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Ralph Bakshi pulled himself away from his drawing desk in New Mexico to chat with Cartoon Brew about his legacy, his latest project "The Last Days of Coney Island," which he recently funded on Kickstarter, and what he really thinks about the computer’s role in animation these days.
It's been a busy stretch for the Thirties Fleischer cartoon star Betty Boop. First, she got her own paper towel in Turkey, and now, Winnipeg, Canada-based Fowl Moon Studios has licensed the character for a new iOS game called Betty Boop Dance Card.
Last week, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group released the second animated short, Buggy Night, in its Spotlight Stories, a …
No surprise in the Best Animated Feature category. "Frozen" won. No surprise in the Best Visual Effects category. "Gravity " won. Huge surprise in the Best Animated Short category. "Mr. Hublot " won.
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.
A tweet last night by Pixar director Mark Walsh announced that one of the company's earliest employees, Loren Carpenter, retired on Friday.
Yesterday we looked at "Boonie Bears," a Chinese attempt to emulate Western-style computer animation. But at the risk of overgeneralizing contemporary Chinese animation on the basis of their most derivative and commercial efforts, I wanted to offer another perspective.
Chris Renaud (above, left) and Pierre Coffin are the directorial duo responsible for one of the biggest animated phenomenons of recent …
New books about "Adventure Time," Mary Blair, Alex Toth, Disney Golden Books, Pixar, and DreamWorks will be published in 2014.
DreamWorks, which we already know has big plans for Internet television, is currently in production on a Netflix series based on The …
Earlier this month, Dallas-headquartered Reel FX released their first animated feature Free Birds. Over its first three weekends in …
Pixar co-founder (and current president of both Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios) Dr. Ed Catmull has written a book that explores …
Flower sniffing, carpet calisthenics, and other restless leisure-time activities. Domestic life can be tough. Finally, day breaks.
Clocking in at a brisk eighty seconds, "Sun of Beach" by Natan Moura is the shortest film debut in Cartoon Brew’s 2013 Student Animation Festival. Moura made the film as a graduation project at Sheridan College in Oakville, Canada.
And maybe we can even learn a thing or two from them.
The biographer of the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" reviews the 25th anniversary screening that took place in Los Angeles.
Dallas-based ReelFX is getting serious about feature animation. Last week, they named Aron Warner as the studio’s President of Animation. …
The William Joyce brand has been uniformly successful across various media platforms—except for one arena: CG animated features.
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for its 40th Annual Annie Awards.
Disney’s $4.05 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm has generated more questions than answers. The Mouse has made it clear that they bought …