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Nickelodeon has announced a call for submissions for its 2014 global Animated Shorts Program, which is designed to "identify and develop new animation talent and provide a platform for new content for kids."
If you're still wondering why DreamWorks Animation spent $33 million last spring to buy the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV, an article about Netflix in the latest issue of the "New Yorker" offers an explanation that I found to be succinct and worth sharing.
Less than six years after opening, Sony Pictures Imageworks India will shut down.
Japanese illustrator Takao Nakagawa produces character-centric artwork that is published in magazines and books and painted as murals.
Glenn August is an artist from Denmark who studied at the Animation Workshop and is currently working on earning a production design MA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in Copenhagen.
The notes were taken and everything was going fine. Then my laptop turned off and all lost. So now I’m sitting here with pieces of this week’s "Steven Universe" in my head hours after the fact.
Last month a Japanese TV crew traveled to Pixar where director Isao Takahata was treating the studio's artists to a screening of his new Studio Ghibli film "The Story of Princess Kaguya."
Surpassing even the most generous box office predictions, Disney's "Frozen" continues to shatter records.
The personal styles of individual animation artists will be front and center in a new book series being prepped by Disney Publishing.
The biennial British Animation Awards have announced their slate of nominees for 2014.
A film of life on the planks and the grit in between.
Last summer at SIGGRAPH, Pixar presented a paper offering some clues about one of the major new directions that CG feature animation is headed. The paper, "Stylizing Animation By Example," explored how filmmakers could achieve more expressive rendering styles that disregard the perfect boundaries of computer graphics rendering and mimic traditional painting techniques.
A new series of Brazilian ads for Brilux cleaning supplies resurrects Hanna-Barbera's Rosie the Robot in CG. The character is removed from her futuristic context on "The Jetsons" and dropped into a contemporary scene of Brazilian upper class domesticity.
Mickey Mouse and Damien Hirst are strange bedfellows. Hirst (b. 1965) is a multidisciplinary artist foremost in the group dubbed Young British Artists (YBAs). He burst onto the scene in the 1980s, a very promising maker of paintings, sculptures, and more. He has become extraordinarily successful, which does not necessarily mean that his promise has been fulfilled.
Find out which studios, schools, and countries visited Cartoon Brew most frequently last year.
"Frozen" snagged two awards tonight at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
Miley Cyrus is working with "Ren & Stimpy" creator John Kricfalusi on her upcoming "Bangerz" tour.
The creators of Guru Studio's "Justin Time" talk with Cartoon Brew about the secrets of making a stylish and entertaining preschool series.
While we've already debunked Meryl Streep's accusations that Walt Disney was a "gender bigot," let us use her commetns as an opportunity to dig even deeper and find out what actions Disney actually undertook to encourage the advancement of women at his studio.
Jasmin Lai is an artist who works as an effects colorist and background painter on "Steven Universe" at Cartoon Network.