Topic: Cartoons and Animation

Phineas and Ferb Take the Boys' Market by Storm

"Phineas and Ferb" is the hippest, nerdiest, unlikeliest hit on TV -- and now Disney hopes it can be a SpongeBob-like cash cow.READ MORE›

Raw Manga - All About Them

You can read all about Raw Manga in this article. Toon animation is usually a short movie that is certainly hand drawn, which highlights a tale for cinema or tv. In doing toon animation, the characters and the adventure line need to ...READ MORE›

Swimming Against The Tide

These are some screwy squirrels: Cartoon Network's Adult Swim operation stays edgy and creative -- despite its lumbering corporate parent.READ MORE›

Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has built an empire of staggering proportions that nabbed him a record $100 million deal with Fox. And, with an innovative new series of animated shorts distributed by Google -- "Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" -- he’s even teaching the search giant new ways to exploit the Web. Could this crude frat-boy cartoonist really be a model for business in the postmodern age?READ MORE›

• Breaking Down Family Guy's Billions
• The 6 Most Bizarre Family Guy Moments
• The 10 Most Controversial Family Guy Moments

Innovation Wednesday: Henry Selick and the Artistry of Stop-Motion Animation

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to San Diego last month for Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book and sci-fi fan-fest and THE place to generate buzz about TV shows and movies aimed at these influencers. I would have ...READ MORE›

Feat of Clay

Using its "claymation" technique, Will Vinton Studios has pioneered award-winning ads and innovative TV comedies. But its greatest art is combining creativity with a dirty-fingernails approach to getting the work done.READ MORE›

Michael Croog

Michael Croog Director First Color Cartoon: Producer John Randolph Bray's (and Bray Picture Corporation's) The Debut of Thomas Cat (1920) has often been credited as the first color cartoon, using the expensive Brewster Natural Color Process (a 2-emulsion color process), an unsuccessful precursor of Technicolor. This was the first animated short genuinely made in color using color film. Drawings were made on transparent celluloid and painted on the reverse, then photographed with a two-color camera. However, some sources have claimed that the Natural Colour Kinematograph Company's In Gollywog Land (1912, UK) was the earliest, using Kinemacolor. READ MORE›

Anima 2009

The three highest-grossing animated movies of 2007 -- Shrek the Third, Ratatouille, and The Simpsons Movie -- tallied up nearly $2 billion in ticket sales worldwide. Anima, the annual international animation festival, is not for those ...READ MORE›

When It Comes to Growing Talent, He's the Master

Dave Master, that is. He's turned high-school students into Hollywood animators. His techniques can draw our the best in you people.READ MORE›

Free Swim

Lessons from a creative pool.READ MORE›

Terror Network for Today's Marketers, Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

"The following appeared in the October 4th edition of the Boston Globe" LAST WEEK, THERE was a successful terrorist attack in Boston. The perpetrators were Turner Broadcasting and the Cartoon Network, and they succeeded in hijacking ...READ MORE›

Leadership by Osmosis

Soak up the secrets of SpongeBob SquarePants.READ MORE›

'Family Guy's MacFarlane Not PC Enough for Microsoft, Windows 7 Deal Pulled

Showing just how unhip being a PC can be, Microsoft has pulled out of a prime time Windows 7 sponsorship of a special by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. According to Microsoft, MacFarlane's style didn't "fit with the Windows ...READ MORE›

Setting the Productivity Standard

Scott Bateman, a Portland, Oregon-based editorial cartoonist and Flash animator has undertaken an interesting -- and inspiring -- project. Under the umbrella of Bateman365, the animator will produce one Flash animation a day... for ...READ MORE›

The Simpsons, by the Numbers

¡Ay, caramba! With new episodes airing at least through 2011, The Simpsons, which turns 20 on December 17, has been on the small screen longer than any other comedy or drama in prime-time television history. Below, a look at the dough -- or is it d'oh? -- behind Matt Groening's brainchild.READ MORE›

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Personifying Your Audience

Think about some of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Roadrunner, etc. What do they all have in common? The cartoonists personified animals and even...READ MORE›

Animation Skeptic

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Windows-Backed Family Guy Adds to Unemployment Rolls

We'll address the gigantic sell-out that is Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show (brought to you buy Windows 7) in a moment. But the more immediate news is that the Windows 7 party-people are going to have to ...READ MORE›

The Knights' Tale

Living a quiet life as an animator, Travis Knight never dreamed he'd work for his father. Then the Nike founder gave him an offer he couldn't refuse.READ MORE›

Attack of the Baby Pixars

Digital animation isn't the cozy little world it used to be. Now lots of people are trying it--and trying to shoot the big studios' lights out.READ MORE›

Oscar or Not, "Coraline" Is a $65-Million Gamble That Paid Off for Phil and Travis Knight

On the morning that Oscar nominees were announced last month, Nike founder Phil Knight called his son, Travis, at 6 a.m. They both had just gotten word: Coraline, the debut film by their studio Laika, was up for best-animated film. ...READ MORE›

Even Gazillionaires Get Stuck Behind the Velvet Rope

Family Guy creator and our November cover subject Seth MacFarlane is denied entrance to a Hollywood bar, but he brushes it off and decides to turn the tables on the doorman. Looks like creating a $2 billion media empire hasn't changed the easy-going writer/producer.READ MORE›

• Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire
• Breaking Down Family Guy's Billions

Out of Juice? Recharge!

Feeling burned out? Meet the men and women of Pixar Animation Studios. They're under the kind of pressure that would drain anybody's battery. Here are their screen-tested strategies for staying animated.READ MORE›

Profiles of the Baby Pixars

Four new contenders for Pixar's throne.READ MORE›

Exclusive: Behind-the-Scenes of Coraline, Phil and Travis Knight’s Daring Film Debut

Fathers and sons. Legacy and tragedy. Grand ambition and a multimillion-dollar gamble. The story of how Laika Entertainment came to make Coraline, the first 3-D stop-motion animation film, is as engrossing as anything on the big screen.READ MORE›

• The Making of Coraline [pics]
• The Knights' Tale