…have seemed to have no value when it was first filmed. Much of it is a live action/animation hybrid and features animation by Disney vet Eric Goldberg. The still features…

Animation World Network has a new preview of some of the animated shorts making the festival circuit at the moment. QuickTime clips of each short are made available and it…

…two decades he transformed a struggling animation studio and its pair of amusement parks into a global entertainment powerhouse with 11 theme parks, a dozen television channels, a top-rated broadcast…

Steamin’ hot off the DreamWorks Animation press comes the following synopsis for The Madagascar Penguins in A Christmas Caper the short feature playing with this Friday’s release of Wallace and…

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Genndy Tartakovsky, responsible for such series as Samuri Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars, has been enlisted as a feature animation director for the newly…

Moviehole critiques the DTV movie Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild. Michael J.Fox, Geena Davis, and Hugh Laurie return for the second sequel, though the blend of live-action/computer animation…

The Business of Animation blog writes that a computer animated film adaptation of the comic strip Opus may still be happening. If so, however, the Weinsteins might be taking the…

Check out Greenwich Time for an article on stop motion animation and Nick Park’s efforts to keep it alive (with a mention of Flushed Away’s “deliberately understated” CGI animation). “In…

o-meon updates with an article by animation vet Floyd Norman about his recent trip to Kansas City, “the home of Walt Disney’s first animation studio.” Take a step back in…

Post Magazine reports that Brickyard VFX is venturing into computer animation with a new division. Recruiting Jay Lichtman and Yafei Wu, both from London’s Glassworks, and Robert Sethi, from UK-based…

…Nonetheless, Iger continued to stress the importance of animation at Disney, commenting, “Animation is and will be at the heart and soul of Disney. Developing high-quality Disney animated films is…

The Associated Press, via SacUnion.com, looks at the progression of Orphanage Animation Studios Inc. and Wild Brain Inc., two smaller computer animation houses rising in their field….

Opening Wednesday at New York’s Museum of Modern Art is ”Pixar: 20 Years of Animation,” reportedly the “most extensive gallery exhibition” the Museum of Modern Art has ever devoted to…

Today marks the release of two Disney titles new to DVD: Valiant from Vanguard Animation and distributed by Disney, and Kronk’s New Groove, a fun and inventive sequel to Yzma’s…

…at least be enjoyed by younger audiences. “Humor abounds in this successful sequel, the animation and voice talent are strong, and the characters are just as appealing as in the…

…and Gary Goldman; a four-part “Making of Anastasia” documentary (“Creating the Story,” “Defining Characters,” “Creating of Animation,” & “Music in the Air”); an “Aaliyah: Journery to the Past” music video…

“Miracle_sets” at the Animation Nation Bulletin Board points to Saved Disney, where a 3 ½-minute news video from Milwaukee’s local WTMJ Channel 4 tells of the progress traditional animation studio…

…He adds “I hate that I was made to say things that are so contrary to what I believe… Ittina Animation Studios tries to do the best work it can….

…of a Pixar Animation Studios Film, Monsters, Inc., Brings Screams of Fun to Disney’s California Adventure Park ANAHEIM, Calif. (Jan. 22, 2006) – – The Disneyland 50th anniversary celebration continues…

…3-5 (EST/PST) and a 5-hour Saturday morning animation block. Together, the network will program 30 hours a week over seven days for its affiliated stations. As the top creative executive,…

…engagement at the El Capitan Theatre on Thursday, February 2. Author, animation historian, NYU Animation Professor and very recent Academy Award nominee John Canemaker has been selected to serve as…

DreamWorks Animation will begin operating under its new seven-year distribution deal with Paramount Pictures for the rights to distribute DreamWorks Animation films in theatrical, home entertainment and television markets on…

C. W. Oberleitner discusses the appointment of longtime animation producer Don Hahn as interim head of Walt Disney Feature Animation in A Tale of Two Divisions and the future of…

…Taking home prizes for animation were Nick Park and company for the Best British Film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, while Fallen Art took Short Animation Film….

As has been the case all too often recently, we have to report the passing of another light in animation’s rich legacy, with a report in today’s {{link http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1724498,00.html The…

…Some of the voice performances are fun, but the story is wobbly and all over the map and the animation lacks the eye-popping verve of Pixar’s best efforts.” Nonetheless, fans…

At the 2006 Game Developer’s Conference, Doug Cooper, Visual Effects Supervisor for DreamWorks Animation, will moderate a panel discussing the relationship film and game companies have when developing games based…

The World of KJ reviews DreamWorks Animation’s Over the Hedge, recently shown at ShoWest. ‘Arsalan’ gives the film some very positive marks, concluding, “Over the Hedge is a must-see movie,…

The Animation Guild has released their 2006 wage survey. The report reveals some of the earnings to be found in the various careers of animation….

Toon Zone notices that the New York Times ponders the roles John Lasseter and Ed Catmull will play at Walt Disney Feature Animation. On a side note, the article mentions…