Microsoft Acquires ‘Fallout’ and ‘Elder Scrolls’ Publisher Bethesda Softworks
$7.5 billion cash deal for game maker’s parent, ZeniMax Media, expands software giant’s growing gaming business profile.
$7.5 billion cash deal for game maker’s parent, ZeniMax Media, expands software giant’s growing gaming business profile.
Teams of animation students get one week to create an animated short showing their vision of the future of creative collaborations.
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Teams of animation students get one week to create an animated short showing their vision of the future of creative collaborations.
10-episode podcast series is now available; Season 2 of ‘Blue’s Clues & You!’ airs weekdays on Nickelodeon beginning August 19.
Call for Entries: ‘Cartoon Crunch’ Student Competition
Teams of animation students get one week to create an animated short showing their vision of the future of creative collaborations.
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New ‘Story Time with Josh & Blue’ Podcast Help Tuck Kids in at Night
10-episode podcast series is now available; Season 2 of ‘Blue’s Clues & You!’ airs weekdays on Nickelodeon beginning August 19.
Oscar-Winning Director Gene Deitch Dies at 95
Legendary animator, illustrator, producer, and author, who won an Academy Award in 1961 for his animated short, ‘Munro,’ passed away last Thursday at his home in Prague.
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After-Words
Gene Deitch responds to fan mail questions and one hate mail letter in the last excerpt from his book How to Succeed in Animation (Dont Let a Little Thing Like Failure Stop You!)
Unhappy Ending
Gene Deitch talks about how Bill Snyder played the pivotal role in the second stage of his career.
My Loving Fans
Gene Deitch looks at his diverse fan base, which ranges from lovers of Tom Terrific to his work on Weston Woods Studios projects.
The 'Charlotte' Papers — Part 4
Charlottes Web Graphics: See for yourself. No one before has seen these drawings.
The 'Charlotte' Papers — Part 3
Gene Deitchs Charlottes Web starts to go south as Bill Snyder writes a letter that turns E.B. White sour on the project.
The 'Charlotte' Papers — Part 2
Gene Deitch continues the hairy tails of eventually not making Charlottes Web.
The 'Charlotte' Papers — Part 1
Gene Deitch continues the hairy tails of eventually not making Charlottes Web.
Krazy Klients
Peeing in the soup continues. The bladders of producers seem as continuous fountains. Here are a few hairy tales.
In and Out of the Woods
Weston Woods, that is. I feel that my best films are the least known. My greatest fans still are teachers and librarians, and I spent 25 years of creative fulfillment in pleasing them.
The Giants Win and Lose
A whole new area of work opened up for me just as the Soviet forces were breathing smoke around the borders of Czechoslovakia, and I made a film called The Giants that the communists banned for 20 years. For me, it was a point of pride.
Self-Help for Nudnik — Part 2
Gene Deitch shares an interview he did with the Screen Cartoonists Union newsletter, Top Cel, about animation production life in a communist country in 1968.
Self-Help For Nudnik
Our fun-films, and my personal best character. The 60s were probably our peak-Prague years.
Spinach & Bricks
What do you do when you have to make a living diminishing true works of art? E.C. Segars Popeye and George Herrimans Krazy Kat have been mauled by others, so I dont need to apologize for my efforts at damage control. Heres what we did with them.
Oscar Comes Calling
Who could have predicted this? I just read that Oscar winners live longer. In our case, the Oscar gave our life an instant boost, and a perpetual publicity handle. We managed five nominations, and have been living in the glow ever since. But was Bill Snyder able to melt that golden statuette down into real dollars?
Why Prague, For God’s Sake?
That was the question I constantly had to answer while isolated from my old colleagues, and hunkered in this distant and seemingly God-forsaken communist-gripped misery. This chapter answers the question. Was I a pinko? A spy? An enemy agent? A CIA man? Or did I just happen to fall into something too good to be true?
GDA, Inc.: Fate Comes Calling — Part 2
In last months excerpt, Gene Deitchs life was turned around when animation producer William Snyder made Gene a deal that sent him to Prague.
GDA, Inc.: Fate Comes Calling
Gene Deitch Associates, Inc. is possibly the most insignificant animation studio in the history of peg-holes, but Munro was born there, and it became Gene Deitchs way station to an entirely new life. Perhaps he is the first Born-Again Animator!
More Mighty Principles of Animation
More animation tech talk from Gene Deitch. The technology of animation has changed somewhat over the past 35,000 years, when cavemen first attempted it, but the basics remain. Here they are in specifics.
UPA: Back to the Future — Part 2
Gene Deitch continues his tales of adventures with UPA.
Don’t Give Your Right Name! — Part 3
After fending off McCarthyism, Gene Deitch resumes work with JHO.
Don’t Give Your Right Name! — Part 2
Gene Deitch continues with the story of his work with Jamison Handy and JHO.
