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Shigeru Miyamoto Profile in NY Times
Better late than never: this weekend’s NY Times offers a profile of Shigeru Miyamoto, the prolific Nintendo game designer responsible for …
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Dumm Comics Roundtable
As written up on the Brew yesterday, Dumm Comics is a new daily comic site launched by some of the today’s top talents working in TV …
Chomet’s Illusionist footage to debut at Cannes
(click for full-size image) The Hollywood Reporter notes that the first footage from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist will debut this …
The Art of Pixar’s Short Films
A while back I mentioned briefly on this site that I had been offered an opportunity to write a book for Pixar, and today I thought I’d …
A Popeye publicity photo
Speaking of Fleischer Studios (as I did in the post below), I love these Paramount publicity shots. Here’s a great photo from 1938 …
Chester Cheetah in CG
Speaking of creepy CG translations of 2D characters, the new adult-targeted Cheetos ad campaign starring Chester Cheetah is highly …
Frederator Awards
Speaking of Leslie Cabarga (as I did in the previous post below), Leslie just designed the beautiful poster for the 2nd Annual Channel …
In by Philipp Hirsch and Heiko Tippelt
In is a 23-minute CG/live-action short created by Philipp Hirsch and Heiko Tippelt in 2004. I have a bit of a history with this film; …
Marcell Jankovics Animation Used In A Super Bowl Spot
Licensing old songs has been a staple of TV advertising in recent times, but could licensing animated shorts become the next trend in the …
Steve Brodner and “The Naked Campaign”
There may not be a whole lot that’s funny about the recent assassination of Benazir Bhutto, but illustrator Steve Brodner managed to …
Animondays
Starting today, animator David B. Levy (president of Asifa-East) starts a new blog, Animondays, which he will update once a week. I’m …
Woodpecker Update
Props to Ruben Procopio — who worked at Disney animation for many years, and whose father was a sculptor at Disney for 35 years — who …
Meet Andreas Deja
Andreas Deja is not only one of the best of the current generation of Disney animators, he’s one of the most passionate voices on the …
June Foray hears a… “Who?”
I was speaking to June Foray today and was surprised to find out she isn’t in the cast of the currently-in-production CG Horton Hears A …
New Hope for Song Of The South?
Rich Drees at FilmBuffOnline.com reports that Roy Disney, speaking at the Philadelphia Film Festival this past weekend, made it clear …
A Disney Art Exhibit in LA?
While it looks like animation fans in the United States definitely won’t be getting the “Once Upon a Time Walt Disney” exhibition that …
Russian Pooh
Russian animation director Fyodor Khitruk once said in an interview that the best award he ever received was when Disney director Woolie …
Azur and Asmar Picked Up By Weinstein Co.
Twitch Film is reporting that the Weinstein Company has picked up Michel Ocelot’s French feature Azur and Asmar for distribution. As …
SCRAPPY Research Continues
What does this Scrappy toy (pictured above) have to do Humphrey Bogart? Harry McCracken, the mastermind behind the much acclaimed …
AMID AMIDI: Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Animation has been a passion of mine for the longest time. Looking back at what sparked this lifelong love for the art form, it wasn’t …
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