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KidRobot does Underdog
Just in time to clear the stench of that current Underdog movie debacle from my memory cells, come these delightful KidRobot figures that …
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The Online Animation Conversation
In early-2005, I declared that 2004 had been the year of the animation blog. It was a good year no doubt, but the same could likely be …
BG Inspiration
Art director Hans Bacher (Mulan) has started up an incredible new blog called Animation Treasures. He’s painstakingly recreating pan …
San Diego Comic Con: Animation Programming
They’ve just posted the complete schedule of programming for the San Diego Comic Con, July 26-29. Below I’ve extracted the animation …
Hollywood’s Men of Action
(click for large version) Shane Glines of the indispensable Cartoon Retro has sent over a fascinating 1935 article, titled …
“Cool Kitty” Vid Designed by Megan Brain
If Disney’s early-60s paper cutout short A Symposium on Popular Songs had included black people, they might have looked something like …
Russian Pooh
Russian animation director Fyodor Khitruk once said in an interview that the best award he ever received was when Disney director Woolie …
Mickey Styled
Here’s Mickey Mouse as you’ve never seen him before. The 1955 Disney-produced Nash car commercial posted below is as modern as the mouse …
Raid spot by Tex Avery
Mark Evanier posted this Tex Avery-directed Raid commercial on his blog and I couldn’t resist linking to it as well. At the risk of …
American Dog or London Adventure?
Jim Hill blogged today about how Disney is revamping story of American Dog, now that Chris Sanders has been let go. Hill reports …
Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007)
We’ve just heard that Iwao Takamoto passed away today. Takamoto is best known for his design work at Hanna-Barbera during the 1960s. He …
GREAT TV ANIMATION: MINUSCULE
I wrote about the charming pilot for the TV series MINUSCULE back in September. MINUSCULE is a new CG series from France created by …
MEGAN BRAIN’S PAPER SCULPTURES
For most artists, paper is an expendable material that one creates their art on, but Megan Brain’s paper sculptures show that the paper …
Dan Haskett Interview
Check this out: a brief but thought-provoking INTERVIEW with Dan Haskett, a name that should need no introduction to anybody working in …
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 …
WALT’S VAULT 28
Just last week I’d been posting on the upscale urban merchandising initiative Warner Bros. is promoting in an effort to contemporize the …
POLAR PLAYMATES
Three nice cels from Polar Playmates (1946) are currently up for sale on ebay.Polar Playmates, directed by former Disney animator Howard …
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 …
Ed Benedict (1912-2006), RIP
Earlier this evening I received word from Van Partible and David Sheldon that animation legend Ed Benedict passed away in his sleep this …
MONDAY MORNING INSPIRATION: Sam Cobean
Chuck Jones once said in an interview that when he wanted to draw believable human characters, he would pattern his drawing after Sam …
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