Peanuts animator dies

SANTA MONICA - Multi-award winning animator Bill Melendez has died, aged 91.Most famous as the animator of the Charlie Brown cartoons, he had worked in the business for some  70 years, producing a host of...

Paul Boyd + Mental Illness + Police = Tragedy

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Chain wielding Paul Boyd, mentally ill during his altercation with Vancouver Police is described by friends and family as a gentle giant, who at times had sprints...

Vancouver, BC, Man killed by police, Mentally ill

This is an update to the original story Police Shoot Man Dead during arrest. Though, Mentally ill, Paul Boyd seemed to have the mental faculties to get help and or take his medication, his failure to do so ending...

Update: Friends identify man shot by Vancouver police

This news has not been made official by Police, but by the slain man's friends.August 22, 2007 Update on Paul Boyd, go to Story "Paul Boyd + Mental Illness+ Police= Tragedy""A group of friends who gathered at a...

Iwao Takamoto, cartoonist who created Scooby-Doo, dies at 81

"Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the beloved Scooby-Doo and directed the cartoon classic Charlotte's Web, has died. He was 81. Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner...

Flintstones and Scooby-Doo Animator Joseph Barbera dies at 95

"Legendary Hollywood animator Joseph Barbera, whose characters Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Scooby-Doo made generations of people laugh, died on Monday at age 95, the Warner Bros. film studio said in a statement."

Green Latern and Doughboy

"Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, has died. He was 91. The first Green Lantern appearance came in July 1940, an eight-page story in a comic book also featuring other characters. The...

For Want: One Fly Flash Animator

Raincity Seeking Flash Animator Raincity Studios is currently looking for a kickin' flash animator. Perhaps you? Know of such a person? Please, pass the word along. Ideally, this candidate loves animating in flash, hence the whole flash animator slant. And we're not...

Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker

"Artist's Comments An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself. A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find - the brush...

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