Those of you who grew up watching Spongebob Squarepants and harbouring a secret desire to eat at the Krusty Krab, your ambitions are about to be realised. That’s because a real-life version of the restaurant, which was run in the cartoon series by the curmudgeonly Mr Krabs, is actually under construction.

Fans of Homestar Runner, take heart: the seminal internet cartoon that found a major audience in the 2000s is primed for a full comeback. Co-creator Matt Chapman was just interviewed by Jeff Rubin and announced that he and his brother Mike are bringing the cartoon back following a successful April Fool's Day cartoon — the first new content posted to the site in over three years.

Engineer and Medic make an unsettling new discovery while experimenting with the teleporter. Meanwhile, Scout stops insulting Spy long enough to ask him an embarrassing favor; the Administrator's clerical assistant/cleaner/murder expert Miss Pauling races to bury some incriminating bodies; and Soldier makes a new metal friend.

In this wildly inventive animation, a man hatches a plot to escape from a prison for "criminally poor writers."

‘Pearls’ author Stephan Pastis managed to draw the reclusive Watterson out of his self-imposed retreat for three strips that appeared in hundreds of newspapers on June 4, 5 and 6: 'It was the hardest secret I've ever had to keep.'

Pixar Animation Studios has decided to give away RenderMan, its flagship animation software used to create the likes of Toy Story, Wall-E and – less happily – Cars 2. The company decided on the freebie, which will apply only to non-commercial use, after last week releasing a new version of the software said to offer “ an entirely new modular rendering architecture” that includes “highly optimized methods for simulating the transport of light”.

For 25 years, Pixar has created the likes of Toy Story, Wreck It Ralph and Monster's University using a custom-built software - and soon this program will be available for everyone. Individual licences for the RenderMan software typically cost $500 (£300) but from August, amateur animators can get hold of the non-commercial version of the program for free. Anyone interested in downloading the software can register their interest via Pixar’s RenderMan site.

Many of you may be thinking "What in the name of all things cinnamon swirl is going on here?" Well, everypony, I am here to tell you all about the magical world of friendship, magic and the inhabit...

Netflix and Dreamworks have announced that the How to Train Your Dragon spinoff television series Dragons is moving from Cartoon Network to Netflix, and a slew of new episodes are in the works.

Stanley the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is left behind in the break of an apocalypse. All he wants to do is get back to his owner…

There's a mysterious code hidden in an increasing number of films, shows, and videogames out there, from The Simpsons to South Park to Toy Story. The list goes forever, including live action features like Avengers, Star Wars, and Hunter Games. The code is the key to a secret society limited to a selected few.

You might want to block out some time for this episode of The Simpsons: On May 4, the long-running animated Fox comedy will journey into the world of Lego, as Homer finds himself transported into another yellow dimension. Will it be a snap for him to return to his old world? What happens when things like Kwik-E-Mart become the Brick-E-Mart?

Television network FXX will air all 552 episodes of The Simpsons consecutively in an 12-day marathon this summer. The pilot will kick things off on August 21st, with episodes continuing into Labor Day (September 1st) according to The Associated Press.

In this exclusive excerpt from Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull unveils one of his key management tools-the Pixar Braintrust, which has helped the animation powerhouse score 14 box office hits in a row.

Couch Gag for The Simpsons "Diggs" by Sylvain Chomet.

PowToon is a brand new presentation tool that allows you to create animated presentations and cartoon style videos just by dragging and dropping.

In early 1908, a magazine illustrator named Harry Grant Dart settled down to work on his new assignment: parodying the women's suffrage movement for the magazine Puck. Dart was a cartoonist from the golden age of newspaper illustration, when photographs were still rare in daily periodicals and innovative comics like Little Nemo in Slumberland and Krazy Kat were winning huge audiences.

Behold the very first of Lego Simpsons sets! Or at least, that's Eurobricks user Carlos S claims. There are no details about it except what we can see on this photo of alleged box: 2523 pieces, six minifigs including the full Family plus Flanders. It looks really fantastic and detailed and—apparently—it even opens. It almost looks too good to be true, right?

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