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Cranky Storytime
A curmudgeonly grandmother offers her view of a classic story in Brown Bag Films’ brilliant Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty. The talented animators at Dublin-based studio Brown Bag Films seem to have a soft spot for unreliable narrators. Back in 2001, under the direction of Cathal Gaffney, who co-founded the studio [...]
More Monkey Mayhem
Director Norton Virgien talks about making a terrific sequel to the 2006 movie, Curious George. It’s been almost seven decades since children’s book authors Margret and H.A. Rey introduced the world to a delightful character named Curious George, and the little monkey shows no signs of slowing down. In March, [...]
Cartoon Movie Freeze Frames
The Moomins and the Secret of the Comet Directed by Maria Lindberg If you grew up in Europe, chances are you are already under the spell of the Moomins, characters created by Finnish novelist and comic strip author Tove Jansson, which had their own puppet-animated TV series in the ’70s. [...]
Gods and Monsters
How vfx supe Kevin Mack conjured up classic creatures and wondrous transformation scenes for the new fantasy pic Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief. When you’re launching a big studio movie whose cast of characters includes classic Greek mythological heroes and villains such as Poseidon, Zeus, Medusa and [...]
Books We Love
A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter De S’ve By Peter De S’ve and Amid Amidi (Editions Akileos, $54.95) There are plenty of reasons why New York-based illustrator/character designer Peter De S’ve has legions of fans all over the world. A friend once said when you look at one of [...]
The 2010 Anicomm Awards
In which we celebrate the best animated, most original, funniest and all-around awesome commercials of the past year! Although we’re often tempted to fast-forward through the commercials when we catch up on our favorite shows on DVR, there are times when the animated spots during the breaks are actually much [...]
Animag Exclusive: The Scoop on Ugly Americans
Comedy Central finds a terrific companion for South Park, Devin Clark and David Stern’s horror-comedy about life with zombies, demons and werewolves called Ugly Americans. Let’s get something out of the way: If you dig comic books, have an interest in mature, funny and well-drawn toons, chances are you are [...]
Drawn to Greatness
Director Don Hahn discusses his insightful new documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, which travels back to 1984 to chart the rebirth of Disney’s creative spirit and a behind-the-scenes look at the studio politics and artistic battles that were the backdrop of hits such as The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. [...]
Don Bluth to Receive Cartoons on the Bay’s Lifetime Achievement Honor
The annual Italian animation festival Cartoons on the Bay has released its list of program tributes, Pulcinella Award nominees and panels for its upcoming edition. The 14th edition of the four-day event (April 15-18), which takes play in the Rapallo, Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure (the Golfo region of Tiglio) [...]
Logorama: The French Short That Rewrote the Rules
Of all the five shorts nominated in the Best Animated Shorts category, the 17-minute-long Logorama is perhaps the most enigmatic. A fascinating homage to American crime movies with a subtle commentary on corporate consumerism and capitalist society, the short won the prestigious Kodak Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
