Toy Movies

Where Dan Meth sees Hollywood updates of classic toy and cartoon properties going. He’s not far off: (Thanks, Sterling Sheehy)

JibJab’s He’s Barack Obama

Jibjab just released this tonight and is too good not to share – so good, it’s even worth watching the behind-the-scenes commercial that …

Tim Burton at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NY is putting on a major retrospective about Tim Burton’s career this fall. It will run from November …

Love Meets in the Stars by Chris Johnson

Nashville-based animator Chris Johnson created this piece. The story behind it is sweet: “It is inspired by Yuri Norstein, Lotte …

Captain Cross Dresser

Sony Pictures Television has dumped its 2008 TV pilot, The Adventures of Captain Cross Dresser on the internet, via its web portal …

Lalen, Estar Muriendo

I love seeing examples of animation from around the world, especially from regions that have developing animation scenes. This is the …

Ten CalArts Student Films From 2009

Following my post about David Ochs’s short Who’s Hungry, Brew reader Marianne Hayden sent over several links to other shorts produced at …

Who’s Hungry? by David Ochs

It never fails to excite me when I see a student film by somebody who gets it. And 23-year-old David Ochs plainly and clearly gets it. …

Juxtaposed by Alex Myung

Juxtaposed by Alex Myung, one of the films that I’d highlighted in last week’s review of the SVA student screening, has been posted …

David Ferguson’s Animated Shorts

Adventure Time creator Pen Ward recently turned me on to the work of Glasgow-based animator David Ferguson, who posts his work at …

Confederate Fruit

One of the unspoken rules of Cartoon Brew is that I will link to any piece of animation that combines fruit-people, furries and the song …

ASIFA-East Animation Festival Winners

The winners were announced last night at the 40th annual ASIFA-East Animation Festival. The top Best in Show prize was awarded to the …

The Missing Key

One of my favorite short films of the last few years was Jonathan Nix’s Hello. Nix is currently in the midst of post-production on a new …

Prophet and Lo$$ by Jonathan Bairstow

Jonathan Bairstow created Prophet and Lo$$ in 1988 as his graduation film at the Royal College of Art. It’s safe to say that the film, …

Manifestations

This is from Giles Timms, his second animated film, made at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television. The music is by Welsh …

How to Make a Baby

Cassidy Curtis, an animator at PDI/DreamWorks, and his wife, Raquel Coelho, created this charming pixilated short that also serves as a …

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