Performance Capture Technology circa 1966: AnimaScope
Mo-Cap, Shmoe-Cap! Move over Robert Zemeckis – your ideas are old hat. Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope in 1917 and, thanks to …
Mo-Cap, Shmoe-Cap! Move over Robert Zemeckis – your ideas are old hat. Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope in 1917 and, thanks to …
As long as we are being XXX rated today, here’s an ad promoting safe sex by animator Yoann Lemoine. It’s cleverly conceived, funny and …
This animated viral Avatar spoof by Harry Partridge is XXX-rated – but it’s also very funny (if you’ve seen the film) and I had to share …
As award season continues, the British Academy Film Awards were announced today. Congratulations to Coraline (Henry Selick), Fantastic …
I have no love for Cartoon Network these days, but I will not let that stop me from trumpeting the forthcoming debut of Pendelton Ward’s …
I’m way overdue in reporting on the current activities of cartoon creator Craig McCracken (Powerpuff Girls, Foster’s Home) and his wife, …
A summary of the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno controversy, as animated by an Asian news channel. Bet you didn’t know that Conan can transform …
I figure a blog named Cartoon Brew should report on anyone who combines animation and beer. Thus, Magic Hat Brewing Company in South …
An evocative and spare exercise in computer animation by David OReilly and Jon Klassen, who previously collaborated on the U2 music video …
“Animation is not just for kids. It is also for adults who take drugs.” And there you go. That’s how Hollywood perceives us. Paul …
Martha Sigall is back with another video. This time she talks about Hanna-Barbera:
A documentary by Marine Lormant Sebag about Nina Paley’s struggle with copyright while making Sita Sings the Blues. It’s difficult to …
This is one of the most beautiful short films of the year. Everything you see is CG except for the photographer (shot on greenscreen), …
Rob Bohn of The Amigo Unit says: I taught animation at a summer camp for the 92nd St Y this past summer. One of the lessons was …
An animated short directed by Sam Stephens from Humble’s in-house directing collaborative Hydra. The film combines photography of …
The story of a British grandma who decided to get surgery to look like Jessica Rabbit. “You only live once,” she said. “Do what makes you …
The country of Georgia now has a homegrown yellow cartoon family to call its own: The Samsonadzes. If the clip above doesn’t …
A video in which Jim explains that, “the thing that people need to keep very strongly in mind is that this is not an animated film.” So …
This is a 1985 student film directed by Chris Wedge, who, of course, went on to become the creative head of Blue Sky and direct Ice Age. …
I saw Ian Miller’s one-minute short last year at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, when I was a member of the festival’s …