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Thursday, February 28, 2013

The SpaceTop 3D desktop - the world's first transparent computer

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At this year's TED conference in Los Angeles, TED fellow Jinha Lee has unveiled the SpaceTop 3D desktop, developed in collaboration wi...
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Relativity and a Coke

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Editor Ron Price once said to me, "The problem with you, Steve, is that you want to direct the world." Well I say, "Mea-f...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Momentum grows to demand recognition for VFX artists

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Ang Lee - ungrateful? VFX Solidarity International 's campaign for recognition for VFX artists is gaining momentum, finding its way ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

A photo interview wuth Uli Meyer and his new children's book "Cuthbert was Bored"

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Uli Meyer at work - photograph copyright Richard Keith Wolff Photographer and friend of FLIP Richard Keith Wolff visited veteran London...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Our congratulations to the makers of Brave

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FLIP is delighted to congratulate the makers of Brave on their well deserved triumph at the Oscars. To find out more about the film-mak...

Going Green in support of R&H and the artists who helped Life of Pi win Oscar gold

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We're going green in support of VFX Solidarity international , expressing our support for all the vfx artists and animators who helpe...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Remembering Roobarb and Custard - and Bob Godfrey

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Bob Godfrey , the British animator who created Roobarb and Custard, which broadcast in the UK in when I was a child, has died.  Weirdly ...
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The Palace of Depression

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No, this is not the story of Disney Studios in the year 2000.  This is the story of a strange place my mother visited as a child during...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

An Interview with animation producer Don Hahn

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Don Hahn is an animated film Producer whose credits are almost a roll-call of the Second Golden Age of Animation . His films include Who ...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A Pen for Creating "3D Drawings"

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From a couple of guys named Max and Pete comes this bizarre 3D pen called the 3Doodler.  Instead of ink, the pen dispenses a thin, steady ...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Pope Rebecca I

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In a timely find, animator and story board artist Rebecca Rees has unearthed a series of sketches done by Dan Haskett in 1978 which car...
Monday, February 18, 2013

The Animator's Survival Kit meets the iPad

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I don't have an iPad, and I don't know what you call a book released for use on it. Is it an iBook? an eBook? An iBook App? An e-i...
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Richard Williams Shows How to Move It

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How To Move It: A Tribute to Richard Williams from Amid Amidi on Vimeo . I don't really know what to make of this very funny, but ...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Brenda the Brave

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Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman at the British Academy Awards Last week, BRAVE  won the British Academy Award, or BAFTA, for best anim...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Kevin Lima on Harald Seipermann's Death

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The extraordinarily talented German development artist Harald Seipermann  has succumbed to cancer. Harald worked on the Disney features s...

Zahra Dowlatabadi explains the secrets of Producing Animation

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Zahra Dowlatabadi is an animation producer who literally wrote the book - " Producing animation " - co-authored with Catherine...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Say it with a Slap!

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For Valentines's Day, a very silly sequence from Walt Disney's Fun and Fancy Free .  With today's awareness of domestic violenc...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Beck's Last Brew - An Interview with Jerry Beck

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Yesterday, Jerry Beck announced his departure from Cartoon Brew, the animation blog he founded with Amid Amidi in 2004, which became ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Rhythm & Hues Wins a BAFTA, gets an Oscar nom - and Goes Bust

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It seems that Rhythm and Hues is going under. The pioneering VFX studio, responsible for some of the most ground-breaking visual effect...
Monday, February 11, 2013

The End of the Animation Lab

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Jerusalem - not an obvious place to make an animated film The Animation Lab , the animation studio founded in Jerusalem back in the e...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

BAFTAs Tonight - But Who is Voting?

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    Tonight is the BAFTA awards, the biggest movie night of the year here in the UK, though elsewhere probably just a foretaste of the bi...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Hearts & Hammers, Episode 2

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Valentine's Day is upon us again.  And for all the lovers loving it up, there are those for whom it is a holiday designed to remind you ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Buy Nth for Valentine's Day

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For the first time ever, I am offering original drawings from my short The Indescribable Nth for sale on Etsy.  What else am I going to do...
Monday, February 4, 2013

The Annie Awards and the Secret of Chuck Jones' Success

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The Annies - the Animation Oscars Last Saturday night, February 2nd 2013, was animation's big night - the Annie Awards , held this y...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Big Game - The Puppy Bowl!

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It's on as I write this - the best alternative to the endless commercials and delays of a Super Bowl game:  The Puppy Bowl on Animal ...
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