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Real Estate

Cash-Strapped DreamWorks Sells Animation Campus…Again

DreamWorks has finally found a viable business model: selling its studio campus over and over again.

Documentary

New Doc ‘Raiders, Raptors and Rebels’ Celebrates 40 Years of ILM

George Lucas's groundbreaking visual effects company is celebrated in a new one-hour special on the Science Channel

Comics

‘Avatar’ and ‘Korra’ Co-Creator Bryan Konietzko Weaves New Graphic Novel ‘Threadworlds’

Hurry up and wait, benders! Bryan Konietzo's debut graphic novel series arrives in 2017.

Books

Book Review: ‘Chinese Animation: A History and Filmography’

A new book seeks to remedy the lack of English scholarship on China's contribution to the medium.

Feature Film

Interview: Directors Albert ‘t Hooft and Paco Vink on ‘Trippel Trappel’

Albert 't Hooft and Paco Vink discuss the challenges of directing a low-budget theatrical feature in a small animation market like the Netherlands.

Cartoon Culture

Listen to Gerald McBoing Boing Rapped

Throughout the history of rap and hip-hop, musicians have tackled a dizzying array of subject matters and themes, yet no one has ever rapped a UPA animated short. Until now, that is.

Games

An Excellent History of Graphics in Videogames

"Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics" is a 5-part documentary by Stuart Brown about the evolution of graphics in videogames.

Toys

People Can’t Stop Buying ‘Frozen’ Crap, As Long As It’s Not Anna

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.

Animators

Preview: Ed Emberley Monograph

Designer Todd Oldham, who has compiled impressive monographs on mid-century illustrators and designers like Charley Harper and Alexander Girard, looks to have made something special again with his book on Ed Emberley.

Shorts

Great Animated Short Made Entirely with Still Photographs

Adding movement to photographs is a very common technique nowadays, but Bennie Melwin's "Putin Depardieu Love Story" pushes the technique one step further than most, resulting in some fantastically creepy and funny animation.

Bad Ideas

John Lasseter, Please Stop Flashing Photographers

A bit of advice to John Lasseter.

Awards

SIGGRAPH Announces 2014 Computer Animation Festival Winners

SIGGRAPH has announced the winners of its 41st annual Computer Animation Festival. These projects will be shown amongst more than 100 pieces at the 2014 conference that will take place August 10-14 in Vancouver, Canada.

Business

How Will Vinton Lost His Studio to a Rapper Named Chilly Tee

Laika does amazing work as an animation studio, no doubt about it, but the studio's history is somewhat less admirable. The company was built on top of Will Vinton's eponymous Portland studio in a shrewd corporate takeover by multi-billionaire Nike co-founder Phil Knight. After Knight took control of the company in 2002, he placed a failed rapper named Chilly Tee with slight experience in animation, who also happened to be his son Travis Knight, in charge of the entire company.

TV

Fox Is Scrapping Its Late-Night Animation Block ADHD

Fox's experiment with late-night animation didn't go as well as they had anticipated. The network will end its Saturday late-night animation block ADHD (Animation Domination High-Def) in June, less than a year after it began. It was originally created as a replacement for the cancelled sketch comedy show "MADtv."