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Popeye DVD
Here it comes! The first official release of the classic Max Fleischer cartoons on DVD, from Warner Home Video (who own the master …
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In Celebration of Color
It’s amazing the things one can find in old magazines. Below is an article I recently stumbled across in issue 16 of Lithopinion: The …
Liar of Kudzu
Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle (creators of Disney’s Kim Possible) will be signing their new book Liar of Kudzu at Storyopolis in Studio …
Chris Sanders to DreamWorks
After animation director Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch) was unceremoniously booted off of Disney’s American Dog, it was obvious that …
Ottawa 07 Programs and Call for Entries
The Ottawa 2007 International Animation Festival, planned for September 19-23, has announced its slate of special screenings and …
New Blog: Animation – Who & Where
Joe Campana, a film editor who works in animation, recently started a blog called Animation — Who and Where, and it has …
A Disney Art Exhibit in LA?
While it looks like animation fans in the United States definitely won’t be getting the “Once Upon a Time Walt Disney” exhibition that …
Ugly CG Peanuts
Good Grief! Some drawn characters just shouldn’t be rendered in 3-D. A German telecommunications company, Combots, is selling …
Dan Deacon’s “Woody Woodpecker”
“Woody Woodpecker” is a new track from electro-experimental musician Dan Deacon. Deacon is on tour through May, when his new album, …
Elbert Tuganov (1920-2007)
Pioneering Estonian animator Elbert Tuganov has passed away at age 87. Chris Robinson, author of Estonian Animation: Between Genius and …
Naruto Movie: A new approach for U.S. release
We don’t usually report on anime releases (we leave that to others more qualified like Anime News Network and the like), but this one is …
REVIEW: El Tigre (Nickelodeon)
My introduction to Jorge Gutierrez’s work was at the 1999 CalArts Producers’ Show. It was a screening of his CG short Carmelo. If I …
SNL on Looney Tunes Music
A 1991 bit from Saturday Night Live with Jeremy Irons.
Disney Dog Food
Okay, I promise to stop posting silly Disney food products–as soon as they stop making them. Brew reader Michael Eilerman snapped …
New Animation Magazines
Two new animation magazines appeared in my mailbox last week. Both are very well done, though aimed at completely different …
“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 …
Ratatouille Trailer
Here’s the latest trailer for Pixar’s Ratatouille with a lot of new footage that I haven’t seen anywhere else before. (Thanks, John)
Jay Kennedy (1956-2007)
The Beat is reporting King Features Syndicate Comics editor Jay Kennedy passed away in a drowning accident while on vacation in Costa …
Glen Keane Draws
Glen Keane lectured at CalArts a couple weeks ago. Below is a short video of Keane drawing the Beast and explaining some of the design …
Annecy 2007 Selections
The official competition selections have been announced for the world’s longest-running animation festival, the Annecy International …
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