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DiCaprio as Jack Frost
DreamWorks announced today that Leonardo DiCaprio will make his animated feature film debut when he heads the cast of The Guardians. …
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Day One: CTN-Expo is a hit!
First a few quick snaps: Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells) and Donnachada Daly Lou Romano (center) gives a young artist some …
Gene Deitch: Quo Vadis Animation?
Veteran animation director Gene Deitch and his wife Zdenka were invited to the Xiamen International Animation Festival (Oct. 30th-Nov. …
A Christmas Carol Opens Today
Robert Zemeckis’s A Christmas Carol opens today to a chorus of negative reviews and a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A particularly …
Chuck Jones’s Opinion of Working at Disney
I’ve praised this blog before, but the Chuck Jones blog, run by Chuck’s grandson Craig, continues to be a treasure trove of artwork and …
Shrek the Musical Flops, Will Close Soon
Here’s a shocker: people aren’t willing to spend their hard-earned money to see a Broadway musical with a lead character that looks like …
Ugly just got Uglier…
This is not the ugliest kids show I’ve ever seen – but it comes darn close. Found among the 1,050 look-alike cartoon shows offered at …
The Art of Joseph Mugnaini
VFX artist artist Ryan Leasher is writing a book about illustrator and animation artist Joseph Mugnaini. His book, Wilderness of the …
Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective in Ottawa
There’s a lot of good stuff happening at the Ottawa International Animation Festival this week. Eric Goldberg, Henry Selick, David …
2009: Five Features for Oscar??
I was going to write a post about this, but my friend Pete Hammond at the L.A. Times beat me to it. This has been a pretty good year …
Sunday Afternoon with a Kid With A Rocket Launcher
Two separate independent projects, with little in common outside of both being made essentially by one person, each with a lot of …
The Continuing Media Bias Against Animation
And so it goes: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was the number #1 film in the country last week, grossing $30.1 million dollars in its …
My Trip To Korea
I just got back from Seoul, Korea, where I spoke at a conference called DICON 2009, a digital conference that was part of the …
David Levy’s Animation Development
I’ve just read David Levy’s new book Animation Development: From Pitch to Production and it’s a must-read for anyone who plans to create …
Sony and Frederator to develop Animated Movies
Get your feature film pitches ready. The Hollywood Reporter just announced that Sony Pictures Animation and Frederator Studios have …
More Rabbit Tales
I don’t have the mp3’s of these recordings, but the sleeves are too cool not to share. Click thumbnails below to see larger images. …
Looney Tunes liqour
I’m all for aiming cartoons towards adult audiences, but here’s one of the strangest Looney Tunes items ever licensed. Currently on ebay …
Sheridan Instructor Attempts Art Criticism (and Fails)
In my mind, the worst quality a teacher can have is to be close-minded because that narrow interpretation of good and bad is passed on to …
The King Of Jazz
Walter Lantz animated a short sequence for the Universal feature King Of Jazz (released 3/30/30). The sequence is notable as the first …
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