Micro Mahem is a fun little short from Stoopid Buddy Studios , the Burbank, California  based stop-motion animation studio that brought ...

Even as Maya 2014 is launched, I know in advance it's not going to fix the things that drive me mad about this piece of software that...

I've had this idea for about eighteen years now.  I have no way of making it happen, but I do have an outlet to share the idea with y...

The growing and rather depressing trend for jobs to leave London's Soho and head for Canada seems to be picking up pace. Framestore, ...

Before Dan Scanlon directed Monsters University , he did a mockumentary called Tracy.   He talked to FLIP about it back in 2008 , when it w...

Jim Van Der Keyl is a caricaturist and animator who has worked on many of the biggest animated hits from DreamWorks in recent years, inc...

Back in 1989 I spent a summer working at the newly built Disney MGM studios theme park in Orlando, Florida, which among other rides featu...

Yesterday's post on studio space seemed to resonate with readers.  FLIP heard from a couple of art department veterans.   Fred C...

On today's CBS Sunday Morning, Richard Schlesinger  did a segment on the Herman Miller Company , where the office cubicle was created de...

You may recall from an earlier post, I am cleaning out my father's house, which is also my childhood house. Among the ancient treasu...

Brenda Chapman has found herself to be a lighting rod for controversy this year.  So FLIP asked the question no one else dared ask: If ...

I put forth the theory that 2D animation died of an overdose. In the 1990's, 2D feature animation exploded, then imploded.  Where a...

Matchmove: it's all about cameras, baby Matchmove is one of the more technical and less well known departments in the 3D visual effe...

Last week I went to Disneyland. I took two nieces, aged seven and four years old respectively, for cover, just in case anyone wondered wh...

A CNN article writes:  "On May 1, the entertainment giant filed an application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to secure t...

Jamie Baker, last summer. My old pal and animation colleague James "Jamie" Baker had a stroke just after last Christmas.  When...

I read this morning about the passing of a twelve year old boy from Allentown, PA named Zachi Telesha, who fought bone cancer for  almost h...

Mention the film Jason and the Argonauts , and people think of  Ray Harryhausen .  He didn't write it, he didn't direct it, he didn...

Here's a silly one for your Sunday: the  Cheese and Onions sequence from All You Need is Cash , a parody documentary based on the care...

Question: What is this thing and what does it have to do with animation?

One thing I love about our business is getting to work with stars of my childhood.  In 1998, it was Frank Gorshin , one of the greatest ...

Last week I had dinner with some dinosaurs. Or, as they are more commonly known, cartoonists. The occasion was the semi-annual dinner of ...

Con-men, crypts, buried treasure... and zombies In March we interviewed animator, story board artist and director Stephan Franck, who ha...

Cinesite Europe, my former London employer and (until recently) one of the big hitters in visual effects in Soho, have just made some mas...

I got an e-mail from a student, asking me if there was any way to be seen as successful without working at a big studio. My answer: no. ...