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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 3: The Orlando Features

Jeremie Noyer continues his multi-part discussion with Mark Henn, looking back on his involvement with two features made at Disney’s Florida studio.

Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities

Ben Simon and Randall Cyrenne review Uncensored Animation, Tom And Jerry, Strangest Cartoons, Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parades and Cartoon Commercials!

Golden Globes for animation, and a teaser for this week…

Up and Avatar win at the Globes. And more to come this week!

The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”

Jeremie Noyer continues his multi-part discussion with Mark Henn, looking back at the 1990s, when the Disney Studio enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity in its films.

Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!

Animated Views wishes you all the very best for the coming year! Plus thoughts on the season’s big blockbuster, James Cameron’s Avatar…

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

Curious George returns for the holidays in a delightful little animated special that should appeal to his many young fans and put a warm smile on the faces of some adults too!

A Miser Brothers’ Christmas

Two classic Rankin/Bass characters, Heat and Snow Miser, are back for their own holiday special. In it the two brothers must put aside their differences and save Christmas from the jealous North Wind.

Ho-ho-ho with our Best Of The Year!

In our last update before the holidays, Animated Views wishes a very Merry Christmas to you all, plus we review the highs and lows of the past twelve months’ animated movies and home entertainment releases!

The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!

Join us on a trip back through the past twelve months for the best and the worst of the year, including our top ten DVD and Blu-ray highlights, which ones to avoid and the pick of 2009’s movies!

The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!

Jeremie Noyer begins his multi-part discussion with Mark Henn, looking back on the animator’s career from joining Disney to moving to the Studio’s Florida unit.

The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn: A Career Retrospective

Join Jeremy Noyer for an exclusive look back over Disney animator Mark Henn’s career, right up to becoming supervising animator on the Studio’s return to traditional animation, The Princess And The Frog!

The Princess and the Frog

While not the fairest one of all, The Princess and the Frog shines enough to prove wrong anyone who thought that traditional animation was a dying art and that the movie musical croaked years ago.

Shorts

Robert Rodriguez adds another children’s film to his resume. This one is mostly for kids, but with fun for adults if you don’t mind some gross-out stuff. Fun special effects and decent bonus features make the Blu-ray worth a look.

Miyazaki’s first is revisted by a new contributor!

We celebrate thirty years since Hayao Miyazaki made his animated feature debut The Castle Of Cagliostro, with our new contributor Raz Greenberg!

An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro

December 15 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of Miyazaki’s debut feature Castle Of Cagliostro. Raz Greenberg celebrates one of the Japanese director’s most important and influential films.

Yogi’s First Christmas

Yogi awakens early from hibernation, and finds himself the star of Warner Archive’s first cartoon release.

Superman, Charlie Brown, Elves and Princesses!

As The Princess And The Frog opens, Jeremie speaks to author Jeff Kurtti about his new Art Of book, plus review catch-ups for Prep & Landing, I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown and Superman: The Complete Animated Series!

The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti

Celebrating the release of Disney’s return to traditional animation, Jeremie Noyer speaks exclusively to Jeff Kurtti, author of The Art Of The Princess And The Frog!

Prep & Landing

This is probably one of the funniest new Christmas specials created in recent years, featuring superior writing, animation and a visual style that make Prep & Landing an extremely enjoyable experience.

Superman: The Complete Animated Series

Resonant stories, excellent vocal performances and tons of well crafted action and pre-digital effects sequences mark Superman: Animated out as a very well realized slice of modern DC animation.

I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

Rerun pines for a puppy in this latter-day Peanuts classic. This new release bests the old Paramount one in the video department, and adds a second holiday special and featurette that makes for a nice disc.

Zorro, Zorro, Zorro…and memories of Richard Todd

Zorro leaps back into action in Walt Disney Treasures’ two complete season sets, plus a look back at meeting Disney Legend Richard Todd.

Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season

Walt Disney’s television take on the original caped crusader is a fantastic series that breaks through the nostalgia to remain terrific entertainment!

Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season

Walt’s perfect TV series gets another Treasures set.

Plastic Man: The Complete Collection

Ruby-Spears (and not Hanna-Barbera as the packaging insists) animated superhero comedy adventure is fun if inconsistent, but even though the limited extra are fanplastic, the transfers here have been stretched to the limit.

Princess winners, and a Curious new contest!

The Princess And The Frog book winners, and a new Curious George Christmas contest!

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Prize Pack – Winner Announced!

A Very Monkey Christmas prize pack containing a Curious George DVD, book, soundtrack and more – Winner Announced!

Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection

The Man Of Steel’s 1988 animated series is a surprisingly epic, mature and quality made show that bridges the gap between the Christopher Reeve movies and later animated versions.

Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!

Jeremie Noyer joins a roundtable discussion with Pixar Story Artist and Shorts director Ronnie del Carmen on how Dug’s Special Mission was created for DVD and Blu-ray!

The first and fairest meets the latest for Thanksgiving!

The Princess And The Frog is here! Plus Snow White back on DVD leads a comparison of all available editions, plus comments comments on “It’s A Wonderful Shrek“…!