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Director Jimmy Hayward Talks “Free Birds”
Earlier this month, Dallas-headquartered Reel FX released their first animated feature Free Birds. Over its first three weekends in …
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Is Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” An Animated Film?
Animation plays such a seamless role in live-action production nowadays that some films which are identified as live-action are mostly …
CG Animated Films Are Dominating the 2013 Global Box Office
The Wall Street Journal published a story last weekend about Hollywood’s struggle to recoup its costs on big-budget tentpole films, but …
Brenda Chapman Acccuses John Lasseter of Micromanagement
Yesterday’s New York Times delivered a glowing profile of DreamWorks chief creative officer Bill Damaschke. The pieces describes how CEO …
“Brain Divided” by Josiah Haworth, Joon Shik Song & Joon Soo Song
Welcome to the fourth annual Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival. Every Monday morning for the next eight weeks we’ll be debuting …
Annecy Film Festival Review by Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton, the King of Indie Animation, shares his experiences from the world's largest animation festival, Annecy.
Movie Barcode Compresses Entire Movies into A Single Image
Just by looking at this “bar code”, can you tell what animated movie this is? Go on, take a guess: Give up? It’s Bambi. For …
“Washington Post” names Nick Weidenfeld The “Next Jeffrey Katzenberg”
Identifying the next Jeffrey Katzenberg or George Lucas isn’t something easily done, but a columnist at the Washington Post has figured …
Bob Godfrey, RIP
Bob Godfrey, the Oscar-winning director of animated shorts and creator of beloved TV shows like "Roobarb" and "Henry's Cat," is dead at 91.
Academy Award Nominations
BREAKING NEWS: The Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature and Shorts go to...
Amid’s Most Popular Cartoon Brew Stories of 2012
Lots of wonderful, crazy, and frustrating things happened in the animation world last year, and we covered most of it on Cartoon Brew.
Was “Rise of the Guardians” A Victim of the Bill Joyce Curse?
The William Joyce brand has been uniformly successful across various media platforms—except for one arena: CG animated features.
Does A ‘CalArts Sensibility’ Exist?
A minority of CalArts alumni take great offense if you imply that the school's illustrious Character Animation program has a recognizable sensibility...
The Disney Purchase of Lucasfilm: What Does It Mean?
Disney’s $4.05 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm has generated more questions than answers. The Mouse has made it clear that they bought …
Why The Disney/Lucasfilm Merger Hurts Artists and Creativity
Veteran animation artist Mark Mayerson has some of the most consistently enlightening perspectives on the business of animation, and his …
Disney Buys Lucasfilm, “Star Wars” Franchise for $4 Billion [UPDATED]
It’s not April Fools’ Day. The Walt Disney Company is acquiring Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise for $4.05 billion. The press …
“Hotel Transylvania” talkback
The New York Times has flicked off this film with a 180-word blurb by third-string reviewer Neil Genzlinger. He essentially says, “The …
GKIDS Heats Up the Oscar Animated Feature Race
Today, family animation distributor GKIDS announced that they will qualify four animated features for consideration in the Oscars Best …
Genndy Tartakovsky Talks “Hotel Transylvania”
Genndy Tartakovsky on making Hotel Transylvania: “I took all the aesthetics I like from 2-D and applied them here. I don’t want to do …
Dominick Spina Joins LightWave 3D Group as Vice President of Worldwide Sales And Marketing
BURBANK, CA — The LightWave 3D Group, a division of NewTek, announced that Dominick Spina has joined the company as vice president of …
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