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 …
Digital effects can be wonderful but they aren’t a substitute for good old-fashioned creativity, as evidenced by the pre-digital era …
Meet my favorite animation director of the moment: Nate Theis. He works at Madison, Wisconsin-based Planet Propaganda which is a hybrid …
Earlier this decade, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began handing out Oscars for best animated feature, I viewed it …
The Onion reports that Barack Obama has been outfitted with motion-capture sensors and that his entire presidency is being recorded in …
One of my favorite sources for learning about obscure foreign animated features is TwitchFilm.net. Certain films though are perhaps best …
The Japan Times has a long, and at times sensationalistic, article describing how the Japanese animation industry is struggling to …
Cory Edwards, the guy who made the moderately successful steaming pile of CGI known as Hoodwinked is still plying his wares around town …
When I think of the alcohol of choice for animators, I typically don’t think wine, but a number of animation artists are becoming …
The new-ish animation blog Lineboil offers up a fine interview with Glen Keane, in which he talks about his preference for pencil over …
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 …
The National Film Board of Canada has made Theodore Ushev’s powerful 2008 short Drux Flux available on YouTube. This is a film that …
The good news about beginning Monday with this video is that the rest of my posts this week are guaranteed to be better. (Thanks, …
Good news: Japanese toy maker Medicom Toy produced this handsome 12″ Mickey Mouse vinyl toy based on the 1995 short Runaway Brain. Bad …
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 …
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 …
A visually impressive Space Invaders-themed music video directed by Reuben Sutherland of Joyrider Films for Röyksopp’s new single …
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 …
NY-based animator Lars Edwards was recently commissioned by McSweeney’s Quarterly to create an animated trailer promoting the release of …
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 …
Spotted outside of an Asian grocery store in Queens, a cardboard box from a yam producer that uses an unauthorized rendition of Mulan as …