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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 …
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Major Disney Exhibit in Paris
I’ve known about this exhibition for a while, but it didn’t occur to me that I should post about it until a friend mentioned that it …
RIK MAKI AT MELTDOWN
After the 3-D cartoons at the Egyptian tomorrow afternoon, I recommend bopping over to Meltdown Comics at 7522 Sunset Blvd. where, from …
BOOK: MTV’S ON AIR
I saw this book at Hennessey+Ingalls the other day and it looks like it’s worth adding to the collection. ON AIR: THE VISUAL MESSAGES AND …
SDCC: Out of Picture
My first exposure to the talented artists at Blue Sky Studios was a couple years back when I wrote the ART OF ROBOTS book. The general …
THE WORST TOM AND JERRY I’VE EVER SEEN
No, the image above isn’t from the Filmation Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980), nor any U.S. produced latter day monstrosity. It’s a page …
Upcoming Halas & Batchelor Book
HALAS AND BATCHELOR CARTOONS: AN ANIMATED HISTORY is a new coffeetable book coming out in August that is “part-history, part-tribute, …
Tales of Worm Paranoia and Buy One, Get One Free
I’m not sure how many folks are aware of this, but there’s interesting and rare animation popping up almost daily now on YouTube. For …
UPA Tribute in LA
The Egyptian Theatre website has posted more information about their highly anticipated UPA tribute taking place Sunday, March 26. It’s …
ANIMATOR ANALYSIS
Over at Jaime Weinman’s Something Old, Nothing New blog, he’s posted a scene-by-scene analysis of which animators did what on the classic …
BOOK REVIEW: The Animated Movie Guide
Fellow Brewmaster Jerry Beck, modest individual that he is, sometimes doesn’t promote his own books enough, so I feel compelled to do a …
MICKEY AND THE GANG
Way back in August I plugged this book, but now that I’ve got it in my hot little hands and have spent hours perusing its pages – I gotta …
Tartakovsky Moving Into Features (Again)
Big buzzworthy story here: VARIETY reports that Genndy Tartakovsky (creator, SAMURAI JACK, DEXTER’S LABORATORY; director, STAR WARS: …
Harald Siepermann Blog
Our friend Harald Siepermann, a mighty talented character designer who lives in Germany, has started his own blog HERE. Just a few of the …
CANEMAKER’S WINSOR MCCAY
John Canemaker’s Winsor McCay – His Life and Art, his 1987 biography of the great newspaper cartoonist and pioneer animator, will be …
AMERICAN DOG CLIP
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 …
SD CON: Floyd Norman
Animation legend Floyd Norman’s new book HOW THE GRINCH STOLE DISNEY debuts in San Diego this week. In this third volume of gag drawings, …
Rare 1950s animated shorts
Just for fun, here’s title cards for a few shorts which will be included in my forthcoming Chronicle book on 1950s animation design. It’s …
Pixar at MOMA
A few days ago, I mentioned a couple books that Chronicle Books will be publishing this winter in honor of Pixar’s twentieth anniversary. …
Celebrating Pixar’s 20th Anniversary
THE ART OF PIXAR: 100 COLLECTIBLE POSTCARDS will be out in November from Chronicle Books. The postcard set, published in celebration of …
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