The folks at Disney have been kind enough to provide Animag readers with five collector's edition one-sheet posters of the acclaimed documentary Waking Sleeping...

Television

Hallmark Preps Hoops & Yoyo Holiday Special

Ramin Zahed - March 29, 2010

Hallmark's popular online e-card characters Hoops and Yoyo will be starring in their own cable holiday movie in the near future. Hallmark Channel is...

Festivals & Events

Shrek, Chomet and Besson Set to Shine at Annecy

Ramin Zahed - March 19, 2010

Screenings of Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, a 'work-in-progress' sneak peek at Luc Besson's feature The Mechanics of the Heart and the European premiere of...

Home Entertainment

Enter the Green Gladiator

Ramin Zahed - March 18, 2010

Will The Hulk find peace on a distant planet? Don't count on it! A word to the wise: If you have a powerful, green superhero...

Festivals & Events

Revenge of the Euro Features

Ramin Zahed - March 18, 2010

Don't miss the 2010 edition of Cartoon Movie if you're jonesing for a close look at what's brewing in the hot, European animated melting...

Features

The Heart-Breaking Happiness Machine

Ramin Zahed - March 18, 2010

Polish director Tomek Bagiński discusses the making of his beautifully animated CG short The Kinematograph. Polish director Tomek Bagiński's name is familiar to those who...

Features

Cranky Storytime

Ramin Zahed - March 18, 2010

A curmudgeonly grandmother offers her view of a classic story in Brown Bag Films' brilliant Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty. The talented animators at Dublin-based studio...

Features

More Monkey Mayhem

Ramin Zahed - March 18, 2010

Director Norton Virgien talks about making a terrific sequel to the 2006 movie, Curious George. It's been almost seven decades since children's book authors Margret...

Features

Cartoon Movie Freeze Frames

Ramin Zahed - March 18, 2010

The Moomins and the Secret of the Comet Directed by Maria Lindberg If you grew up in Europe, chances are you are already under the spell...

VFX

Gods and Monsters

Ramin Zahed - March 17, 2010

How vfx supe Kevin Mack conjured up classic creatures and wondrous transformation scenes for the new fantasy pic Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The...

Home Entertainment

Books We Love

Ramin Zahed - March 17, 2010

A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter De S've By Peter De S've and Amid Amidi (Editions Akileos, $54.95) There are plenty of reasons why New York-based...

Television

Animag Exclusive: The Scoop on Ugly Americans

Ramin Zahed - March 17, 2010

Comedy Central finds a terrific companion for South Park, Devin Clark and David Stern's horror-comedy about life with zombies, demons and werewolves called Ugly...

Festivals & Events

The 2010 Anicomm Awards

Ramin Zahed - March 17, 2010

In which we celebrate the best animated, most original, funniest and all-around awesome commercials of the past year! Although we're often tempted to fast-forward through...

People

Drawn to Greatness

Ramin Zahed - March 16, 2010

Director Don Hahn discusses his insightful new documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, which travels back to 1984 to chart the rebirth of Disney's creative spirit...

Festivals & Events

Don Bluth to Receive Cartoons on the Bay’s Lifetime Achievement Honor

Ramin Zahed - March 9, 2010

The annual Italian animation festival Cartoons on the Bay has released its list of program tributes, Pulcinella Award nominees and panels for its upcoming...

Features

Logorama: The French Short That Rewrote the Rules

Ramin Zahed - March 1, 2010

Of all the five shorts nominated in the Best Animated Shorts category, the 17-minute-long Logorama is perhaps the most enigmatic. A fascinating homage to...

People