A 1935 animation cel featuring Mickey Mouse in The Band Concert will be auctioned off on February 24-25. The animation art is estimated t be worth over $100,000. It is thought to be the only production setup in existence from the first Mickey cartoon that features Mickey and the entire band.“This cel is, in many […]
You can skip the Super Bowl this year. The Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom ad that will run during the game has been released early.
Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-head is returning to MTV. Screenrant.com reports that the episodes will be new.The new Beavis and Butt-Head episodes will be nothing short of a direct continuation of the original series. Decidedly not a reboot or remake, the show will return with Judge at the helm and behind the microphone. The show?s […]
Rio is due out this Easter.
Last week I mentioned Robert Downey Jr. would voice the character Mr. Peabody for an animated film of Mr. Peabody and Sherman slated to be released in 2014. Cartoon brew has images of the first concept art.
Earlier this week The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for their Academy awards. Here is the list of those nominated in the Best Animated Short Film. Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang […]
In a word… awesome.Via Mike Lynch.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced this year’s nominees for the Academy Awards. Here are the cartoon/animation related category nominees:Best Animated Short Film Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang Let’s Pollute A Geefwee […]
Banksy made headlines back in October when he created an extended Simpsons opening with a dark depiction of sweatshops and environmentally unsafe working conditions for those who produce the animation. He’s posted the story boards he created for opening on his website.Here’s the opening:Via: The Animation Blog
From the New York Post: Rovio, the Finnish company which created the mobile app, will produce an animated “Angry Birds” series for TV or the Web. “We have been looking at that for quite a while, and that is definitely one of my personal big focus areas right now — to work on broadcast content […]
It’s going to be sensory overload for die-hard Pearls Before Swine fans now that animated versions of the strip start appearing on comics. com today. For anyone who’s ever wondered what the Crocs’ accent sounds like or how Pig withstands Rat’s physical punishment, they will have to “tune in” to find out.“Now others can finally […]
Entertainment Weekly reports that DreamWorks has signed Robert Downey Jr to voice Mr. Peabody – the genius dog that appeared with Sherman during the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.The cartoons were created in the late 1950s and ’60s, but remained popular for decades, though they may have fallen off the radar for those under 30. The […]
A print by anonymous graffiti artist Banksy was sold at auction for $120,000.From CNN: The work, “Save or Delete Jungle Book,” went under the hammer alongside works by other urban artists as part of an Urban Art sale at Bonhams auction house in London. The image was originally commissioned by Greenpeace for a poster campaign […]
Last night was the debut of “Bob’s Burgers” on the Fox Network.The Boston Globe gave it a favorable write-up:“Bob’s Burgers” has a more sharply offbeat sensibility than its more pop-culture rooted Sunday night neighbors, veering between absurd, endearing, and crude – which fits with the avant stand-up stylings of folks like Schaal and Mirman. Some […]
The next Ice Age (Ice Age: Contintal Drift) movie is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. Here’s the animated short teaser now in theaters: