DVD

Bill Plympton’s Dog Days dvd

Independent animation great Bill Plympton has released a new dvd collecting all of the shorts he has created between 2004 and 2008: Guard …

Bad Ideas

Vancouver Opera “Contest”

Hardly a week passes without news of another exploitative animation “contest.” Sadly, this time it’s an arts organization–the Vancouver …

Feature Film

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu

Digital effects can be wonderful but they aren’t a substitute for good old-fashioned creativity, as evidenced by the pre-digital era …

3-D

Drux Flux by Theodore Ushev

The National Film Board of Canada has made Theodore Ushev’s powerful 2008 short Drux Flux available on YouTube. This is a film that …

DVD

Watchmen: Black Freighter trailer

In conjunction with the March 6th release of Watchmen, Warner Bros. is releasing (on March 24th) a direct-to-video animation of Tales of …

BrewTV

Cartoon Brew TV #16: Love on the Line

Cartoon Brew TV is back from the holidays and we’re ready for action–19th century style! This week’s offering, Love on the Line (2008) …

Business

Adobe vs Toon Boom

There’s a war brewing in the animation software world and Cartoon Brew is right in the thick of it. In fact, I only became aware of the …

BrewTV

Cartoon Brew TV #5: Hairyman

Steven Subotnick’s film Hairyman began as an interpretation of an American folk tale from the South, but the idea evolved in an …

Events

Banksy’s Pet Shop Open in NY

Prankster/graffiti artist Banksy opened the Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill in NYC yesterday. The tiny storefront installation, …

Site News

Introducing Cartoon Brew TV

We’re excited to bring you something new today – Cartoon Brew TV. The new site is available by clicking on the CBTV logo above our main …

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