ANIMATION: The S.F. Film Society presents the return of The Best of Annecy, showcasing a dynamic and entertaining array of shorts that appeared in Europe's Annecy International Animated Film Festival this year. (5, 7 and 9 p.m., SF Film Society Cinema, 1746 Post Street) more ›

It's been quite some time since we posted a Taiwanese animation bit -- because, you know, it's getting extraordinarily old -- but we couldn't resist sharing with you Next Media Animation's harrowing take on the UC Berkeley republican's bake sale. If you recall, the controversial group offered white $2 for each baked good; Asians/Asian-Americans, $1.50; Latinos/Hispanics, $1; Blacks/African-Americans, 75 cents; Native Americans, 25 cents; women received 25 cents off the price. more ›

Monty Python animator and noted film director Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys) discusses his animation techniques on Bob Godfrey's Do-It-Yourself Animation Show in 1974. According to Cartoon Brew: "Godfrey’s show, which made animation accessible to the masses by taking the mystery out of the production process, was vastly influential and inspired an entire generation of kids in England, including Nick Park, who created Wallace & Gromit, Jan Pinkava, who directed the Pixar short Geri's Game, and Richard Bazley, an animator on Pocahontas, Hercules, and The Iron Giant." more ›

FILM: Nine Nation Animation, a compilation of recent award-winning animated short films from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, and others, "proves that there’s a lot more to the animator’s art than either the cutting-edge ultra-realism of Pixar or the flat functionality of sitcoms like The Simpsons" (Village Voice). more ›

FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Int'l Animation Festival kicks off with a screening of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, featuring four animators' widely different interpretations of the epic Decemberists album, The Hazards of Love. The Opening Night Party follows the screening. more ›

Many of you have already gone to see Toy Story 3 have seen this short, but for the rest, we thought we'd share, since this weekend marks the opening of a new exhibit at the Oakland Museum called "Pixar: 25 Years of Animation." The exhibit brings us back to the studio's beginnings, first under the umbrella of LucasArts, their first film project "Knick Knack," and tells the story of the great house that John Lasseter built. Sidenote: see a conversation here with the creators of the above short film about what it's supposed to be about. [via NBC Bay Area] more ›

This year’s San Francisco International Animation Festival, running through Sunday, explores the decidedly un-Hollywood side of the art form. From demonstrating Los Angeles traffic scenarios, to an anime documentary about samurai, cartoons are not just for singing princesses. more ›

We've heard the new Disney/Pixar movie Up is fantastic, and we're not going to knock it or sing its praises here because we haven't seen it, and, well, we don't usually do movie reviews (trailer is after the jump). more ›

The International Animation Festival starts tonight, kids. And speaking of them, don't bring yours to tomorrow night's wonderfully smut-filled orgy of animated shorts, Top Drawers. more ›

In a city littered with film festivals, few of them stand out. This is one of them. more ›

It was just a few months ago that we were celebrating the announcement of the opening of Orpahange Animation Studios, a new SF-based animation house that had roped Genndy Tartakovsky (of . We can only assume that they've just been SO hard at work on these projects ... and that's why they failed to notice that their studio's doman has expired. Whoops. more ›

Ah, IndieFest. Was it just two weeks ago that we were swearing that we'd never, ever go see another screening at the Women's Building? more ›

We've got quite a diversity of recommendations this week - from the politically conscious, to the "sick and twisted", to the, well, sick and twisted and Russian. Check it out! more ›

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In light of congress today passing laws that will fine the bejesus out of any broadcaster that broadcasts anything that is deemed obscene and unsafe for the family, SFist would like to suggest a place to start. It has been announced that the Warner Bros. is working on a new, "re-imagined" cartoon version of their much beloved and much deserving of that belovedness Looney Tunes characters. Bugs, Daffy, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, and others are going to be updated for a new cartoon series being created to shore up the flagging WB Kids Network. Will the new cartoons follow the formula of the old classic cartoons? Nope. Instead, each character will retain "personality quirks of the original" but instead will be living together on a spaceship in 2772. And in drawing the characters, the new "Loonatics" will be "created angular, slightly menacing-looking versions of the classic Looney."” Oh, and they might have new names, names like Buzz Bunny. And super powers too! In other words, these characters will be like the old Looney Tunes characters, except extreme. Kind of like Poochie the Dog. more ›

Beginning this Friday, August 6th, the Parkway Theater in Oakland will be presenting The Animation Show, a collection of animated shorts curated by Mike Judge, the creator of "King of the Hill" and Office Space. more ›