Top Story: ‘The Wild Robot’ And ‘Arcane’ Lead 52nd Annie Award Nominations

New Blogs By Harding & Tsutsumi

A couple talented animation folk have redesigned their websites to incorporate journal/blogs: Indie filmmaker Chris Harding (of LEARN …

The Greatest Animation Event Ever?

Animation festivals are fine nowadays, but I can’t think of any event that could possibly compare to the Montreal Expo’s World Exhibition …

LIVE-ACTION ANIME FROM 1960

Here’s an oddity I just had to share. If you thought a live-action Flintstones was a bad idea, check this out. A live action Japanese …

MILES THOMPSON’S CALIFORNIA

My good friend, Miles Thompson, a full-time painter and sometimes animation artist, is currently working on his next solo art show, which …

TOON IN

Our buddy Tee Bosustow has just started broadcasting a new radio show dedicated to classic animated cartoons. Toon In! … to the Masters …

Animation Show 2007

Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt have announced the line-up for the third edition of the ANIMATION SHOW. Having seen all the films in the …

THE Conservative crusade against cartoons

In the 1950s it was comic books and rock & roll, in the 1990s it was video games and the internet. Now Steven Benen on The Carpetbagger …

John Canemaker’s Oscar Experience

What does it feel like to be nominated for an animated short Oscar? Atlanta animation director Ward Jenkins was curious to find out so he …

RUSSIAN ANIMATION SPY STORY

Who ever said being a distributor of animated films was boring work? Here’s an amusing newspaper article from a few months back about …

ART INSPIRED BY FAMILY GUY

Talk about scraping the bottom of the artistic barrel: the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills is currently hosting an exhibit …

FPS Charity Auction

Feel good this holiday season by participating in FPS MAGAZINE’s annual charity auction which runs through November 29. All proceeds, …

FESTIVAL REPORT: 2D OR NOT 2D

Animator Nancy Beiman (of the Rochester Intitute of Technology) sent in this first hand report from 2D OR NOT 2D FESTIVAL held in Everett …

Oswald To Get Lucky in 2007

One of the most interesting animation stories of ’06 took place last February when Disney acquired the rights to one of Walt’s earliest …

Don Hertzfeldt: CGI is mostly nouns

Indie filmmaker/stick-figure master/ANIMATION SHOW co-founder Don Hertzfeldt talks extensively about his work in this new AWN interview. …

New Animated Bits Around the Web

Joel Trussell of WAR PHOTOGRAPHER fame has finished a great looking spot for the anti-smoking campaign Way2Quit. Check it out …

PRIVATE SNAFU IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Today’s NEW YORK TIMES has an ARTICLE that discusses how animation was used during the 1940s and ’50s to teach valuable medical lessons. …

WORST. PEANUTS. EVER.

Did you know Charlie Brown’s parents were organ donors? When Charles M. Schulz agreed to using Peanuts characters for MetLife’s …

UNDER THE HOOD

The San Francisco Society of Illustrators is letting everyone know about the event PIXAR UNDER THE HOOD: The Making of Cars happening a …

TIME TRAVEL

Dan Hollis has been working in radio for the past 10 years as both the sales manager for Hackettstown, New Jersey radio station WRNJ and …

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