Animation
Animation Hubs
Channel Frederator
Link:
www.channelfrederator.com
Animation portal ChannelFrederator averaged two million views per month throughout 2007 and broke four million views in December. The consistent quality of this granddaddy of all cartoon podcasts continues to impress.
News
• Computer
Generated Imaging
Link: www.365animation.com/filmtv.shtml
CGI / Computer Generated Imaging / is the
leading business and technology magazine for professionals working in
film, TV, video, games development, multimedia, web design and broader
uses of animation and computer.
CGI is published 12 times a year by Content Republic
• Digital
Media FX
Link: www.digitalmediafx.com
Daily FX and animation news, features, movie
trailers, and interviews for digital animators, animation artists, visual
effects artists, and animation enthusiasts. Updated 365 days a year and
has a regular e-newsletter you can sign up for.
• ToonHound
Link: www.toonhound.com
Your starting point for British cartoon, animation, comic
strip and puppet creations on the worldwide web. Here you'll find
cartoon info, links, reviews, interviews and UK toon news aplenty.
Plus there's a growing collection of mini-guides for you to peruse.
Just follow the
links to your preferred toon creation...
Animators
• Lance Falk
Web: He's onMySpace!
I first met lance while I was editing Titan's Johnny Quest comic. He's a
brilliant bloke who helped out with loads of info on animation and ocasionally
keeps me up to date on his work, which has included writing on Scooby Doo,
Prop Design at Warner Bros for shows such as Loonatics Unleashed, working
for SD Entertainment on their Bratz and Care Bears direct-to-videos and
much more.
• Pippaisatruck/Rubber
Feet
Web:
pip.rubberfeet.org
The
best Alan Moore adaptation we've come across yet is not the V
for Vendetta film
but an excellent take on Alan Moore's "Sinister Ducks" song on
this site which also includes some other hilarious flash animations.
The original record, recorded by a band of the same name comprising Moore,
Bauhaus musician David Jay and Max Akropolis was written by Alan under
the pseudonym Translucia Baboon and released in the 1980s. Moore and Jay
also released a 12-inch single featuring a recording of "Vicious Cabaret",
from V for Vendetta.
And yes, that is Alan singing.... (Thanks to Mike Collins fr the link)
• Darin Bristow
Link to 'Blogged Artery': http://smilefx73.blogspot.com
A veteran of the Animation industry,Darin's worked on 15 animated
tv series, one Hollywood live-action movie, illustrated one book, and is currently
the Supervising Technical Director on the new tv series Ruby
Gloom.
• Brian Taylor (Rustboy)
Link: www.rustboy.com
Brian Taylor, whose character “Rustboy”
has already gained legions of fans worldwide, achieved all of this from
his home in Dundee on Scotland’s east coast, with the help of just
his Power Mac G4 and a small selection of off-the-shelf software.
- Read an article about the making of Rustboy on the Apple.com site: Go
• Anders
Worm
Link: homepage.mac.com/andersworm
Swedish-based Anders aims to to make Illustration,
animation & Storyboards
on quality productions on a high artistic level. Check out his gallery.
Animation Companies
UK
• Moving
Picture Company
Link: www.moving-picture.com
News: Page Direct Link: Go
Wardour Street, London
European animation company providing digital visual effects and computer
animation to the advertising, music, TV and feature film industries.
• Spite Your Face Productions Ltd.
Link:
www.spiteyourface.com
74 Locket Road, Harrow HA3 7NL
Tel: 0208 861 6944
British animation company Spite Your Face Productions Ltd. releases include
a brilliant spoof of the Spider-Man films, Spider-Man:
The Peril of Doc Ock -- an action packed, comical take on the Spider-Man movies,
which was commissioned by Sony Pictures, Marvel Studios and The LEGO Group.
The company has other fun stuff on their site, including The Han Solo Affair.
• Spider-Man:
The Peril of Doc Ock can also be viewed on movies.yahoo.com and yahooligans.yahoo.com
US Animation Companies
• Plymptoons
Web: www.plymptoons.com
The official web site for veteran
animator Bill Plympton, whose credits include such films as Guard Dog,
Mutant Aliens and Hair High.
• Lou
Scheimer Productions
Web: www.louscheimerproductions.com
20300 Ventura Blvd Suite 330, Woodland Hills, California
91364
Tel: 001-818-884-2810 Fax: 001-818-884-1824
Includes an interview trabscribed Erika Scheimer in 1979 as part of a college
project with Lou, who worked on Filmation's many animated shows including Star
Trek . It's an account of her father's history, in his own words, beginning
in 1948 up until 1979.
• Renegade Animation
Link: www.renegadeanimation.com
I came across this company during some research I was doing. Wonderful
retro-50s SF style to some of its work that is well worth viewing. Samples
at time of writing also included a hilarious Wily E. Coyote ad they did
for the Cartoon Network which I haven't seen on the UK version of the
channel.
Smudge Pencil
Web Link: www.smudgepencil.com
Illustration/Storyboards/Visuals: artists include Colin Andrew, Geoff
Senior and Martin Geraghty
US
• Continuity Studios
Link: www.nealadamsentertainment.com
Miscellaneous
•
Broken Saints
Link: www.brokensaints.com
Animated comic book. Also available on DVD.
•
Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products
You've probably seen the fine products of
ACME advertised in Warner Bros. cartoons -- now
you can peruse their catalog online. Long popular with
a certain coyote who spent quality time in the
American Southwest, ACME is known for unusual products of high caliber.
Their Jet Propelled Unicycle and Rocket Powered Roller Skates are fun
for kids of all ages. The Instant Icicle Maker is guaranteed to bring
laughs to your next party, and you'll find a multitude of household uses
for the Giant Rubber Bands. ACME can also help with all your Halloween
needs, offering Batman, Superhero, and Female Road Runner costumes. Need
a date in a hurry? Try a bottle of Instant Girl. Don't forget the classic
ACME Anvils. Accept no imitations! (Found via KenRadio.com)
Shows
General Guides
• The
Big Cartoon Database
Link: www.bcdb.com
A list of cartoon classics, providing an In-Depth, Detailed Look at your
Favorite Cartoon Classics. Includes a Searchable DataBase of Cartoon Information,
Episode Guides and Crew Lists.
Futurama
• Can't
Get Enough Futurama
• Much Ado About Futurama
• FuturamaWorld
• Collecting Futurama
• Futurama
Comics Information
• More
Futurama Comics Info
The Simpsons
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