First of all, a HUGE public thank you to Jerry Beck , the patron saint of cartoons, for posting about Redux on his Cartoon Brew site.  The...

In September of 1995, at Disney TV Animation, Veep Sharon Morrill asked if I would like to direct a Fractured Fairy Tales type of short, a...

Chester squirrel wants YOU on October 7th A few years ago I started helping out the Royal Parks Foundation by designing characters and ...

Ever since Kodak filed for bankruptcy in the US, a question mark has hung over its UK subsidiary Cinesite. Cinesite is an excellent visual e...

Maurice Sendak invited me to lunch.  I had been in the running to take over as director of the animated Where the Wild Things Are feature a...

A DreamWorker The vast arch that leads into DreamWorks animation is even bigger than the one at Paramount - and this is surely not a...

 Some dinosaurs, including Andreas Deja, Nik Ranieri, Raoul Garcia and Charles Solomon. Tom Sito is behind the camera. Animation cr...

From Disney Studios' Dave Bossert : " Don Hahn and I will be doing another evening of Disney Rarities at the Newport Beach Fil...

Duncan Studio is turning to Kickstarter to independently fund their interactive storybook, My Beastly ABC's . Ken Duncan told FLIP...

Roger Rabbit by Rob Minkoff - Rob corrects my animation drawings  One of the best things about working at Disney MGM Studios was bei...

Me at my Disney-MGM desk, animating a scene from Rollercoaster Rabbit In the summer of 1989 I managed to get a job as an animator at ...

Last week, I was in Hollywood visiting friends and taking in some sights with my family.  One of our last stops was a trip north to my o...

" Pandora " by Martin Aveling The Faberge Big Egg Hunt is almost over - bids close on Easter Monday for your chance to own ...

I had my first gallery show last month and want to show off my posters.  But first, backstory..... Oyster heyday of the Delaware Bay ...

According to The Guardian , last week's UK budget will bring huge tax relief for British animators, in an effort to stop jobs and produ...

I recently stumbled across Andreas Deja's blog - Deja Vu - which is crammed with excellent posts, especially on Disney's Nine Old M...

Yes, I'm weighing in on health insurance. My wife, Donna, and I did not have health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer last ...

Another awesome student film from The Animation Workshop - the hilarious Space Stallions, produced by another talented crop of recently ...

My old chum Butch Hartman is chumming for new talent.  Butch has become the King of Cartoons at Nickelodeon with his Fairly Oddparents , Da...

Those were the words of Ward Kimball , spoken in 1980 to a small theater full of Cal Arts students.  He might as well have been preaching at...

Good ol' Brenda Chapman has announced the launch of her own website:   www.brenda-chapman.com/ .  And like everything she does, she di...

Even though I have spent 20 years in the animation business, I had a short lived career in the early 90's as a barrister - that is to ...

One of the many privileges of our business is the pleasure of working alongside talented colleagues. I first met Sydney Padua at Warner Bros...

I didn't see John Carter .  But I have worked on my share of flops. My heart goes out to the really talented people who poured so m...

One of the problems that the Visual Effects business in London has had for many years is how to find suitably trained animators - photo real...