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The rest of America can have their Super Bowl tomorrow, but the animation world's big night is TONIGHT. Slap on your cleanest pair of underwear or panties, wedge that huge tub of ice cream inbetween your legs, and settle in to watch the livestream of the 41st annual Annie Awards from the solitary comfort of your couch. The video below will begin live from Los Angeles at 7pm PT/10pm ET.
Tex Avery's hometown in Texas is planning to honor the animation legend on February 22.
Hal Sutherland, the co-founder of the low-budget American TV animation studio Filmation, has died at age 85.
John Kahrs, who left Disney abruptly after winning the Oscar for "Paperman," has landed at Paramount's new animation group.
The biennial British Animation Awards have announced their slate of nominees for 2014.
Last summer at SIGGRAPH, Pixar presented a paper offering some clues about one of the major new directions that CG feature animation is headed. The paper, "Stylizing Animation By Example," explored how filmmakers could achieve more expressive rendering styles that disregard the perfect boundaries of computer graphics rendering and mimic traditional painting techniques.
Did Tom Hanks’ performance as Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks wet your whistle for another depiction of Mr. Disney on the big screen? Then 2014 just might be your year, because two independent biopics are scheduled to be released later this year.
The creators of Guru Studio's "Justin Time" talk with Cartoon Brew about the secrets of making a stylish and entertaining preschool series.
See which animated features, shorts, and VFX films from 2013 are nominated for an Oscar!
To acknowledge the crucial role of animators in the evolving world of filmmaking, the Visual Effects Society today nominated Ryan Stone, Bullock's character in "Gravity," for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live-Action Feature Motion Picture.
Starkist has created a Charlie Tuna TV ad for the first time in 12 years. The character has been "updated," which today means only one thing: computer animation.
If you missed the CTN Animation Expo last November in Los Angeles, don't fret. This one-hour lecture features director/animator extraordinaire Eric Goldberg (supervisor of Genie in "Aladdin," head of animation on "Get a Horse!") interviewing himself about his personal history. Lots of clips and lots of fun to watch—all from the comfort of your own home.
While there are surely many things that the actress Meryl Streep can do well, critical thinking and historical research will not appear …
Ivan Dixon is an artist and animator who makes up half of the creative team behind Melbourne, Australia-based Rubber House Studio. He also is an organizing member of the LoopdeLoop animation challenge.
Hayao Miyazaki may be revoking his plan to retire and returning to animation, according to unconfirmed reports.
Veteran animator Michel Gagné's graphic novel "Saga of Rex" has been optiond by Belgian animation/vfx shop Grid Animation for development as an animated feature.
Last night on Twitter, when no one was looking, animator Tammy Gray Smith announced the soft launch of her upcoming Kickstarter campaign for the Animation Dock, a vintage animation desk for tablets.
"This is me," say lots of today's animated characters. But who are they talking to?
Yesterday we looked at "Boonie Bears," a Chinese attempt to emulate Western-style computer animation. But at the risk of overgeneralizing contemporary Chinese animation on the basis of their most derivative and commercial efforts, I wanted to offer another perspective.
Chris Renaud (above, left) and Pierre Coffin are the directorial duo responsible for one of the biggest animated phenomenons of recent …