Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu
Digital effects can be wonderful but they aren’t a substitute for good old-fashioned creativity, as evidenced by the pre-digital era …
Amid Amidi
Nate Theis
Meet my favorite animation director of the moment: Nate Theis. He works at Madison, Wisconsin-based Planet Propaganda which is a hybrid …
COMMENTARY: Animated Feature Oscar is Still A Bad Idea
Earlier this decade, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began handing out Oscars for best animated feature, I viewed it …
Obama Mo-cap
The Onion reports that Barack Obama has been outfitted with motion-capture sensors and that his entire presidency is being recorded in …
The Legend of Milu Deer: Princess Yoyo
One of my favorite sources for learning about obscure foreign animated features is TwitchFilm.net. Certain films though are perhaps best …
Anime is Dying
The Japan Times has a long, and at times sensationalistic, article describing how the Japanese animation industry is struggling to …
The Director of Hoodwinked Speaks
Cory Edwards, the guy who made the moderately successful steaming pile of CGI known as Hoodwinked is still plying his wares around town …
Get Plastered with Plympton and Lasseter
When I think of the alcohol of choice for animators, I typically don’t think wine, but a number of animation artists are becoming …
Glen Keane Interview
The new-ish animation blog Lineboil offers up a fine interview with Glen Keane, in which he talks about his preference for pencil over …
Dwarf Fight by Bill Tytla
This sequence of drawings by Bill Tytla from Snow White is a reminder of what attracted me to animation in the first place. Tytla’s …
Drux Flux by Theodore Ushev
The National Film Board of Canada has made Theodore Ushev’s powerful 2008 short Drux Flux available on YouTube. This is a film that …
B-Boy Mickey
The good news about beginning Monday with this video is that the rest of my posts this week are guaranteed to be better. (Thanks, …
One-Foot Runaway Brain Mickey Toy
Good news: Japanese toy maker Medicom Toy produced this handsome 12″ Mickey Mouse vinyl toy based on the 1995 short Runaway Brain. Bad …
The 3-D Onslaught
Coraline was the first time I’d seen a film in 3-D in a very long time, and while I enjoyed the film immensely, the 3-D technology was a …
The Cat Piano Trailer
Here’s the stylish trailer for The Cat Piano, a just-completed animated short by our friends at the People’s Republic of Animation in …
“Happy Up Here” video by Reuben Sutherland
A visually impressive Space Invaders-themed music video directed by Reuben Sutherland of Joyrider Films for Röyksopp’s new single …
Evil Toons
Director Fred Olen Ray: “So I’m sitting in this movie theater one day and I’m watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit and I see Jessica …
Be a Nose! directed by Lars Edwards
NY-based animator Lars Edwards was recently commissioned by McSweeney’s Quarterly to create an animated trailer promoting the release of …
KJFG No. 5
I saw the Hungarian short KJFG No. 5 by Alexei Alexeev at Annecy last year. I didn’t laugh but lots of other people did. Perhaps you’ll …
I Yam Mulan
Spotted outside of an Asian grocery store in Queens, a cardboard box from a yam producer that uses an unauthorized rendition of Mulan as …
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