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Mars Explorer by Marco Genovesi. Digital illustration (3D computer graphics, digital painting, compositing)
CG Channel published an article on self-promotion tips and guidelines for digital artists. There are suggestions about what to do when creating an artist’s website: avoid Flash, use a simple and usable user interface for navigating your image / animation portfolio, carefully select [...]

A very good resource about the history of digital graphics and animation. Utilized for an academic course the website I am suggesting is rich of timelines, anectodes, stories about famous people of 3D CG and a lot of external references.
thanks to Cristian Contini
Visit: A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation

source Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios just released online the first sneak peak of the animated short movie One Man Band to be publicly released in theathers together with Cars.
Watch One Man Band online.

Animated News says:
The Independent Animation Channel will be going live on July 4, 2005. The site, which claims to be “the only animation channel that runs just like a real TV station, via the internet, will be streaming video 24 hours, 7 days a week”. Taking only original content to which the creators keep all [...]

Source: Disney
With the U.S. release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle next week, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will be screening Studio Ghibli classics for the month of June, including My Neighbor Totoro (June 4 and 25), Grave of the Fireflies (June 5) and Princess Mononoke (June 17 and 30). The [...]

Visually stunning, technically beautiful, and mostly entertaining, Steamboy feels weirdly empty and forced. Perhaps the nearly ten year life span of the project and huge budget had a life-sapping effect. Part of the problem here may be the base premise of steam driven technology itself. Rather than be an interesting extrapolation, the steam tech comes [...]

After months of silent work behind the scenes, I’m very proud to announce the following:
The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp, [...]

Dreamlike Visions released information about Tip of the Day, a 3D animated TV Series targeted for children in the range of 3-9 years old.

The 13 episodes of the soon to be produced TV series is set in the magical valley of DragonShires and tells the stories of Tip and Trick, two young dragons struggling to [...]

Cute Flash animations of egg characters by Peoplesign.

Story, story, story. A story well-told can be done with flip books.
John Canemaker
Via Fox News: Technology Takes on Tradition in Animation.