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Sundance 2015: Animated Shorts and Installations Unveiled
The Sundance Film Festival has announced the film and installation selections for their upcoming edition, which will take place in Park City, Utah between January 22 and February 1, 2015.
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New Evidence Emerges of Wage-Fixing by DreamWorks, Pixar and Blue Sky
The wage-theft scheme operated by major American animation studios continues to grow with no end in sight.
27 Animated Features To Look For in 2015
If you love animation, you'll want to check out this list of animated features that will be released in 2015.
Watch The Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’
The first teaser trailer is out for Pixar's next film "Inside Out" directed by Pete Docter.
“Ella’s World: The Snow Pig” by Bill Wray and Jose Cubero
"Ella's World" is a new cartoon show developed by Bill Wray from initial concept and characters by Jose Cubero.
Interview: John Canemaker on Discovering Disney’s Moviemaking Secrets
Animation historian John Canemaker talks about the process and challenges of creating the monumental new biography "The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis & the Secrets of Walt Disney's Movie Magic."
Cartoon-Loving Chinese Boy Attempts to Kill Noisy Construction Worker
A 10-year-old boy in Guizhou, China scored a victory for animation lovers everywhere when he sawed through a construction worker's safety harness rope, leaving the worker dangling 11 stories above ground. The boy had a perfectly reasonable defense.
Artist of the Day: Chris Sasaki
Today we look at the work of Chris Sasaki, Cartoon Brew's Artist of the Day!
‘Mouse in Transition’: Mickey Rooney, Pearl Bailey and Kurt Russell (Chapter 8)
Don Bluth and his troops were gone, but the studio still had an animated movie to get out. Art Stevens, now lead director, was slowly pulling the picture together with the animators and layout artists who remained loyal to the Mouse. But the animation department was still in flux.
Learn How Satoshi Kon Edited Space and Time
In his four features and one TV series, the late anime director Satoshi Kon developed a unique style of cutting and editing, says Tony Zhou in a new video essay.
Know Your Feature Animation Cliches: The Dead Mother
On a couple occasions throughout the years, people have asked me, Why do so many animated films have dead mothers in them?
DreamWorks Buys 95-Year-Old Felix the Cat To Make Him A ‘Fashion Brand’
DreamWorks Animation has bought the rights to the 95-year-old feline cartoon icon Felix the Cat. The studio acquired the character by paying an undisclosed sum to Don Oriolo, whose father Joe helped revive Felix in the 1950s and later assumed ownership of the character.
GKIDS Acquires Hand-Drawn Brazilian Film ‘Boy and the World’ (Trailer)
Foreign animation distributor GKIDS announced yesterday that they have acquired North American rights to the Brazilian film "Boy and the World."
Animafest Zagreb Award Winners Announced
The 24th edition of Animafest Zagreb wrapped up today in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the second-oldest continually running animation festival in Europe, after Annecy. The Grand Prix for short film was awarded to Yumi Joung's "Love Games." A complete list of winners is below.
After Reading This, You’ll Never Watch ‘Finding Nemo’ In the Same Way Again
Pixar's "Finding Nemo" told of a touching bond between a clownfish father and son. But according to this fascinating excerpt from Stephen R. Palumbi and Anthony R. Palumbi's new book "The Extreme Life of the Sea", "Finding Nemo" director Andrew Stanton bypassed the most intriguing trait of clownfish, which is that they can change their sex. Had Pixar stayed true to clownfish biology, they would have ended up with a quite different story.
‘Ping Pong’ Recap: ‘Yes, My Coach’ (Ep. 7)
Kaio finally tries to poach Smile, Peco gets into the National Training Center with a little help from the old lady, and we learn about coach Koizumi's storied past. This episode was largely devoted to character development, and finally brought into focus just what a complicated web of character interrelations Yuasa has woven out of the original source material, much as he did in Mind Game. There was no single major driving plot element, but rather various themes and plotlines gradually converging. By this point it feels like what we are seeing is more Yuasa than Matsumoto.
‘Steven Universe’ Recap: ‘Rose’s Room’
Reading beforehand what this episode was supposed to be about, my mind completely went somewhere else. Steven’s at that age when boys want alone time for a very specific reason and while I was 99.9% sure Cartoon Network wasn’t going to go that far, I thought they’d at least allude to that idea of adolescence and growing up. Instead we dived into the real reason (sort of) that Steven wanted to be left alone, and dug a little deeper into the idea of his parental units via a room and a weird, very strange world created by said room.
How Will Vinton Lost His Studio to a Rapper Named Chilly Tee
Laika does amazing work as an animation studio, no doubt about it, but the studio's history is somewhat less admirable. The company was built on top of Will Vinton's eponymous Portland studio in a shrewd corporate takeover by multi-billionaire Nike co-founder Phil Knight. After Knight took control of the company in 2002, he placed a failed rapper named Chilly Tee with slight experience in animation, who also happened to be his son Travis Knight, in charge of the entire company.
‘Steven Universe’ Recap: ‘Beach Party’
While this week’s "Steven Universe" opened a lot of doors as far as characterization and parallels, it was simply okay. Mr. Pizza was comical relief but other than that you had to dig for the entertainment.
India’s First 3D Motion-Capture Film Looks Like An Epic Trainwreck
India's first 3-D mo-cap CGI feature, "Kochadaiiyaan," will open on May 9th. By Western feature animation quality standards, it looks unwatchable, but perhaps it's considered acceptable in India.
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