Cartoon Brew TV: Depth Study
July 6th, 2010 admin
Our special film series “The Modern Art of Gene Deitch” continues this week with the rarely seen gem Depth Study which was made during Gene Deitch’s tenure at Terrytoons. The ambitious sales film, designed by Cliff Roberts, was commissioned by CBS Television Head over to Cartoon Brew TV to watch Gene Deitch’s Depth Study . And for those of you lucky enough to be in LA tonight, Jerry Beck is hosting Gene Deitch at the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood (611 N. Fairfax Avenue). The 85-year-old animation legend, who has traveled all the way from the Czech Republic for this rare Los Angeles appearance, will do a Q&A session after the screening. The show begins at 8pm. More details and
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Authors@Google: Jerry Beck...In a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, what defines greatness? This question was posed to thousands of cartoon fans, historians, and animators to create The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons, the definitive Looney Tunes collection. Evaluated on their comedic brilliance, innovative animation, historical significance, and creative merit, cartoon historian Jerry Beck and the Cartoon Brew team of animation experts (www.cartoonbrew.com) reveal the amusing anecdotes and secret origins behind such classics as "What's Opera, Doc?," "One Froggy Evening," and "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century." Featuring more than 300 pieces of original art from private collectors and the Warner Bros. archives, The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons settles the debate on the best of the best, and poses a new question Is your favorite one of the greatest? Jerry Beck is an animation historian and cartoon producer. His over fifteen books on the subject include The Animated Movie Guide, Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide and The 50 Greatest Cartoons. He is also co-founder/co-writer of the popular animation blog, Cartoon Brew. Beck is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney, and is currently a consulting producer to Warner Bros., Universal and Disney for their classic animation dvd compilations. Beck has programmed retrospectives for the Annecy and Ottawa Animation Festivals, The Museum of Modern Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences <b>...</b>
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Bone...EDIT 5/11/10- This video is featured on Cartoon Brew! www.cartoonbrew.com The finished version of the previous video: www.youtube.com ! I may add shading to the characters to make them more believable when I have the time, but for now, it can be posted. And BOY did this take long! I did this without any tweening anyway- yes, the animation is produced in Flash. BGs are painted in Photoshop. As you may have heard, Warner Bros. has hired AnimalLogic to animate his story BONE in CG- this video shows my take on how it would look if it were going to be produced in 2D. Sound is taken from the soundtrack of TellTale Games' video game of the series. Reflecting on this, even though the movie will be in CG, I REALLY think they should have a little 2D in it! Like, maybe in the opening and/or closing credits... or maybe in a short sequence in the body of the film!! It worked marvelously for Kung Fu Panda, and Cloudy... and I see a growing emergence of traditionally-animated credit sequences nowadays!!! Someone should suggest this to him! Here's to you, Jeff. BONE was the first graphic novel I ever read, and the first I religiously followed. I hope the movie is the best it can be! BONE (C) Jeff Smith Sound (C) TellTale Games
losing light (animated music video)...(if you own a wii or know someone who does, check out the piece "nintendo week" did on me about this video. it airs on august 30th) ALBUM NOW AVAILABLE ON iTUNES!!! : itunes.apple.com this is a music video for my song "losing light", that i made entirely on my nintendo dsi. with an animation program called flipnote. 2 weeks and hundreds of drawings later,not to mention how tiny the screen on the dsi is....here it is. for more of my music and art visit www.myspace.com or check out my live action/animated music video www.youtube.com as seen on 'cartoon brew' www.cartoonbrew.com
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