Cartoon Brew
- TALKBACK: The Regular ShowThe first episode of the fifteen-minute series The Regular show premiered yesterday on the Cartoon Network. It can be seen below. Thoughts and opinions by those who have seen it are welcome. […]
Mayerson on Animation
- The Provenance of a Painting(Click to enlarge)Leon Schlesinger was the producer and owner of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies that were released through Warner Bros. While his studio had cartoon stars like Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny surpassed both of them to become a major hit with audiences. As a result, Schlesinger had this painting made and hung in his office.The artis […]
Cold Hard Flash
- Sexy Animation Too Hot For YouTubeHarry Partridge created this new teaser for Starbarians, a Flash-animated project he’s been cooking, and uploaded it to his popular YouTube channel. While there’s no nudity in the short, YouTube nixed the video for being “too sexually provacative.” Luckily Newgrounds welcomed the short with open arms, and it’s already nearing 200,000 views. [NSFW […]
Drawn
- Animated Mouk!Marc Boutavant’s amazing Around the World with Mouk (previously) has been made into a pilot. The video is not embeddable, so I took the above screenshots. See the full pilot here. (via our friend Claire) Posted by David Huyck on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | 4 comments Tags: Animation, Marc Boutavant, mouk, pilot […]
ToonBoom Resource
- Tutorial: More Drawing Tools by Toon BoomToon Boom has just released a new tutorial pack for Animate et Animate Pro, titled More Drawing Tools. Check them out! […]
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Cat in the Hat premiere, tomorrow on Treehouse at 5:30 pm
There was an article in the Toronto Star the other day featuring an interview with Martin Short and his take on voicing the title character in the New Cat in the Hat knows a Lot About That animated series. What the article doesn’t mention, is that this series is being produced here in Canada through… »
Starz Animation for sale
Our friend Mark Mayerson posted this little tidbit on his blog the other day: Toronto’s Starz For Sale Variety is reporting that Starz Media, which consists of Overture, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Film Roman and Starz Animation are for sale. The companies are available as a group or separately. Starz was formerly owned by IDT and… »
CORE Digital, assets auction TOMORROW! preview today, Toronto
Today’s day one of the CORE auction. AS of 10 am this morning, the assets of CORE Digital are available for preview for tomorrow’s auction. I posted a few weeks ago about this, but consider this your reminder. More info can be found through Hilco Asset Sales Canada, for more info contact fguida@hilcocanada.com, or call… »
Voltron Relaunch being produced in Canada
Here’s the press release from yesterday regarding the relaunch of the giant-robot adventure show Voltron: Animation prodco World Events Productions (WEP) and Classic Media are teaming to re-launch the Voltron brand in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the original Voltron series, which first aired in 1984. Effective immediately, Classic Media will helm international distribution… »
press release: Guru Studio recognizes Kevin Parry’s ‘The Arctic Circle’ with Best Character Animation Award
Guru Studio recognizes Kevin Parry’s ‘The Arctic Circle’ with Best Character Animation Award Toronto, May 12, 2010 – Guru Studio has once again partnered with Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning to nurture emerging animation talent. As an ongoing sponsor of the college’s Animation Industry Day, Guru Studio presents its 2010 Best Character… »
press release:Guru Studio produces animated music video for Crash Karma’s hit single Fight
April 28, 2010 – Soviet-era poster propaganda comes to life in Guru Studio’s latest animated music video for Crash Karma’s hit single Fight. Produced for The Management Trust and E1 Entertainment, Fight is set to premiere today on Much Music and can be viewed at www.gurustudio.com/karmaLarge.php “High-quality animated music videos are a rare breed to… »
Press Release: Guru Studio expands, hires former CORE tooner, Aaron Linton
April 26, 2010 – Toronto-based Guru Studio welcomes its latest recruit Aaron Linton to its production team. Linton, who headed up the Toons division at C.O.R.E. Digital, joins Guru Studio as part of the Justin Time team. Justin Time is an energetic pre-school show developed by Guru Studio in production for Family Channel and Playhouse… »
Pixar Canada is open for business
Articles here and here. The second link has a video that Pixar made for the announcement. I’ll post more… »
guru studios’ HAZED at Pictoplasma
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HAZED screens at Pictoplasma in Berlin April 8, 2010 – Guru Studio’s HAZED, an animated black comedy with an underhanded environmental message, was selected for the Pictoplasma Characters in Motion Film Festival in Berlin. The short film, produced by Toronto-based Guru Studio (gurustudio.com), is slated to screen April 10 as part of… »
CORE Digital closure update, Now with more Shatner, UPDATED @ 2:25pm, 11:40 pm
March 17, 2010 9:30 am: A source out of Toronto provided me with some information this morning. The problem, inarguably, is that CORE was in debt, pehaps as high as 2 million in debt. According to my source, management had worked out an agreeement with the province to bail them out, basically step in and… »
CORE Digital closure coverage, updated March 16, 3:30 pm
March 16th, 2010 The news is finally starting to break elsewhere. Amid at Cartoon Brew got the word out to his readers yesterday, and linked back to our coverage. Now you can find news bits here (Holywood Reporter), and Playback will be running something this afternoon. There isn’t anything new to report as of yet…. »
Cookie Jar cuts 35 animation jobs
More bad news folks. Sorry to be the one who brings it to you. Etan Vlessing sent me the link today so I’m going to repaste it here (via Hollywood Reporter) Cookie Jar cuts 35 animation jobs Canadian indie producer eyes more live-action production By Etan Vlessing March 16, 2010, 12:00 PM ET TORONTO —… »
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures closes doors, UPDATED @ 5:10, 6:15pm, 10:05pm
March 15, 2010 4:52 pm: This is pretty much breaking news right now, here’s what my source in Toronto tells me: “C.O.R.E. digital pictures just kicked everyone out and locked the doors. They are in receivership”. Aparently the staff was escorted out today. That’s all I know so far, if anyone has info to share,… »
Press Release: Atomic Cartoons wins both Pixie and Producer
Vancouver, B.C. Canada – Atomic Cartoons’ Director, Tyler Schroeder, recently brought home a Pixie Award to the Olympic city for his stellar work on Mythunderstood, a short format animated cartoon created and directed by Schroeder and produced by Atomic. The Pixie Awards is sponsored by the American Pixel Academy and judging is done by professionals… »
A conversation with Gene Fowler: What’s the opposite of outsourcing?
I got word the other day that Gene Fowler and his gang at Loogaroo had just picked up a gig from a company out of Singapore. Never one to miss an opportunity, I hit him up on MSN to find out more about it. Gene was good enough to indulge my questions and even drew… »
Life after animation: Vic Atkinson
This popped up in a search today. It’s a short post about Vic Atkinson, who used to be a big name in animation here in Ottawa. Seems Vic paints now. A few more strokes of the keyboard and I came across Vic’s website. Here’s what his “about” section says: Vic Atkinson was born in London,… »
Cartoon Brew interviews Ottawa’s Chris Dainty, Dainty Productions
I’ve been chatting with Chris lately about this very stuff, so props to Amid for getting down to a full-on interview. Here’s the lead-in: As the iPhone user base continues to expand, smaller animation studios and indie animators are discovering a promising new distribution platform. One example is Ottawa-based animation studio Dainty Productions, which recently… »
Pixar Canada, small update
Dylan Brown is the Creative Director. Apparently he put in an appearance at VFS to discuss the opening of the studio. If anyone has details, I’d love to hear… »
Pixar Canada on the interweb!
Pixar Vancouver will now be known as Pixar Canada. You can see for yourself at www.pixarcanada.com. The jobs posted here before are up along with a hiring schedule. It’s a little vague, but so far it looks like winter 2009: IT, Software Engineers, and Finance. The next listing says spring/summer 2010: Modeling, Shading, Rigging, Animation,… »
Funbag Animation post-script, New Bike Entertainment secures assets
Funbag Animation Studios was a mainstay of the Ottawa animation scene from 1993 to January of 2007, when the partners decided to close shop and go their seperate ways. Funbag had started out in the service business, like so many others, and had made the transition over to producing their own shows, like For Better… »
The Promise of 1981, a look at what might have been
Mark Mayerson posted scans of an old article about then up-and-comer, Nelvana, to his blog (must reading for anyone who gives a crap about animation in Canada). It’s an interesting read about a company that had to take a very different direction in order to… »
from the internets
Studio B’s Kid VS Kat gets second season from Disney XD Intermedium, by Alain Huynh, in competition for the third annual enRoute Film Festival. Sounds cool, the films are all screened on airplanes. Cinar legal legacy just won’t fade. Now it’s turning into a political scandal. Almost Naked Animals entering production at 9 Story Entertainment. … »
Rumour-killer, March Entertainment, Sudbury
There was some grapevining last week that March Entertainment had closed up it’s shop in Sudbury. A friend of mine from that neck of the woods found that odd, as there’d been no word of it locally, signs were still up, and generally things looked normal. So I went straight to Dan Hawes, President and… »
More from Ottawa, Amberwood is excited about their Gemini Noms!
I know I already posted the Gemini nominations, but I’m going to single out my friends at Amberwood on their multiple nominations for Rollbots. I’m old pals with Craig Young over there, and I’ve spoken with him extensively about this show, and what it means to the company and their future. Amberwood went out on… »
Mark Capello VS Cartoon Conrad, the interview
Repeated contributor, Mr Mark Capello(in bold), recently sat down with Luke Conrad and Adam King, the principals at Cartoon Conrad in Sackville NS. The three discuss animation, the growth of Cartoon Conrad, Jesus, and Simon Cowell. I just want to start this interview by asking you guys about Cartoon Conrad, what are the types of… »
The Insatiable Mr. Banks, formerly from Fatkat, now from Loogaroo
video after the jump. The Insatiable Mr.Banks from Loogaroo on… »
Toonboom and House of Cool talk Storyboard Pro
Toonboom did a promotional piece a while back for their Storyboard Pro software. They posted a video, that I can’t imbed, interviewing the principals at Toronto’s House of Cool: Ricardo Curtis, Founder and President, Wesley Lui, Co-founder and Director of Operations and Andrew Ng, Television Story Supervisor. The interview is definitely a promo, but it… »
Mark Cappello and M-A Kuttner, part II
Second and final part of Mark Capello’s interview with M-A Kuttner former honcho at Collideascope Digital Pictures. (Mark Cappello in italics) How do you think the closing of Collideascope and even more recently Fatkat has affected the ‘decision makers’ in Toronto with regards to their perception of Atlantic Canada’s ability to produce full series? Do… »
Ottawa’s Boomstone Animation closes doors
Received a message from Lee Williams, owner of Boomstone Animation in Ottawa over the weekend. Hey Mike, Now it’s my turn. as of today after 13 years I’ve put Boomstone on hiatus. The studio was closed today and the equipment was donated. Time to seek something new. Lee Boomstone’s been around awhile here in Ottawa,… »
Weekend reading, an interview with Michael-Andreas Kuttner, co-founder and former COO of Collideascope Digital Productions, part I
Friend to the site, and now contributor, Mark Cappello recently took the time to have a lengthy and probing conversation with Michael-Andreas Kuttner, formerly of Collideascope Digital Productions, the now defunct studio from Nova Scotia. Collideascope was the biggest shop on the east coast, and it’s closure came as a shock to the industry. Their… »
Ubisoft to Toronto, 800 jobs
Just got this news(via thestar.com) Video game producer Ubisoft is opening a shop in Toronto, creating 800 jobs over ten years. The province is dumping ovr 260 million over the ten year period to support the venture, with Ubisoft (of Montreal) investing 500 million into the studio. This should give us all some idea of… »
Huminah Huminah article
Normally I’d file this under the “from the internets” banner, but I wanted to draw attention to a few things in this piece on Adam Mimnagh and Huminah Huminah Animation in Nova Scotia (vi thechronicleherald.ca). The piece tells a story that has become familiar to many of us in the industry. An animator finds himself… »
Janice Jacobs to Guru Studio
(Toronto) Guru has announced that Janice Jacobs is stepping into the role of producer for their episodic and film department. According to Frank Falcone, Creative Director at Guru, “Janice possesses tremendous attention to detail along with the ability to manage demanding and complex productions. She will be a great asset to guru at a time… »
Official word on Fatkat closure
Well, as reported here last night, Fatkat Animation, of Miramichi, NB, is closed. Word went up on the studio blog today from Gene Fowler. Here’s some of what he had to say: Alot of stuff has happened in the 10 years that the Fatkat brand has been kicking around, though mostly all in the last… »
Fatkat closes doors
Gene Fowler posted to his LinkedIn profile last night: closing down Fatkat and ramping up Loogaroo. Oh the life of an Entrepreneur! Over on Facebook, his work info now lists him as Executive Producer at Loogaraoo, which he describes as: a new start up company picking up where Fatkat left off. But with more deliciousness…. »
