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The story of Louis Zamperini, hero of Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken," seems far removed from anything animation-related, but he did have a significant, and previously untold, connection to the animation world.
"LEGO Movie" Phil Lord and Chris Miller turned down an offer to run Sony Animation because "it’s too hard to do great work there."
Finding the perfect book for the beloved animation fan in your life can be a big challenge, but these gift-book ideas will inform and inspire anyone who loves animation and drawing.
Fox has released the full-length teaser for Blue Sky's "The Peanuts Movie."
The new edition of the KLIK Animation Festival begins in Amsterdam tomorrow and continues through Sunday, November 9th.
After years of producing teen-targeted shows like "Happy Tree Friends" and "Dick Figures," Mondo Media is eyeing the lucrative kids' market by teaming up with major toy manufacturer Spin Master, makers of Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Air Hogs, and Hedbanz.
As part of Nickelodeon Animation's ongoing effort to rebrand itself as a champion of artist-driven projects, the studio announced that it has teamed up with the Australian animation website LoopDeLoop.
British TV networks wanted to find the next "Simpsons" and "South Park," but things didn't go quite as planned.
"Chief has to DIE,” Ron Clements said. “The picture doesn't work if he just breaks his LEG. Copper doesn't have enough motivation to hate the fox."
The West Coast might have its Comic-Con this week, but the East Coast will be enjoying animated films at the 11th annual Animation Block Party, which starts tomorrow and continues through Sunday.
It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between YouTube cartoons dreamt up by teens in their bedrooms and big-budget TV studio productions created by professionally-trained artists. Today, Disney Television Animation announced the beginning of production on "Pickle & Peanut," a "buddy comedy series about two unlikely friends—an emotional pickle and a freewheeling peanut...two underdogs who dream up plans to be anything but ordinary."
"Jellyfish Eyes" marks the feature film directing debut of Japanese superstar artist Takashi Murakami. Described as a post-Fukushima sci-fi fantasy, the $7 million live-action/CGI hybrid film incorporates Murakami's goofily-styled creatures throughout, as well as an appearance by his fine art character Miss Ko2.
For the fifth year in a row, we are pleased to announce our annual Cartoon Brew Student Film Festival. The mission for the festival is simple: to honor student-produced animated shorts and share them with the widest possible community of industry decision-makers, fellow students, and animation enthusiasts from around the world.
Animator and director Stephan Franck ("Iron Giant," "Despicable Me"), who was recently nominated at the Annie Awards for his work on "The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow," premiered a collected paperback version of his adventure comic Silver at the Emerald City Comic Convention last month.
Last week, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group released the second animated short, Buggy Night, in its Spotlight Stories, a …
The Los Angeles indie animation event of the season takes place tomorrow, Saturday March 8th, at The Cinefamily. Animation Breakdown Roundup! is a collection of over two dozen shorts by seasoned indie stars (Vince Collins, Emily Hubley), current filmmakers (Kirsten Lepore, Takeshi Murata, Devin Flynn, Allison Schulnik, Galen Pehrson, Amy Lockhart, Matt & Paul Layzell, Garrett Davis, Charles Huettner, Caleb Wood, Alex Schubert) and next-wavers (Peter Millard, Sean Buckelew, Quique Rivera Rivera.)
If you're still wondering why DreamWorks Animation spent $33 million last spring to buy the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV, an article about Netflix in the latest issue of the "New Yorker" offers an explanation that I found to be succinct and worth sharing.
The personal styles of individual animation artists will be front and center in a new book series being prepped by Disney Publishing.
Don't miss this rare find on Archive.org: A complete PDF copy of John Halas and Roger Manvell's book "Design in Motion" (1962).
New books about "Adventure Time," Mary Blair, Alex Toth, Disney Golden Books, Pixar, and DreamWorks will be published in 2014.