Remembering Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007)
With Iwao Takamoto’s passing, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share this interview I conducted with him in January 1999. It …
With Iwao Takamoto’s passing, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share this interview I conducted with him in January 1999. It …
Screenwriter Jeff Massie, an executive board member of The Animation Guild, has started blogging about his life and stuff he likes, …
Attention all Angelenos: Tom Sito, Disney animator, former president of the Animation Guild, and now author of Drawing the Line: The …
Disney story artist Paul Briggs has started an unusual art project/blogsite called Dog Days of Animation. Says Paul:It all began back in …
Disney historian Jim Korkis follows up on my post about the SNOW WHITE wrap party and sends in this excerpt from an interview he did with …
Animation veteran Berny Wolf died last week at the age of 95. He had incredible success in the field, with work ranging from pioneering …
I just realized that I never did an announcement here on the Brew to let everybody know that my book CARTOON MODERN: STYLE AND DESIGN IN …
Director/animator Jordan Reichek, who was friends with Ed Benedict, has posted a nice tribute to Ed on his blog, including the Fred and …
Earlier this evening I received word from Van Partible and David Sheldon that animation legend Ed Benedict passed away in his sleep this …
Chuck Jones once said in an interview that when he wanted to draw believable human characters, he would pattern his drawing after Sam …
Haven’t done this in a while so here’s a look at some artist blogs that I recommend… Samuel Michlap has some mighty incredible …
Just thought you’d like to know… Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as …
Jenny Lerew has posted some wonderful rare photos of master animator Fred Moore. She writes that she’ll soon be posting a lot more …
Hans Perk of A. Film A/S in Denmark sent us these drawings (below) and storyboard images (above) from unfinished Disney production #2428, …
Story Boredom is a new blog with lots of great drawings by a bunch of feature storyboard artists. The artists use nicknames so it’s not …
OK, haven’t done this in a while… Yoshi Tamura worked at Disney Paris and was the supervising animator of the Helga Sinclair character …
It was announced earlier this week that Film Roman will be producing a hand-drawn HELLBOY direct-to-DVD feature and TV series. The show’s …
The summer of 2005 will go down as the animation artist’s blog renaissance. Artist blogs have been cropping up at an unbelievable rate …
John Canemaker’s opinion piece in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, documenting the demise of hand-drawn animation at Disney, can now be read …
Ain’t It Cool News has video clips from SIGGRAPH of test animation from Disney’s AMERICAN DOG and A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON. You can …