Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
The Center for Learning Unlimited, a non-public, WASC accredited day school in Torrance, California, proudly makes a dual announcement of convocation and expansion. On June 15, the inaugural graduating class of CLU’s career animation training program officially enters the workforce. Simultaneously, CLU flings open the doors of its blossoming, companion motion graphics studio: Brainstorm Productions.
Disney’s 41st animated feature, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, was born at a Mexican restaurant. During lunch in 1996, it was there that producer Don Hahn and directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale (who had all collaborated on Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame) met to talk about movies and potential future […]
Chris Appelhans is the writer and director of the animated adventure Wish Dragon. It’s about Din, a young man who looks to reconnect with an old friend with the help of a special genie dragon named Long. Wish Dragon is a Sony Pictures Animation feature that will be on Netflix this Friday June 11th. Appelhans […]
Jonny Jonah and Matty Shapiro make up the popular, dynamic family music duo The BeatBuds. They now have their own animated characters and contribute songs to Nickelodeon’s new short-form series The BeatBuds, Let’s Jam! This week-long event kicks off this Monday June 7th at 9am on Nick, with two episodes each day at that time […]
Building on the success of the first film, which earned more than $500 million worldwide, The Boss Baby: Family Business is directed by returning filmmaker Tom McGrath and is produced by Jeff Hermann (Kung Fu Panda 3). The film will debut in theaters and on Peacock on July 2nd. Here’s the trailer:
For, like, thousands of years, the origins of the United States of America have remained shrouded in mystery, lost to the sands of time. Who built this ‘country tis of thee,’ and why? Only the dinosaurs know… until now. For the first time in human history, the incredible, completely true story of America’s origins are […]
PAW Patrol: The Movie is an upcoming American Canadian computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Cal Brunker, based on the children’s television series PAW Patrol created by Keith Chapman. The film follows the pups who are called to Adventure City to save it from Humdinger before he destroys the bustling metropolis. The voice cast will […]
Netflix today announced a new series premiering July 4th, We The People. Created by Chris Nee and Executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, Kenya Barris, Tonia Davis, and Priya Swaminathan, the series combines music and animation to educate a new generation of young Americans about the power of the people. We the People is […]
Nickelodeon has revealed a sneak peek of the all-new original series, The Patrick Star Show, a family sitcom starring Patrick Star (Bill Fagerbakke) and the rest of his family, as they are constantly disrupted by Patrick’s wild whims and surreal imagination. Produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio, the 13-episode series will debut this July on Nickelodeon. […]
Remembering Marcell Jankovics
I still remember when I discovered the work of the great Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics, who died on May 29th at the age of 79. In 1975, I saw Sisyphus in the 10th Annual International Tournée of Animation. The skill with which the artist captured the anatomy of the character, his frustration and the essence […]