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ViacomCBS Sues The Rusty Krab Restaurant, Claiming It Rips Off ‘Spongebob’

At this restaurant in Houston, diners can order a Bikini Bottom Blast cocktail and take photos with Spongebob himself – just don’t tell ViacomCBS.

His current, and most ambitious, project to date is a 60-frame cycle of Koko the Clown dancing.

Independent animator Cas van de Pol tells us how he organically grew his following into a hit Youtube channel.

Watch videos from Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, and Disney.

The news comes amid renewed controversy about the character’s aggressively sexual behavior.

Only around 11,000 people habitually speak Gaelic. The BBC wants to change that — and animation is at the heart of its strategy.

More than 60 years after the deaths, there has been a breakthrough in the case — and Disney was involved.

After a false start, Big Dave is finally on auction.

Josh Weinstein wants to know which gags you didn’t get.

This may be the most “2020” bit of entertainment news we’ve heard.

“Remy, the Ratatouille, the rat of all my dreams / I praise you, oh Ratatouille, may the world remember your name.”

The local programmers of “The Tom and Jerry Show” are road-testing a new idea: the “thoughtover.”

A playful riff on the experience of quarantine that combines Tex Avery and street art.

This one’s for superfans of classic Disney.

“The Fandom” premieres this evening on Youtube.

Two newly digitized sets of flipbooks highlight the links between animation, live action, and print.

Don’t blink or you’ll miss some of these tributes in “Scoob!”

Children’s books, sitcom parodies, Lego animation: the crisis is bringing out the best in artists the world over.

Writers and storyboarders should talk more. Animation directors should be repped by the DGA. Oh, and Western shows sound better in Japanese.

Here’s a Disney remake we didn’t see coming.