Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Pixar storyboard artist and Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher co-creator Bill Presing will debut his new “cute cartoon girl” book Bookplate Betties at the Red Window booth (#4800). A preview of the book can be found on Bill’s blog. He’ll be sharing the booth with a couple other talented artists down from Emeryville: Scott Morse and [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
JJ Villard, who set the animation world ablaze a few years back with his amazing student films and then somehow ended up working at DreamWorks for a while, will be offering his wares for the first time in San Diego. At booth A-04, Villard will debut a full-color book of his artwork titled “Someones Getn [...]
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | yesterday
At last, after more than 6 months, a new episode of Radio Pixar is up for your listening pleasure. The podcast is headed up by Nijhazer of at the Pixar Planet Forums and a new one is expected every few weeks I understand. In this new episode you will hear about, Current news and features from around the Web regarding Pixar’s latest film, WALL •E— also, WALL •E trivia for those of you who’ve seen the...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Art of Andy is a 120-page book of artwork by longtime character designer Andy Suriano (Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls and Star Wars: Clone Wars). He describes it on his blog as a “hardcover, full color smorgasbord of designs and sketches ranging from development ideas, Samurai Jack models and Clone Wars layouts…to comic book pages [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like Katzenberg’s mania for 3-D is rubbing off on his artists. DreamWorks animator Donnachada Daly has created a new art book called Depth Charge: 3D Illusions in which all of his lovely line drawings are presented in stereoscopic 3D. It will debut in San Diego at table B-8. For additional details, as well [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zurich29 is a Paris-based motion graphics studio founded in 2005 by Philippe Constantinesco and Dorian Gourg. They caught my attention with their latest piece, a visually striking three-minute spot for Amnesty International that encourages people to make their voices heard by signing petitions. The highest quality version of the commercial, titled “Ink”, can be found [...]
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday, July 22, marked the 2nd anniversary of Pixar Planet opening to the public. Thanks to Bill for announcing it at the forum!
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pixar will be hosting their own "Production Studio Night" at SIGGRAPH ’08 in LA next month. As part of this Studio Night, Frédéric Back an Academy Award winner joins John Lasseter for a conversation about animation, art and the environment. There will also be a screening of The Pixar Story with an introduction and Q&A with director Leslie Iwerks. This will take place on Tuesday, 12 August between 8-11pm...
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Disney and More blog has some great photos of the WALL •E displays inside the windows of the Disney Store at Champs-Elysées, Paris. You can also see a photo of the shelves packed to the brim with WALL •E merchandise. Thanks Alain.
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you miss Eric Goldberg’s signing at the San Diego Comic Con Thursday - at Stuart Ng’s booth (Booths #5012 and #5022) between 2-4 (and again Friday, Saturday 11-12 noon) - he’ll be signing his book one more time in Los Angeles. On Wednesday night, August 6th, between 7-9pm at the Samuel French Bookshop in [...]
Jim Hill Media (Free subscription) | yesterday
As he gets ready to cover this year's Comic-Con, Jim Hill shares some of the more interesting domain names that the Walt Disney Company has registered over the past month ...( read more )
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you haven’t heard, Brooklyn-based publisher PictureBox is putting out some of the most innovative and interesting comic and art books nowadays, including the gorgeous two-volume retrospective of Gary Panter’s work. Next year, they’re releasing what is shaping up to be one of the must-have animation books of the year. And I’m not just saying [...]
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
DreamWorks Animation's Lakeside Building, located in the magical burg of Glendale, California. I whiled away the morning at the cartoon studio that hugs the shore of the Los Angeles River, wandering the Lakeside building. As I've mentioned, the structure (seen above) is undergoing extensive renovation and enlargment (a bunch of hit films will do that) ... A couple of the lower floors, still occupied...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Rummaging through my archives last night, I came across this inter-office memo (click thumbnail below to see full size) distributed throughout Walt Disney studios on January 17th 1939: Attention has been called to the rather gross language that is being used by some members of the IBT (Inbetween) Department in the presence of some of our [...]
The Blog of Kells (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
So, working on the adaptation of the film into graphic novel form, roughi9ng out the pages . Actually its quite challenging, to faithfully adapt each scene to comics form would take much more than the two albums and I want to give a lot of room to the "new" stories at the start, the prequels about Brendan in the first album and Aisling in the second. Truth be told those are the really interesting...
