Animators

Hand Carved Animation

We’ve seen animation with sand, with pin screens, and made by scratching directly on raw film. Here’s something new: Printed Linomation. …

Books

2009 Animation Book Preview

While the Internet has killed off the print animation magazine (or at least the demand for such publications), it hasn’t yet diminished …

Animators

Parra’s Art and Animation

Inappropriate it may be, but the music video for Lele’s “Breakfast” gets a chuckle out of me. The raunchy lyrics (NSFW) are made that …

Internet/Blogs

Script That Classic

With all the debate over scripts versus storyboards, animation writer Steve Marmel (Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, et al) has jumped …

Old Brew

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 …

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Animation History Gone Awry

Mark Mayerson rips apart the new book CREATORS: FROM CHAUCER AND DURER TO PICASSO AND DISNEY by British historian and journalist Paul …

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Unsung Heros of Animation

I can count all the great books about modern independent animation on one hand…hell, probably on one finger, because there simply …

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ANIMATION HISTORY DETECTIVES

Reader Adam Koford brings this to our attention:I don’t know if you have caught the History Detectives on PBS yet, but a recent episode …

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New Animation Magazines

> ASIFA MAGAZINE is relaunching this summer as the CARTOON JOURNAL. Chris Robinson will remain the magazine’s editor, but instead of …

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New Animation Books

Here’s some animation and cartoon-related books coming out in the next few months… Heard any good Mark Twain quotes lately? CHUCK …

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Recent Animation Books

Chris F. writes to ask if I ever heard of the book/DVD set, FLIPS 7, which presents the work of some dozen-and-half modern animation …

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