Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
November 10, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
The Big Cartoon DataBase announced upgrading their forum to a new software package this weekend, and the new forum went live Saturday morning. The upgrade was also accompanied with a change in URLs, to the new location…
November 8, 2013 · Dave Koch
Oscar Statuette, Academy AwardsThough it hardly seems like it, it is Oscar Time! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced their short list for the Best Animated Short Film category. This is not the…
November 8, 2013 · Dave Koch
Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards19 animated features have been submitted for consideration for the Animated Feature Film Oscar this year according to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. This years list…
November 5, 2013 · Dave Koch
Frostbite Falls most famous residents are coming to the big screen in 2014, according to DreamWorks Animation. Not only are Moose and Squirrel making their big screen debut in a new theatrical short, but a long-time…
October 21, 2013 · Cassie Costner
USA Today has given us our first look at the design for the forthcoming DreamWorks feature Mr. Peabody & Sherman. Based on characters from the early sixties classic Jay Ward series Rocky and His Friends and its segment…
October 11, 2013 · Dave Koch
Triggerfish Studios has released the first trailer for its new South African animated film Khumba. This newest feature from Triggerfish Studios opens in South Africa on October 25, and will arrive in theaters and On…
October 9, 2013 · Dave Koch
Three short years after opening it's first satellite studio in Vancouver, Pixar announced that the studio is to be shut down. The studio was located in the Gastown area of Vancouver, which has seen a recent boon in…
October 7, 2013 · Timb C
It was the best of animation, it was the worst of animation. Over the next couple months, you will be able to choose for yourself which is the true Queen, and which will be the also ran. One is from Disney, and one is…
October 6, 2013 · Dave Koch
DreamWorks Animation has added two hot names to the voice cast of next year's Home. Look for comedian Steve Martin to take on Captain Smek, the leader of the alien race known as Boov. Jennifer Lopez is also moving Home…
October 1, 2013 · Dave Koch
For the first time since 2005, Pixar will not have a feature film release in a calendar year. Disney has just announced that the troubled production The Good Dinosaur has been pushed back to a 2015 release date. This is the second release date roll back for the film, originally intended for this holiday season. Disney's Frozen took that slot.
July 4, 2013 · Dave Koch
Laika Entertainment, creators of 2009's Coraline and last year's Academy Ward nominee ParaNorman has just released their first teaser trailer for their next animated film, The Boxtrolls. Set for release on September 24, 2014, The Boxtrolls will be the first stop-motion animated film directed by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable.
June 18, 2013 · Dave Koch
Disney has released the first trailer for Frozen, their take on the Snow Queen tale made famous by Hans Christian Andersen. Set for release this November, Frozen is a story that Walt himself considered doing, but never actually started on. A version was considered in 2002. By 2010, Disney shelved that project, then changed its status to "on hold." The film gained new life in late 2011. when Disney announced a new title for the project (Frozen), and committed to a 2013 release date.
May 9, 2013 · Dave Koch
Walt Disney Animation has announced their first feature-length animated film based on a Marvel property Big Hero 6. Inspired by a little-known Japan-set Marvel series about a team of state-sanctioned superheroes, the film will center on a boy named Hiro Hamada and his beloved robot companion BayMax who join a team of crime fighters in a mythical mashup high-tech city called San Fransokyo.
February 25, 2013 · Dave Koch
Kristina Reed, the producer of the Academy Award Winning animated short Paperman was escorted from her seat at the awards show shortly after her film won the coveted statuette. It seems that in her exuberant mood to celebrate the win, Ms. Reed took to making paper airplanes, applying a lip-stick kiss, and sending the planes into the audience around her.
February 24, 2013 · Dave Koch
Britain’s best-loved animator Bob Godfrey, creator of Roobarb & Custard and Henry’s Cat, died on Thursday 20h February aged 91. Born in New South Wales, Australia, in January 27 1921 of British parents, he was brought home to England at the age of 6 months.
February 24, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
It was a big night for Disney animation at the Oscars tonight with Disney short Paperman taking home Best Animated Short, and Disney/PIXAR's Brave grabbing the statuette for Best Animated Feature. Paperman had previously won the Annie for Best Short, while Disney's Wreck-It Ralph had won the Annie for Best Feature Film... so not so much on the Annies predicting the Oscars anymore.
February 15, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
From this date in 1950 comes a Disney feature film based on a story by Charles Perrault. Cinderella really marked the return of the Disney studios top the animated feature film, and marked the beginning of the middle period of the Disney oeuvre.
February 14, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Released two years ago today, and last year's winner of the Academy Award for best feature animated film, the cartoon oif the day is Rango. Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp- wow, that sounds like a couple of pirate films we know- this stylish western was on the tops of many lists last year. Let us know what you thought of this one.
February 13, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Goofy was always good fun, and good fodder for stories. Freeway Phobia No. 1, with a story written by William R. Bosché is no exception. And, as in many previous films, Goofy plays all the parts. Watch this today for a great belly laugh!
February 12, 2013 · Dave Koch
The full video of the Student Academy Award winning Animation “The Jockstrap Raiders” is now available to view online. Five years in the making, this was a labor of love for director Mark Nelson. The film became his Masters thesis project at UCLA.