Raymond Scott by Drew Friedman
To commemorate the 100th birthday of composer Raymond Scott (1908-1994), the folks at his official website, RaymondScott.com, have …
To commemorate the 100th birthday of composer Raymond Scott (1908-1994), the folks at his official website, RaymondScott.com, have …
Anyone been to the post office lately? Anyone still use snail mail? The postage stamps have gotten a lot better — even if I have no …
‘Mushka’ was little more than an idea when a lunch reunion with Richard Sherman inspired Deja to bring that concept to life.
Contest time! We are giving away TWO all-access AnimaPasses (each valued at $200) to next week’s Ottawa International Animation Festival. …
Below is the stunning and brilliant conclusion of the online animated series Octocat. When I posted the first episode last March, …
Another great photo op from the pages of The Warner Club News (December 1961). Mel Blanc and Elmer Bernstein! Blanc is still recovering …
No particular reason that I’m posting this photo other than I’ve never seen it before and figured it’d be fun to share with everybody. …
Some of my favorite blogs have just posted some unusual posts of interest, all worth a look. Back in December, Don Brockway took a look …
There are still some retrograde film festivals that penalize filmmakers for putting their films online, but progressive festivals are …
This is an excerpt from an issue of Warner Club News, the studio’s in house magazine, from February 1958. Each issue had a column, aptly …
This is rather bizarre, but leave it to the French. A current project out of Paris, Reality Toon, is an homage to classic Hollywood …
Jon Stewart made a very funny comparison of some of our current politicians to a pair of cartoon favorites on Comedy Central’s The Daily …
Welcome to our updated look. As the title of this post implies, this is not a complete overhaul. Rather it’s a refresh of the existing …
As a response to YouTube’s takedown of Signe Baumane’s animated short, Canadian animation director Mike Grimshaw has posted an old film …
Today’s L.A. Times features a story on Waltz With Bashir, the sure-to-be-controversial animated feature from Israel, being screened at …
Bill Melendez, the Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, best known for his animation for Warner …
British department store Harvey Nichols has concocted a brilliant advertising campaign starring Wallace and Gromit. It heralds the …
Award-winning filmmaker Signe Baumane writes to tell me that yesterday somebody flagged her one-minute short The Very First Desire Now …
Last year Joe Dante (Looney Tunes Back In Action) established a terrific website called Trailers From Hell, featuring audio commentary by …
A major retrospective of work by underground cartoonist Kim Deitch opens at New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on September 9th. …
A 35-minute collection of classic Saul Bass film titles with narration and insights by Bass himself: (via Smashing Telly)