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BREW HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: ANIMATED SOVIET PROPAGANDA
The fourth in a series of holiday gift-giving suggestions from your pals at Cartoon Brew. If you pick up one dvd of foreign animation …
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CEREAL OBSESSION
After old comic books and classic animated cartoons, the number #3 most influential art to aspiring animators has to be on cereal boxes. …
TWO COOL LA STORES
Yesterday morning, after I attended the Stan Lee ribbon cutting ceremonies at the new Golden Apple Comics location on Melrose, I ran over …
SEMINAR: How To Sell An Animated Series
With all the recent discussion here about pitching in TV animation, this is an event that is timely and also somewhat ironic. On Monday, …
COMMENTARY: To Pitch Or Not To Pitch?
A few weeks ago, I commended New York animator Pat Smith for making this comment in an ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE interview: “The …
According to LA TIMES, Sony Invented Squash & Stretch
The LA TIMES published a piece today by Josh Friedman with this mind-bogglingly ignorant sentence about animation: [OPEN SEASON], based …
Open Season Opens a Weak #1
Sony Pictures Animation’s first CG feature OPEN SEASON opened in the #1 slot last weekend albeit with a weak $23 million (estimated) from …
Bernard Wolf (1911-2006)
Animation veteran Berny Wolf died last week at the age of 95. He had incredible success in the field, with work ranging from pioneering …
From the Chinese Twilight Zone Dep’t.
Apparently one of the negative side effects of Communism is that it destroys your ability to discern between good and bad animation. How …
The CG Glut Continues…
There’s an interesting article in VARIETY about the lukewarm box office performance of recent CG animated feature and the countless other …
Canada’s Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle is quickly becoming a household name; in the past week, his awful MONSTER HOUSE has been picked up all over the blogosphere …
How Much Will That Film Make?
Animation Guild president Kevin Koch has written a fascinating post on the Guild blog about how to predict an animated film’s final box …
Notes on Monster House
Artist Chris Appelhans has posted some superb concept art that he created for the upcoming MONSTER HOUSE. If the finished “performance …
THE WORST TOM AND JERRY I’VE EVER SEEN
No, the image above isn’t from the Filmation Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980), nor any U.S. produced latter day monstrosity. It’s a page …
QUEER DUCK – THE MOVIE
QUEER DUCK was one of the funniest internet cartoons in those golden years before the dot.com boom went bust. Now Queer Duck: The Movie …
ASIFA’S “CARTOONS” MAGAZINE NO. 2
In addition to discounts and/or free admission to local animation events, ASIFA members (of any chapter in the U.S. or worldwide) also …
Good Lord!
Nobody does a better job of parodying “retro” styles of animation than J.J. Sedelmaier. He’s done it time and time again from his …
Aardman and Canemaker Win Oscars
Congrats to our friend John Canemaker for winning the Best Animated Short Oscar, for his film THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED …
FORGOTTEN ANIMATOR TOM JOHNSON
Michael Sporn, on his excellent blog, has posted a bio of animator Tom Johnson from the October 1935 issue of Max Fleischer’s in-house …
OSCAR FEATURE NOMINEES – NO CG
The nominees are:Howl’s Moving Castle (Buena Vista) Hayao MiyazakiTim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Warner Bros.) Tim Burton and Mike …
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