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Laika Was Crazy Enough To Animate A 16-Foot Tall Skeleton for ‘Kubo and The Two Strings’
We go behind-the-scenes to learn how Laika animated one of the biggest stop motion puppets ever constructed.
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Ottawa Animation Festival 40th Anniversary Look-Back: ‘Hen, His Wife’
Before he became a key member of the team that made "Rugrats" and "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters," Igor Kovalyov challenged the animation world with his enigmatic short, "Hen, His Wife."
Mexico’s Pixelatl Festival Announces All-Star Lineup of Speakers
Over 70 guests from 13 countries will attend Pixelatl next month in Mexico.
Ken Duncan Talks About Creating New Scenes for ‘The Iron Giant: Signature Edition’
"The Iron Giant: Signature Edition," director Brad Bird's remastered masterpiece of war, peace, and paranoia, returns to theaters this Wednesday and Sunday, with new scenes courtesy of Duncan Studio.
A Conversation With Genndy Tartakovsky About ‘Hotel Transylvania 2,’ ‘Popeye,’ ‘Can You Imagine?’ and ‘Samurai Jack’
In a wide-ranging conversation, Genndy Tartakovsky talks to Cartoon Brew about the challenges of making "Hotel Transylvania 2" and what he's trying to do next.
C. H. Greenblatt ‘Not Thrilled’ With Nick’s Treatment of ‘Harvey Beaks’
New episodes of "Harvey Beaks" were pulled from the network's summer schedule with no warning to the staff.
‘Mouse in Transition’: Goodbye Disney (Chapter 18)
The first sign that you might get laid off at Disney: the bosses won't give you a new computer.
Fijian Boatmakers to Disney: We Want Compensation for ‘Moana’
Disney's next animated feature "Big Hero 6" isn't even out yet, but some parties are already claiming that Disney's film "Moana," currently scheduled for 2016 release, stole their intellectual property rights.
‘Mouse in Transition’: Rodent Detectives and Studio Strikes (Chapter 11)
"Basil of Baker Street" by novelist Eve Titus was an illustrated children's book centered on a mouse who fancied himself an ace detective. The mouse resided (naturally enough) inside the walls of 31 Baker Street in London, home of a human-sized ace detective, the name of whom escapes me.
“Walt”: The Disney Biopic That Never Was
IN THE EARLY 1980S, CARDON WALKER JR. AND I produced the "Disney Family Album" series for The Disney Channel. It was one of the very first series funded by the Channel, and the first to get any kind of critical acclaim thanks to our nomination for a Cable Ace Award for Best Documentary Series. But we had an even bigger ambition, and that was to land the Great White Whale of Disney myths, the life story of Walt himself.
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 …
Chris Meledandri is Changing How Animated Features Are Produced
Despicable Me 2 is on track to become the most profitable film in Universal Pictures’ 100-plus year history, and that has turned …
Director Stephan Franck Returns “The Smurfs” To Their Hand-Drawn Roots
In The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow, the new 22-minute mini-movie by Sony Pictures Animation, competition gets the best of Brainy …
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 …
Advance Praise for the Book That Disney Doesn’t Want You To Read
This week was supposed to be the release date of my biography about artist, animator and director Ward Kimball. However, my publisher, …
Ward Kimball Biography Delayed Until 2013
I’ve received a slew of messages in the past week from people who pre-ordered Full Steam Ahead!, which is the biography I wrote about the …
Estonian animator Priit Pärn coming to NYC
Heads up, New Yorkers: Estonian animator Priit Pärn will be making a rare appearence in Brooklyn to attend a specially curated screening …
Walt Disney Animation Studios Debuted Newly Restored, Once-Thought-Lost 1928 Oswald Short “Hungry Hobos” At Telluride Film Festival
BURBANK, Calif. (Sept. 4, 2012) —Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) debuted a newly restored digital print of the once-thought-lost …
UK’s National Trust To Debut New “Wallace & Gromit” Animation Over Jubilee Weekend
The National Trust has launched a campaign today teaming up with national treasures Wallace and Gromit to help lead the country’s …
Chris Sanders Talks About “Big Bear”
Chris Sanders, the author of the Big Bear Aircraft Company, penned a detailed comment that clarifies the purpose of the book and the …
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