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• Is This The Ugliest Animation Book Cover? May 19th 2012 22:09

  Luca Raffaelli’s Le anime disegnate: Il pensiero nei cartoon da Disney ai giapponesi e oltre may be a very good book, but this cover for its new edition is something else. Share your nominations for ugliest animation book covers in the comments. Cartoon Brew | Permalink | 32 comments | Post tags: Le anime disegnate, Luca Raffaelli

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• “Avengers” storyboards by Jane Wu May 19th 2012 18:30

  Storyboard artist Jane Wu (Mulan II, Shane Acker’s 9) has posted two of her dynamic boards from Marvel’s The Avengers. Click on images below to see them in animatic form. It’s nice to know that strong work like this, from seasoned animation professionals like Wu, went into creating the blockbuster hit movie. Cartoon Brew | Permalink [...]

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• “Tron Uprising” Preview talkback May 19th 2012 01:25

  Tonight at 9:30pm Eastern/Pacific, Disney’s Tron Uprising airs its pilot on Disney Channel (it’s also available online). I personally think this series is a breakthrough for a US-generated animated action series; a game changer. For decades the standard look for adventure cartoons was the model started by Doug Wildey on Hanna Barbera’s Jonny Quest (1964). [...]

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• MUMIA Is A Quirky Animation Festival In Brazil May 18th 2012 09:36

  Festivals rarely make animated spots to encourage film submissions, much less spots that are as cool as the one above. The piece was created by Diego Akel to encourage filmmakers to submit to the MUMIA Underground World Animation Festival. The festival, which is celebrating its 10th edition this fall, screens in various Brazilian cities including [...]

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• “thoughtlessness” by David Martins da Silva May 18th 2012 07:05

  Perhaps this should be subtitled: “How an animator sees the world.” The visuals in this delightful short film are, according to the filmmaker, from the POV of a very imaginative child wandering through France. Filmed with a mobile phone with integrated 2D animation by David Martins da Silva, a student at EMCA (Ecole des [...]

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• Pixar’s “The Avengers” May 18th 2012 01:54

  Cartoon Brew reader J. M. Walter imagined Pixar characters in the role of The Avengers and shared this image on our Facebook page. Click to embiggen. Cartoon Brew | Permalink | 14 comments | Post tags: J. M. Walter, Marvel, The Avengers

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• Submit to Cartoon Brew’s 3rd Student Animation Festival May 17th 2012 17:26

  We’re excited to announce a call for entries for our third annual Student Film Festival, a yearly showcase of outstanding student films from around the globe. We’ve received hundreds of submissions in our first two years that have resulted in a fantastic selection of films, and we hope to continue that trend this year. Click [...]

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• Four Unconventional Disney Artist Memoirs May 17th 2012 07:42

  We’ve entered a new era of Disney-related memoirs—books written by artists who worked at the tail end of animation’s Golden Age or memoirs written by friends and relatives of the artists. Below is a look at four such books. At least a couple of them are self-published. And while some of them may be short [...]

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