Category: Animation
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Shy the Sun (Ree Treweek and Jannes Hendrikz)
I was watching last night’s dazzling opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics on television, alternating between being stunned by the artistic vision and choreographic scope of the event, and appalled by the contrast between that and the jarringly interspersed commercials for dreary consumer products and an apparent attempt by the network to display its most…
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Gobelins Students’ Animations at Annecy Animated Film Festival 2008
If, like me, you have grown just a little weary of super-slick and oh-so-kinetic CGI animated movies, and long occasionally for the simpler pleasures of hand-drawn animated films, here’s a site to make your day. Every year the graduating students at the Gobelins school in Paris, where they apparently have some incredibly effective instructors and/or…
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The Orphan Works Act of 2008
I was hoping to have a thoughtful and well-informed analysis of this situation for this post, but my personal schedule has made that difficult. I can only say that this is about two pieces of legislation coming up before the House and Senate here in the U.S. that may adversely affect visual artists here (and…
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Thugs on Film
Thugs on Film is one of my favorites of the crop of independent Flash animation short series that have come and gone over the past few years. Distributed by Mondo Mini Shows, Thugs on Film is lamentably no longer being produced. Mondo’s awkward an inelegant distribution and promotion model always confused me, and evidently, other…
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Draw!
Though its title might suggest a more general interest magazine devoted to drawing, Draw! magazine is focused on topics of relevance to comic book art, animation and related varieties of illustration. Each issue features how-to articles and tutorials from industry professionals, profiles of artists working in those fields and in-depth interviews. Draw! is edited by…
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V Water animated ad
Ever since I first saw Chuck Jones’ wonderfully imaginative and brain-tinglingly loopy Warner Brother’s cartoon Duck Amuck as a kid, I’ve had a weakness for cartoons that break the fourth wall (i.e. the invisible barrier between audience and characters in the entertainment), particularly in the oblique way of having an animated protagonist encounter the animator…