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 …

CGI

Hacking the Kinect

Microsoft’s new controller-free gaming environment called Kinect for XBox 360 also doubles as a powerful digital toy for hackers. The …

Disney

Film Review: Walt and El Grupo

Walt and El Grupo is the new feature length documentary about the two month tour of South America that Walt and his staff (which included …

Classic

Coyote catches Road Runner

Speaking of Chuck Jones, an anonymous Argentinian Youtube user called “Lafacukur” recently uploaded a video of an edited version of the …

TV

Locomotion I.D.’s

Here are eight station IDs for the late great Locomotion channel (1996-2005), a wonderfully programmed Latin American cartoon cable …

Cartoon Culture

Current U.S. Postage Stamps

Anyone been to the post office lately? Anyone still use snail mail? The postage stamps have gotten a lot better — even if I have no …

Cartoon Culture

Mexican Lobby Cards

A dealer of Mexican movie lobby cards has posted just some of his thousands of pieces online and even created a slide show for some of …

Disney

Walt and El Grupo

Karl Cohen (president of ASIFA-San Francisco) just sent us his first impressions of Walt and El Grupo the new film by Ted Thomas, which I …

Shorts

Alexei Karayev’s Welcome (1986)

What would happen if some Russians took a Dr. Seuss story and turned it into a paint-on-glass animated short? The results would be …

Old Brew

Id These Pig Cels

Brew readers with a keen eye and a vast knowledge of Disney TV and movies, here’s a question for you. These cels (above) were recently …

Old Brew

LOONEY TUNES MURAL IN HOLLYWOOD

I got some photos of the bizarre DRx Looney Tunes mural in Hollywood, which I mentioned in this post a few days ago. It fills an entire …

Old Brew

BEHIND “CORPSE BRIDE”

We will be having a contest the week of September 12th relating to Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE. Warner Bros. will be giving us prizes and …

Old Brew

REVIEW: MIND GAME

It’s not often that I get excited about an animated feature, particularly a Japanese animated feature, but I’m really eager to check out …

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