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 …

Events

Academy Exhibit of Classic Animation

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences new lobby exhibition, Ink & Paint, opens to the public on Friday May 16th. It highlights …

Feature Film

Variety on Animation

FYI: Today’s Daily Variety has a special section focusing on animation. The print edition has a cool faux-celluloid cover advertising The …

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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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Flickr: Cartoon Modern Yearbook

I’ve been tinkering around with Flickr the past couple days (so maybe that should be spelled ‘tinkring’) and the results are the …

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SPRITE ANIMATION

Sprite Animation Studios has set up shop over at the Howard Hughes Center in West Los Angeles. The image above is from their first …

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UPA’S TELL TALE HEART

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 …

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JibJab’s Big Box Mart

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 …

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Would Jesus Approve Of This Layout?

There’s occasionally some fairly amusing Google ads that get posted on our site. Tonight, I saw one for “Bachelor’s Degree in Animation …

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WARNER ART

Animation collector Eric Calande has posted his impressive collection of original Looney Tunes cartoon cels, backgrounds and drawings on …

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Book Review: the ARt of robots

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 …

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Cartoon Uncool

Here’s a whole Cartoon Retro thread taking Christopher Hart to task for his travesty of a book which I mentioned yesterday, CARTOON COOL: …

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Directing TV Animation Part 3

It’s rare in TV animation these days for the director to be in the same location as the animators. On Monster By Mistake, we were …

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Directing TV Animation Part 1

The job of directing an animated TV show varies with each production. There’s no single way to approach it and how much power a …

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