LOST AND FOUND: Pixar’s Sample Reel and Marketing Video from 1990
I show this tape every year in my animation history class, and I think it’s a good time to share it here. It’s a great document of how Pixar viewed itself at the time.
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Animation Anecdotes #214
Joe Barbera on Tom and Jerry. In PUNCH magazine November 29, 1972 Joe Barbera commented on Tom and Jerry: “When you see Tom and Jerry move, they move as if…
Animation Anecdotes #206
Paul Terry on Animation. Paul Terry, who first came to attention with his series of Aesop Fables cartoons in the silent film era that even inspired Walt Disney, told Harry…
Animated Knock-offs #1: The Real ‘Mockbusters’!
So I get a lot of spam from Amazon.com trying to sell me books and DVDs similar to those that I’ve bought before. Usually I don’t pay much attention to…
In His Own Words: Steve Segal on Toy Story
Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1949, Steve Segal began his animation career doing traditional animation for ten years making commercials and educational films. He co-directed the cult film Futuropolis with…
The 2013 Animation Show of Shows
Every year Ron Diamond, the founder of Hollywood’s Acme Filmworks animation studio (specializing in animated television commercials), puts together an Animation Show of Shows, consisting of his pick of about…
The Miracle of CGI
I recently received a copy of Tom Sito’s Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation (The MIT Press, April 2013) to review for Animation World Network. It is a very…
