Ottawa on a Budget
Among the many benefits of living on the East Coast is that it’s a fairly close haul up to the Ottawa International Animation Festival, …
Amid Amidi
A Little Love: The Art of Bill Melendez
Check out this self-produced mini-doc by writer Matt Zoller Seitz about Peanuts director Bill Melendez – covering his artistic roots, …
Awesomely Bad Misuse of Classic Animation
Brew reader Roy Miles writes, “I saw a commercial for this while watching Spider-Man cartoons with my daughter. I thought you would get …
Fox-Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge
Hey everybody, it’s “an animator’s shot of a lifetime,” according to the Fox network and Aniboom.com, who have teamed up to sponsor an …
UPCOMING EXHIBIT: “Drawings That Move: The Art of Joanna Quinn”
The National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire will be presenting a comprehensive exhibit of the work of independent animator …
2009 Sheridan Student Films
For reasons unbeknownst to me, there are not a lot of Sheridan-produced student films which have been posted online. Below are two that …
Static: An Interactive Approach to Animation by Jack Lykins
Static: An Interactive Approach to Animation is a thesis film created by Jack Lykins in SVA’s Computer Arts program. All the video and …
Work For Free on a “Cartoon Network Pilot”
A Cartoon Brew reader pointed out this blatant ad on Craigslist asking animation artists to work on a Cartoon Network pilot with no …
Trailer for Muscle Koushinkyaku (Muscle March)
Speaking of video games, this commercial for the Wii title Muscle Koushinkyaku (Muscle March) may just be the greatest game commercial …
Team Fortress 2: “Meet the Spy”
When will the quality of video game animation rival the major theatrical animation producers? That day may already be here. Team Fortress …
TONIGHT IN LA: “Ancient Book of Sex & Science” Show
Chances are you’ve already noticed the ad for this show running on the right side of the Brew. If you’re in LA, there’s one place (and …
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 …
Fatkat Shuts Down
Canadian animation studio Fatkat has shut its doors. The studio employed 100 people at its peak providing service work on shows like …
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. …
Anima Mundi: Call for Web/Cell Phone Submissions
The 17th annual edition of Anima Mundi, South America’s largest animation festival, is coming up this July in Rio and São Paulo. The …
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 …
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Advice To Walt Disney
This is one of the most sage pieces of filmmaking advice I’ve ever run across: “Don’t let this idea ‘Box Office’ and this idea of what …
Great, Now We Have To Start Calling Him Dr. Lasseter
This photo comes from davedoo’s Flickr page. The accompanying caption: Saturday, May 2, 2009: A lovely day as Pepperdine University …
Pinocchio Trade Ad from 1940
While researching a book that I’m currently working on, I discovered a four-page ad published in the March 4, 1940 edition of The …
Sita Sings the Blues: A Free Culture Success Story
Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues–now a film that everybody can (and should) watch–continues to make an impact in surprising and …
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