More Anger about Avatar
The image above is of Charlee, a fan of the Avatar series, who protested the live-action film’s racially questionable casting choices at …
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The Whitewashing of Avatar: The Last Airbender
A lot of people online are talking about the forthcoming live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s animated TV series Avatar: The Last …
They Might Be YouTube Watchers
Animator Elliot Cowan recently posted the following animation on YouTube featuring his characters Boxhead and Roundhead. The short uses …
Powerpuff Girls Are Flashier Than Ever
Earlier this week, Cartoon Network premiered a new episode of The Powerpuff Girls in honor of the show’s tenth anniversary. Notably, the …
Is Disney’s Bob Iger Worth $30 Million a Year?
Blogs were abuzz last week after it was revealed that Disney CEO Bob Iger took home $30.6 million in salary and bonuses in 2008. So what …
Outnauguration Party by Joe Fournier
It’s not just Inauguration Day in the United States; it’s also the first-ever Outnauguration party. Cartoonist Joe Fournier created this …
Bill Plympton on Al Jazeera
Who would’ve thought that Arab news networks would give more time to American indie animators than cable programs in the US? This is an …
Popeye Helps Bruce Lee
Villains are bound to get their due when Bruce Lee (or a reasonable facsimile) teams up with Popeye. The clip is from the 1977 feature …
“Bubblicious” and “Unboxed”
Following up on the piece about the 3D papercraft/cut-out trend, here are two new works that are more-or-less from that school of …
What Frank Zappa, Tex Avery and Monty Python have in common
Last week’s post about Frank Zappa, Tex Avery and the place of executives generated a lot of feedback, including this email from Bruno …
2009 New Year’s Greeting by Art Grootfontein
Every year around the holidays I receive a whole slew of animated greeting cards. The new year’s greeting below by French artist Art …
Cartoon Mojo Launches
A new site launches today: CartoonMojo.com. It’s a video sharing site in the YouTube mold that focuses exclusively on animated shorts. In …
New Paintings by JJ Villard, Morgan Kelly and Jeremy Bernstein
“Edward Gorey at the Bowery” by Morgan Kelly Need something to do tomorrow evening? Then head on over to Atwater Village for the …
What Tex Avery And Frank Zappa Both Knew About Making Great Entertainment
Want to understand why entertaining cartoons are all but impossible to produce nowadays? You can have the answer in just two short …
New Music Video by Dax Norman
One-man creative powerhouse Dax Norman, whose short film The Last Temptation of Crust we featured in episode 4 of Cartoon Brew TV, …
Animation Trends: 3-D Papercraft/Cut-out Animation
Recently three-dimensional paper sculpture/cut-out/origami has exploded as a major trend across multiple disciplines including animation, …
Pixar’s Jim Capobianco Offers Advice on Short Filmmaking
Jim Capobianco, Pixar story artist and director of the short Your Friend the Rat, is nearing the end of production on Leonardo, a …
The LA Times on the Future of Animation Production
The Mass Animation project headed by former Sony Pictures Animation exec Yair Landau continues to receive press, most recently in an …
The Velveteen Rabbit Trailer
Thought of the moment: someday in a more enlightened future there will exist a court of law where we can bring to justice the people …
2009 Animation Book Preview
While the Internet has killed off the print animation magazine (or at least the demand for such publications), it hasn’t yet diminished …
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