A Capital Venture

April 12, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan 1 Comment

Show creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick discuss tackling season five of The Venture Bros. for Adult Swim, and what keeps fans coming back for more. Back in 2003, as Adult Swim viewers were enjoying spoofy recycles of defunct toon heroes in shows like Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The [...]

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Peter Hannan Has an ‘Embarrassing’ New Toon

September 19, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment

It’s always cause for celebration when one of our favorite animation creators has a new show out. This week, CatDog creator Peter Hannan launched his new toon called Really Freaking Embarrassing on SMOSH’s Shut Up! Cartoons YouTube channel. We caught up with the talented writer/director/animator/musician/jack-of-all-trades to get the details about [...]

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Short on Minutes, Long on Talent

June 2, 2012 by Ellen Wolff No Comments

The 2012 edition of the Annecy Festival puts an amazingly diverse and creative range of animated shorts from all over the world in the spotlight. Animated short film submissions poured in by the thousands to Annecy for the 2012 festival, which runs from June 4-9. Though just 49 shorts were [...]

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Fox Strives for Flippin’ Good TV

September 7, 2011 by Mercedes Milligan 1 Comment

Fox TV’s new animation lineup sees the awkward teens of Napoleon Dynamite get a toon makeover, and Jonah Hill as a sophisticated schoolboy in Allen Gregory. In the next few months, Fox TV audiences will be treated to two new kids on the channel’s animation block: Napoleon Dynamite and Allen [...]

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June 2011 Tech Reviews

June 14, 2011 by Todd Sheridan Perry 1 Comment

Red Giant’s Trapcode Particular Usually creating particle systems requires a 3D package with an fx geek behind the controls spinning spinners on turbulence, wind, gravity, etc. to get cool looking stuff.  Trapcode Particular from Red Giant Software brought those controls into the 2D world of After Effects, and back not [...]

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