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Disney Artists To Self-Publish Rocket Johnson
In recent years, many artists at feature animation studios like Pixar, DreamWorks and Blue Sky have become involved in self-publishing …
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Portishead Videos by Nick Uff
Nick Uff’s new videos for Portishead songs “The Rip” and “We Carry On” are two of my favorite pieces of animation so far this year. This …
Frank & Artie
What’s wrong with the following sentence in this Andreas Deja interview: “I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie …
LA Times‘s Silly Pixar Article
Yesterday’s LA Times had an unnecessarily sensationalistic article about the difficulties of breaking into the directing ranks at Pixar. …
101 Farting Dalmatians?
An animator/director friend, who asked to remain anonymous, emailed me with a bizarre observation: that Disney is adding fart gags to …
1930’s wartime Japanese cartoon
David Gerstein and Cole Johnson found this delightfully primitive 1934 Japanese cartoon about a war in 1936(?). Clearly inspired by …
Call For Article Submissions
Chris Robinson tells me that he’s currently looking for writers and articles to be published in ASIFA Magazine (previously called …
My Favorite Martian
This post is only slightly on-topic, as I want to give a plug to a new soundtrack CD for one of my favorite live action sitcoms of the …
Do Artists Improve With Age?
Do artists improve with the passage of time or do an artist’s skills begin to deteriorate at a certain age? Animation director Will Finn …
New Advertising Option on Cartoon Brew
We are happy to announce that Cartoon Brew is now accepting ads from third-party advertisers (in other words, you) in our right-hand …
Your Charm article about Disney
Below is an early-1940s article from a magazine called Your Charm, a young woman’s magazine alone the lines of Mademoiselle. Forgive the …
1955 Terrytoons article for kids
Animator Mark Kausler (who has a great new blog, by the way) recently unearthed this 1955 article on Terrytoons, written for children, …
Artists get down to business at Otis
Attention L.A. area artists. This one’s for you: on Saturday, June 9th, from 10 am to 1 pm, at Otis College of Art and Design on their …
Rare SNAFU/Wartime Animation Art Found
A Hollywood production artist, part-time performer and animator, Paul Manchester, has inherited a cache of rare World War II animation …
Disney Artists During WWII
Hans Perk has posted a fascinating historical document on his blog: a list of Disney artists serving in uniform during WWII. The …
Classic Seventies Advertising
Chris Padilla recently hipped me to some visually striking animated spots from the 1970s. Chris actually showed some of these commercials …
Vintage Cartoon Articles
Charles Shopsin has been semi-regularly posting old articles on early cartoon production, from 1920s-1930s science and mechanics …
Animation Artist Autobiographies
Inspired by Michael Sporn’s recent series of posts about his favorite animation books, I wanted to share this list I’d compiled a while …
Publishers Like Animation Artists
One of the more inspiring trends recently has been seeing book projects by animation artists being picked up for distribution by …
1943 article on Pal’s Puppetoons
From Collier’s magazine (January 16, 1943), an interesting article on George Pal and hisPuppetoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. Click on …
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