Cartoon Network Studios, as you know it, is gone thanks to David Zaslav. It consolidating into a single unit with Warner Bros. Animation, and this is HUGE news. It's also an ominous sign for the future of new, original Cartoon Network animation.
Studio Ghibli has shared a new teaser for Ghibli Park, opening on November 1. Tickets were only available via a now-closed lottery, so if you don't have one, don't buy a plane ticket just yet.
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Counterargument from Guillermo del Toro: “[A]nimation is not a genre for kids; it’s a medium. Animation is film. Animation is art. And it can tell stories that are gorgeous and complex that feel handmade by humans for humans.”
A group of former Blue Sky artists have anonymously uploaded this piece of animation, with the following message: "In the final days of Blue Sky Studios, a small team of artists came together to do one final shot. This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms."
Desirée Goyette (@desimuse) who composed and performed the music for Garfield's first animation - "Here Comes Garfield" in 1982 - also served as the live-action model for Garfield. This footage compares her performance to the final animation.
First look at the stage production of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, currently at Tokyo's Imperial Theatre.
Directed by John Caird. Puppetry designer: @TobyOlie
The one and only Charles Martinet, voice of Mario and Luigi, at last night's LA premiere of "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero," which will debut in N. American theaters starting August 19. ( (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Crunchyroll)
Happy 50th Anniversary, Scooby Doo! The iconic characters were designed by Iwao Takamoto, an American artist who was forcibly incarcerated in a concentration camp as a teen bc of his Japanese ancestry. He was hired at Disney in 1945 while his parents/siblings were still interned.
The amazing team at @ani_obsessive has put together a totally free unofficial "Art of Coraline" book, since the film never had a proper art-of book. It's over 150 pages and it's fantastic.
View it online: archive.org/details/the-un…
Download the book here: mega.nz/file/1QwmmSwY#…