Books

2012 Animation Book Preview

The future of animation books, like the rest of the publishing industry, isn’t rosy. Page counts and print runs are shrinking, and …

biz

June 29th is Mel Blanc Day in Portland

Mayor Sam Adams has proclaimed June 29 to be Mel Blanc Day in Portland. The proclamation is below. The proclamation will be read on …

Internet/Blogs

The Bray Animation Project

After years of researching and collecting materials, silent cartoon expert Tom Stathes has launched an incredible new website devoted to …

Flash

CBeebies Shorts by Matthias Hoegg

Matthias Hoegg, whose graduation short Thursday appeared on the Brew recently, just completed two delightful mini-shorts — “Ollie” and …

Advertising

Zodiac Race by PandaPanther

NY animation studio PandaPanther, whose work I quite enjoy, completed a quirky three-minute short called Zodiac Race for the Onitsuka …

Flash

Superjail

Seemingly the funniest and cartooniest animated projects nowadays are set in jails. There’s the Japanese CG series Usavich, which was …

Old Brew

John Korty’s Brock & Throck

It’s Election Day here in the US so it’s only fitting to mention a new politically-oriented Flash Webcartoon. The series, BROCK & THROCK …

Old Brew

Misplaced Honor

ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the three recipients for this year’s Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award and they are Don Bluth, …

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