S.O.S. to all CalArts Alum on land and sea!  If you're looking for an end-of-year charitable donation and want to support the arts (yes!...

  Kathleen Quaife , one of the best 2D effects animators that ever lived, passed away in her sleep last week, way too young.  I first met Ka...

Awesome art director Jill Daniels has personal art on display now at the Baldwin Avenue Gallery, a.k.a the BAG in Sierra Madre.  Between he...

    CalArts I.D., 1981 40 years ago this week, my journey in character animation began.  I've been thinking about it recently, like look...

 By Kirk Wise Was it the incessantly farting ogre that first tipped me off? Or the flat plywood sets that looked like a poorly-lit episode o...

 My old pal Jeff texted me last week, asking if I'd heard of a certain boutique animation studio, one that Wile E. Coyote might hire to ...

Here's a brilliant short that is bound to make you question your choice of eye drops.  Produced by the Humane Society International, ...

After two years of working in fits and starts, I am very pleased to present "PeaceTime: A Royal Frog".  I got this idea a while ba...

Since the election ended, I've had this idea rolling around in my head. Rolling, rolling, in perpetual motion. The only way to stop it w...

Reading that Tony Bennett has Alzheimer's Disease turned my thoughts to Long Beach, where I saw him perform one year ago today.  I had s...

Worms composting.  If you stare at this image long enough, you will see the pouting face of Donald Trump. I can think of no better way to pe...

Kirk Wise is back with a new feature, Bobbleheads: The Movie. In FLiP's first ever podcast, he talks about his long journey from Atlant...

What sudden and sad news to hear of Alex Trebek 's passing.  There have been new episodes of Jeopardy! running daily, with no sign that ...

  Anxiously await election results?  I am.   Meanwhile, this old commercial got stuck in my head, now it's in yours too.  Only Chocodile...

  I have vivid memories of being teased for being 'the kid' at work, like it was just a few years ago.  But through my own lack of v...

      Last Monday, animation veteran Chris Jenkins suffered a stroke in the thalamus of his brain.  His sister has set up a GoFundMe page t...

                                                                                               If there's one reason to get up during th...

Animation lost another great artist yesterday, as Sue Nichols lost her life after a long battle with cancer.  FLiP posted about her fight b...

 Last night there was a story on the local news about Harold Rees, a luthier (maker of stringed instruments) who was still at it at the age ...

For post #501, it's time to switch it up. Friends of FLiP know that every few years, I like to change the logo.  It keeps it fresh ...

Emmy-winning animation Art Director Jill Daniels has set her brushes on a serious subject - to help fight human trafficking.  She is part of...

Six months after it was announced, Gary Larson has posted the first three NEW Far Side cartoons in 25 years on his website.  He picks u...

Industry veteran Ed Bell writes to about his new project, The History of White People in America (not to be confused with the Martin Mull...

Top row: Kevin Lima, Steve Moore, Chris Bailey, Fred Cline.  Middle row: Kirk Wise, Dan Jeup, Rob Minkoff, Wendell Luebbe.  Bottom row: Ti...

Thorfinn, aka Richard Morgan - the nicest viking indeed. Richard Morgan has authored and Illustrated heaps of childrens' books in...