2016 Oscar Nominations: Animation Analysis
Low-budget features and South American contenders are competing alongside Pixar this year.
Low-budget features and South American contenders are competing alongside Pixar this year.
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation and Animation Breakdown Festival are both happening this weekend.
How an indie animator in New York City added a unique animated touch to a major Hollywood film.
An animation-specific roundup of panels, presentations, and other cartoon goodness at America's biggest pop culture festival.
Driven by enthusiasm and a can-do attitude, artists want to grow Cuba's underdeveloped animation industry.
Hand-drawn animation like you've never seen before.
Hundreds of hours' worth of animation is newly available to stream online.
"Why should kids be the only ones who get pleasure out of animation," says the revered indie animation director Bill Plympton. "It offends me that American animation is stereotyped this way."
Yesterday, we celebrated the momentous decision to replace the practical effect-dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" with CGI animation. Today, we look at the other side of the issue: the effect that CGI has had on traditional puppet-makers, animatronic artists, and stop motion animators whose work has increasingly been relegated to the sidelines.
Ralph Bakshi pulled himself away from his drawing desk in New Mexico to chat with Cartoon Brew about his legacy, his latest project "The Last Days of Coney Island," which he recently funded on Kickstarter, and what he really thinks about the computer’s role in animation these days.
The NFB StopMo Studio app for the iPad provides essentially everything you need to jump into creating an animated film. You won't have any issues getting comfortable with the user interface if you've worked with animation programs before, and it seems more than approachable for newcomers young and old. Once you open up the program, you're welcomed with a short and succinct tutorial that covers the basic tools, and then opens up to allow you to explore the rest of the options available.
2014 is shaping up to be one of the strongest years for quirky and original animated features. True, there's the usual spate of sequels—"Rio 2," "How to Train Your Dragon 2" and "Planes: Fire and Rescue"—but looking beyond those films, there are some genuinely fresh ideas on the horizon, most notably Laika's "The Boxtrolls," Reel FX's "Book of Life," and Cartoon Saloon's "Song of the Sea."
See which animated features, shorts, and VFX films from 2013 are nominated for an Oscar!
New books about "Adventure Time," Mary Blair, Alex Toth, Disney Golden Books, Pixar, and DreamWorks will be published in 2014.
Besides creating animation, I love to study it theoretically. The process of creation for me is very ‘un-graspable’. There’s so …
Today, Comic-Con International: San Diego released the event schedule for Friday, July 19th, the second day of programming at the …
Vancouver, BC –Spark CG Society is pleased to announce this year’s impressive line-up of speakers and films for SPARK Animation …
Less than a week remains until Comic-Con International begins in San Diego, and whether you’re a fan of animation, comics, fantasy …
http://vimeo.com/39222492 Los Angeles, CA — Pixomondo joined forces with Chinese advertising agency Interone Beijing (a BBDO agency) …
(Los Angeles, CA — Oct. 10, 2011) — Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA and VIA.B), has appointed veteran animation …