Tag: Guard Dog
Weird Al Yankovic Presents Bill Plympton Animation Retrospective in N.Y.C.
Musical parody maestro “Weird Al” Yankovic will present a collection of the weirdest, wildest and most innovative shorts from Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton, in...
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts Celebrates Stop-Motion Magic in Oregon
The 2025 Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts is pulling back the curtain on the creatively and technically challenging world of stop-motion animation in Animation:...
Bill Plympton’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Guard Dog’ Debuts on YouTube
A piece of animation history is ready to fetch a fresh audience online, Bill Plympton's hand-illustrated short Guard Dog bounds onto YouTube. The 2004 dark...
Bill Plympton’s ‘Slide’ Closes Record-Setting Animayo Edition
Animayo, International Animation, Visual Effects and Videogames Summit -- the only animation festival in Spain designated a qualifier for the Academy Awards in two...
Fear of a Deadly Virus: Bill Plympton & Danny Leonard Profile Pandemic Life in ‘Demi’s Panic’
***This article originally appeared in the December '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 315)***
At the start of the pandemic, Danny Leonard and Lorena Hernández...
Bill Plympton Returns as Couch Gag Artist for ‘Simpsons’ 700th Episode
Oscar-nominated "King of Indie Animation" Bill Plympton is making a repeat performance on The Simpsons, providing a brand-new Couch Gag for the record-setting FOX...
Criterion Channel Presents Bill Plympton Starting Sunday
Home to critically acclaimed indies, arthouse movies and documentaries, The Criterion Channel streaming platform is spotlighting the works of animation icon Bill Plympton. Starting...
Shout! Factory Acquires Library of Bill Plympton Features & Shorts
Shout! Factory has acquired the library of acclaimed animator and cartoonist Bill Plympton. The deal encompasses all seven of his feature films (The Tune,...
Cartoons on the Bay 2019 Pulcinella Winners
The 23rd International Cross-Media and Children's Television Festival, Cartoons on the Bay took place April 11-13 in historic Torino, Italy. This year’s edition once...
Exclusive: Bill Plympton Toons Up Tim Grimm’s “Gonna Be Great” MV
Indie animation maestro Bill Plympton has turned his pencil power to a new music video for Tim Grimm’s haunting political dirge “Gonna Be Great,”...
‘Changyou’s Journey’: A Son’s Animated Tribute
***This story originally appeared in the February 2019 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 287)***
Before he was even started middle school, Perry Chen began a...
Bill Plympton Tackles Trump in New Webtoon
Academy Award nominee and Palme D’Or winner Bill Plympton - the “King of Indie Animation" -- is turning his filmmaking passion toward politics with...
Plymptoons Announces Free NYC ‘Revengeance’ Screening
Indie animation fans in the New York area have a great opportunity to catch a free screening of Revengeance -- an adult-targeted action toon...
Toon Veterans Offer Career Tips During Animag’s Comic-Con Panel
Write and draw every day. Work well with your peers. Get used to getting lots and lots of criticism, and put your work out...
SVA’s Dusty Awards Presenters Announced
Reeves Lehman, chair of the Film and Animation BFA programs at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and award-winning producer Annie Flocco -- director...
Plympton’s School of Animation Reopens in January
Multiple award-winning and two-time Oscar nominated animator Bill Plympton will reopen the Plympton School of Animation for a two-month intensive course both on site...
ShortsHD Presents Plympton Catalog on TV, Online
The ShortsHD TV network will air a week's worth of animation by Bill Plympton starting Oct. 11.
The weeklong event begins with the network's Editors...
ShortsHD Acquires Full Plympton Library
Short film outlet ShortsHD has acquired indie animation legend Bill Plympton's entire library of shorts and features for distribution on all ShortsTV and ShortsHD...
Plympton’s ‘Cheatin’ to Premiere at Slamdance
Bill Plympton's much-anticipated new feature Cheatin' will premiere as part of The Special Screenings program at the Slamdance Film Festival in January (17-23). The indie...
Plympton Goes Noir
The New York indie darling puts the finishing touches on Cheatin', his quirky homage to hard-boiled Hollywood thrillers.
If any contemporary animator could be said...
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