Channel 101

Met Justin Roiland last night at Channel 101. He premiered a new short that is funnier than the controversial and now banned, House of Cosbys - but you can catch episodes all over the web. It should be up on the Channel 101 site in a few days so check it out.

The Aristocrats on DVD

The Aristocrats DVD recently hit stores. Dave Thomas, the Executive Creative Driector at ANIMAX, is all over the DVD - he was interviewed by Penn in our old offices so you'll even see material from The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie on the wall behind Dave.

Disney on iTunes

Disney rolls back the clock 70 years with Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and the rest of the gang. There are ten Disney classics - meaning no new-fangled Pixar 3D shorts - now available for download on iTunes.

Lines and Colors

What a nifty blog.

Right from their description: lines and colors is a blog about drawing, sketching, painting, comics, cartoons, webcomics, illustration, digital art, concept art, gallery art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting.

The "I" is Charley Parker and he has a good "eye."

OMMA and Ad-Tech

Michael Bellavia, the General Manager of ANIMAX Entertainment, is going to be speaking March 27-28 at OMMA HOLLYWOOD about online video content. OMMA is run by MediaPost. If you'd like to meet up at the conference, send an email to info [at] animaxent [dot] com.

He'll also be at Ad:Tech Chicago in July - a ways away, but it's nice to think about Summer during Winter.

Dixar, Pixney, DiPi, um, Disney

From The Hollywood Reporter: Disney buying Pixar for $7.4 billion The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it is buying longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios Inc. for $7.4 billion in a deal that could restore Disney's animation domination while vaulting Pixar CEO Steve Jobs into a powerful role at the media conglomerate. Pixar president Ed Catmull will serve as president of the new combined animation studios.

ANIMAX is very happy about this as Disney has been a great client of ours. Exciting times.

Smart Bears

ANIMAX is working with Knowledge Bears to produce animation and games for different free online education activities for kids. The site is free of advertising so parents don't need to be worried about what their kids are looking at.

Fox InFlight Movies

We just finished some updates to a site the interactive group at ANIMAX built for Fox.

60,000 Bullies

In less than a month 60,000 people visited the McGruff site ANIMAX animated and created for the Ad Council. Hopefully all of them were bullies who learned the error of their ways.

Wishing Upon a Star

Yesterday Dave Thomas and Michael Bellavia of ANIMAX met with Mike Moon and John Solomon at Walt Disney Television Animation about producing short form animation. They've got a bunch of great properties in development over there right now and we hope one of ours will be added to the roster. Will keep you updated.

Mike at Night

ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning is adding an evening broadcast. It will be a 30-minute Best of Mike and Mike, which will boil down Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg’s four-hour morning (6 a.m-10 a.m.) talk radio simulcast each day. Why does ANIMAX care? Because we're big fans--we like Howard Stern too--since we've been animating the Off-Mikes series. Stay tuned for Season 3 coming to ESPN.com soon.

Front Page News

We're on the front page of the Ad Council's website today for the animation ANIMAX did as part of the McGruff the Crime Dog bullying project.

LAFU

No, LAFU is not a pejorative. It's the Los Angeles Flash Users group. On January 18th, join LAFU's first meeting of 2006 to experience some amazing locally produced Adobe Flash content.

Experience SL-Tech

Does your kid eat lunch at school? Does your kid eat in a cafeteria? Is there a lunch lady in your child's life? If so, then most likely you've experienced SL-Tech without really knowing it. Today ANIMAX launched a new website for SL-Tech which included a new logo, new print collateral, and a whole new approach to communicating with their clients. What exactly does SL-Tech do? Anything and nearly everything having to do with the management of foodservices.

On the Radio

Up late and surfing and happened upon this radio interview Dave Thomas did last year. ANIMAX mentioned as well as a bunch of really funny stories about SCTV, Bob Hope, Lorne Michaels, Richard Harris and many more...

Clowning Around

Get your yucks ready, and we mean both meanings of the word. We're creating some animated bumpers for the new Comedy Channel on AOL - it's a very different look than ANIMAX's normal stuff. Pretty raw and viscerally funny. Will have stuff to show you soon.

Mobile Games - UI, Art, and Linguine

Yo, Goombas! ANIMAX:Mobile, our mobile division, is booming thanks to our agents at WDA. Click here to download the 2MB ANIMAX:Mobile Credentials Deck. We're working on several mobile games currently providing art direction , graphic design, character design and animation. ANIMAX is getting to work with some fun clients and brands including Best Direction, GloVentures and even HBO's The Soprano's.

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