May 2012
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This Kickstarter is for Arhoolie Records. Arhoolie is like nothing else anywhere. A company dedicated to American roots music started by a German immigrant. Piece by piece, they’ve recorded one of the most stunning libraries of Country Blues, Zydeco, Tex-Mex, Bluegrass, you name it.  I have a particular affection for Arhoolie because of their superior recordings of Mississippi Fred...
May 5th
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May 4th
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Buzz Potamkin, R.I.P.
Photo via Jerry Beck I was heartbroken to hear that Buzz Potamkin, one of my earliest animation and production mentors, died of pancreatic cancer on April 22. My thoughts are with his widow Rosie.  Details on Buzz’s animation career are at Cartoon Brew and Animation Magazine, but I thought I’d share a few of my great experiences. It’s fair to say that I wouldn’t have the...
May 4th
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May 1st
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April 2012
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Apr 24th
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March 2012
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Mar 25th
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Bill Burnett is the co-creator of the cartoon series ChalkZone, a Frederator production on Nickelodeon, and a longtime collaborator of mine in too many mediums to count. Bill’s also a musical theatre writer and composer (he wrote the book and music for our animated TV movie The Electric Piper) and now he’s raising money on Kickstarter for a full scale Broadway style musical called...
Mar 24th
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Mar 22nd
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AV Club: As an animator with his own show, have...
Pendleton Ward: In the beginning, Fred Seibert of Frederator, he kept telling me that the workload is more than you can ever imagine. Like, there’s no possible way that you can prepare yourself for the amount of stress and work that you’re going to have. And I was like, “No, I can do it, I can do it. I’m sure I can figure it out.” But he just kept saying, “You have no idea what it’s going to be like.” [Laughs.] And I didn’t. I had no idea it would be so intense, especially in the beginning. It’s cooled off now that we’ve found a rhythm, but in the beginning it was so rough. I wanted to cry and vomit every day and there were a lot of sleepless nights. Is that advice? I don’t know. [Laughs.]
I know Eric just posted this interview over at Adventure Time Art, but since this is advice I give to every first time show runner I thought it might be worth doing as a pull quote.
Mar 22nd
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I’d like to ask your support for trombonist Roswell Rudd’s Kickstarter campaign.  “Rudd extracts sounds from the trombone that go back to New Orleans and further ahead than anyone has yet reached.” Nat Hentoff, Cosmopolitan Roswell Rudd is a intensely deep musician, an emotional player whose music —be it dixieland, avant-garde jazz, or standards ranging from Duke...
Mar 20th
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In which Digits talks about animation: 'Cartoons... →
Illustration by Megan aka animationbits animationbits: I want to share a little story with you just on the off chance that someone may be going through the same thing right now. I started drawing cartoons and anime around grade 8 after I met up with a friend from elementary school whose art I admired greatly. I lived with my mother at the time and I was VERY blessed to have a mother who was...
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Mar 9th
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February 2012
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Feb 27th
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“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
Feb 27th
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We really like Tim Schafer and the Double Fine guys (Psychonauts and Brütal Legend), and here they’re going out on a limb for a videogame they know you’ll like —a classic point-and-click adventure— but, for some reason, the publishers won’t make.
Feb 9th
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Feb 5th
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“Seibert took Karp aside and told him: “You should cut that shit out.”
– Best. Fred. Quote. Ever. From the Wired UK article about David/Tumblr. So perfectly Fred. (via voodoopuff)
Feb 2nd
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DLD Conference: “TV is no longer a device, it has... →
dld: Jon Miller from News Corporation started his session with an uplifting message. “New devices are allowing us to better enjoy the video content…I would say we are now just entering a video age.” Miller has been working in internet and TV industry for three decades and now oversees the…
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Artist Jeff Lafferty’s got a good personal story. Let’s help him make his movie. Curse of the Wolf’s Heart: A stop motion animated film.
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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YouTube's quickly growing — both in terms of... →
shortformblog: 4 billion videos streamed on YouTube every single day (whoa) 60 hours amount of video uploaded to YouTube every single minute 3 billion number of videos the company monetizes each week source » A quickly growing tally: With Google’s quickly-growing advertising prowess, the…
Jan 23rd
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Jan 16th
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Bijan Sabet: Hollywood has decided to go nuclear... →
bijan: More than a decade ago, we got the DMCA. Many people hated it but the content community (Hollywood) pushed very hard for it. They wanted to control what content could and couldn’t exist on the Internet. I’m over simplifying things greatly but the basic DMCA deal was the following 1. Users…
Jan 16th
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