Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
The infamous Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their winners tonight – and included in the mix was the winner for Best Animated Feature. Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse won the top honor. Producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller accepted the award and spoke – and thanked everyone including Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. They were […]
From executive producer Scott Fellows, the world-famous talking moose and flying squirrel are back in season 2 of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, a serialized comedy divided by unique arcs about two goofball best friends who routinely find themselves thrust into harrowing situations but end up saving the day time and again. The series […]
This year for the first time, the bi-annual UCLA Festival of Preservation will be presented as a long weekend event, instead of one spread out over a whole month, as in previous years. For three days next month, February 15-17, the archive will present – from 9am to midnight each day – a large selection […]
Celebrating France’s rich tradition as a pioneer of animation, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) announces the 2019 Animation First festival. Building on its wildly successful inaugural year, the second edition of Animation First showcases the vast history, enduring ingenuity, and diversity of France’s renowned animation studios and schools. This year’s schedule includes 17 premieres, […]
When Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama continued his franchise with the movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013 Japan; 2014 U.S.), he introduced a character whose powers exceeded our Super Saiyan hero, Goku. His name: Beerus, god of destruction. Woe to those who rouse his temper. With but a wave of his claw, a […]
The 13-episode broadcast series ReLife (2016) felt like it ended prematurely, with the main characters’ stories unfinished. The four-part Final Arc OAV (2018) brings the story to a satisfying conclusion. Arata Kaizaki (voice by Micah Solusod), had been a promising high school student. Warm and caring, he brought out the best in the people around […]
Humans come from Venus. Earth has a primary god, Alpha, married to a mother goddess, Gaia. Under their guidance, plus cycles of reincarnation and evolution and good behavior, one can achieve enlightenment. Meanwhile, five university kids are endowed with powers to fight evil space reptilians who, as it turns out, may have the capacity for […]
Disney Legend Don Lusk has passed away today at age 105 – reported by his dear friend Navah Paskowitz-Asner (Ed Asner’s daughter-in-law) on her Facebook page this morning. Lusk was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933 and he became an animator in 1938 on Ferdinand The Bull. His animation graced key scenes in […]
After years of working on acclaimed animated movies, Dublin, Ireland’s Louise Bagnall decided to take a chance and make a short film of her own. The result? Late Afternoon, which has not only been wowing fans and juries at film festivals throughout the world, but is also one of 10 finalists on the 2019 Oscars […]
Charles Solomon’s Animation Year End Review 2018
Although he wrote them in 1859, Charles Dickens might have been thinking of animation in 2018 when he penned the celebrated lines, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the […]