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Fun with Hair
Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of hair and pixilation. The film is by Andy Estep. (Thanks, Marc Deckter)
Stop Motion
Allison Schulnik – Grizzly Bear “Ready, Able”
Allison Schulnik’s video for Grizzly Bear is an unabashedly handmade stop motion piece. The colorful smears of lumpy clay are put through …
Fantastic Mr. Fox
What a year. Coraline, Up, Ponyo, 9, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs – topped off with The Princess and The Frog and Fantastic Mr. Fox. …
Corky Quackenbush’s Halloween 7.5
(via Atom Films)
Flintstones Stop-Mo
Here’s the way it should be: the stop motion sequence from Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001), by the gang at Screen Novelties. …
A rare Starevich article
Another purchase I made at Cinecon this past Labor Day, was an entire stack of Films In Review magazines, the entire run from 1956 …
Cardboard by Sjors Vervoort
A graduation film by Sjors Vervoort of The Netherlands, with sound design by Steven Aerts. While I would have liked to see the interplay …
Henry Selick leaves Laika
Oregon Live is reporting that Henry Selick is leaving his home base at Laika. The studio did not explain the departure other than to say …
Yarn and Lucky
Here are two non-narrative pieces that are quite pleasing to the eye. Adam Avilla and Tony Benna have joined forces to “try our might at …
How to see Mary and Max
In case you were wondering what happened to a U.S. release of Adam Elliot’s clay animated feature Mary And Max… The film was finally …
“Var jeg en vind” by Jan Rune Blom
Among the many fine people I met at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival in Norway last year was stop motion artist Jan Rune Blom. He …
“Chainsaw Maid” by Takena Nagao
Chainsaw Maid has gotten a fair share of play this year, but I thought it deserved a bigger shout out here on Cartoon Brew. The idea to …
Laika cuts computer animation
Portland’s Laika studio (Coraline) has scrapped all its plans for creating CG features and will instead focus on making stop-motion films …
Hiroshima Anniversary
Today also marks the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, in which upwards of 100,000 Japanese people were killed instantly by …
Fantastic Mr. Fox Trailer
Trailer is out today for Wes Anderson’s first animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox. Maybe it’s just me, but the dialogue delivery sounds …
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Harry Potter and the Office of Unemployment
I haven’t seen a new piece of animation by stop-motion animator Corky Quackenbush in what seems like forever, so I was pleasantly …
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Monster Safari Heads to the Bigscreen
Awesome news from The Hollywood Reporter: Monster Safari, a project created by the boys at LA-based Screen Novelties–Mark Caballero, …
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 …
Animation with Food
Videokrauting, created by Italians Nicola Ferrarese, Corrado Agnese, Valentina Mantello and Marzia Pellegatta, is a tribute to videogames …
George Pal in Hollywood
George Pal came to America in 1940 with a contract to make animated shorts for Paramount. His Madcap Models (later Puppetoons) were a …
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