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“Rio” Comes to Blu-ray and DVD on August 2, 2011
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (June 15, 2011) — As summer heats up, spread your wings and celebrate with the funniest birds in town! The all-new …
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Modus FX Announces Animated Film “Sarila” Based on Inuit People
Modus FX has embarked on an ambitious new stereoscopic 3D journey — an 80-minute animated film called Sarila. Directed by Nancy …
Academy Announces U.S. Finalists for 2011 Student Academy Awards, Including Animation
33 students from 22 U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and …
CTN Presents Exclusive Mini-Event Series “The Animation Master Class and Filmmakers Conversation” in Burbank, California
Presented by those same great folks who bring you the premiere animation talent event of the year, the CTN animation eXpo®, in …
“The Pirate” by Meindbender
Once in a blue moon I see a piece of animation that plain knocks me out. “The Pirate by Trollhättan, Sweden-based Meindbender is one …
Ward Kimball Treasures
I was thinking recently how wonderful it would be if the Disney Company compiled a Blu-ray Treasures collection of projects directed by …
The 6 Most Unforgivable Animation Oscar Moments
Few people in the animation community take the Oscars seriously as a barometer for what is cutting-edge or innovative in animation, and …
“How To Train Your Dragon” Sweeps Annie Awards
Dreamworks’s How To Train Your Dragon swept the top honors at the 38th Annual Annie Awards ceremony tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The …
Rare Terrytoon Draft for “Indian Pudding”
Here’s one for the historians. Colleagues like Hans Perk have long celebrated and studied rare animators drafts (aka “dope sheets”) …
Jerry Rees website
The motley crew pictured above are (left to right) Henry Selick, Bill Kroyer, Jerry Rees, Brad Bird and John Musker circa 1978. The …
2010 Annie Award Nominations Announced
ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Society, announced its nominations this morning for the 38th …
A side-by-side comparison of Disney’s “Orphan’s Benefit”
Michael Ruocco, who discovered a lost Fred Moore animation scene on eBay recently, created this side-by-side comparison of the 1934 …
The Velvet Mouse Show
Jetset Studios in Los Angeles creates online campaigns and internet video for the major Hollywood studios. But between projects the …
Looney Tunes exclusive clip: Coyote Falls
We still don’t know whether the new Looney Tunes Show for Cartoon Network will meet our lofty expectations, but I was invited to a …
Interview with John Canemaker about Two Guys Named Joe
John Canemaker’s eagerly anticipated book, Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft, will arrive in stores …
Ted Petok (1917-2010)
Cartoonist, illustrator and Oscar winning animator Ted Petok has passed away at age 93. His Oscar winning short was The Crunch Bird …
A Free Animation Book Idea For You
Concept art from John Hubley’s Finian’s Rainbow This repost of John Canemaker’s article about John Hubley’s unproduced feature …
Next Weekend: CTN-X Animation Expo
Next weekend (11/20-22) is the CTN Animation Expo, and that’s where I’ll be with several hundred of my friends. It’s a convention/trade …
More tickets for The Iron Giant 10-year reunion
Last week we posted about Asifa-Hollywood’s Iron Giant 10-Year Reunion. It sold out within 24 hours. Now, a limited number of …
CTN Expo Update
Last month we told you about the animators expo shaping up for this November in Burbank being organized by former Disney character …
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