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Peter Ellenshaw (1913-2007)
Dave Smith reports that Peter Ellenshaw passed away yesterday, in Santa Barbara. Ellenshaw is best known for his incredible matte …
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Alone, Stinking And Unafraid: Fallen Angels
Cartoon Brew’s Jerry and Amid are pleased to welcome our friend Chris Robinson and his new semi-regular column Alone Stinking and …
Meet Zombie Redenbacher
One more interesting fact about this spot: it was directed at Digital Domain by none other than David Fincher (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN), who …
REMEMBERING JOSEPH BARBERA (1911-2006)
Caricature by Patrick Owsley This post will be continually updated with stories and remembrances about Joseph Barbera (1911-2006). …
ONE GOT FAT
It’s been a Ralph Hulett kind of week around here. First it was his Christmas cards, now here’s a link to ONE GOT FAT, a bizarre …
A Ralph Hulett Christmas
While Eyvind Earle is the best known of the Disney artists who illustrated Christmas cards, a number of other Disney artists had …
COMMENTARY: To Pitch Or Not To Pitch?
A few weeks ago, I commended New York animator Pat Smith for making this comment in an ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE interview: “The …
Miyazaki and Son
If anybody is in need of some tough love from Dr. Phil, it’s probably Hayao Miyazaki and his eldest son Goro. This Reuters article about …
All About Charlie (Charles) Byrne
We get letters. From Stacey Byrne-GibbsMy father, who is now 89 years old had two brothers (Tom and Charles / Charlie) who were both …
Uli Meyer’s MONSTERMANIA!
Congrats to Uli Meyer, owner of the London animation studio Uli Meyer Animation, who announced on his blog a few days ago that he’s …
Not-Quite-Animation Books
A roundup of recent non-animation books that have caught my attention: I don’t know how Lane Smith does it, but every one of his …
UPA EVENT ON DVD
Many readers of this blog have written in to ask about getting a recording of the big UPA Event at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood last …
A Sequence from the unproduced Betty Boop feature
Animation director Steve Moore, who previously posted Duane Crowther’s long-lost student film BLUM BLUM, has posted another amazing …
RICHARD FLEISCHER (1916-2006)
Ray Pointer just informed us that film director, Richard Fleischer, son of animation pioneer, Max Fleischer, passed away in his sleep …
Mark Newgarden’s WE ALL DIE ALONE
I’ve been meaning to write about cartoonist/animation artist Mark Newgarden’s new book WE ALL DIE ALONE (Fantagraphics), a beautifully …
The (Mis)Marketing of Feature Animation
The FPS MAGAZINE blog has a thought-provoking piece by Marc Hairston about how Disney – not having learned anything from their clumsy …
OSCAR SHORT NOMINEES
And the nomineees are:Badgered (A National Film and Television School Production) Sharon ColmanThe Moon and the Son: An Imagined …
Cool Historical Finds
Animator/director Joel Brinkerhoff emailed me with a couple of his recent historical discoveries that he wanted to share. I thought they …
OTTAWA UPDATE #1
Tonight we started screening films at the Ottawa Internation Animation Festival. I’m on the feature jury, so I won’t give my opinions yet …
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