Mulan is one of Disney’s best-designed films. For that, you can thank Chen-Yi Chang. He was the character designer, and he put an amazing amount of care and research into his work. It lifted the whole team, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-charac...

Stages of Decomposition

Guillermo del Toro about his new animated feature film "The Buried Giant": - "a stop motion movie for adults, being produced without any concession to a family audience" - "I want all the creatures to be of the same material. It's gonna take us years." 💪💪💪 deadline.com/2026/05/guil...

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

In the last few weeks I've spoken to two executives at a major streamer - one in adult animation, one in preschool content for both animation and live action - and both basically told me the same thing: they're looking for YouTube success stories with huge subscriber bases. 🧵

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.

From: Bobby's Girl (1985), dir. Toshio Hirata, Madhouse/Project Team Argos A famous piece of animation by Takashi Nakamura

mad genius…

‘Digital Circus’ finale presales hit a Fathom-record $5M in four days, pushing the release to 1,800+ screens in the U.S. and new territories abroad as theaters scramble to keep up with fan demand. www.cartoonbrew.com/distribution...

Devastated to hear the entire Marvel Studios’s Visual Development team has been let go. This was my old home but more importantly, the home of so many incredible artists and peers. Absolutely heartbreaking 😔 Sending all my impacted peers my love and support. Please reach out if you need anything!

Had the pleasure of storyboarding on Ray Gunn. Very excited to see it progress…

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

From Kodansha's "Light Hole" papercraft stop-motion branded film, featuring Akira, Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell and many other mangas. Directed by Toru Katori (Animation director: Takuro Oishi). Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIL_...

This is a very very very obvious point to make but shops and movie rental places and record stores are all more fun than buying things online

Cancer survivor here. This is fucking insane.

Tubi, the ad-supported free streaming platform, was already awesome, but it's about to become one of the best streaming platforms out there for animation when it starts adding 100 Warner Bros. cartoon titles on March 1. www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/tu...

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

James Baxter is living legend so check this out if you want to learn sumthin about bipedal locomotion…

Is it bad if your stock is down almost 40% over a year despite quadrupling down on AI during a stock market bubble?

Now that the Adobe debacle has started to die down, please don’t forget about the animators. There are a lot of crafts, including animation, that have gotten the shit end of the stick during bargaining for decades. My craft is dying. We need more in house animation.

Or Adobe could’ve done the right thing by its customers in the first place…

Looooooolllllllllllll they made Disney angry

The enshittification of Adobe continues…

Reposting for no particular reason

Adobe Customer Support: 800-915-9428 Their phone line is, obviously, pretty backed up. But I think it's worth registering your displeasure as a customer when a company just decides that work you've done over a decade is going to become completely inaccessible at their whim.

Exclusive: Check out Netflix's official English-subtitled trailer for 'Samuel,' the minimalist French animated micro-series that will debut worldwide on the platform on February 5. www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/e...

Exclusive: Oscar-shortlisted animator Pierre-Luc Granjon breaks down his favorite shot from 'The Night Boots' and the painstaking pinscreen technique behind the woodland adventure's coziest scene. www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/pierr...

This modern gem was animated frame by frame on a screen of 277,000 metal pins From: The Night Boots (2024), dir. Pierre-Luc Granjon, Am Stram Gram Full film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyO...

Michiya Kato shows how they animated the rippling hallway in Paprika (2006), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse

The official thumbnail for this short film is also very nice.

I was like “why is this trailer so much more amazing than it has any right to be” and then I got to the end and the credits said “screenplay by @clmazin.bsky.social” so, mystery solved youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

Hey all! Get 20% of my Mammalia book, prints, and art at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social from Nov 28 - Dec 1 with code THANKS20... gallerynucleus.com/artists/ryan_oloughlin

The sumo wrestling scene from Taro the Dragon Boy (1979), dir. Kirio Urayama, Toei Doga

Like some kind of zombie cockroach, THE BAN ON STATE AI REGULATIONS IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!! 🪦 Please call your senators and rep NOW and tell them no state AI regulation ban!! A cheat sheet of who to call, scripts of what to say here: tinyurl.com/msa69nkv

Zach has done a great job bringing a lot of resources, sample scripts, etc on how to call your senators AND representatives to urge them to vote NO on the AI moratorium in the NDAA! Check em out! Btw I thought at first, it was only Senators we needed to call. Please call your representatives too!

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

And?

Here’s @realgdt.bsky.social in NYC expanding on his rallying cry of ‘fuck AI!’, talking about how art and even love come from shared pain and movies can save your life. This shit made me and others in the audience cry as much as his version of Frankenstein…

A Goofy Movie was my first ever film credit. The Sydney studio animated a few sequences. I inbetweened the final shot!

Here’s Nick Cave replying to a correspondent called Valerio who was asking him about how to respond to a growing sense of cynicism - here. www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-still...

The New Beverly Cartoon Club presents an animated favorite! A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) screens in 35mm Saturday, November 8th, at 10:00am. Tickets: buff.ly/tw1I1Ox

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Two starring Jimmy Wang Yu! ZATOICHI MEETS THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (1971) screens at 6:30pm followed by BLOOD OF THE DRAGON (1971) at 8:35pm TODAY, Sunday October 19th, both in 35mm. Tickets: buff.ly/iZQEwvw

There's so little for teens at the box office that Netflix released a movie that had been streaming for two months already and it still made $18M in just one weekend. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is a great example of doing it right in 2025.