On wednesday I went with some of my students from Buckinghamshire New University to visit Shepperton Studios. Being a movie geek, I cou...

In 1992, I got to work on three great projects: The Nightmare Before Christmas, A Goofy Movie , and one that was never produced, Gremlins ...

Andy's in the house Earlier this year I posted about New Year's Resolutions for Animators , one of which was to learn a ne...

Animation is a weird combination of art and business. The medium used such a Byzantine mess of equipment, and took so long to create compare...

As we begin our third year a blog, Alex and I are pleased to announced the addition of Nancy Beiman as a FLIP writer.  Nancy was the firs...

Photo by Ted Mathot This past Thursday night, Ben Walker hosted Bizarro Sketch Night as a fundraiser for Jamie Baker where artists sket...

If you're in the San Francisco area Thursday night, be sure to check out an unusual fundraiser being by Ben Walker . Bizarro Sketch ...

Author and polymath Josh Kaufman gave an excellent talk at TED recently where he discusses the horror of trying to invest 10,000 hours ...

Every business has its bean counters.  In the bean business, they have them in spades.  A team of bean counters determines exactly how ma...

What should an animator's new year's resolutions be? Animation is a huge and growing business, a far cry from the cottage indus...

I first met Matt Novak working at the Disney Florida animation studio, known back in the late 1980s as the Disney MGM Studios. We were...

How could you possibly make the holiday season any more hectic? Move!

I went to CalArts in the fall of 1981 as an 18 year-old just out of high school.  I had never lived on my own, and found myself suddenl...

Thomas Bo Huusmann is a graduate of the excellent Animation Workshop in Denmark, surely one of the very best places to study animation in...

If you shop on the internet, or have friends or family who live far away, the holiday season includes some sort of postal service. ...

As a CalArts student in the early '80's, I had the opportunity to meet many people who worked for Walt Disne...

The Golden City - part of the newly restored Director's Cut of The Thief Last night on Tuesday December 10th Richard Williams introd...

Tina Price started the Creative Talent Network (CTN) as a website for animation artists to showcase their work after Disney laid off a ver...

Kirk Hendry is a London based director of the critically acclaimed short Junk, the story of a boy with a voracious appetite for awful thin...

John Ramirez has forged an exceptionally successful career not just as an animation artist but as a designer of parades and theme parks. H...

It's that time again, when media whips people into a shopping frenzy, then sits back and laughs as gift buying turns into a bloodsport. ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that it will screen a newly edited director's cut of The Thief And The ...

Friday night was my 20th birthday party. Well, technically it was the 20th birthday party of my cartoon strip, Queen's Counsel , which...

Sad news.  Diane Disney, Walt's daughter, died today at the age of 79.   I had the opportunity to meet Diane in 1984, as a Cal Arts...

Brandy, an upper crust pure breed, is shipwrecked in the Amazon jungle with Mr. Whiskers, a  bunny used for science experiments.   Do...