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A Year with Three Stop-Motion Oscar Noms?
After I did this interview with Canada’s National Post about trends in feature animation, I got to thinking about whether there might be …
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1939 article on Disney’s Ugly Duckling
Last night a friend gave me an early Christmas gift of an old issue of Street & Smith’s PIC magazine, cover dated April 4th, 1939. PIC is …
20 Animated Features in Oscar Race This Year
Start making your predictions now! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that twenty films have been submitted …
Puck Cinema Caravana
Dani from the Spanish animation blog Protoones turned me on to Puck Cinema Caravana, a cool little project from Spain conceived by Carles …
A Christmas Carol Opens Today
Robert Zemeckis’s A Christmas Carol opens today to a chorus of negative reviews and a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A particularly …
Rebecca Dart
I was blown away earlier today when I discovered the work of Rebecca Dart. She has a fantastic sense for funny appealing shapes, and …
Magoo’s Christmas Carol panel in NYC
The Paley Center for Media on 52nd Street will be hosting a screening and panel discussion celebrating The First Christmas Special: …
The Art of Joseph Mugnaini
VFX artist artist Ryan Leasher is writing a book about illustrator and animation artist Joseph Mugnaini. His book, Wilderness of the …
A rare Starevich article
Another purchase I made at Cinecon this past Labor Day, was an entire stack of Films In Review magazines, the entire run from 1956 …
Art & Animation blog
Chris Dan and Celia have been collecting interviews with animation people like Lou Romano, Victor Navone, Nate Wragg, Armand Serrano, …
2009: Five Features for Oscar??
I was going to write a post about this, but my friend Pete Hammond at the L.A. Times beat me to it. This has been a pretty good year …
Carlos Ramos on The Beatles Rock Band trailer
Carlos Ramos, the creator of Nickelodeon’s The X’s, ponders on his blog, Why can’t we have more hand-drawn animated features like Pete …
Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #15
The annual Treehouse of Horror issue is out today. It’s guest edited by Sammy Harkam, the creator of the Kramers Ergot anthology. If you …
TONIGHT IN BROOKLYN: Too Art for TV 4
Too Art for TV, the annual exhibit of fine art by animation artists, returns to Brooklyn tonight for its 4th edition. Masterminded by Liz …
Artists bless the Disney-Marvel marriage
Didn’t take long. Jason Peltz, who has worked for Marvel Comics, Disney Consumer Products and Disney Feature Animation in Orlando, …
Sheridan Instructor Attempts Art Criticism (and Fails)
In my mind, the worst quality a teacher can have is to be close-minded because that narrow interpretation of good and bad is passed on to …
Glenn Martin, DDS Talkback
Nick-at-Nite’s new animated series, the one produced by Michael Eisner, made it’s debut tonight. Anyone catch it? I did, and despite the …
A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Sève
That’s the cover for a new project that I’ve been involved with: A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Sève. It’s the first-ever …
1955 UPA article
Sam Henderson has uploaded a rare, heavily illustrated article about UPA on his Magic Whistle blog. The article, by Catherine Sullivan, …
Children’s Books by Animation Artists
2009 appears to be the year of illustrated books by animation artists. It’s hard to keep track there are so many of them. Below are some …
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