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Chuck Jones 100th Birthday Events

Legendary Warner Bros. cartoon director Chuck Jones was born on September 21st, 1912. He was the creator of characters like Pepe le Pew, …

Titmouse artist Mike McCraw animated on Disney’s Motorcity and is currently working as cleanup artist and animator on Black Dynamite for …

Heads up, New Yorkers: Estonian animator Priit Pärn will be making a rare appearence in Brooklyn to attend a specially curated screening …

Australian-born, New York-based twins Jonathan and Josh Baker, a commercial directing duo under the alias TWiN, made this short-short on …

Whatever you thought of John Carter (Me? I liked it, a lot!), its director Andrew Stanton is one of the good guys. Full disclosure, I …

Visual effects shop The Mill has started posting monthly videos from their lecture series with various animation creatives – starting …

A fitting complement to the Michael Graves commentary—here is Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl, Gorillaz) on the joy of drawing: “It’s …

On April 5th 1965, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed an Oscar to Friz Freleng for Best Animated Short – for The …

Fred Mogubgub was among the New York animation scene’s innovative figures of the Sixties and Seventies. One of his most famous artistic …

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is like the Neil Armstrong of the animation community, venturing into places that other animators have …

Eminent animation historian John Canemaker wrote a lovely tribute to animator Tissa David for the Wall Street Journal. It’s packed with …

LeSean Thomas, the supervising director and creative producer of Adult Swim’s Black Dynamite, spoke at TEDxSinchon about his experience …

Japanese police in Osaka arrested 42-year-old animation director Masaki Kitamura today for allegedly threatening to drive a truck into …

The old adage goes that history is written by the victors. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other stories worth telling. Recently, I’ve …

Genndy Tartakovsky on making Hotel Transylvania: “I took all the aesthetics I like from 2-D and applied them here. I don’t want to do …

Veteran Disney animator Ken Walker passed away last Saturday, August 18th, The Orange County Register posted his obituary on Wednesday. …

Last August, animation veteran Kevyn Wallace was driving down the 134 Freeway in Los Angeles, just a half mile from the Walt Disney …

Very sad news today: New York animation legend Tissa David passed away last night at age 91. Michael Sporn broke the news on his blog and …

This is the story of Pixar, John Lasseter and three of the most important animated features of the last 20 years. It’s also one of …

For those of you wondering who Yoram Gross was, your questions are about to be answered. The man behind the Australian series Blinky …