Blue GFX Expo is an annual showcase for the visual effects industry and the software that drives it, sponsored by (among many othe...

Deluxe accommodations. In 1986, I went to Taiwan with a very small crew of Americans to work on the feature The Brave Little Toaster .  ...

I Googled up some quotes about art from a variety of sources, not all of them artists.  I hope you find them inspiring..... ...

Whenever I run into Bill Kroyer , our dumpster diving story inevitably surfaces. In the summer of 1984, I was working one of my fi...

The inspiration for FLIP came from meeting industry people whose personal work far out-shined the studio projects they worked on.   Vicki B...

CNN reports on a controversy involving the tombstone of murdered Army sergeant Kimberly Walker.  Because she was such a fan of SpongeBob S...

Lou Scheimer , co-founder of Filmation Studios, died Thursday at the age of 85.  His studio made an awful lot of awful TV, but the man h...

If you grew up loving Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, or The Pink Panther, you may find this new documentary very interesting...

Dane Jorgen Klubien has lived in two parallel career worlds going back to the 1970's: one as an animator and story man for studios such...

Luc's pool party. It has animation too. Luc Chamberland is a Montreal-based animator and director who has been working closely for a...

In a blow to Canadian animation, Disney has decided to close their Pixar Studios in Canada. According to Variety,  Disney spokesperson Ba...

Art Babbitt at Soho Square in the 1970s. Art is 3rd from the right, flanked by Grim Natwick to his left and Richard Purdum to his right ...

Richard Williams, Eric Goldberg and a Rabbit Last night the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences paid tribute to ...

Have you seen Michael J. Fox's new, self-titled sitcom?  The one where he plays a guy with Parkison's disease?  Is it a dark h...

FLIP's own Alex Williams has reached a milestone.  His comic strip Queen's Counsel started its run in The Times of London twenty...

Tony Siruno is one of our industry's leading character designers. For many years he worked for DreamWorks, helping to design many of t...

Frans Vischer's self=caricature. Animator Frans Vischer has a side project that he has nurtured for several years, a comic series...

Every creative person can cite some other creative person whose work had a major influence on them.    For me, it's Chuck Jones ...

Mickey - as you have never seen him before. Escape From Tomorrow is a micro budget indie horror flick filmed without permission, using ...

Did I mention my new short Chief, Your Butt's on Fire this week?   We're in festival submission mode around here, and just as film ...

Gerry and Kit Laybourne. photo by Christopher Wahl for Dwell Magazine. I was looking through the latest issue of the magazine Dwell: A...

What Is Wrong With The Global Development Organisation?  is a short film project executed by a group of my students, mostly at Bucks New ...

  Tumblehead Animation is one of a number of small studios that have grown up around the hub of the excellent Animation Workshop in Viborg...

Brenda Chapman....she who laughs last.... On Monday, director Brenda Chapman spoke at the United Nations as part of a TEDx event BRAVE: ...

Dave Bossert, Producer, Creative Director and Head of Special Projects at Walt Disney Animation Studios, has just published a n...