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Lucky the Leprechaun from “Lucky Charms” Cereal transitions from Cel animation to 3-D
Over the years Calabash Animation has taken Lucky the Leprechaun — the beloved brand icon for General Mills’ Lucky Charms cereal — on …
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Zemeckis’ “Yellow Submarine” is Dead – We Hope!
Our long national nightmare is over. Whatever your opinion of Mars Needs Moms it has accomplished a major goal of all right-thinking …
“Mars Needs Moms” talkback
Disney’s Mars Needs Moms opened today. It got no love from The New York Times where reviewer Mike Hale began his critique this way:”It …
Norman Rockwell Museum To Open Blue Sky Studios Exhibition This June
“ICE AGE” TO THE DIGITAL AGE! THE 3D ANIMATION ART OF BLUE SKY STUDIOS June 11 through October 31, 2011 Enjoy this lively, …
Mega Art From “Megamind” and DreamWorks Animation Fine Art
OGDEN, Utah (Feb. 28, 2011) — The hit animated feature Megamind from DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) is now available on …
‘Where the Wild Things Are’: An Early CG Experiment by John Lasseter and Glen Keane
Hans Perk recently posted scans from a 1983 edition of the Disney Newsreel, an in-house newsletter about happenings around the studio. …
“The Backwater Gospel”
The Animation Workshop, a school in Viborg, Denmark, has posted this year’s crop of student films onto their Vimeo page. The school has …
Disney Legend Bill Justice, RIP
Disney director and animator Bill Justice passed away today, just one day after his 97th birthday. Besides animating on many of the …
Animation Mentor offers “Animals & Creatures: Master Class”
Animation Mentor Goes Beyond Character Animation with Animals & Creatures: Master Class Emeryville, CA -January 11, 2011 – …
Winnie The Pooh (2011)
The Associated Press has posted the first image (above) from Disney’s forthcoming old school 2D Winnie The Pooh feature, scheduled for …
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 …
Behind-the-Scenes at Pixar Animation Studios
Behind-the-Scenes at Pixar Animation Studios Supervising Animator Bobby Podesta at the Charles M. Schulz Museum November 6, 2010, …
The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation
The Hub, a network owned partly by toy company Hasbro, launched a little over a week ago with new animated series including Strawberry …
Thomas Kinkade Improves the Disney Classics
Christian painter (and former Ralph Bakshi employee) Thomas Kinkade, who once allegedly urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure outside the …
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 …
Shelter Stories
Speaking of animator Paul Fierlinger (as we did yesterday), The Animal Shelter Project and the Humane Society have brought Fierlinger …
Shirley Silvey and Mary Schuster Broggie, R.I.P.
Two important women in animation passed away recently: Shirley Silvey died on July 17 in Fresno, California. When she started …
Job Offer of the Week: Make 500 Shorts in 90 Days
I don’t know if this is a real offer, but it’s a classic. Somebody wants twenty-five hours, yes, HOURS, of animation produced in two to …
“Your Love Is My Drug” Inserts by Lizzi Akana
Lizzi Akana created these Peter Max-ish inserts for the Ke$ha music video “Your Love Is My Drug.” Here’s a Quicktime link to the entire …
Free Animation Book Idea #2
Picking up where we left off last month, here’s another book idea that’s free for the taking. The proposal is rather straightforward: a …
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