How Making Online Shorts Landed Steve Cutts A ‘Simpsons’ Couch Gag Opening
Steve Cutts may not be a household name, but his viral films got him the gig of a lifetime.
Steve Cutts may not be a household name, but his viral films got him the gig of a lifetime.
From red hot Twenties jazz to the contemporary stylings of Gorillaz, we pay homage to cartoon bands.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting just a few of the trailblazing women who made important contributions during the Golden Age of Animation.
An animation-specific roundup of panels, presentations, and other cartoon goodness at America's biggest pop culture festival.
Poor Garfield. In his heyday, he was amongst the most beloved characters on the funny pages, his plush likenesses fastened to car windows and his sarcastic barbs adorning office walls around the globe. Then, somewhere along the line, he underwent a pop-cultural re-evaluation. Jim Davis’ strip is now something of a pariah: just look at how "The Simpsons" paired it with "Love Is" as the kind of strip that Milhouse reads. What a comedown for a character once hip enough to be quoted in “Two Tribes” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But yet, the orange cat has been saved from cultural oblivion by a peculiar trend: the remixed "Garfield" strip.
Pioneered by children, legitimized by people looking up weird stuff on YouTube, vitalized by online hoaxes, and existing entirely outside any kind of aesthetic considerations, fanime is something that could only have developed on the web.
Animators Pablo Ferro, David Silverman, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are participating in a 24-hour online Telethon...
Less than a week remains until Comic-Con International begins in San Diego, and whether you’re a fan of animation, comics, fantasy …
London- The Barbican Centre is proud to present Watch Me Move: The Animation Show, on view until September 11th. Watch Me Move is the …
Over the past year, I’ve been sent links to a number of online start-ups that allow consumers to create their own animated films using …