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Igor Talkback
Amid and I are still in Ottawa immersed in animation. One film we haven’t seen is Igor, which opened all over the U.S. and Canada this …
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Wall•E and Presto talkback
The professional critics have had their say (a huge 98% positive on Rotten Tomatoes). Now it’s your turn to weigh in with an opinion of …
Kung Fu Panda Talkback
Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda opens today. I’ve seen it twice now and I think it’s a great film. It works on all levels – humor, action, …
Amitabh Bachchan For US Prime Minister
Badmash a new Indian animation studio with bases in Pune, India and Berkeley, California is promoting itself with a political parody site …
Hans Bacher’s Dream Worlds
A happy note to close out this year’s animation book releases: Hans Bacher’s eagerly anticipated book about animation production design, …
St. Trinian’s Girls Are Back
Ronald Searle fans can thank the upcoming live-action St. Trinian’s feature for the following book: St. Trinian’s: The Entire Appalling …
More Backgrounds
We’ve plugged the blogs of both Hans Bacher and Rob Richards numerous times recently. Both are putting a spotlight on the unsung work of …
Disney Animation Backgrounds
Last month we posted about Hans Bacher’s excellent blog Animation Treasures, in which Bacher does an amazing job re-creating classic …
MONTREAL: Frédéric Back Exhibit
Montreal folks have been getting some awesome animation exhibits lately. Philip Street writes about one that he saw recently: Brew …
Frédéric Back’s New Website
Animation legend Frédéric Back (Crac, The Man Who Planted Trees, The Mighty River), who turned 83 this week, has launched a …
Hans Bacher’s Dreamworlds
Hans Bacher (the art director of Disney’s Mulan) reports on his blog that his new book, Dreamworlds, has just been released in Japan. The …
Meet Zombie Redenbacher
One more interesting fact about this spot: it was directed at Digital Domain by none other than David Fincher (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN), who …
Zombie Redenbacher
Files this one under “Commercials For People Who Can’t Get Enough Of Polar Express and Monster House.” Apparently the people who own the …
BARRIER’S BACK!
Michael Barrier returned to his blog yesterday with a lengthy review of Neal Gabler’s WALT DISNEY. Barrier’s been putting the finishing …
Learn How To Paint H-B Backgrounds
Art Lozzi, a background painter on the early Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons, has written a great little tutorial on his background painting …
Hans Bacher’s AFTER MIDNIGHT
Over the past couple months, Hans Bacher (production designer, MULAN) has been posting some absolutely stunning concept art for a short …
2D Back at Disney?
Rhett Wickham at LaughingPlace.com has a positive report about what’s happening at Disney Feature Animation and how John Lasseter is …
Hans Bacher’s Book and LITTLE MATCHGIRL
Hans Bacher (art director of MULAN) has posted on his blog some tantalizing page spreads from his forthcoming instructional book, …
Deitch’s Terrible Comic Strip Back in Print
This September, Fantagraphics is reprinting animation director Gene Deitch’s rarely seen mid-Fifties syndicated comic strip TERR’BLE …
Brokeback Mouse
It had to happen, after years of gossip.(Thanks, Joe D.)
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