In this excellent 30 minute documentary, the film-makers explore the sad end of Rythm and Hues, one of the world's finest visual eff...

An article in the Huffington Post puts forward an interesting theory:  Woody's female counterpart Jessie originally belonged to…….bel...

  I was very sorry to hear of Harold Ramis' death today.  He was one of my favorites on SCTV in the '70's.  Watching tha...

Frank ran the Character Animation course at CalArts  Animator and teacher Frank Terry has died. According to his family: "....(Fra...

FLiP's own Nancy Beiman has now had two major interviews in one month.  First, as part of the Vanity Fair story on the early days of the...

Everyone needs an animated film, even if they don't know it yet. Ten years ago, no-one could have imagined that every plumber would ne...

I'm writing this as a bit of an addendum to the VANITY FAIR article on the early years of Cal Arts. I'm pleased and honored to hav...

The latest issue of Vanity Fair has a fantastic article on the genesis of the CalArts Character Animation program and the Hollywood heav...

The idea behind this excellent four minute video is - that since all of us are likely fail in almost everything we do (at least at fir...

The Interview The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, is one of Europe's leading animation schools, perhaps the best English-la...

Don Martin predicted Mark Zuckerberg in a 1970's Mad Magazine.  The Spirit of St. Louis was playing recently on TV - James Stewart...

  "You have to be your own person, or die." ~Stephan Franck   The Creative Talent Network (CTN) often hosts interviews...

Bob Blevins and Bradly Werley are Portland based animators who have created an undoubtedly original film, T.P.   As Bob describes it, ...

The best thing about working on an animated film is, as everyone knows, the project itself. It's going to be awesome, you're goin...

After Friday's posting about the 1992 development of the Roald Dahl Gremlins project at Disney TV Animation, Jerry Rees sent FLIP a b...

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...