Jerry Beck

Publisher Editor

Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.

Articles By Jerry Beck

Independent

It’s close encounters of the herd kind in the brand new Shaun The Sheep movie from Aardman Animation. Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is directed by Richard Phelan and Will Becher, Written by Jon Brown and Mark Burton, Produced by Paul Kewley with Executive Producers Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, Peter Lord, Nick Park and […]

First Image

Ghost in the Shell is going to reborn by changing itself into a new form — 3DCG. This time, Kenji Kamiyama and Production I.G will join forces with Shinji Aramaki and SOLA DIGITAL ARTS, who brought Japanese 3DCG animation to the whole world in series like Appleseed. This will be “a next-generation animation film” and […]

First Image

The infamous Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominees today – and included in the mix were their choices for Best Animated Feature. As expected, Disney’s Ralph Breaks The Internet (Rich Moore and Phil Johnston ) and Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird) made the grade; Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti […]

First Image
Asifa

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood is honored to announce that Annecy International Animation Film Festival has officially become a festival partner with the Annie Awards. Also joining the Annie Awards’ festival partnership is Ottawa, Hiroshima and Zagreb festivals. Annecy was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town […]

First Image
Events

The LA Animation Festival had its awards evening on Sunday at The Mayflower Club and gave awards in many filmmaking and craft categories including a Best of the Fest Award for an experimental film by Louis Morton called Floreana, a Best Feature Award to renowned independent experimental filmmaker Joanna Priestley for North of Blue and […]

First Image

More From Animation Scoop

TRAILER: Season 15 “King Of The Hill”

Hulu has debuted the trailer + key art for season 15 of "King of the Hill" exclusively out of Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where co-creator Mike Judge received the festival's Honorary Cristal Award for career achievement .