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Where Are the UPA Shorts?
If there’s one question I’ve received more frequently than any other since the release of Cartoon Modern, it’s “Where can I see the UPA …
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Len Glasser’s Safety Shoes
After a bit of an unexpected lag, we’ve debuted our latest film on CartoonBrewFilms: Safety Shoes (1965) directed and designed by Leonard …
Len Lye’s Post Office Films
Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …
Beany & Cecil Boards by Bruce Timm
File this under “Weird Things I’ve Accumulated Over the Years.” While cleaning out some boxes recently, I ran across photocopies of a …
John Lasseter in the NY Times
Yesterday’s New York Times featured an interview with John Lasseter and some interesting bits can be gleaned from the article. One thing …
Oscar ’07: The fallout from the “Happy Feet” win
Happy Feet won. Does it matter? The sad fact is, it may. I won’t deny that Happy Feet was a well made, entertaining film. I liked …
BREW HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: ANIMATED SOVIET PROPAGANDA
The fourth in a series of holiday gift-giving suggestions from your pals at Cartoon Brew. If you pick up one dvd of foreign animation …
CEREAL OBSESSION
After old comic books and classic animated cartoons, the number #3 most influential art to aspiring animators has to be on cereal boxes. …
TWO COOL LA STORES
Yesterday morning, after I attended the Stan Lee ribbon cutting ceremonies at the new Golden Apple Comics location on Melrose, I ran over …
SEMINAR: How To Sell An Animated Series
With all the recent discussion here about pitching in TV animation, this is an event that is timely and also somewhat ironic. On Monday, …
COMMENTARY: To Pitch Or Not To Pitch?
A few weeks ago, I commended New York animator Pat Smith for making this comment in an ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE interview: “The …
According to LA TIMES, Sony Invented Squash & Stretch
The LA TIMES published a piece today by Josh Friedman with this mind-bogglingly ignorant sentence about animation: [OPEN SEASON], based …
Open Season Opens a Weak #1
Sony Pictures Animation’s first CG feature OPEN SEASON opened in the #1 slot last weekend albeit with a weak $23 million (estimated) from …
Bernard Wolf (1911-2006)
Animation veteran Berny Wolf died last week at the age of 95. He had incredible success in the field, with work ranging from pioneering …
Notes on Monster House
Artist Chris Appelhans has posted some superb concept art that he created for the upcoming MONSTER HOUSE. If the finished “performance …
THE WORST TOM AND JERRY I’VE EVER SEEN
No, the image above isn’t from the Filmation Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980), nor any U.S. produced latter day monstrosity. It’s a page …
QUEER DUCK – THE MOVIE
QUEER DUCK was one of the funniest internet cartoons in those golden years before the dot.com boom went bust. Now Queer Duck: The Movie …
Good Lord!
Nobody does a better job of parodying “retro” styles of animation than J.J. Sedelmaier. He’s done it time and time again from his …
Aardman and Canemaker Win Oscars
Congrats to our friend John Canemaker for winning the Best Animated Short Oscar, for his film THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED …
FORGOTTEN ANIMATOR TOM JOHNSON
Michael Sporn, on his excellent blog, has posted a bio of animator Tom Johnson from the October 1935 issue of Max Fleischer’s in-house …
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