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The Secret Origin of Foghorn Leghorn
Animation historian/author and voice actor Keith Scott, a foremost authority on Jay Ward, old-time radio and cartoon voice actors, has …
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Monday Morning Maurice
Not sure why I’ve never linked to this before but here is an illuminating 1991 interview with legendary animation background designer …
An Interdisciplinary Journal
One of the many people I met at the Platform Festival in Portland two weeks ago (I’m just now getting around to unpacking my bags) was …
Harry-Go-Round
Good news! Harry McCracken’s blog is back. McCracken, former editor of Animato, current editor of PC World and webmaster of …
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 …
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 …
J.J. Defends 2-D
Go J.J.! Animator J.J. Sedelmaier has written an editorial for latest edition of Create Magazine making the case for animation …
Hardly a Miracle
What happens when a nutty evangelical homebuilder decides to become the next Walt Disney, and hires a bunch of ex-Disney animators to …
POLAR PLAYMATES
Three nice cels from Polar Playmates (1946) are currently up for sale on ebay.Polar Playmates, directed by former Disney animator Howard …
Responses to “Is My Animated Short Worth a Penny”
Wow, lots of responses to last week’s post, “Is My Animated Short Worth a Penny”. The general consensus seems to be that while these new …
More Disney Insignia
A bit of a follow-up to all the recent posts about Disney insignia from WWII (here and here). There is currently an exhibition at the …
More about Cartoon Network
I received this email from a former Cartoon Network artist, who prefers to remain anonymous but has worked on a number of their projects …
Charles Solomon on Talky Cartoons
One of my biggest grievances against contemporary animation is that characters won’t shut up. Too often in American animation, dialogue …
FREE JIMMY
SLIPP JIMMY FRI (FREE JIMMY) is Norway’s first CG animated feature, and also the country’s most expensive film production to date, with a …
Swindle and Esopus
It’s always exciting to see animated films and animation artists receive recognition in mainstream art publications. Achieving this type …
Wild Brain in the SF WEEKLY
“After struggling uphill in the difficult yet potentially profitable world of computer animation films, Wild Brain is on the cusp of …
Ryan Larkin on the comeback trail
Ryan Larkin, the celebrated wunderkind of 1960s Canadian animation whose downfall was the subject of Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winnning …
CARTOON JOurnal looking for submissions
CARTOON: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMATION is currently accepting pitches for its next issue, which will be published in December. …
FRED & TED
Remember Beginner Books? The Random House series of books for kids initiated by Dr. Suess with THE CAT IN THE HAT and GREEN EGGS AND …
News from John Canemaker
Don’t miss this – the May/June issue of PRINT (“America’s Graphic Design Magazine”) contains John Canemaker’s in-depth, profusely …
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