founder Phil Knight. After Knight took control of the company in 2002, he placed a failed rapper named Chilly Tee with slight experience in animation, who also happened to be his son Travis Knight, in charge of the entire company.
In this special Cartoon Brew series, we asked the five nominees of the 2013 Best Animated Short Academy Award to discuss the artwork of their films. Today we continue this exclusive look at the short contenders with "Possessions," a Japanese film directed by Shuhei Morita. The film initially appeared in Katsuhiro Otomo's "Short Peace" film omnibus.
Animator and filmmaker Michael Sporn, a man who represented the spirit and vitality of New York's animation scene as much as any other single individual, passed away from pancreatic cancer on January 19. He was 67.
An early work by Estonian animation master Priit Pärn.
British department store John Lewis has released an ambitious annual Christmas advertisement, a £1 million hand-drawn spot with stop …
Welcome to the fourth annual Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival. Every Monday morning for the next eight weeks we’ll be debuting …
Earlier this week, Gabe Swarr relaunched "Life in the Analog Age" as a weekly animated series online, with the goal of new episodes every week.
Last week after word got out that Disney was seeking to trademark “Día de los Muertos” in preparation for its 2015 release of a Pixar …
The biographer of the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" reviews the 25th anniversary screening that took place in Los Angeles.
In the late-1930s, Walt Disney enlisted German architect and industrial designer Kem Weber to design a state-of-the-art animation studio …
Every step of animation production used to require physical exertion or interaction with a physical object. Not so anymore.
I’m never going to let you forget that I’ll be co-hosting an evening (6 hours!) of Classic Animation on Turner Classic Movies on Sunday …
http://vimeo.com/49398959#at=0 Los Angeles, CA — Bi-coastal production company Stardust recently delivered a 10-spot campaign from …
Turin, Italy — Dedicated to bringing together experts from around the world to inspire, engage, teach, and astound, VIEW, Italy’s …