Annecy 09 Snapshots
Waiting at the Geneva Airport for my flight back to New York and thought I’d share pics of a few of the fine animation folk I hung out …
Amid Amidi
Annecy 2009 Winners
The 2009 Annecy International Animation Festival wrapped up a few hours ago in Annecy, France. Here is the link to the complete list of …
Vancouver Opera “Contest”
Hardly a week passes without news of another exploitative animation “contest.” Sadly, this time it’s an arts organization–the Vancouver …
“The Parachute Ending” by Will Sweeney and Steve Scott
Your favorite animated music video for the next five minutes: Birdy Nam Nam’s “The Parachute Ending” directed by Steve Scott and …
Cartoon Innovators
A tongue-in-cheek documentary about the racist origins of the WB cartoon characters, Cartoon Innovators is a short by Hammerkatz, a …
The Blog Post You Thought You’d Never See
In all the years of reading animation blogs, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an artist post a tribute to an animation exec. This is a first. …
Cartoon Brew TV: The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!
When I saw this short last month at the student film screening for the School of Visual Arts, I instantly knew it was something that we …
What’s Up: Balloon to the Rescue!
I haven’t seen UP yet, mostly owing to the fact that there aren’t any local theaters showing it in a regular non-eye pain inducing …
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, …
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 …
MGMT Video with Animation by Christy Karacas
MGMT released a new music video tonight for their song “Kids” (directed by Ray Tintori). There’s only about a minute of animation in the …
Trailer for The Last Guardian
Why is it that the trailers for videogames excite me more than the trailers for any animated feature? Case in point is this trailer for …
David Daniels Talks About Stratacut
The word genius is thrown around so loosely and frequently nowadays that it’s hard to discern who might actually be worthy of the …
Trailer for The Beatles Rock Band
The actual game play in the forthcoming game, The Beatles Rock Band, isn’t that impressive to me, but the game’s just-released trailer is …
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 …
TOMORROW IN LA: UP Lecture at Gallery Nucleus
I swear, Pixar isn’t paying us to post all these news items about their film products, but frankly, it’d be kind of nice if they did. …
UP Artwork by Lou Romano
Lou Romano emailed me to point out this amazing blog post he did about his work on UP. It’s got tons of development art, animated fx …
Incredible Chairs
A tribute site dedicated to the chairs in The Incredibles. There are worse things one could do with their time…like writing a blogpost …
Craigslist Animation Ad of the Week
In this economy, any work is better than none, but as I pointed out last week, there are some offers you may want to think twice about. …
Lalen, Estar Muriendo
I love seeing examples of animation from around the world, especially from regions that have developing animation scenes. This is the …
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