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Ben Hibon Joins Nexus Productions As His Harry Potter Sequence Premieres
(11/10/2010) Award-winning independent animation production company, Nexus Productions, welcomes Ben Hibon. He joins Nexus just as his …
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EXCLUSIVE: List of 33 Oscar-Qualified Animated Shorts
The following thirty-three films have fulfilled the qualifications necessary to be considered in the category of Best Animated Short for …
“Building Toss” by Jared D. Weiss
A bear, a cat and a cyclops are tossing each other around…sounds like the setup to a crummy joke, but it’s actually this soundless …
“Summer Wars” by Mamoru Hosoda
Above is the trailer for Summer Wars, one of the fifteen films that qualified yesterday for the 2010 Animated Feature category of the …
Next week in Burbank: CTN Expo
This is the Burbank Marriott tonight. It will look nothing like this next week – Friday November 19th through Sunday the 21st – when the …
The Wild and Crazy Miniature Calendar Art of Ant & the Aardvark Creator and Pink Panther Writer John Dunn
The legacy of animation designer/writer John Dunn (1920-1983) is secure–if unheralded–as the writer of hundreds of animated shorts …
“Saari” is An Awesome Preschool Series from Spain
Two shows doesn’t make a trend, but with Pocoyo and now Saari, one could make a convincing argument that the most artistic and appealing …
Happy 97th Birthday, Don Lusk!
It’s always sad to say goodbye to our animation heroes and inspirations, so any opportunity to wish them well in their later years is …
2010 Ottawa Winners
The winners of the 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival were announced this evening at an awards ceremony. David OReilly took …
Alex Anderson 1920-2010
Alex Anderson, partner of Jay Ward and instrumental in the creation of Crusader Rabbit and the characters of Frostbite Falls, has passed …
Kirsten Lepore Talks about “Bottle”
I wrote about Kirsten Lepore’s short Bottle last month, and enjoyed it so much, that I asked her to answer a few questions about her …
EXCLUSIVE: Brenda Chapman No Longer Directing Pixar’s “Brave”
Crazy rumors floating into our offices this afternoon from reliable sources. We hear that Brenda Chapman, the first woman director at …
Banksy directs “Simpsons” show intro
British street artist/prankster Banksy “directed” the intro to tonight’s episode of The Simpsons. It’s provocative, but the statement …
“Visit” by Kangmin Kim
While animation is usually a time-consuming craft, some people push it further than others. All I could think of while watching Kangmin …
Glen Keane Sells Dog Food
This is a new one on me: Glen Keane animated a Burger ‘n Bones dog food commercial ca. 1983. Wow! The commercial was produced by …
Jerry’s October event calendar
If you can’t find me in October, you aren’t trying hard enough. But before we discuss October, tonight Cartoon Dump (9/27) returns with …
“Bottle” by Kirsten Lepore
The first time we wrote about Kirsten Lepore, she was studying at Maryland Institute College of Art where she’d made an inventive …
“Manfred” by Arjen Klaverstijn
A graduation project made by Arjen Klaverstijn at the Utrecht School of the Arts in The Netherlands. One of my most frequent bits of …
Missed Aches by Joanna Priestley
Portland-based Joanna Priestley’s new short Missed Aches is destined to become popular in English classes across the world. A cheeky …
Bill Littlejohn (1914-2010)
Word has just reached us that veteran animator Bill Littlejohn passed away in his sleep last night. He was 96. Littlejohn was born in …
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