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What Frank Zappa, Tex Avery and Monty Python have in common
Last week’s post about Frank Zappa, Tex Avery and the place of executives generated a lot of feedback, including this email from Bruno …
Cartoon Brew TV: Love on the Line
Cartoon Brew TV is back from the holidays and we’re ready for action–19th century style! This week’s offering, Love on the Line (2008) …
Cartoon Brew TV #16: Love on the Line
Cartoon Brew TV is back from the holidays and we’re ready for action–19th century style! This week’s offering, Love on the Line (2008) …
Animation’s 2nd-Class Status
Film reporter Patrick Goldstein, in today’s LA Times, writes about movies that are long shots for the Oscar’s Best Picture nomination. …
2009 New Year’s Greeting by Art Grootfontein
Every year around the holidays I receive a whole slew of animated greeting cards. The new year’s greeting below by French artist Art …
Cartoon Mojo Launches
A new site launches today: CartoonMojo.com. It’s a video sharing site in the YouTube mold that focuses exclusively on animated shorts. In …
What Tex Avery And Frank Zappa Both Knew About Making Great Entertainment
Want to understand why entertaining cartoons are all but impossible to produce nowadays? You can have the answer in just two short …
New Music Video by Dax Norman
One-man creative powerhouse Dax Norman, whose short film The Last Temptation of Crust we featured in episode 4 of Cartoon Brew TV, …
Disney’s Secret of the Magic Gourd
If you believed Roadside Romeo was Disney’s oddest co-production; or if you thought Disney couldn’t sink any lower than producing the …
That Guy With The Glasses reviews Nicktoons
And let me also take the opportunity to plug this book.
Animation Trends: 3-D Papercraft/Cut-out Animation
Recently three-dimensional paper sculpture/cut-out/origami has exploded as a major trend across multiple disciplines including animation, …
Winter Song
Songwriters Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson released an animated video for their holiday single Winter Song. The animation was …
It All Started Here!
Here’s a restored 1936 Fleischer Studios drawing wedge (click photo above to see larger image). It’s made of wood and fitted with …
The Velveteen Rabbit Trailer
Thought of the moment: someday in a more enlightened future there will exist a court of law where we can bring to justice the people …
2009 Animation Book Preview
While the Internet has killed off the print animation magazine (or at least the demand for such publications), it hasn’t yet diminished …
Your Chance to Make The Ultimate Music Video
I have a feeling that 2009 is going to be an awesome year. The new year is only three days old and already amazing opportunities are …
Road Runner Float
As a follow up to my post yesterday about the Road Runner and Coyote float in today’s Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, here’s the …
Cab Calloway in Cartoons
In case you were wondering if anyone has started archiving all the caricatures of Cab Calloway in classic Hollywood cartoons… I suggest …
Viacom uses Cartoon Stars to ask for a raise
Viacom is asking Time Warner Cable for a raise – and if they don’t get it they will pull their channels off the cable service AT MIDNIGHT …
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