Brazilian Animation is Taking Over Times Square
"Parallel Connection," a piece by Birdo and OSGEMEOS, plays on 45 screens in Times Square nightly.
"Parallel Connection," a piece by Birdo and OSGEMEOS, plays on 45 screens in Times Square nightly.
A poignant peek into the mind of a Beatle whose talents extended past creating immortal music.
An Australian in New York City makes his first animated feature.
The Chinese are turning the Hollywood sex symbol into a CGI cartoon character called Mini Marilyn.
"One of the best souls I've ever met," says longtime collaborator Aaron Blaise.
GKIDS will launch the film in New York City and Los Angeles in August.
What do long-lost sweatbox notes reveal about the creation of one of Disney's finest films?
Analyzing the performance and acting in the Academy Award-nominated film "Song of the Sea."
Steve Hulett remembers the time when Disney artists were told they were being moved to a warehouse off the lot, and the animation division's first "gong show" pitch session.
Looking at the work of Wendy Cong Zhao, Cartoon Brew's Artist of the Day!
These cartoonists stood up against intimidation and fought for their right to freedom of expression. Let us celebrate their victories.
"I do think that animation can have a language of its own, rather than simply mimicking live action."
We often hold up box office numbers as proof of a movie's success or failure, but even for "Frozen," which is the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, its box office gross is a fraction of the merchandising revenue it has generated for the Walt Disney Company.
The country of Latvia has selected Signe Baumane's "Rocks in My Pockets" as its entry for the best foreign-language category of the Oscars.
Animation historian John Canemaker talks about the process and challenges of creating the monumental new biography "The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis & the Secrets of Walt Disney's Movie Magic."
A series of romantically unfortunate twentysomethings are interviewed, describing in vivid detail their expectations as they search for the ideal partner.
"Jellyfish Eyes" marks the feature film directing debut of Japanese superstar artist Takashi Murakami. Described as a post-Fukushima sci-fi fantasy, the $7 million live-action/CGI hybrid film incorporates Murakami's goofily-styled creatures throughout, as well as an appearance by his fine art character Miss Ko2.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the finalists for the 41st Student Academy Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 7, at the DGA Theater in Hollywood. Among the five categories, one of them is dedicated entirely to animation, and another category—Alternative—includes animated films in it, too.
Skip Dolphin Hursh works as a designer and animator for Nickelodeon in New York. Skip uses his free time to create personal work that includes handsomely designed looping animated GIFs that invoke thoughts of toy machinery and strange cellular activity. He explains more about how he arrived at this ongoing project in an interview with Giphy.
Animator and filmmaker Michael Sporn, a man who represented the spirit and vitality of New York's animation scene as much as any other single individual, passed away from pancreatic cancer on January 19. He was 67.