‘Castlevania’ Animation Director Spencer Wan Breaks Down His Favorite Anime Scenes
Wan spotlights sublime cuts in shows ranging from "Naruto" to "Devilman Crybaby."
Wan spotlights sublime cuts in shows ranging from "Naruto" to "Devilman Crybaby."
"Black Jack" and the 1980 remake "Astroboy" are among the titles launching on the free streaming service Retrocrush.
Music video for Jo Goes Hunting's "Careful."
An exclusive look at Ubisoft's new animation program.
We spoke to the artists and developers behind "Later Alligator," "Knights and Bikes," and "River City Girls" about their games' stylized visuals.
We take an in-depth look at the animation strategy at each of the major U.S. streaming services.
Winner of over 125 festival prizes and nominated for an Oscar, "Negative Space" is now online.
In an exclusive English-language interview, Yoshiaki Nishimura speaks with Cartoon Brew's about the growth of his company, Studio Ponoc.
Not all childhood memories are nice. Some of them reach out to the present, no matter how much time has passed.
Watch the trailer for Quentin Baillieux's new film "Le Mans 1955."
Read our case study of how a young Japanese studio is using Toon Boom to create traditional pencil-and-paper quality work, while respecting their artists’ process and culture.
We look at the top contenders in this year's Oscar race for best animated short.
Animation is growing up at the prestigious Cartoon Movie forum in France.
Ranging from the technical to the quirky to the essential, these holiday electives make great presents for animation pros and fans.
A new edition of "The Anime Encyclopedia" aims to cover anime more comprehensively than ever before. Does it succeed?
Yesterday at the Tokyo International Film Festival, animation director Hideaki Anno unveiled a new streaming called "Animator Expo" that intends to give exposure to up-and-coming filmmakers in the Japanese animation industry.
This a fan-made experiment in which the 1956 Tom & Jerry short "Down Beat Bear" is remade in CGI with anime girls in the roles of Tom, Jerry, and the dancing bear. The characters don't appear to be random and likely represent some part of fandom of which I'm not aware. Even lacking that context, I still think it's a fascinating piece of work, not so much for its animation or technical merit as for its resurrection of (and reverence for) classic theatrical animation in a completely unexpected setting.
Jonathan Clements’ "Anime: A History" differs greatly from more populist overviews of anime available in the English-language market. This book is not about the anime texts themselves, but the surrounding industry: Clements delivers a tightly-packed account of anime production, distribution and viewership from the silent era to the present day.
Pioneered by children, legitimized by people looking up weird stuff on YouTube, vitalized by online hoaxes, and existing entirely outside any kind of aesthetic considerations, fanime is something that could only have developed on the web.
The 2013 edition of Anime Festival Asia has an unusual contributor: Microsoft Singapore, which celebrated the event by creating a …