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Too Art for TV, Too opens this Friday

Cartoon Brew has the details on Too Art for TV, Too, defined as “the second annual exhibition of personal art by New York’s animation industry.” Curated by Liz Artinian, Amanda…

More on Robot Chicken: Star Wars

…discussing the origin of Robot Chicken and how they went about in creating the 30-minute special. Robot Chicken: Star Wars premieres on June 17th, 2007 on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim….

Bravestarr: The Movie

…of Native American culture to be portrayed. A toy line was produced, but it came to stores several months before the public had gotten its first glimpse of the cartoon….

Re-Animated coming to DVD

Animation Insider reports that the Cartoon Network live-action/animation feature, Re-Animated, is making its way to DVD. The film wich set a ratings record for the network’s top original movie debut,…

Farfur Mouse Club

…Mickey-inspired star, New York Daily News reports that Diane Disney Miller is speaking out against the show. Cartoon Brew points out that clips from Tomorrow’s Pioneers may be viewed here….

Disney goes big on shorts

…appears that anyone who is a member of the company’s “Shorts Club,” including secretaries and help-desk employees, may access a computer workstation in their off-hours to make a five-minute cartoon….

Studio survey offers Disney, Sony, Network news

…that Sony Pictures Animation will include an animated short with Surf’s Up, while the studio is also planning sequels to some of its features. In Cartoon Network news, the network…

Tootsie Pop classic gets CGI remake

Cartoon Brew notices that the animated 1970 Tootsie Pop commercial in which a boy unsuccessfully searches for the number of licks it takes to reach the center of a Tootsie…

Animation from Enchanted online

Cartoon Brew has posted a link to a Disney promo video featuring clips from several upcoming films. Among them is the first animation seen from Enchanted….

Play the game of life . . . insurance

An article in The Orange County Register attempts to articulate which famous cartoon, comic, and movie characters are most in need of a life insurance policy. The piece reports on…

Remembering What's Opera, Doc?

In celebration of the classic Bugs Bunny short’s golden anniversary, TheStar.com remembers What’s Opera, Doc?, which the site describes as “a cartoon that would likely never be made today.” The…

Hip-hop's Williams calls animated films "life-altering"

…watching Disney cartoons: Bambi, Snow White, The Incredibles and Toy Story. It’s life-altering, that [stuff]. I’m a Cartoon Network fan. And Boomerang. That’s the throwback channel for cartoons. So I’m…

Little Mermaid at the El Capitan report

“Droosan” in our Animated News Forums has posted his account of the Little Mermaid panel discussion held Thursday, September 7, at Disney’s El Capitan Theatre. Amid at Cartoon Brew has…

UPDATED: Looking forward to the WABAC

…of fans are discovering them on the Cartoon Network. Thanks to Mr. Peabody’s WABAC Machine, the story possibilities are as endless as time itself and we are looking forward to…

RIP, Jan Svochak (1926-2006)

At the age of 80 years old, Jan Svochak died Wednesday afternoon, reports Cartoon Brew. After fighting in World War II, Svochak gained a position at Famous Studios in NYC,…

Tugger: The film that wanted to fly

Cartoon Brew notices the tragic tale of Tugger: The Jeep 4X4 Who Wanted to Fly, as told by the Orlando Sentinel. The story regards the making of a film which…

Unshown Cinema to be shown in September

Cartoon Brew reminds that Unshown Cinema: The Animated Films That Got Away will be screening in Los Angeles this September 22 – 24 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and…

NBC properties have Big Idea

The Nashville Business Journal reports that starting Saturday, September 9th, NBC and Telemundo will host the Big Idea series VeggieTales, 3-2-1 Penguins, and Larry Boy – The Cartoon Adventures. Likewise,…

China aims for 70,000 minutes of animation

AngolaPress indicates that China’s cartoon industry is expected to produce 70,000 minutes of animation this year, signaling the industry’s rapid development. Attempting to reach that goal, the country has released…

Class to soon be in session

Multichannel writes that on October 27th, at 7pm, Cartoon Network will air a “mockumentary,” Sunny Bridges: From Bankhead to Buckhead, dealing with the title star of its upcoming series, Class…

Cuthbert on Cat Tale

…video game. “They said, ‘You’ve got a great voice, and we’d love to use you for an animated cartoon. It wouldn’t take up a lot of your time. If you’d…

"A Salute to Norman McLaren" scheduled for tonight

Cartoon Brew reminds that this evening, “A Salute to Norman McLaren” will be held, courtesy of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Hosted by animation critic Charles Solomon,…

TV to DVD news: Looney Tunes, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, The Tick

TV Shows on DVD has obtained the listing of shorts to be featured on the Looney Tunes: Golden Collection – Volume 4 DVD. Cartoon Brew records the extras included in…

New Rankin/Bass blog opens

Rankin/Bass Historian and Biographer Rick Goldschmidt has opened a blog dealing with one of his main interests in life: Rankin/Bass Studios. Noticed by Cartoon Brew, the site serves as a…

DreamWorks Animation's Siggraph Presentations

…Gokhan Kisacikoglu); a unique set of controls had to be developed to direct the branches and leaves when characters go through the hedge in Over the Hedge. * Cartoon Motion…

Monster House clips, concept art; Director Kenan interview, profile

…In the meantime, artist Chris Appelhans has posted some of his excellent concept art for Monster House at Flight Comics, as discovered by Cartoon Brew. Lastly, Yahoo! Movies has three…

John Kricfalusi vs. Warner Bros. on You Tube

…illustrations for numerous essays regarding his favorite cartoons. However, Warner Bros. insists that by doing such, copyright infringement was involved. Nonetheless, Kricfalusi believes that many of the cartoons he posted…

Pixar employee arrested for sending explicit images to 'minor' from office

…girl, {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=68395 The Big Cartoon Database}} reports. The employee, who was given screen credit in several of the company’s films, was arrested at his workplace on the Pixar campus….

Animated box office returns: 2001-2006

Mayerson on Animation, with the help of Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research and Box Office Mojo, has compiled an interesting list of the box office grosses for animated films from 2001-2006….

TMNT roundup

…TMNT. In the meantime, fans of the 80’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon may be glad to know that Lionsgate will release the fourth season of the show in a…