Wall-E “Eve” character inspired by iPod
Fortune reports that Wall-E character “Eve” was inspired by Apple’s iPod and in fact, Pixar brought in Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, to consult for a day on the character’s design.
“I wanted Eve to be high-end technology - no expense spared - and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to [...]
Posted on: May 13, 2008, Section: Animation, Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
New CG Star Wars movie due in August
While reporting last week on new animated movies that were due out this summer, I missed the new “Star Wars: The Clone War” movie that Lucas Film is releasing to theaters on August 15th. The computer generated movie is set between episodes II and III of the live action movies. The movie is the initial [...]
Posted on: May 12, 2008, Section: Animation, Movies, Comments: 3 Comments
Three new animation movies set for this summer
There are three big animated motion pictures due out this summer. “Kung Fu Panda”, “Wall-E” and “Igor.” If they live up to their premises and the trailers, we’re in for some great entertainment.
“Kung Fu Panda” is the first on to hit the screen on June 6th. Panda features Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Luci [...]
Posted on: May 8, 2008, Section: Animation, Magazines, Comments: 0 Comments
KAL speaks to National Archives
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher will be speaking at the National Archives in May regarding the evolution of political cartoons from two-dimensional print to 3-D animation. The lecture is entitled, “Moving Political Cartoons from Page to Screen” and will be on May 8th.
On a related note, KAL has created his own video channel over on YouTube [...]
Posted on: Apr 29, 2008, Section: Animation, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Steve Brodner on Presidential figures
Watch New Yorker cartoonist Steve Brodner discuss and draw the current presidential candidates. Love his water coloring.
Posted on: Apr 22, 2008, Section: Animation, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
KAL unveils animated Barack, Hillary
Economist cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher unveiled his animated Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton last night at Atlanta’s Alliance theater. You can see the video on the Economist’s web site.
Posted on: Apr 22, 2008, Section: Animation, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 7 Comments
Michael Fry’s RingTales nominated for Webby
RingTales, the cartoon animation start-up of Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry has been nominated for a Webby for Best Animated Video of 2008 for its animation of New Yorker cartoons. Those cartoons run on RingTales’ site, The New Yorker and as an iTunes podcast which has generated over 24 million views.
In the category [...]
Posted on: Apr 15, 2008, Section: Animation, Comments: 0 Comments
News Briefs for April 11, 2008
» The Yale Daily News has a history of how Garry Trudeau started in the comics. Interesting, the path started out like most. When Garry approached the paper, the ran his stuff because “we print pretty much anything.”
» Neil Cohn, a frequent speaker on the topic of “visual language theory” has posted research that “reports [...]
Posted on: Apr 11, 2008, Section: Animation, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
Moola movie intro uses Leigh Rubin animation
Rubes creator Leigh Rubin has had a hand in the independent comedy movie, “Moola.” The opening introduction features animated cows drawn by Leigh. See YouTube video below.
Posted on: Apr 9, 2008, Section: Animation, Comic strips, Movies, Comments: 12 Comments
Simpsons deemed inappropriate in Venezuela
“The Simpsons” were taken off the air in Venezuela because of several complaints by viewers that it was inappropriate for children. The station replaced Matt Groening’s show with Baywatch Hawaii and hasn’t fielded any more complaints.
“It had to be taken off,” Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said. “They consider it to be a [...]
Posted on: Apr 8, 2008, Section: Animation, International, Television, Comments: 7 Comments
Two Boondock episodes yanked from U.S. to run in Canada
Two upcoming episodes of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks will not be viewed in the U.S. because the Cartoon network pulled them because “they savage another cable network, BET.”
BET CEO Debra Lee is depicted in Sunday’s episode as Debra Lee-vil, a Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating a network “that would [...]
Posted on: Mar 18, 2008, Section: Animation, Controversies, Television, Comments: 0 Comments
Early Pogo clips of animated show on YouTube
Here are a couple of interesting clips of an early Pogo animated show that according to Mike Lynch, the animated show was never completed due to the poor health of Pogo creator Walt Kelly
Go see Part one and part 2.
Posted on: Feb 22, 2008, Section: Animation, Comic history, Comments: 2 Comments
Christian Science Monitor wants an animator/editorial cartoonist
The Christian Science Monitor is placing a heavy emphasis on hiring an editorial cartoonist with animation experience, according to Dave Astor of E&P. The paper says that animations “keep the attention of younger people, who are more oriented” and that the cartoonist can either create the animation solo or work with more computer savvy people [...]
Posted on: Feb 13, 2008, Section: Animation, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
Pooch Cafe strips to be animated by RingTales
Paul Gilligan has announced that his feature Pooch Cafe is in works with RingTales to animate Pooch Cafe strips for distribution through the web, mobile phones. RingTales was co-founded by Michael Fry (Over the Hedge writer) with the objective of animating print comics. In my interview with Michael a year ago, he had mentioned [...]
Posted on: Jan 28, 2008, Section: Animation, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
Walt Handelsman’s animations take Newsday into top 5 online newspapers
Back in the early years of newspapers, publishers used comics to increase their circulations. If there was ever an example that cartoons could do that again for online newspaper, this would be a good case study. The New York Times reports that for the second straight month, Newsday’s web traffic has ranked into the top [...]
Posted on: Jan 22, 2008, Section: Animation, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
