Meet The Artists Who Make The Google Doodles
Every few days, the Google homepage offers up a new Google Doodle either in the form of an illustration, short animation, or interactive element, like the playable Les Paul guitar. The Doodles are not...
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MTV caught up with the band Field Report to find out “what the f**k they’re looking at online.” I’m happy to report that they like cartoons!
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Tomorrow: Tom Bancroft Online Workshop
On Thursday, September 6, at 8pm (Central), former Disney animator Tom Bancroft will host a live online drawing workshop. He does these workshops every two weeks; the theme of this week’s workshop is...
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JibJab Pushes Into Children’s Entertainment With StoryBots
Brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, founders of JibJab, were visiting New York yesterday to officially launch their new multi-platform children’s project StoryBots. I met them in the afternoon at Rue...
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Pixar Launches A College Website For Monsters University
Those kids at Pixar sure know how to advertise a film. Today they launched an authentic-looking Monsters University college website, more than eight months before the release of the Monsters, Inc....
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Google Creates Homage To Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo
I can’t praise enough Google’s use of their homepage to give credit to animation and comic pioneers. Their front-page Google Doodle for Monday, October 15, is a tribute to Winsor McCay and his comic...
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‘Tis The Season To Share Christmas GIFs
ChristmasGifs.org is a terrific collection of holiday-themed animated gifs created by contemporary animators and illustrators. The one in this post was created by Tane Williams. The project is...
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DreamWorks Animation Teams Up With Netflix For New Animated Series
The world of television animation is changing drastically, mainly by the fact that new animated shows won’t appear on TV. Netflix announced a deal yesterday with DreamWorks Animation in which they...
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Animated GIFs: Annoying Fad or Teachable Moment?
Opinions on animated GIFs range from pure hatred to unabashed overuse. “Hide your eyes,” wrote one reporter on CNET. Meanwhile, Tumblr, which is the undisputed platform for animated GIF enthusiasts,...
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Matt Cruickshank Gives Saul Bass The Google Doodle Treatment
Google is celebrating the birthday of graphic designer Saul Bass (1920-1996) with a classy animated tribute on their homepage to Bass’s famous film title sequences including Vertigo, The Man with the...
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DreamWorks Animation Bets That AwesomenessTV Will Deliver Awesomeness
Earlier this month, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation had purchased the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV for $33 million in cash. Factoring in earnings and performance targets, the sale has the...
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How Giphy Plans to Transform Animated GIFs Into An Artform
When Jace Cooke and Alex Chung founded Giphy, they simply wanted a convenient platform for sharing and searching GIFs. But now, Giphy, which launched in Febrary, is reaching beyond its search engine...
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Artist of the Day: Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith (not to be confused with indie animator Pat Smith) is an artist whose work tends to be constructed of colorful objects as if toy construction and geometric block sets have assembled into...
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Animography Aims to Bring Animated Typography to the Masses
Animography aims to make life a little easier by offering animated typefaces delivered in neatly organized After Effects files. The type foundry is the creation of Jeroen Krielaars, a graphic designer...
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How Etsy Is Using Vine and Stop Motion to Build Its Brand
Vine, Twitter’s mobile looped video app, is less than a year old and still remains a new frontier. Not everyone is sure how to use it and like most of the Internet, the common subject matter of Vines...
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When Craft Beer Labels Get Animated
Video editor Trevor Carmick is receiving all sorts of attention for his new side project called Beer Labels in Motion, a collection of beer labels cleverly animated in GIF format. Carmick was inspired...
View ArticleEleanor Davis Creates Google’s Spring Equinox Doodle [Updated]
Google's homepage celebrates the vernal equinox today with a charming animated Google Doodle.
View ArticleGawker’s io9 Launches Animation Website
This week the influential Gawker Media brand launched an animation-specific site called, quite simply, Animation. The blog is a subsite of the larger io9 brand, which already publishes a fair amount of...
View ArticleWhy Did CG Hub Shut Down Without Warning Its Users?
It's been one week now since CG Hub, the popular portfolio site and social network for digital artists, unexpectedly shut down, leaving thousands of its users angry and confused.
View ArticleCGSociety Unveils New and Improved Website
The online destination for digital art industry professionals gets a makeover.
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