CGI

Sonic Unleashed

This is the first six minutes from the new video game, Sonic Unleashed. (This video is in Japanese; the good stuff starts at the …

Events

The AFI Fest

The 2008 AFI Fest starts on Friday (Oct. 31st) and runs through November 9th at several venues (but mainly at the Arclight Hollywood) in …

Cartoon Culture

Betty Boop: Latino Icon

Apparently lots of Latino people think they look like Betty Boop. This article in Swindle Magazine discusses the popularity of the …

Animators

San Diego: Bill Presing

Pixar storyboard artist and Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher co-creator Bill Presing will debut his new “cute cartoon girl” book Bookplate …

Classic

The Old Family Toothbrush

There is still a lot of research to be done in documenting the silent era of animation. Leonard Maltin reports, on his Movie Crazy blog, …

Shorts

Mr. Lux

Michael Jantze, former art director at ILM and former newspaper cartoonist (The Norm), has started animating cute little films in flash …

Books

The Art of Pixar’s Short Films

A while back I mentioned briefly on this site that I had been offered an opportunity to write a book for Pixar, and today I thought I’d …

TV

Käytöskukka

Eliza Jäppinen, a co-founder and creative director of the up-and-coming Finnish animation studio Anima Boutique, recently told me about …

TV

The KidMan and Lemon Show

Cartoonist Rex Hackelberg has posted a ton of development artwork that he created for a project called The KidMan and Lemon Show. The …

Animators

Brad Bird Interviews

Brad Bird has done a couple radio interviews in the past week which are worth a listen. The first interview refers to him as “Big Bird” …

Cartoon Culture

Band of Bugs

Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California, has an upcoming art show, A Band of Bugs, featuring work from animators and illustrators such as …

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