Cubby’s Picnic!
While Cubby’s Picnic is an overall uneven cartoon, it does accomplish what it was probably trying to do: make an enjoyable seven minutes of cartoon entertainment.
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
A Little Spring Stop Motion
As we’re pulling up the new scans of material for the two Stop Motion Marvels sets, I’ve been enjoying taking a look back at these unique animated shorts.
Thunderbean: Disorganized Progress
I thought I’d post a couple of the stills we’ve been pulling as we’re working on some of the new projects.
A Few Cartoons To Relax By
Since the school has been so exhausting here, I was thinking about what are good cartoons to relax by. Here’s tonight’s list.
Mine (and Yours): Favorite Important Moments in Animation History!
Here are top 10 of my favorite ‘moments’ in animation history. And please share some of yours.
Thunderbean Ramblings and Updates
Sometimes I feel a little like a monk working on these things, scrubbing or repairing films both physically and digitally, then onto the next. Here’s an update on my latest projects.
Nitrate Unboxing, April 17, 2019
Forget the Mueller Report! Today Steve Stanchfield received a box of nitrate cartoons from UCLA and we are there to watch him unbox them!
The Flip the Frog Project, part 2: Clean-up & the term “Restoration”
So many of the Flip The Frog master elements look really excellent, and the restoration effort on this particular set is perhaps my biggest. Here’s an update.
Anatomy of A Project: Behind the Scenes on a Thunderbean DVD
I thought I’d write a little this week about the basic stages of producing a Thunderbean title, using the Flip the Frog Blu-ray set as an example.
Larry Larson (1946-2019)
Last Friday, we lost Larry Larson, an incredible instructor in stop motion. I thought I’d use today’s Thunderbean Thursday to pay a mini tribute to this wonderful soul.
