Filed under: Animation

From the Character Design blog, comes this little gem featuring some of the character designs for the movie “Monsters vs. Aliens.”

Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe is the next comic to be brought to life through animation. This animation studio this time is Powerhouse Animation out of Austin, TX.Pooch Cafe is is the last of many comic features on YouTube. Previous announcements include Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac, Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater, Mark Tatulli Lio, Jim Borgman […]

Every Pixar feature film is accompanied by a short film that plays before the main feature. Various film blogs are reporting details about the short film “Partly Cloudy” that will be released with “Up.” The short will be centered around a gray cloud name Gus. From the animationblog.com comes this synopsis. Everyone knows that the […]

Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac is the latest comic strip to be brought to life courtesy of Ringtales and Michael Jantze’s studio (Michael’s studio did the actual animation). According to Richard’s blog, the voice talent for the alice character was provided by Colette Jantze. One of the spoilers for most of the comic strip to […]

3-D animated films have proven to be big business. Disney says they have 17 3-D animated film releases in the works for release in the next three years. This October, they will release a two-week double feature of “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2” and follow up with a release a 3-D rework of its […]

The New York Times reports that heirs of Walt Disney are set to open a new museum in San Francisco called The Walt Disney Family Museum. The museum’s goal is to focus attention on the Walt as a real person and not a brand. Diane Disney Miller, Walt’s sole surviving child was quoted as saying […]

For those infrequent times where you need to mail something through the post office, you will soon be able to use stamps featuring Matt Groening’s The Simpsons. The stamps, which were designed by Matt himself, will go live next Thursday. Each year, the U.S. Postal Service receives 50,000 suggestions for stamps and only 20 of […]

RingTales, the company co-founded by Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry, has launched a new iPhone/iPod Touch app featuring their animated New Yorker cartoons. Unlike other cartoon iPhone apps where cartoons are viewed sequentially, The New Yorker Animated Cartoon iPhone App allows you to shake the phone to randomly show a new set of cartoon […]

Joe Murray, creator of animated series Rocko’s Modern Life (1993-1996) and Camp Lazlo (2005-2008), announced on his blog that his eBook, Crafting a Cartoon, has been picked up for print publication by Random House. The eBook will be discontinued as a result (although it’s still available as I type this) and the book will come […]

Nina Paley, an American cartoonist and animator, has released her feature length animated film, Sita Sings the Blues, online for free. “There is the question of how I’ll get money from all this. My personal experience confirms audiences are generous and want to support artists. Surely there’s a way for this to happen without centrally […]

ComicsDC Mike Rhode notes that Andrews McMeel has posted animations of Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac and Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater on YouTube. I also notice that they have a Mark Tatulli Lio animation as well. The animation is reportedly done by RingTales who does all the New Yorker and Dilbert animations.UPDATE: Received notice from […]

Yves Bigerel (known as Balak01 on DeviantArt) has created a set of comic demonstrations using Flash.

Girls and Sports co-creator Andrew Feinstein is involved in a CGI project for Fox Sports’ NASCAR broadcast this season. The animation entitled “The Adventures of Digger and Friends,” first appeared last Sunday before the Daytona 500 and another cartoon will air before the Auto Club 500 this Sunday. Andrew is the producer, writer and executive […]

The Simpsons went high-definition last Sunday. As part of the change a new opening was created, which can be seen on YouTube.

» After 20 years, The Simpson’s has a new intro. I’m glad to see the inclusion of more characters, but I still prefer the classic intro.» uClick (the tech company behind Universal Press Syndicate) is the number #1 mobile comic distributed for iPhone and iPod Touch. uClick CEO was on CNNMoney touting his iPhone funny […]