Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
ASIFA-Hollywood announced today its selection of Juried Awards recipients for the 48th Annual Annie Awards. The Juried Awards honor career achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. The Winsor McCay Award for career contributions to the art of animation are being presented to three recipients – Willie Ito, animation designer whose career began at Warner Bros., […]
Madeline Sharafian has been nominated for two Annie Awards for her storyboarding on We Bare Bears and Coco. She also worked on Onward and is the writer and director of a new Pixar SparkShorts entry. Burrow, about a rabbit looking to create the (underground) home of her dreams, debuts with Soul this Friday December 25th […]
Well folks, 2020 can’t end soon enough. I just received word that we’ve lost two more of our industry’s members. This is the note from Rose-Ellen Eastman, daughter of Doug and Maureen Crane: “I wanted to reach out and let you know some very sad news. My Mom passed away on Tuesday night after a […]
“How did they do that?” is a question that, as an audience, we don’t ask much anymore. This is especially true in animation, particularly in our digital age, where computer animation has made the impossible possible on screen, all the time. But “How did they do that?’ applies to every frame of director Richard Williams […]
The king of the independent animators – Bill Plympton – has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for his next ani aged feature-in-progress: Slide. It looks great to me – but I’ll let Bill tell you himself in the video below and his letter to me below that: Plympton’s New Feature SLIDE is running […]
GKIDS, the acclaimed distributor of multiple Academy Award-nominated animated features, has announced the voice cast of the upcoming English language dub for legendary animation house Studio Ghibli’s latest feature Earwig and The Witch. The film is directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea) and produced by studio co-founder Toshio Suzuki, […]
In addition to interviewing director Pete Docter, co-director Kemp Powers and producer Dana Murray, a few months ago I had the chance to speak with six other key creative makers of Soul. Pixar’s 23rd film is already nominated for the Best Animated Feature Critics Choice Award and debuts next Friday December 25th on Disney+. These […]
Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar have entered into a wide-ranging, multiyear overall deal with Disney that calls for them to produce animated and live-action series and movies for Disney Branded Television. They will work closely with Meredith Roberts, senior vice president/general manager, Television Animation, Disney Channels, and Ayo Davis, executive vice president, Creative Development […]
This first—and long overdue—release on Blu-ray of Satoshi Kon’s one television series, Paranoia Agent (2004), reminds viewers of the exceptional talent animation lost when he died a decade ago at 46. As he did in Millennium Actress and Paprika, Kon deftly blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy: Neither the characters nor the viewer can […]
Netflix announced today a new animated feature film currently in production, The Magician’s Elephant, based on two-time Newbery Award winner Kate DiCamillo’s novel of the same title. The film marks the directorial debut of renowned visual effects veteran Wendy Rogers (Shrek, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Puss in Boots) and is produced by Julia […]
