Fran Krause Archives | Cartoon Brew

Mexico’s Pixelatl Festival Announces All-Star Lineup of Speakers

Over 70 guests from 13 countries will attend Pixelatl next month in Mexico.

Brad Bird, virtual reality, storyboarding, and true animation legends are part of our must-see Comic-Con events.

Laura Heit’s Animation Sketchbooks (published this month by Chronicle Books in the US, and earlier by Thames & Hudson in the UK) offers a …

The craft of hand-drawn animation, virtually absent from American bigscreens (Winnie the Pooh and The Illusionist being the notable …

Tonight at 7:30 pm, the 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson Street) presents “Peculiar Picture Parade: Animated Films Defying the Norms,” a …

A new short by Fran Krause (Moonraker, Utica Cartoon), Nosy Bear is a character study of a bear in the woods. The “making of” video below …

Filmmaker Fran Krause writes, “I found this guy in Syracuse over the holiday. Do you recognize him? It looks like it’s from the 1930s but …

Artwork by Phil Rynda (left) and Fran Krause Two people doesn’t exactly qualify as a trend, but it’s worth acknowledging that …

NY animator and filmmaker Fran Krause (Moonraker, The Upstate Four) attended the CalArts Producers’ Show in LA last week and took some …

Twins Fran and Will Krause produced this mixed-media music video for Mile Kurosky’s “Dog in the Burning Building.” Light-hearted fun and …

Waiting at the Geneva Airport for my flight back to New York and thought I’d share pics of a few of the fine animation folk I hung out …

. The Upstate Four (viewable in two parts above) is an eleven-minute Cartoon Network pilot created by brothers Fran Krause and Will …

I’m moderating a panel at the Ottawa International Animation Festival this weekend. It’s called “Animation Makes Me Laugh: Ha!” and it’s …

Fran Krause created the signal film for this year’s Rooftop Films screening series. It’s animated nicely in Flash.