Here is my water-stained program from the 1984 Character Animation show, held in the tiny Bijou Theater at CalArts .  According to the m...

Caricatured here, a 1984 version of Steve Moore, Dan Jeup, Mike Genz, and Fred Cline   40 years ago this month, I was winding up my junior y...

Bill Moore, 1981.                 Photo by Chris Wahl Thursdays at CalArts were brutal.  Getting to class early to pin our assignments on t...

  I first learned of Ralph Eggleston 's death in James Baker's wonderful tribute post . I didn't know he'd been ill, so it c...

Program for the 1982 show, designed by Fred Cline. Forty years ago this week, I took part in my first CalArts Character Animation Show.  Th...

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!...

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

  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...

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

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

Ed Bell's professional animation career spans 34 years, including stints at Disney, Kroyer Films, Hyperion, and Collosal Pictures.  I...

The overwhelming majority of Americans can agree that the return of Gary Larsen's "The Far Side" comics is great news.  I r...

I recently came across a box full of keepsakes from my days as a CalArts student.  Among the memory jogging items were sketches and a let...

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