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Call for Proposals: GIRAF Animation Festival, Signal Film/Art
Quickdraw Animation Society seeks artist proposals for our GIRAF 7 signal film Deadline: Friday March 18, 2011 The Giant …
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“The Bubble Hub” by William Bradford
Animator and character designer William Bradford in North Vancouver, BC created this test piece for a pitch package “for the show I’ve …
A Reason to Buy “Mater’s Tall Tales”
Scott Morse, a story artist at Pixar, shares a reason that aspiring artists may want to buy the new Disney DVD released last week Cars …
Weekend Brew Review
For some unknown reason, people are always asking me for advice on pitching a series or getting a job in animation. If I knew how to do …
Superb Episode of “Adventure Time” Leads Off 2nd Season
“It Came from the Nightosphere!” is an exceptional episode of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time that combines inventive drawing and …
How to Make DreamWorks Secretaries Not Hang Up on You
Mark Simon, an animation artist with 2,700 productions to his credit, frequently hosts Hit Makers Summits where he charges thousands of …
Saturday Book Review
If you ever wished one of the creators of a cartoon series on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network would just explain everything about how they …
Snapshots from Cinecon
As mentioned previously, I’m spending my Labor Day at the annual classic movie convention in Hollywood, Cinecon. Inbetween screenings I’m …
IPhone Game Angry Bird goes to Hollywood
For what certainly won’t be the last time, a successful iPhone game is attempting to make the leap into animated features and series. …
Ilene Woods (1929-2010)
The L.A. Times is reporting the passing of Ilene Woods, the voice of Walt Disney’s Cinderella (1950). She died Thursday at age 81. …
Three Legged Legs for Starbucks
Santa Monica-based Three Legged Legs created this Starbucks spot in four days, including design, animatic, animation, and revisions. …
Mighty Mouse on again at Paramount
This isn’t really new news; we’ve posted about this in 2004 and 2006. But once again, the LA Times is reporting that Mighty Mouse is back …
Free Animation Book Idea #2
Picking up where we left off last month, here’s another book idea that’s free for the taking. The proposal is rather straightforward: a …
Dear Sesame Street
Dear Sesame Street, We, the undersigned, would like to register our concern over the contest you are now conducting with Aniboom. We …
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. …
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 …
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden isn’t going to win any awards for its animation, but it packs a real punch as a short film. …
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. …
Cartoon Network presentation reel (1991)
I was a consultant to the Cartoon Network shortly after it launched in 1992. Somehow back then I acquired a copy of this 1991 …
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 …
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