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Animation Artist Autobiographies
Inspired by Michael Sporn’s recent series of posts about his favorite animation books, I wanted to share this list I’d compiled a while …
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Awesome Cartoon Brew parody
Regular readers of Cartoon Brew will get a kick out of this. Bob “BobServo” Mackey of SomethingAwful.com has concocted a thorough and …
Sage Advice from Dick Dale
The advice in the video above from guitar legend Dick Dale is geared towards musicians, but everything he says applies equally well to …
Popeye DVD
Here it comes! The first official release of the classic Max Fleischer cartoons on DVD, from Warner Home Video (who own the master …
Chris Sanders to DreamWorks
After animation director Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch) was unceremoniously booted off of Disney’s American Dog, it was obvious that …
New Blog: Animation – Who & Where
Joe Campana, a film editor who works in animation, recently started a blog called Animation — Who and Where, and it has …
Elbert Tuganov (1920-2007)
Pioneering Estonian animator Elbert Tuganov has passed away at age 87. Chris Robinson, author of Estonian Animation: Between Genius and …
New Animation Magazines
Two new animation magazines appeared in my mailbox last week. Both are very well done, though aimed at completely different …
Ratatouille Trailer
Here’s the latest trailer for Pixar’s Ratatouille with a lot of new footage that I haven’t seen anywhere else before. (Thanks, John)
Halas & Batchelor Cartoons
Though mentioned on the Brew back in May, I just stumbled upon a copy of Halas & Batchelor Cartoons today, at my local Barnes and …
Golden Book Art at Disneyland
It’s rare for this website to promote a visit to Disneyland twice within the same week, but we’ve just recieved word from artist Kevin …
Pure Portland Animation
What do Brad Bird, Bill Plympton, Mel Blanc, Pinto Colvig, Carl Barks, Matt Groening, Basil Wolverton and Will Vinton have in common? …
Random Cartoon Postcards
Fred Seibert has posted a group of publicity postcards created to promote his new series, Random Cartoons. Thirty-nine animated shorts …
Oscar ’07: The fallout from the “Happy Feet” win
Happy Feet won. Does it matter? The sad fact is, it may. I won’t deny that Happy Feet was a well made, entertaining film. I liked …
Understanding The Mind Of a Development Exec
There’s an interview with Nickelodeon development exec Peter Gal in the new issue of Animation Magazine and I’d been debating about …
How To Become An Animation Executive
It turns out that John Kricfalusi isn’t the only TV animation creator who is vocal about his dislike of contemporary animation execs. …
ALICE in 35mm
A few years ago, Ray Pointer (aka Inkwell Images) put together a superb DVD collection of seven Alice Comedies, Disney’s 1920s silent-era …
Ward Kimball’s Escalation
Ward Kimball made this film independently from the Disney Studio in 1968. It is the only independent short ever made by one of Disney’s …
Toy Story 3 and American Dog News
During a Disney investor’s conference yesterday, John Lasseter and Ed Catmull announced some major Disney-Pixar news. Notably, that TOY …
Shane Acker’s 9
Shane Acker, the director of the atmospheric Oscar-nominated short 9, was a special guest at the ANIMATION SHOW screening in LA a couple …
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