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A Wolf Loves Pork by Takeuchi Taijin
Classic cartoon chase meets David Hockney in A Wolf Loves Pork by Japanese artist Takeuchi Taijin. Technique and technical showmanship …
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Tatia Rosenthal’s $9.99 Debuts in New York
Can’t wait to check this one out! Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion drama $9.99 has its New York premiere this weekend. It’s playing at 7pm …
Cigarette Man
This is a smokin’ piece of stop-motion animation… (Thanks, David O’Reilly)
Notes on Coraline
One of the items on my infinitely long to-do list is to write some thoughts about the exquisite artistry behind Coraline. While the film …
Commercial Break: Gulf Oil
After Chuck Menville and Len Janson earned an Oscar-nomination for their automobile-themed pixilation short Stop, Look and Listen (1967), …
United States of Tara Titles by Jamie Caliri
Stop-motion director Jamie Caliri (titles for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa) created pop-up book-style opening titles for the Showtime …
Scintillation by Xavier Chassaing
Scintillation by Paris-based music video director Xavier Chassaing is an experimental work comprised of over 35,000 photographs and using …
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Coraline Production Artists Panel
Did you miss the Coraline production artists panel at Gallery Nucleus last week? Sean Szeles recorded the discussion and has posted it …
The Ranft Bros. in Coraline
I mentioned in an earlier post that there is a nod to the late great Disney/Pixar storyman Joe Ranft (Lion King, Toy Story, Roger Rabbit, …
Coraline Opens Today
The first animated feature out of Laika, Henry Selick’s Coraline, opens in theaters today. Jerry loved the film, I haven’t seen it yet. …
Mister Trash Can
Every year, US households and businesses throw out 251 million tons of trash and our second biggest export to China is trash! Good …
Mary and Max trailer
As mentioned previously on the Brew, Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max opened the Sundance Festival this month. Collider.com has just posted …
Mary and Max opens Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival in Park City started last Thursday night, kicking off with an independent animated feature by Adam Elliot. The …
“Bubblicious” and “Unboxed”
Following up on the piece about the 3D papercraft/cut-out trend, here are two new works that are more-or-less from that school of …
Coraline sneak peek
I’ll keep it brief: Go see this film! I saw Laika’s Coraline tonight and, despite the publicists request to embargo reviews for three …
Krazy Kat stop-mo
Chris Diaz led me to the YouTube link (embed below) for that Krazy Kat stop motion that I mentioned in this post last month. I could …
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Titles by Jamie Caliri
As our outgoing Commander-in-Chief is fond of saying, “Fool me once, shame on you–fool me…you can’t get fooled again.” So while I …
2008 Gobelins Student Films
French animation school Gobelins has released the latest batch of their student films. From a purely technical standpoint, the quality of …
Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death
Cracking good news! Wallace and Gromit, who haven’t starred in anything significant since the 2005 feature The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, …
Pulsar by Katushi Bowda
By far the coolest thing I’ve seen on YouTube all week is this Japanese short from 1990. From the video description: “This is not clay …
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