Tagged as: Animation

Up until now, I’ve been wary about a movie solely about the Minions, but after seeing this trailer, it’s on my summer list of will-see.

The Incredibles was one of my fav Pixar films. Ten years after the first, the word is the sequel is in development. CinamaBlend has details what we do know and what we don’t about the film. At this time, The Incredibles 2 is evidently developing without an official director attached, but fans can be assured […]

Do you have that itch to create a 3D animation of one of your creations, but don’t want to drop $500 on Pixar’s Renderman? This week Pixar released a free version of Renderman for non-commercial use. From their website: RenderMan is now free for all non-commercial purposes, including evaluations, education, research, and personal projects. The […]

The movie looks more interesting now than after I watched the first trailer.

Charles Brubaker wrote an interesting piece over at Cartoon Research about the attempts to make The Wizard of Id into an animated TV show. I always considered The Wizard of Id to be one of my big cartooning influence. I always had a thing for Johnny Hart?s dry sense of humor, and I consider Brant […]

Upcoming Pixar sums up a few rumors regarding Pixar’s fourth installment of their Toy Story series. Morris also mentioned that the film will be a romantic comedy. And that?s not all, the relationship the toys have with children and people will not be explored. Now this is interesting, because we would have to infer that […]

Sad news from DreamWorks Animation. The LA Times reports that the animation studio has cut 500 jobs in a restructuring effort and will scale back its film production and close its studio in Redwood City. From the LA Times: The announcement is a bruising moment for Katzenberg, who once presided over one of the industry’s […]

We finally get a peek at Pixar’s Inside Out which is due out next June. Looks like a funny premise.

500 90-second animated Peanuts shorts have been produced by the French animation company Angoulême. Here’s one of the five hundred. According to Cartoon Brew the shorts will debut on November 9 and will roll out internationally next year to coincide with the strip’s 65th anniversary. Via Cartoon Brew

Looks like LEGO Movie 2 is being pushed back in order to make LEGO Batman. From Hollywood Reporter: Chris McKay, the animation supervisor on Lego Movie, was initially set to direct that project’s sequel. However, the movie is being pushed back and McKay is now helming the Lego Batman movie, which is being written by […]

This is cool music video for Brunettes Shoot Blondes for their song Knock Knock. Essentially an animation that plays in sync across several devices. Brunettes Shoot Blondes – Knock Knock (Official Video) from Brunettes Shoot Blondes on Vimeo. From a technical standpoint, the animation is fairly simple. Syncing it all together seems like the harder […]

Producers of The Simpsons hinted last fall that they would be killing off a character. Last night on the season premiere they made good on that promise. Krusty’s father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofski died while “Krusty was seeking validation from his father.” From The Daily Mail: Krusty, whose real name is Herschel Krustofski, later sought out […]

Almost like clockwork, someone is suing a major movie studio claiming plagiarism. This time Isabella Tanikumi claims Disney based Frozen on her book Yearnings Of The Heart and not the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tell. Here’s how Tanikumi’s book is described by Entertainment Wise: “This is a compelling, introspective account of the life of Isabella […]

Funny and depressing at the same time. Steve Cutts shows us where all our favorite 1980’s comic characters are today. Where Are They Now? from Steve Cutts on Vimeo.