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The Amazing Mr. Bickford
Clay puppets, miniature sets, cutouts, replacement animation, aluminum foil, “strato-cut” slices, molten wax, and other techniques… …
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Animated Features for Grown-Ups
FilmInFocus.com has a series of articles entitled “Adult Animation: A Look at How Cartoons Grew Up.” I wrote a piece for them about the …
Animation Show contest
The fourth edition of The Animation Show continues it’s rollout across the United States with openings in Los Angeles (The Nuart), Boston …
The Disney Company on Ollie Johnston
(Above: Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas and Walt Disney flank seated Ollie Johnston) Howard Green just sent over the official …
Aesop’s Fables Hankie Book
Is it a book or a set of hankerchiefs? I’m not exactly sure what this is, but clearly it’s another example of bizarre Van Beuren cartoon …
Hattie Noel as Hyacinth Hippo
This post got deleted during our troublesome server upgrade last week so I’ll try it again. As a followup to a post earlier this month, …
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 …
Protesting Iraq with Animation And Hip-Hop
“Sorrow of the Soldier” is a one-off animated music video released on the Internet today. The video, which protests the US occupation of …
The History of America by MK12
Kansas City-based motion graphics/design collective MK12 recently completed their long-awaited epic short The History of America. I, …
Brickfilms and the Amateur Animation Community
There was a front page article in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal about the brickfilm community. Brickfilms is a general description …
Music Vids by Shoji Goto and Jamie Mason
These two recent music vid discoveries make me very happy. • “Umo” is a primarily stop motion video directed by …
Billy Collins Action Poetry
BCActionPoet.org is a delightful series of eleven bite-sized shorts, each set to a poem by US Poet Laureate Billy Collins and read in an …
Animation History Round-Up #2
A lot of readers seemed to enjoy the first Animation History Round-Up posted here a few weeks ago, so here’s another guide to rare …
Inside UPA: A Cartoon Brew Book
Today I’m pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the first-ever Cartoon Brew book. Inside UPA is a 64-page volume offering an …
Human-Powered Animation
Can animation exist in real time? Without film, without video, without digital tricks… this is the opening ceremony for football’s …
This Wed In LA: The Animated Films of Brent Green
Almost didn’t hear about this event it’s so under the radar. Indie animator Brent Green is doing a screening in LA of his works which …
Who’s Attending Comic-Con?
It’s so difficult to find folks down at the Comic-Con so here’s a thread where we can do a roll call of animation folk who’ll be …
Platform Snaps
I’ll share my thoughts on the Platform festival in a bit, but first, a few snaps from this past week. As you can probably tell from these …
M.I.A.’s “Boyz”
M.I.A.’s new music video “Boyz” is a brilliant mashup of contemporary Jamaican dance and lo-fi abstract animation. It’s easily one of the …
Gene Deitch’s office
Last month, my pal Rusty Frank told me she was going to Prague to perform (she’s a tap dancer and expert on the history of tap) and she …
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