Rethink What We Think is Normal: Interview With Dissonance Director Till Nowak
German-born artist and filmaker Till Nowak is a rare talent who can work across art forms and scientific disciplines, until his viewers are left disoriented and dazzled.
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When Will We Strive Again For the Heights of Avatar and Legend of Korra?
Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are two of the most ambitious and moving animated series of this still-new millennium. Indeed, pound for pound, they can stand alongside most non-animated series and still hold their own.
Interview: Ken Duncan On Creating New Scenes for The Iron Giant
I spoke with Duncan by phone about how his studio’s work on The Iron Giant: Signature Edition came to pass, and why hand-drawn animation, after years of laboring beneath CG’s towering shadow, is on the comeback trail.
Genndy Tartakovsky On Sony, Popeye, Can You Imagine and Samurai Jack
It doesn’t take long (at all) for the stubborn and refreshingly frank Tartakovsky to hold forth on his frustrations with the way Hotel Transylvania 2 and Popeye were handled.
Brad Bird Confirms The Iron Giant’s Signature
http://The studio’s reticence on the matter is understandable, given Bird’s well-documented love of cinema’s theatrical experience. “See it in the movie theater the way it’s meant to be seen,” Bird counsels
The Iron Giant’s Amazing Upgrade
With nearly two decades of growing cultural power beneath its indestructible belt, The Iron Giant is shaping up to be as potent and memorable as Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny!
Whether he’s the destabilizing force of Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes’ glory days, or more centered in contemporary reboots that can’t measure up, Bugs Bunny remains a towering cartoon influence.
Will Aardman’s Smart Shaun the Sheep Translate Stateside?
Aardman Animation’s wordless, stop-motion wonder Shaun the Sheep Movie, a spin-off of its brilliant Wallace and Gromit franchise, is one of the most clever shows on television. So how many Americans even know it has a feature film coming out in less than a month?
The Iron Giant Will (Finally) Return to Theaters
At long last, Brad Bird’s animated masterpiece of war and peace is back.
MorphToons: June 2015
I kicked off my first month as Cartoon Brew’s associate editor with an exclusive on the late, great John Lennon.
Geek The Beatles: John Lennon Sketchbook Makes Official Online Debut
“It was created from original drawings by John Lennon and a soundtrack that I also edited together, consisting of snatches of conversation between John and Yoko and song excerpts.”
Cli-Fi: Director Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea
Like his Oscar-nominated feature debut The Secret of Kells, his new stunner Song of the Sea is steeped in regional folklore but still a universal wonder. But it is a more personal epic, about the extinction of mythological seal people called Selkies, as explored through a lighthouse family riven by loss and misunderstanding but healed by history and magic.
Cli-Fi: Peace On Earth’s Intertextual Extinction
Adults and children rarely see the Real World as it is, much less as it should be. If what they see is what makes them who they are, then they should watch Peace On Earth before every new year.
Deal With It: The Legend of Korra
“I am certainly proud to add Korra to the pantheon of TV characters, which is perpetually sorely lacking in multifaceted female characters who aren’t sidekicks, subordinates or mere trophies for male characters,”
Legend of Korra Can Save Us From Ourselves
We are accelerating toward a real-time extinction the show could help us solve, should we choose to embrace it.
Goro Miyazaki’s Anxiety of Animation Influence
My father’s generation lived through and after the war, and basically had nothing. They forged their paths with their own hands, and created their whole world themselves.
We Are Bilbo, Heading Off To Perpetual War
It is no irony that Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of Tolkien’s work have arrived in a world at war
Genndy Tartakovsky Schools Hollywood On Cartoon Physics
“We moved to completely copying realism. Maybe this is a good time to start going back to the old ways, where anything can happen.”
Exclusive: Frankenweenie Reanimates Vincent Price
Price’s influential spirit inhabits some small or large part in almost everything Tim Burton has ever made.
Ren and Stimpy’s John Kricfalusi Wants Another Shot of George Liquor
My Dad’s Canadian,” said Kricfalusi.
Legend Of Korra Is The Smartest Show On TV
“Its core message is not about trying to exploit power differences between the haves and have-nots. It says that real power is what you have between your ears.”
Legend Of Korra Upgrades Avatar’s Mythic Epic
A psychokinetic steampunk upgrade with a fearless female hero leading the charge.
Director Brad Bird On The Iron Giant, Animation And His Fist Live-Action Film
I love that The Iron Giant has had a resilient afterlife. It was kind of rough when the film came out, because we all worked really hard on it. No one really seemed to know what it was when it was released, and not that many saw it in theaters.
Kate Beaton’s Hark! Heckles Superheroes, Scientists, Sellouts
The smart, sharp Beaton casts a much wider cultural dragnet in her otherwise unassuming art, one which snatches up literary, historical and scientific icons without mercy.
The Last Airbender Reincarnates As The Legend Of Korra
Think the original series, plus Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, and you’re probably there.