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“The Hunt” by Double Triple
This visually striking video for WOOM’s “The Hunt,” loosely retelling the myth of Persephone, was animated entirely with natural …
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Tony Curtis, RIP
Joe Barbera (l.) with Tony Curtis Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, immortalized in The Flintstones as Stony Curtis, died last night at …
Kihachiro Kawamoto, RIP
It’s not a good week to be a Japanese animation legend. Stop motion animator and puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto, passed away last Monday at …
INCEPTION rips off Uncle Scrooge
Was the plot of Christopher Nolan’s Inception inspired by a Don Rosa Uncle Scrooge comic book story? In the story, created for the …
John Callahan, RIP
Portland cartoonist John Callahan, who had been quadriplegic since the age of 21, passed away yesterday at age 59. His crude, funny …
Betty Boop filmstrip
Here’s a curio: a 1930s vintage toy projector slide show, featuring Max Fleischer’s Betty Boop, Koko and Bimbo in a new adventure in the …
Gary Coleman, RIP
Sad news to end a Friday: Gary Coleman, who was so popular at one time that he had his own animated series, has died.
Block Party Rip-Off?
Speaking of things that may or may not be rip-offs, Adult Swim recently wrapped up a nation-wide block party tour that married live music …
Japan TV investigates Chinese rip-off of Gumby
Notice any resemblance between the two characters above? We didn’t either… but Japan’s NTV news reporting team did note certain …
Long Drawn-Out Trip by Gerald Scarfe
The Lost Continent is a real treasure of a blog and has introduced me to lots of great British animation over the past few months, some …
The Little Cloud – a Filmstrip
I did a post about Cathedral Films back in 2007 when we found a connection between this religious film strip producer and Bill Hanna and …
Chinese rip-off of Presto
Trying to find a free online version of Doug Sweetland’s Pixar short Presto, reader Michael Rianda instead found this: a Chinese …
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 …
‘Peripetics’ by Zeitguised
Peripetics is a fantastic experimental CG short. The “piece in six acts” was made by London-based Zeitguised for the opening exhibition …
Rare Tom and Jerry comic strips
Ger Apeldoorn has posted a selection of rarely seen Tom & Jerry newspaper comics strips from 1950. Though credited to “Fred Quimby”, they …
Trippy Spongebob MTV IDs from Pepper Melon
These are too cool. The spots were conceptualized by London-based Thinkmake and directed by Tomás GarcÃa of Buenos Aires-based Pepper …
Michael Jackson, RIP
I didn’t expect to be using this picture in such a sad context, but here is a photo of Michael Jackson visiting with Ward and Betty …
Comic Strip Serenade
Bill Kartalopoulos and Mark Newgarden are putting together a one-of-a-kind musical event taking place Sunday, June 7 @ the
Bass+Crippen+Freberg=”Sale of Manhattan”
The animation above aired on the 1962 ABC special “Stan Freberg Presents The Chun King Chow Mein Hour: Salute to the Chinese New Year.” …
Animators’ Comic Strips
Ger Apeldoorn has uncovered a real find. A set of obscure comic strips, created for a local California newspaper in 1950 (The Redwood …
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