Studios

Warner Bros. cartoon murals

When the Warner Bros. Animation Department was located in Burbank in the 1980s (the period when they were producing the Greg Ford/Terry …

Flash

“Toxie” Debuts on NPR Website

When I bumped into Stephen Neary a couple nights ago, he told me about his new animated piece “Toxie” which debuted on NPR.org this …

Shorts

A trailer for a Jimi Hendrix short

This is the trailer for The Experience, a Jimi Hendrix-themed short that was produced to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of his …

Stop Motion

Dreadlock animation

Not letting anything go to waste, stop motion animator Jessica Bayliss made this stop-motion pixilation documenting the last moments of …

Student

Normativism by Eliran Bichman

Eliran Bichman’s final project made at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem is a powerful, personal, self-portrait on being a …

CGI

“The Lost Thing” trailer

The Lost Thing, a fifteen-minute CG animated short with a tactile, painterly feel, is based on a children’s book by Shaun Tan. It won the …

CGI

“Gnomeo and Juliet” trailer

When is a Disney feature NOT a Disney feature… when it’s a Touchstone release of an Elton John production. Gnomeo & Juliet is being …

Shorts

“Cliché!” by Cedric Villain

A follow-up to his film My Chinese, Cedric Villain’s Cliché! pokes fun of stereotypes about French people. The pacing is a bit too slow …

CGI

Roger Rabbit CG test

Someone posted a rare 1998 cgi test film for an unmade Roger Rabbit 2. If anyone has any background info on this piece, I’d like to hear …

Shorts

Missed Aches by Joanna Priestley

Portland-based Joanna Priestley’s new short Missed Aches is destined to become popular in English classes across the world. A cheeky …

Animators

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 …

CGI

Taiwan’s Next Media Animation

I’ve never written a post fully expressing my appreciation for the Taiwanese animators at Next Media Animation who create news segments …

Classic

Who was Herbert Iwerks?

The abundance of information on-line has a curious way of creating more mysteries than solving them. For example, everybody knows who Ub …

CGI

Looney Tunes CG Fail

The shape of things to come? Let’s hope not – an ad for McDonald’s from France: (Thanks, Kurtis Findlay)

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