The Forward looks at the life of legendary animator Ralph Bakshi who is “working on his latest project, Last Days of Coney Island. The first segment of the film, which was financed through a successful Kickstarter campaign, will be released online in the coming months”. The site has also compiled a video of his works’ […]

Planning a trip to Arendelle? The kingdom – known for its fjords, chocolate, and mild temperatures – is calling with these three beautiful travel posters. These images were originally posted by Disney a few months ago. Hopefully the weather hasn’t changed…

Over the past two weeks (and probably in anticipation of the recent end of Oscar nomination voting) the Industrial Light & Magic YouTube channel has posted almost 30 minutes worth of behind the scenes videos of their visual effects work for Pacific Rim, Star Trek Into Darkness, and The Lone Ranger.

If this previously reported L.A. Times discussion got you wanting more, The Hollywood Reporter also had a roundtable with five of the filmmakers behind this year’s top films: Chris Buck, director of Frozen; Dan Scanlon, director of Monsters University; Chris Wedge, director of Epic and a Blue Sky Studios’ founder; Kristine Belson, producer on The […]

JoBlo has the full trailer for DreamWorks’ upcoming film How To Train Your Dragon 2. “It’s been five years since Hiccup and Toothless successfully united dragons and vikings on the island of Berk… When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild […]

IGN recently attended an “Animation Master Class” featuring The Croods directors Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders and animation historian John Canemaker. The filmmakers “used the class to walk a group of NYU animation students through the creation of their awards-nominated cartoon.” You can watch a highlight reel of the class here:

Saving Mr. Banks opens next week in the United States, but it’s already made its debut overseas. The Mirror has photos from the premiere, including some of the stars of the original film, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Stars of the current film are out promoting the film. Tom Hanks discusses taking on Walt […]

The Hollywood Reporter digs into the creation of LeAnn Rimes’ new music video for the song Gasoline and Matches. The video, created by Ian Padgham, uses stop-motion animation and all 8,000 frames were shot using an iPhone. “Padgham says that anyone could use the same virtually free technology to make their own stop-motion animation nowadays. […]

Irina Neustroeva, who has described herself as a “stop-motion and media creator, a scriptwriter, [and] a teacher of animation”, has put together an amazing four-and-a-half minute video of the title sequences from 243 animated movies from Snow White to Rise of the Guardians. Besides being very cool and bringing on a feeling of nostalgia, it […]

Pixar’s Toy Story of Terror premieres tonight on ABC. The New York Times review says, “Once the annual avalanche of Halloween-themed episodes, specials and movies overtakes TV, you probably don’t expect to be using the word ‘charming’ very often. But charming perfectly describes… Toy Story of Terror.” The Wall Street Journal went behind the scenes […]