Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Animation artist Tony Benedict (no relation to Ed) has a personal website that offers a mishmash of photos, gag drawings and ephemera from his early animation career at Disney, UPA and Hanna-Barbera. Worth a quick look. (Thanks, Jason Groh) share
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
This just in: ASIFA-Hollywood announced its 2008 Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award recipients during their Comic-Con party last night at the Gaslight Marriott in San Diego. This year’s Winsor McCay recipients are: Mike Judge, John Lasseter and Nick Park. The award recipients will claim their trophies at the 36th Annual Annie Awards, Friday, January 30, [...]
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Randolph (Randy) Frederick Pausch, born October 23, 1960 has sadly passed on today. Randy was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University ( CMU ) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, most recently famous for The Last Lecture speech. Randy’s work had some cross-over to Pixar with virtual-reality and animation software. Some of Randy’s classes...
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
I spent a generous portion of the day at Fox Animation on Wilshire. Most staff is back at work after the Writers Guild strike, but many were missing in action ... "It's really quiet around here. Everybody is down at the Comic Con in San Diego" ... Including the top brass. ... [Y]ou'll be thrilled to hear what they're doing with The Empire Strikes Back — it's called "Something, Something, Something...
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Just briefly, the San Mateo Daily Journal has an interesting article about the bomb squad lending one of their Remotec Mini-Andros bots to study the realistic movements for WALL •E . [via The Pixar Blog ]
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Animated Views has a good interview with Tim Hauser, the author of The Art of WALL •E . Tim answers questions about writing the book and how he came to work on it. He also mention he is writing The Pixar Treasures and The Art of Up due for release next year. Thanks Martin.
Animated News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Variety reports that Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea grossed $14.8 million over the three-day weekend of July 19-21 in Japan. Studio Ghibli’s last feature Tales from Earthsea had grossed $8.4 million in its opening frame in 2006. Ponyo’s opening box-office gross was 96.6 percent of the similar three-day [...]
Mayerson on Animation (Free subscription) | yesterday
While I'm not surprised that Michael Barrier and Michael Sporn found this summer's animated features lacking, I am surprised by some of the comments about computer animation. For instance, Barrier says this : What's clear from WALL•E and Kung Fu Panda , as never before, is that computer animation is a dead end, a form of puppetry even more limited than stop motion. There's no reason to believe that...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
The West Coast may have the San Diego Comic-Con, but New Yorkers have Animation Block Party, a three-day animation festival that opens tonight in Brooklyn. Live music, lots of cartoons and free booze. Ticket info here. This cartoon by Ian-Jones Quartey and Jim Gisriel offers a few good reasons why everybody should attend Animation Block Party: share
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tonight at the San Diego Comic Con. Room 6CDEF at 9:30pm. You’ve been warned! share
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Selections were announced this week for the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 17-21). Four features and 101 short films are in competition this year, and as usual, I think it’s one of the stronger film line-ups of any animated film festival. The features screening in Ottawa are the French anthology Fear(s) of the Dark, [...]
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This from comments below : Nearly all of the the greatest artists of the industry are those who bucked the system, whether its Brad Bird storming out of Disney or Nick Park washing his hands of Katzenberg's meddling and walking out to pursue his own vision (the man has garnered more Academy Awards than the entire Dreamworks studio). And it got me pondering. It's true that big talents sometimes rise...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’ll be signing copies of my book The Hanna Barbera Treasury today, Friday 7/25, from 11am till noon, at the Insight Editions/Palace Publishing booth #2913-J (located in the Lucas Pavilion). The picture above was from today’s signing event (thanks to Jay West for the photo). We had a great bunch of people come by and say [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tiny Inventions, a Brooklyn-based animation studio run by husband-and-wife team Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, recently created a fun and charming music video for Playhouse Disney called “Davy Crockett in Outer Space.” The song is by They Might Be Giants, and they co-directed the piece with designer/illustrator David Cowles. Max and Ru have also created [...]
Jim Hill Media (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jim Hill chats up the author of "Artemis Fowl," who'll be rolling into San Diego today aboard the "Fairies, Fiends and Flatulence" bus as part of his U.S. book tour ...( read more )
