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CBTV Student Fest 5: Pdingpdoong

By Krishna Chandran A. Nair, Manasi Parikh, Nupur Mukherjee, and Chewang Lepcha. Two playful and naughty schoolboys have a unique perspective on life.

Talkback

TALKBACK: The Ricky Gervais Show

The Ricky Gervais Show, produced by Wild Brain LA, premieres tonight on HBO. If you’ve seen it, share your thoughts on the show. For …

Feature Film

Tarsem’s The Fall

I saw an unexpectedly great live-action film last night–Tarsem’s The Fall (view the trailer here). The film’s production design is …

Shorts

Varmints Trailer

Studio AKA has released the trailer to Varmints, a followup to the 2004 BAFTA-winning short JoJo in the Stars. I’ve always loved the way …

Internet/Blogs

Afterworld

Fascinating story in yesterday’s LA Times about Afterworld, a new CG animated series which premieres online this week at MySpace. The $3 …

Events

Notes from Annecy

Another edition of Annecy has wrapped and the winners have been announced. The top short film prize, the Annecy Cristal, went to Suzie …

Books

The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm

When the CIA isn’t busy destabilizing other countries, they apparently like to help animation studios create cartoons. At least that’s …

Classic

Capt’n Sailorbird

Any Baby Boomers out there recall those odd foreign cartoons that ran on TV in the 1950s and 60s, packaged under the Capt’n Sailorbird or …

Old Brew

LA Film Fest Animation Screenings

Tom Knott writes to let us know that there’s a lot of interesting and rare animation programs happening this month during the Los Angeles …

Old Brew

The 2D Expo: Flash Panel Wrap-up

I was planning to post a summary of the Flash & TV Animation panel that I moderated a few days ago at ASIFA-Hollywood’s 2D Expo, but …

Old Brew

SIAN KA’AN

Here’s more proof that there’s life after Disney.Raul Garcia, who was an animator at Disney on most of their major features of the past …

Old Brew

The TV Animation Business Part 2

How Multinational Corporations Thrive As I mentioned in the last installment, the paradox of the TV business is that the increasing …

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