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Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Every time the studio has a new release, Pixar is continuously and rightfully praised for its outstanding films. Many times they’re even considered the best pictures of their respective years. Even though these opinions are held high by the majority of film aficionados, movies like WALL •E and Ratatouille never seem to end up in the Best Picture category at the Oscars. Today, an animated...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Flip the Frog, Oswald Rabbit, Koko the Clown and Toby the Pup will return to the screen Tuesday night, at the Billy Wilder Theatre in the Hammer Museum in Westwood, CA. Ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson will play in concert with a screening of 1920s and 30s animated cartoons from the UCLA Film Archive. Films will [...]
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Out of the gate, it's Christmas Carol ...but not by as much as the Mouse would probably like. As the Nikkster relates : ... [A]nalysts think the Jim Carrey starrer (he plays lotsa roles, including all 3 ghosts) directed by Robert Zemeckis (who used the same motion capture technology as Polar Express and Beowulf) may only make $31M after opening with an underperforming $8.9 million Friday despite the...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sometimes I think the most creative place in TV animation is in pre-school programming. Here’s a preview of Flipos from the Chile-based PunkRobot studio. Director Antonia Herrera says the project is “a labor of love, made with little money and a small, talented team”. A production blog features concept art and storyboards, and the trailer [...]
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Christmas Eve, Santa summons the reindeer from out a forest of NOEL trees. © 1955 by the Estate Of Ralph Hulett. Click on the thumbnail to see a full-sized image. See Ralph Hulett Christmas card designs at TAG's art gallery , open weekdays 8:30 am-5 pm. Here are more Ralph Hulett Christmas cards .
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Warners employees called today to explain: "The series Laff Riot is laying off most of its artists. They told us today that the show is retooling, going in a different direction, and won't be carrying staff while it takes eight or ten weeks to revamp. They expect to ramp back up mid to late January. How many of us will be coming back, they didn't say." I know this is a big disappointment...
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Whoa. This took me by surprise: Nick Counter, the long-standing former negotiator for the major studios who squared off against Hollywood's writers during a 100-day strike in 2008, died Friday night. He was 69. The former president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was taken to West Hills Hospital earlier this week after collapsing in his Los Angeles home. His family declined...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sorry for the late notice, but if you are in L.A. this weekend you might check out the animation panels going on at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood: On Saturday 11/7 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM: A Crash Course on Character Animation with Eric Goldberg. 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Commercial Television Spots: Shortest Shorts with Bob Kurtz. 3:45 [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The soundtrack of Fantastic Mr. Fox, like all Wes Anderson films, is loaded with great music that punctuate the situations. Anyone who combines Burl Ives, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and the Wellingtons’ classic Ballad of Davy Crockett in one film is okay in my book. Anderson also pays homage to Disney’s foxy Robin [...]
The Blog of Kells (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
http://paulliewaggles.blogspot.com Pauly has started blogging his fantastic weekly political cartoons from our local paper The Kilkenny People. After many years away from the drawing board, producing our projects here in Cartoon Saloon , its been great to see Pauly's inky stylings on a weekly basis again.
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Our friends at Screen Novelties created this stop-mo opening sequence for Truth or Square, the Spongebob Anniversary Special which airs tonight at 8pm on Nick.
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Robert Zemeckis’s A Christmas Carol opens today to a chorus of negative reviews and a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A particularly harsh assessment comes from Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal: To put it bluntly, if Scroogely, Disney’s 3-D animated version of “A Christmas Carol” is a calamity. The pace is predominantly glacial—that alone [...]
Upcoming Pixar (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dug’s Special Mission is coming very soon but did you know there’s already a possibility for more Up shorts? At least, that’s according to director Ronnie del Carmen in his latest interview. Animation Magazine talked to del Carmen about his story work on Up and his brand new, hilarious short starring the loveable mutt! Del Carmen explains that the Special Mission is told in Dug’s...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The potential gamechangers in the Oscar race (clockwise from upper left): The Missing Lynx, A Town Called Panic, The Secret of Kells, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure As Jerry pointed out a few weeks ago, the big question for the animated feature Oscar category this year is whether they’ll reach the magic number of sixteen [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
According to today’s trades, Dan Ackroyd has been cast as the voice of Yogi Bear in Warner Bros. new CGI hybrid flick, Yogi Bear, and Justin Timberlake could be vocalizing his longtime companion, Boo-Boo. Eric Brevig, a longtime visual effects supervisor, will be making his feature directing debut on this film. Anna Faris (late of Cloudy [...]
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