Don Figlozzi (1909-81), spent the first half of his career in animation and the second half at the New York Daily News, , where his cartoons, signed “Fig,” became a fixture (see sample below). In between, he briefly worked for the newspaper’s TV station, WPIX, as a pioneer in a field that became known as broadcast [...]
Entries from December 25th, 2010
Don Figlozzi, the First TV Animator?
December 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Television animation, Television broadcasting, Television history and criticism
Tags: Broadcast design·Don Figlozzi·Motion graphics·New York Daily News·WPIX-TV
Greek Animation Festivals/Conferences
December 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Animation Festivals
Forget the financial crisis in Greece, as the country prepares to not only host the 23rd Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference, March 18-20, 2011, but two animation festivals within a month of each other. The first , which is being held in collaboration with the SAS Conference, is the 6th edition of Animfest Athens, [...]
Tags: Animfest Athens·BE THERE! Corfu Animation Festival·Society for Animation Studies
Lucerne Animation Academy’s LIAA-TV
December 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Filmmakers, Music and film, Screenwriting
About a year ago, the Lucerne School of Art and Design, in Lucerne, Switzerland, put on its first Lucerne Animation Academy (LIAA). The four-day event was publicized as a “a great opportunity for people from theory and practice to meet and share their views on the characteristics of dramaturgy in animation films, in all its [...]
Tags: Brothers Quay·David O. Reilly·Georges Schwizgebel·Jerzy Kucia·LIAA-TV·Lucerne Animation Academy·Norman Roger·Otto Alder·Priit Pärn·Yuri Norstein
Tangled
December 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · American cinema, Cinematography, Computer animation, Feature films, Stereoscopic films
Despite the unexpected critical admiration Byron Howard and Nathan Greno’s Tangled seems to have gained, I was somewhat neutral in approaching the film. In the end, though, I found much to admire in it, especially its use of lighting. The film, which is inspired by the Brothers Grimm version of Rapunzel, is not without its [...]
Tags: Byron Howard·David Goetz·Mohit Kallianpur·Nathan Greno·Tangled (2010)
Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas — The Google eBook Edition
December 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Anime, Books, Harvey Deneroff
Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas, the book I helped Fred Ladd write about his involvement with anime (as producer and adapter of films/programs for the American market), as well as his view of the post-Astro Boy history of Japanese animation, is now available as a Google eBook. (It can be ordered here.) [...]
Tags: Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: An Insiders View of the Birth of a Pop Culture Phenomenon·Fred Ladd