Arts & Entertainment Video: New Short 'Borrowed Time' By Pixar Animators Is Lovely, Sad, Not For Kids Made during their spare time at Pixar over the course of five years, animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj's "Borrowed Time," a tragic but poignant six-minute short, was just released to the public,
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Inks Deal With Dreamworks For New Original Animation Los Gatos-based Netflix announced today that they've just signed a deal with Dreamworks Animation for 300 hours of new original content based on Dreamworks characters. So, you can expect some spinoffs of Shrek,
Arts & Entertainment We Need To Talk About The Animated Taiwanese World Series Recap Video The folks at NMA.tv, known for their whimsical and low-budget animated dramatizations of current events, have already jumped on the Giants' World Series sweep with their two-minute Game 4 recap video. And,
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Origin of Homer Simpson's 'D'oh!' Fascinating! Did you know that Dan Castellaneta's signature exclamation in the voice of Homer Simpson was derived from Laurel and Hardy? Listen and learn. [via WOW]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Swedish Band Sorts 65,000 LEGOs in 3 Minutes Swedish band Rymdreglage made a YouTube-popular, LEGO-based animated video in 2009 for their song "8-Bit Trip," which was a tribute to early 80s video games. That video has racked up over 12 million
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/15: The Best of Annecy 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.
SF News Taiwanese Animation's UC Berkeley 'Racist' Bake Sale 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
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 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
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pixar's "Day and Night" 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
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend: SF International Animation Festival by Amy Crocker 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
Arts & Entertainment Scribe at Chron Baby Blog Thinks He Found the 'Up' House 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
misc Top Drawers: SF International Animation Festival Ticket Giveaway 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. What's more, one lucky soul will get a
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco International Animation Festival In a city littered with film festivals, few of them stand out. This is one of them. Starting this Thursday (11/6), the San Francisco International Animation Festival will sample a wide array
Arts & Entertainment 2006 IndieFest Award Winners But while we've been recovering, the tireless IndieFest staff has tabulated all those little ballots y'all filled out, and determined the 2006 IndieFest award winners -- after all, what's a film festival without
Arts & Entertainment Please, Sir, Can We Have Some More Production Companies? Remember three years ago, when all your media-employed friends had to suddenly go from pulling down a dot-com salary to working retail and collecting unemployment? We spoke to a manager at a North
Arts & Entertainment Whazzzup, Doc? Says Sander Schwartz, president of Warner Bros. Animation and a man who will someday find himself roasting in one of the darkest, dankest pits of hell, "the new series will have the same
Arts & Entertainment All Hail the Parkway Theater 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
