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If you’re not already a fan of Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt’s The Animation Show, you should be. Every installment delivers the beautiful, insightful, and strange world of some of the most talented animators in the world. Volume 3 is no exception, and it all kicks off with a special, brandy-sipping in front of a fire message from our old friends Beavis and Butthead.

Robert Fure gets animated, and angry, over missing his traditionally animated cartoons.

With the release of Kung Fu Panda later this week, we’re heading into the summer animation season. All this makes me reflect on some of my favorite computer animated characters over the years.

Animation World Magazine has a first look at Pixar’s newest creation, a new animated short that gives a nod to Warner Bros. animated classics and “Tom and Jerry”.

The answer to the question in the title above is most likely “no”, but for the sake of drawing you in and getting you to read an article about animated chimps who fly around in space, I had to go there.

Our most dedicated readers will remember that not too long ago, we posted a leaked version of the trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This new version looks awfully similar, don’t you think?

I was lucky to catch two animated films at Tribeca, one from Bill Plympton whose been working at his art for many years and the second by a new animator Leetal Platt.

We’ve seen the concept art, and we’ve seen the rather blurry trailer that was leaked online not too long ago. Now, we’re thrown another bone about the upcoming Clone Wars installment in the Star Wars saga.

Ollie Johnston, the last surviving member of Walt Disney’s “Nine Old Men” passed away last night at age 93. Though perhaps the name may not be familiar, the work certainly is.

In case you haven’t noticed, fanboys around the web have been salivating for the past year or so over Batman. Though, I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, what with all of the viral marketing and the untimely death of one of the film’s stars… Oh wait…

For anyone wondering if a good DVD release can save an otherwise mediocre movie, Bee Movie is your answer. The film itself fell somewhere in the middle (and quite possibly the bottom) of my list last year, but the DVD has brought it up a notch or two.

Walking into Horton Hears a Who!, I was game for a nice and fluffy time-filler. In all honesty, I did not expect, however, to come away from it thinking that this was the first great movie I’ve seen thus far in 2008. [Grade: A-]

Horton Hears a Who is the best Seussical adaptation for the big screen yet.

While we party in Austin, others are finding all kinds of goodies in Vegas at ShoWest…

Just as Warner Bros. was ready to hand the franchise over to Joel Schumacher, who killed it for almost ten years, they greenlit a feature film based on the popular television series Batman: The Animated Series.

Sure, the live-action films are for the most part pretty great (with some exceptions like Daredevil and The Hulk). But it’s in the animated genre that the really cool things are happening.

For those who don’t know anything about the Veggie Tales, this is a computer-generated kids show with Christian overtones. However, unlike many Christian videos, it’s not as heavy-handed on the religious themes.

If you have not yet met Wall-E, then you are in for quite a surprise.