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 …
Earlier this month, Dallas-headquartered Reel FX released their first animated feature Free Birds. Over its first three weekends in …
Animation plays such a seamless role in live-action production nowadays that some films which are identified as live-action are mostly …
The Wall Street Journal published a story last weekend about Hollywood’s struggle to recoup its costs on big-budget tentpole films, but …
Yesterday’s New York Times delivered a glowing profile of DreamWorks chief creative officer Bill Damaschke. The pieces describes how CEO …
Welcome to the fourth annual Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival. Every Monday morning for the next eight weeks we’ll be debuting …
Bill Plympton, the King of Indie Animation, shares his experiences from the world's largest animation festival, Annecy.
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 …
Identifying the next Jeffrey Katzenberg or George Lucas isn’t something easily done, but a columnist at the Washington Post has figured …
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.
BREAKING NEWS: The Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature and Shorts go to...
Lots of wonderful, crazy, and frustrating things happened in the animation world last year, and we covered most of it on Cartoon Brew.
The William Joyce brand has been uniformly successful across various media platforms—except for one arena: CG animated features.
A minority of CalArts alumni take great offense if you imply that the school's illustrious Character Animation program has a recognizable sensibility...
Disney’s $4.05 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm has generated more questions than answers. The Mouse has made it clear that they bought …
Veteran animation artist Mark Mayerson has some of the most consistently enlightening perspectives on the business of animation, and his …
It’s not April Fools’ Day. The Walt Disney Company is acquiring Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise for $4.05 billion. The press …
The New York Times has flicked off this film with a 180-word blurb by third-string reviewer Neil Genzlinger. He essentially says, “The …
Today, family animation distributor GKIDS announced that they will qualify four animated features for consideration in the Oscars Best …
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 …
BURBANK, CA — The LightWave 3D Group, a division of NewTek, announced that Dominick Spina has joined the company as vice president of …