'Ratatouille' DVD reviewed at Jeremy’s Consumer’s Corner

For those of you that were unable to catch it on the big screen, or just prefer waiting on the DVD release, I've given 'Ratatouille' a complete run down to let you know if it

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You just gotta see this animation to believe it!!!!

It's now responsible for starting fights and arguments every where. ITS INSANE

If you see the girl turning clockwise, your right hemisphere dominates:
You are highly creative, you use your

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Check out the newest television commercial of Coke / Coca-cola. It's theme is Grand Theft Auto. I have uploaded it here for your viewing pleasure. I just love the animation, theme and the chosen song they associated with it. Lyrics say..."You give

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I love animation, have done since I was a kid. Even tried my hand at a bit years ago on my old Atari system, hours of fun and head scratching.
As I have got older I have developed a better appreciation of all the aspects which go into producing this irreverent art form.

Atom Films are not only a vehicle for up and coming talent, but is ev

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Webkit recently posted an article their blog Surfin' Safari describing a new set of CSS functions currently in the works. The purpose of these new functions is to allow animation using simple CSS attributes. Vitamin's comment about the venture was "Now I don't know why you'd want to, but hey, you can". I couldn't disagree more.

How

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Forget about JPGs, GIFs, and PNGs -- that is soooo '90's. Get ready for the next Graphic Format... Scaleable (and Programmable) Vector Graphics -- SVGs. That's right... you can program SVGs. VG’s feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects, template objects, extensibility and programming of t

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Do you need some help getting into the Christmas spirit? Here's a list of 7 great classic Christmas cartoons from the public domain. All of the cartoons are very charming. Most of them are from the 1930s and 1940s. These cartoons were a part of my family's holiday traditions. Make them a part of yours! My favorite is "Christmas comes but o

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You're one click away from a Merry Christmas.

Susan J. Preston created this amazing interactive Flash-based Advent Calendar, which has become an annual event for 8 years and running, winning numerous Cool Site of the Day Awards.

Each day of the advent calendar features a unique and charming flash animation. The site also has lots of w

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This video is so cute!

Canucklehead and his family wish you Happy Holidays via this Jib Jab video. Starring Canucklehead Jr. as the elves!

I haven't checked out the Jib Jab site yet, but it looks like you upload a JPG or two, and they paste it on their animation.

This makes a really different and fun holiday e-card.

Thanks, Can

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During the late 80's and the early 90's the world was in the grasp of an hyper / over eager dog and an incredibly stupid cat (we think he, er, she, ah, it was a cat): Ren and Stimpy!

One of the classic episodes of the short lived Ren and Stimpy series was the Rubber Nipple Salesmen. Our heroes are going door to door selling rubber nipp

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The history of my love affair with computers began in 1975 when I joined Canadian Pacific Airlines as a reservation agent. When I first started with the airlines there was no computer system. We took airline reservations on cards and then put them on what looked like a mobile washing line. It then moved round a large room to the front where i

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HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands. HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany In June of last year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital.

Take a look at HEMA’s product pag

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The Annie Awards were held recently to honor achievements in film animation. One of the highlights of the program was a short film put together by the actors who do the voices of the characters on Spongebob Squarepants. The actors wanted to "prove" they shouldn’t be stereotyped simply as Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward, and S

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The title of this short animation is “Game Time.” Late Saturday afternoon, I was drawing and came up with a couple of football related sketches. I drew out the thumb nails and decided to add some animation in Adobe Flash. Everything always seems to take longer than you expect, so it was not finished until after the end of the g

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FOX Networks has a new animated series in the works. A spin-off from their #1 hit, Family Guy, Cleveland features the Griffins' "token" black neighbor and is being written by series creator, Seth McFarlane, as well as Family Guy writer and Cleveland's voice talent, Mike Henry. FOX also has some other animated shows in the

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