SMFA Animation

Haha, I bet some of you thought I was going to do my post on Jan Svankmajer, but I'm not. Suckers. Raoul Servais was born in the Belgian...

um this isn't exactly history of animation but I was just wanting to say that Spike Jonze made a short film (inexplicably paid for by Ab...

Jiri Trnka was consider to be Disney of the east. Through his provoctive puppet animation, Trnka became one of the most infulenical animator...

Born in 1912, Jiri Trnka's stop-motion animated short film The Hand is a harrowingly gorgeous and tragically whimsical political sta...

Chuck Jones's "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" is a favorite among the Gorals, and its viewing on Christmas Eve has been a fam...

When I took a character animation class last semester, we often looked at John K's blog (creator of Ren & Stimpy ), primarily becau...

Since the discovery of Wackyland in the year 1938 , it has been a choice locale for the Looney Tunes. Wackyland was first discovered by Pork...

We all recognize Elmer Fudd because of his familiar gullibility, short temper, big head, and double barrel gun. His never ending goal of h...

Perhaps one of my favorite cartoons by Chuck Jones (and of all time, for that matter) is his “What’s Opera, Doc?” Perhaps it’s a simple qu...

Watching all these American classics of animation last week, was a great experience. They are so deeply ingraned in people's memories an...

The main reason I love this short is because it reminds me about loving the ridiculousness in every story. I remember siting down at my gran...

Directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Brothers Studios, the critically acclaimed surreal Looney Tune known as Duck Amuck was releas...