John Dilworth Remembers Michael Sporn
Can you believe he even existed? Did we conjure him up in a strangely unexplainable collective?
Can you believe he even existed? Did we conjure him up in a strangely unexplainable collective?
Animator and filmmaker Michael Sporn, a man who represented the spirit and vitality of New York's animation scene as much as any other single individual, passed away from pancreatic cancer on January 19. He was 67.
Seattle-based creative director Bruce Yan opened his first one-man show, "Brand New," last Saturday at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. The pieces offer some clever twists on iconic logos using animated characters.
Boosted in part by a sing-along version that was released into theaters, Disney's "Frozen" jumped back into second place this weekend, an amazing feat for a film now in its 10th weekend of wide release.
ASIFA-Hollywood announced the winners of its 2014 Annie Awards ceremony tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall. Disney's "Frozen" won the prize for best animated feature and best directing. Disney's "Get a Horse!" won for best short.
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.
Poor Tex Avery just can't seem to win. He's getting his own day in Texas next month, while his protégé Chuck Jones will be the subject of a six-year nationwide museum exhibit that begins this summer.
Disney's chipmunk duo, Chip ‘n’ Dale, may soon be revived in a live-action/CG hybrid, according to trade paper reports.
The last time that animation artists starred in a major live-action film was 1998’s BASEketball with South Park creators Trey Parker and …
Tex Avery's hometown in Texas is planning to honor the animation legend on February 22.
Nickelodeon has announced a call for submissions for its 2014 global Animated Shorts Program, which is designed to "identify and develop new animation talent and provide a platform for new content for kids."
A recent blog post on the Guardian brings up a common misconception: that sexualizing Disney characters is somehow daring or cutting edge.
If you're still wondering why DreamWorks Animation spent $33 million last spring to buy the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV, an article about Netflix in the latest issue of the "New Yorker" offers an explanation that I found to be succinct and worth sharing.
Less than six years after opening, Sony Pictures Imageworks India will shut down.
Japanese illustrator Takao Nakagawa produces character-centric artwork that is published in magazines and books and painted as murals.
Hal Sutherland, the co-founder of the low-budget American TV animation studio Filmation, has died at age 85.
Among the abundant visual delights of last year's "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" was the expertly executed end title sequence, which has now been posted online.
Glenn August is an artist from Denmark who studied at the Animation Workshop and is currently working on earning a production design MA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in Copenhagen.
The notes were taken and everything was going fine. Then my laptop turned off and all lost. So now I’m sitting here with pieces of this week’s "Steven Universe" in my head hours after the fact.
Last month a Japanese TV crew traveled to Pixar where director Isao Takahata was treating the studio's artists to a screening of his new Studio Ghibli film "The Story of Princess Kaguya."