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 …
While the Internet has killed off the print animation magazine (or at least the demand for such publications), it hasn’t yet diminished …
After surviving internment in concentration camps in the United States, these artists paved the way for Japanese-Americans in the animation industry.
Today offering on Cartoon Brew TV is The Last Temptation of Crust, a graduation film created by Dax Norman at Ringling School of Art and …
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences new lobby exhibition, Ink & Paint, opens to the public on Friday May 16th. It highlights …
FYI: Today’s Daily Variety has a special section focusing on animation. The print edition has a cool faux-celluloid cover advertising The …
We don’t do many links to non-animation websites but I wanted to share a few of my favorite visual blogs along with a couple other online …
Today marks the launch of the Animation History Archive on Flickr, a new group I started where we can all share interesting visual bits …
I’ve been tinkering around with Flickr the past couple days (so maybe that should be spelled ‘tinkring’) and the results are the …
Sprite Animation Studios has set up shop over at the Howard Hughes Center in West Los Angeles. The image above is from their first …
I guess there is no escaping the fact that it’s UPA week here at CARTOON BREW and on Amid’s CARTOON MODERN (Mike Sporn’s Splog has even …
The passing of legendary American photographer/filmmaker Gordon Parks reminds me of an interesting fact I learned while researching my …
I’m sure a lot of people have already seen this short. BIG BOX MART premiered on THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO back in October and since …
There’s occasionally some fairly amusing Google ads that get posted on our site. Tonight, I saw one for “Bachelor’s Degree in Animation …
Cartoon Network sends me screeners for their new shows and specials at least once a month, and I generally toss them straight into the …
Animation collector Eric Calande has posted his impressive collection of original Looney Tunes cartoon cels, backgrounds and drawings on …
The only thing I enjoy more than plugging the work of animation artists is plugging my own work, so with that in mind, let me direct you …
Here’s a whole Cartoon Retro thread taking Christopher Hart to task for his travesty of a book which I mentioned yesterday, CARTOON COOL: …
An interesting thought occured to me as I was reading this intense exchange of cartoon ideologies between John Kricfalusi and …
Its rare in TV animation these days for the director to be in the same location as the animators. On Monster By Mistake, we were …
The job of directing an animated TV show varies with each production. Theres no single way to approach it and how much power a …