Ideas/Commentary

New Markets in Animation

Still from “Why Can’t We Walk Straight In terms of opportunities and amount of work available, there is no better time to be working …

Flash

The Smile and Penny Show

Here’s the opening to The Smile and Penny Show, a web series created by Hobo Divine. His collaborator on the project is Mike Geiger. …

Animators

Kurtz + Friends blog

Bob Kurtz began his career designing the original Alvin and the Chipmunks for Format Films, wrote Pink Panther cartoons for …

DVD

Bill Plympton’s Dog Days dvd

Independent animation great Bill Plympton has released a new dvd collecting all of the shorts he has created between 2004 and 2008: Guard …

Events

LONDON: An Evening with Ian Emes

Awesome event coming up in London next Thursday, June 25: a retrospective of the work of British animation director Ian Emes, who created …

Ideas/Commentary

No Girls Allowed?

Danny Hayes, a guy who worked on Coraline, complains in Bitch magazine that the Coraline production was too much of a boys-only club. …

CGI

2008 Gobelins Student Films

French animation school Gobelins has released the latest batch of their student films. From a purely technical standpoint, the quality of …

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