When I first heard of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men", seven of them were still alive.  Of those seven, I got to meet six.  And ...

At Easter of 1985, I was living in the CalArts  dormitory of heathens when I hatched an idea: I would borrow the Bo-Peep dress Kevin L...

Mill TV is no more Another blow to VFX animation in London - Mill TV, which did award-winning work on Doctor Who and Merlin is to clos...

My re-re-re-designed website Fifteen years ago in Los Angeles I met a guy who had his own website. "How pretentious" I thought...

The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark Marc Stevenson is an animator with a huge wealth of experience in the visual effects industry...

Everyone in London lives like this "Don't you miss living in Los Angeles?" is a question I get asked all the time, especia...

Silver, a new Graphic Novel by Stephan Franck Stephan Franck is a master storyteller who has worked as an animator, storyboard artist a...

WHA?????!!!!! Dave Rosenbaum , my super-cool boss at Illumination Entertainment, forwarded this announcement from Eddie Egan, President...

Fan art.  Just saying it brings a bemused smile to the face of animation artists.  Seeing a fan art version of something you worked on is a...

Wallace and Gromit would be proud. Copyright Aardman Animation Chancellor George Osbourne's budget speech yesterday may not have ins...

The end of film? Is it just me or has something weird to happened to the movies recently - why do they all look like TV shows? Here at F...

My father is 80 today. Here is a lovely photo of the pair of us, taken some years ago. Dad is best known for his animation but what is ...

Animator, teacher, and purebred New Yorker Nancy Beiman becomes a Canadian citizen today.  FLIP demanded an explanation..... Nancy Beiman...

The Royal Opera House. Photo: Peter Suranyi On Friday night I went to see Alice in Wonderland at the Royal Opera House in London. I ha...

In the early days of Disney Studios, the cramped room where Walt critiqued his crew's pencil tests was aptly dubbed "The Sweatb...

Rebecca today with dog Charlie and the lamppost she saved.  She never did get its name. Photo by Roger Wilson, Glendale News-Press You ...

Was I drugged?  Did I really see that, or was that a weird dream?  Someone took the iconic Mickey Mouse and made a far out looking short - w...

VFX Solidarity International, whose remit is to "Unite VFX Professionals and the Digital Artist community worldwide for sound intern...

Ivan Sutherland demonstrates Sketchpad, 1963. Being of a generation for which computers represented the future, it is a bit unset...

Who wants to live in Greece? Nassos Vakalis is an animator, director and storyboard artist who has had a long and varied career in t...

By David Knott When David Knott isn't winning Emmys for The Penguins of Madagascar , he's a dad helping his two little girls with...

The Harvey Kurtzman exhibit at the Society of Illustrators.  After indulging my eyes in two floors of artwork from Harvey Kurtzman and ...

Even Harvey Kurtzman's signature is funny. I don't live in New York, but I just happened to be there when the Society of Illus...

These rules were originally tweeted by Pixar Story Artist Emma Coats .

The Princess and the Frog - Disney's last 2D feature According to an article in yesterday's Guardian , 2D animation is officiall...