Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Fox Television’s “Family Guy”, will unveil a new project of animated cartoons that will appear exclusively on the Internet. The experimental project is called â??Seth MacFarlaneâ??s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedyâ? and will debut in September.The cartoons will be paired with advertisements placed on targeted Web sites, and will also be […]
Turner Broadcasting has acquired the rights to The Garfield Show, will be shot in HD, and debut on the Cartoon Network in 2009. The series will air in territories across Europe, Middle East and Africa; Asia Pacific and Latin America.
RingTales has signed an exclusive agreement with United Media to produce and distribute daily animated versions of Scott Adams’ Dilbert. The agreement covers future strip as well as over 7,000 printed versions of the strip. The first animations have been on Dilbert.com and MSN, but starting today, you can see the animates on YouTube and […]
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes is leaving her syndicated print editorial cartoons as of this Saturday to concentrate on her animated editorial cartoons that she creates for the Washington Post. The Post had asked her to increase the number of animations from two to three a week and Ann didn’t feel like she […]
Former The Orange County Register editorial cartoonist Mike Shelton, along with another former O.C. Register employee have launched a new web site for their animated editorial cartoons called politicalbastards.com (or the more mildly titled politicalbleep.com). “Animation is where the future of editorial cartooning is heading,” Shelton told E&P. The duo hopes the new site — […]
Pixar’s “Wall-E” will debut this June along with their latest short animation entitled “Presto Chango.” Animation World Magazine writes that the short is a departure from previous Pixar shorts and describes it more as a slapstick ode to Warner Bros. “Tom and Jerry.” It’s a slapstick ode to Warner Bros. and Tom and Jerry toons, […]
Rocky Mountain News sports cartoonist Drew Litton has posted his first sports animation. Last week he posted his first animation ever – a non sports cartoon he created to learn Flash. This new animation is the online version of an Avalanche cartoon that appeared last Friday. Now that I’m getting things to move it’s all […]
This year’s NCS division award for Animated feature goes to David Silverman for his work on The Simpsons Movie. David was the director of The Simpsons movie as well as The Road to Eldorado and worked on Pixar’s Monster’s Inc.
Stephen Silver has been awarded this year’s Television Animation division Award for his work on the television show Kim Possible. Currently Stephen is a character designer at Disney Television Animation and has done work for Warner Bros and Columbia Tristar.
» The Washington Post has posted a time-lapse video of editorial cartoonist Tom Toles drawing this cartoon. You can see the May 15th being drawn out.» Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller was featured on Maine news network about his passion for cartooning and living in Maine.» Patrick McDonnell, creator of Mutts, was interviewed by the […]
Rocky Mountain News sports cartoonist Drew Litton has posted his first animation – and it’s not sports related. Regarding the Flash animation, he writes on his blog: I started by doing a Rockies cartoon, but their season, much like my animation, took a sudden detour. So I went back to square one and decided to […]
The Norm creator Michael Jantze‘s animation short “Mr. Lux: At Your Service” has been accepted into the Short Film Corner at this year’s Festival de Cannes. “Mr. Lux: At Your Service” is a fast ride of traditional animation utilizing both pencil to paper animation and the latest in computer software. A new character from Jantze, […]
Fortune reports that Wall-E character “Eve” was inspired by Apple’s iPod and in fact, Pixar brought in Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, to consult for a day on the character’s design. “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology – no expense spared – and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to […]
While reporting last week on new animated movies that were due out this summer, I missed the new “Star Wars: The Clone War” movie that Lucas Film is releasing to theaters on August 15th. The computer generated movie is set between episodes II and III of the live action movies. The movie is the initial […]
There are three big animated motion pictures due out this summer. “Kung Fu Panda”, “Wall-E” and “Igor.” If they live up to their premises and the trailers, we’re in for some great entertainment.“Kung Fu Panda” is the first on to hit the screen on June 6th. Panda features Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Luci […]