In a follow-up to a front page story in the Los Angeles Times entitled “’Avatar’ stirs an animated actors debate in Hollywood,” the paper’s Rachel Abramowitz posted this interview with Steven Spielberg on his use of motion capture in his The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which utilizes the same technology [...]
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Spielberg on Mocap
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation technology, Computer animation, Film technology, Filmmakers
Tags: Motion capture·Steven Spielberg·The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Noshi Iskandar
December 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmakers
Mohamed Ghazala reports that Noshi Iskandar, who has been a key figure in Egyptian animation since the 1960s passed away last week at the age of 71. He started his career as a caricaturist and starting in 1961, he helped set up the Animation Department for Egyptian Television; his works were screened at [...]
Fantastic Mr. Fox and the New Animation Paradigm
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Animation and live action, Filmmakers, Motion capture, Stop motion animation
… The idea was breathtaking. Picasso’s love for American comic strips was mentioned in Gertrude Stein’s book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. He was now thinking about making an animated version of Don Quixote! Since he knew nothing about the intricate process of making animation, Picasso had left it up to his courtiers to [...]
Georgia Animation on My Mind Q&A
September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Filmmakers, Independent animators, Screenings
On Friday night, July 10th, ASIFA-Atlanta put on a screening of locally-made animated films at the Woodruff Art Center’s Rich Auditorium. The event, which was made possible by the High Museum of Art, was put on as part of the 21st Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference being held that weekend at the Atlanta campus [...]
Tags: American animation filmmakers·ASIFA-Atlanta·High Museum of Art·Society for Animation Studies
EmmyTVLegends.org Launched
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Producers, Television history and criticism
The Academy of Television Arts iand Sciences’ Archive of American Television has launched EmmyTVLegends.org website, which aims to put its voluminous collection of over 600 video interviews with “with the pioneers and legends of [ American]television.” The site, which uses YouTube to host the interviews, represents a second try for the Archives, which according to [...]
Tags: American television history·Archives of American Television·EmmyTVLegends.Org·Sid Casear·tBill Melendez
Norman McLaren’s Films Added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register
August 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Film history and criticism, Filmmakers
As the CBC reports, “The UNESCO Memory of the World Register has selected McLaren’s films to be held in its heritage collection of the most significant world cultural artifacts.
“McLaren’s Oscar-winning anti-war film Neighbours is among 82 films and 52 film tests to be preserved.”
The Memory of the World program is aimed at the “preservation [...]
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Iranian Elections: Marjane Satrapi and Mohsen Makhmalbaf Speak Out
June 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Filmmakers, French cinema, Iranian cinema, Politics
In following the events that are happening in Iran, it occurred to me that Marjane Satrapi, the creator of Persopolis, would certainly not be shy about speaking out on the situation. A quick search found that she, along with filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Kandahar), a representative for opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi abroad, spoke out in [...]
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Noureddin Zarrinkelk
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Iranian cinema
I just came across a brief, but interesting report on renown Iranian animation filmmaker and illustrator Noureddin Zarrinkelk’s recent appearance at Dartmouth College. The story in The Dartmouth begins by noting that,
In 1986, during the thick of the Iran-Iraq war, Iranian animator Noori Zarrinkelk visited Dartmouth for the first time to give a presentation [...]
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Nina Paley Onstage at Ebertfest
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Independent animators
Film historian Kristin Thompson, in reporting on the screening of Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues at this year’s Eberfest (Roger Ebert’s Film Festival hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Media), includes a transcript of a discussion with Paley and animation scholar (and old buddy) Richard Leskosky (seen above). In [...]
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More from Life: Hanna-Barbera, 1960
December 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Animators, Filmmakers, Television animation
The caption in the Life/Google archive for the photo above (by Allan Grant) reads: "Carlo Vinci, artist drawing cartoon at Hanna-barbara [sic] productions." Taken in 1960, the year Hanna Barbera became the force in television animation with The Flintstones, when it debuted on the ABC network on prime time. The image below has the [...]
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Max Fleischer at The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Producers
Steve Hulett, on The Animation Guild blog, noted this story by Joel Feingold from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Max Fleischer’s days as a cartoonist at the paper from 1901 to 1905. It also reprints several examples of his work, including the one on the left, from August 1902, noting “Chawles’ resemblance to Betty Boop.” [...]
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Do You Know This Krazy Kat?
December 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Filmmakers, History and criticism, Short films
The Nitrate Film Interest Group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists‘ has a Flicker site where archivists post frame scans (and clips) of unidentified films. The above "frame scan is from the end of the film when the audience realizes that Krazy has been eating his furniture in his sleep."
David Bordwell recently noted [...]
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"An audience with Miyazaki, Japan’s animation king"
December 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Anime, Filmmakers
The Japan Times just published this story by Mark Schilling about an appearance by Hayao Miyazaki’s at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo on November 20th. He notes that, "After the event, his most widely quoted remark was a dig at Prime Minister Taro Aso, who has often publicly proclaimed his love of manga. [...]
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"Cartoons Without Computers? Silly Animators!"
December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Independent animators
This is the title of an interesting story in yesterday’s New York Times about independent, adult-oriented animation, which notes that,
Serious animation is not unknown in the United States, although the market situation might be comparable to that of California wine, pre-1976. “Waltz With Bashir,” the coming Sony Pictures Classics animated release about the Israeli invasion [...]
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Life Magazine Photos Online!
November 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Animators, Filmmakers, Television
Life magazine’s photo archives are in the process of being posted online, thanks to Google. The magazine was the picture journal of its day and was published weekly from 1936-1972, and continued to be issued in various stand alone forms until 2000. And its roster of photographers reads like a Who’s Who of Photo [...]
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