Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
Josh Bycel is the EP of the new animated series Solar Opposites, premiering this Friday May 8th on Hulu. Bycel talks about working with the Rick and Morty team on this sci-fi comedy. He also shares his thoughts on being a part of the Trolls and American Dad! families… and his unique connections to Frasier. […]
Jeffrey Katzenberg has been immersed in the world of animation for much of his career. He helped usher-in some of the most beloved Disney animated films of all-time in the late ’80s and early ’90s. And he was instrumental at DreamWorks Animation for more than two decades. Now Quibi takes center stage. Katzenberg’s streaming service […]
The outré sci-fi adventure-comedy RobiHachi (2019) presents the future as a tourist trap. Tall, lanky, and self-indulgent, Robby Yarge is a shameless if unsuccessful skirt-chaser and ne’er-do-well. After a series of get-rich-quick schemes crash and burn, he’s left owing a fortune to Mr. Yang. To collect the debt, Yang sends bright, eager Hatchi Ika. Hatchi […]
Due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the live-action multicam show One Day at a Time was put on hold. However, the show’s producers found another way to produce a new, original episode in this time of quarantine: animation. The original idea was to film the episode traditionally as live-action with instered fantasy elements. When the […]
ASIFA-Hollywood announced today its Animation Educator’s Forum (AEF) fourth annual Faculty Grant recipients: Zoya Baker (New York University), Mindy Johnson (CalArts), Nazil Eda Noyan (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul/Turkey), Jack Parry (Deakin University, Australia) and Kevin Sandler (Arizona State University). The AEF faculty grants are designed to provide support for individuals or groups with expenditures associated with […]
If you were wondering what Pendleton Ward has been up to since his cult hit Adventure Time aired its final episode, wonder no more. Ward has teamed up with podcaster Duncan Trussel to create The Midnight Gospel, a new animated series streaming on Netflix. All eight episodes extant are currently available. This is not your […]
After placing two films in Academy Award contention last year, Netflix served notice to the major animation studios that it was going to be a player and a force to be reckoned with in future competition for audiences. Although Pixar took home the award, Disney saw Frozen 2 shut out from finalist consideration. For Netflix, […]
Author N.D. Wilson’s picture book Hello Ninja became an instant success when it was released in 2013. Season 1 of the Netflix animated series adaptation debuted to big ratings in November. Season 2 premieres this Friday, April 24th. Wilson shares details on the new episodes and how (to quote his Twitter bio) he went from […]
WarnerMedia has just set the launch date of May 27th for their new streaming service HBO Max. That will also be the release date for the first batch of Looney Tunes Cartoons from Warner Bros. Animation. The first season will include 80 episodes, each 11-minute “episode” will be comprised of cartoon shorts that vary in […]
Fire Force is set in a future Earth that was ravaged by The Great Disaster decades earlier, when much of the planet was rendered uninhabitable by terrible conflagrations. Many survivors took refuge in the Tokyo Empire. The Tokyo Emperors brought together personnel from the Holy Sol Temples, the Fire Defense Agency and armed forces to […]
