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The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco (655 Mission Street) has just announced that it will present an exhibition of original artwork from the feature film Coraline from January 24-February 15.

“The exhibition features drawings, storyboards, puppets, sets, costumes and more from this groundbreaking movie, the first ever stop-motion animated film to be shot in 3D…this exhibit includes almost 80 pieces from the extraordinary world of Coraline, created by a team of over 300 artists bringing to life the vision of the world’s foremost stop-motion animation director, Henry Selick.”

For more on Coraline, you can check out the official website. (The image above is from a cool collection of behind-the-scenes stills on that site.) The movie opens February 6th, so the CAM exhibit will make for a great sneak peek.

Here are few other interesting museum shows in SF this month (not about animation, just generally cool):

1000 Journals at SFMOMA

Harlem of the West at the [Read more…]

The entertainment industry, while notorious for doing well even in bad financial times, companies themselves still get nervous and/or have financial issues. Such was the case recently for LAIKA. The CG feature film Jack and Ben was shelved by the studio. You may remember writer Jorgen Klubien (formerly of Pixar) was let go over “creative differences” last year, and Barry Cook (director of Disney’s Mulan) was brought on to direct the film. The recent action finds 65 people out of work.

LAIKA’s layoffs are hardly the only ones this year. Several other studios have recently announced downsizing.  Hopefully the new year will bring better financial times for both industry and artist alike.

-Floyd Bishop