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

NUCKIN’ FUTS

In case you missed it on last night’s TONIGHT SHOW or this morning’s TODAY SHOW, here is the latest JibJab masterpiece, Nuckin’ Futs. …

Animation Still Key At Nickelodeon

While Cartoon Network continues to abandon cartoons in favor of live-action productions, this article in yesterday’s NY TIMES reaffirms …

LEN LYE’S PEANUT VENDOR

Stop-motion animation teacher/historian Ken Priebe (The Art of Stop Motion Animation) has posted on YouTube what he calls “the creepiest …

Richard Williams Interviews Ken Harris

Thanks to digital tools available nowadays like Flash and various CG packages, everybody knows how to move a character, but very few …

Fantasia Overrated?

“[FANTASIA] is a mishmash of pedantic narration and erratic tone (the finale’s soul-sucking demon gives the death of Bambi’s mom a run …

Brew Holiday Gift Guide: Laugh-O-Grams

The sixth in a series of holiday gift-giving suggestions from your pals at Cartoon Brew.The big video event this week for Disney buffs is …

Live-Action Year Without A Santa Claus

From the “What Were They Thinking Department”: NBC has produced a live-action remake of the 1970s Rankin/Bass holiday special THE YEAR …

Shawn Marion: NBA Star and Cartoon Fan

According to the NEW YORK TIMES, Phoenix Suns forward Shawn Marion loves cartoons and has a collection of thousands of animation dvds. I …

Cartoon Characters and Merchandising

Independent animator (and former syndicated newspaper cartoonist) Chris Harding has a thought-provoking rant on his blog about the perils …

Trippy Commercial by Hans Fischerkoesen

I pointed to some surreal French animated commercials last week, but they don’t come close to this mid-century theatrical spot by German …

SITO AT THE BARN

Attention all Angelenos: Tom Sito, Disney animator, former president of the Animation Guild, and now author of Drawing the Line: The …

THE LIVING ANIMATION FESTIVAL

Animation director Matt Ferguson (Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant and Grossology for Nelvana) has, over the past week, been posting …

UBUWEB

UbuWeb bills itself as a “YouTube of the Avant-Garde” and I can’t think of a better description. Among other things, they have a great …

Hardly a Miracle

What happens when a nutty evangelical homebuilder decides to become the next Walt Disney, and hires a bunch of ex-Disney animators to …

Amazing 1950s French Commercials

Here’s a series of ten beautiful animated spots produced in France during the 1950s. It’s inspiring how these commercials take full …

Platform Animation Festival

We’ve needed a good animation festival here in the US for the long time and we may finally be getting it in the form of the Platform …

A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

What are you doing on Pearl Harbor Day?This Thursday (tomorrow, Dec. 7th) John Canemaker will be in Hollywood, hosting a program to …

Learn How To Paint H-B Backgrounds

Art Lozzi, a background painter on the early Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons, has written a great little tutorial on his background painting …

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