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Short Film Has Tall Implications
…film in Melbourne, Australia, and a special citation by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Roy Disney was so proud of the film that he invited his old-time animation pals… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…the time was how CGI films would dominate the nominees, as cel-animated filmmaking fell by the wayside. For release year 2005, however, there were no CGI films among the three… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…& Dragons feature film was finally released in 2000. Directed by Courtney Solomon, the film told of a ragtag group of assorted folk coming together to retrieve a scepter that… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…Poorly conceived and trapped in the rut of ostensibly being set before the events in the feature film were to take place, The Little Mermaid television program had trouble finding… |
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Pixar Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire reveals the “incredible” art behind I2
…to watch the first film and the second film at the same time without thinking about the difference too much. I found myself on this film going back to a… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…with Andrew Adamson, whose approach to the film was a little different from yours? DG: It’s difficult to comment on Andrew’s approach because the film is a mixture of his… |
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Warning From Space
…over thirty Japanese films (including the recent anime seen on Netflix), his success resulted in a whole new film industry in Japan, unleashing a large number of movies and television… |
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Toy Story: full 10th Anniversary DVD details
…Filmmaker Audio Commentary, allowing viewers to watch the film along with Pixar writer/director John Lasseter and his creative team including Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Bill Reeves, Ralph Eggleston and Producers… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…made the film a lot better watching human motion. Now don’t ever say to the artists that they used those as in rotoscoping, you know, that they actually…used that film… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…film of the year, the third film to hit $1 billion at the box office, and Disney’s highest-grossing film of all time. It also claimed an Oscar for the groundbreaking… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…film’s running time is stated on the sleeve at 71 minutes, although I clocked it in at just over 73, so you do get a few more spots for your… |
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Arthur Christmas composer Harry Gregson-Williams: from Venice Beach to the North Pole!
…love the film! AV: What are you up to, now? HGW: I’m scoring Andrew Adamson’s next film which is called Mister Pip. It’s a low budget, independant film from New… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…in the animation department, an expensive operation to run. “You know,” he once said jokingly to his animators, “with live action I can go out with the actors and film… |
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Meet The Robinsons
Almost every American animated film released this decade has had, what I call for lack of better terms, a contrived modernness or pseudo-hipness to it. Unlike past films where you… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…in terms of presentation quality here is The Mechanical Monsters, from November 1941, and absolutely one of my all-time favorite short films. The film again opens with a short recap… |
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Miss Hokusai
…daughter and I both wondered what the point of the film was. Why make a film that has occurrences but so little development? Why didn’t more happen? What did it… |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…first Disney/Pixar film produced in 3D), what makes Up (and all of Pete Docter’s films, by the way) so successful is its acknowledgment to its heritage. A genius of his… |
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Shrek 2: number 1
…opening day for an animated film, the largest opening weekend for an animated film, the largest five-day opening for any film, the biggest single-day Saturday gross for any film, and… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…know. Bay is, on occasion, an exceptional filmmaker for the brand of motion picture he helped invent during the 1990s with such films as Bad Boys, The Rock and Armageddon…. |
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The Breadwinner
…material in an evening, immediately seeing the possibilities for a powerful film. Both the book and the film tell the story of Parvana, an eleven-year old girl from Kabul who… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…more of a pencil sketched look. Additionally, the entire film is punctuated with animated extras throughout, as if the main character, an amateur filmmaker, was putting in special effects for… |
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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams takes us far, far away, from Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever After
…a Jerry Bruckheimer film. So, I guess this is the first action film I did with Jerry. I was kind of concerned about it, that it wouldn’t suit me at… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…Disney-branded (and I include Pixar in that designation), then I haven’t been the best in keeping up with the recent rush of animated films in the past five years or… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the film through creating the music for the film, similar to how we map the emotion of a film for the lighting and color of a film in a color… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
Despite the aggravated proclamations of its animators and heavily dropped rumors that director Wes Anderson was hardly to be seen on the “set” of his latest film, a stop-motion animated… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…Several other high-powered studios began trying their hand at animated films, giving Disney competition as well as “flooding the market.” The very same trend in CG animated films is happening… |
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BAFTA Film Award winners announced
…it did win for overall Best Film. The sponsored Orange Film Of The Year, voted by the general moviegoing public, also went to The Return Of The King, beating out… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…Pixar’s competing film of that season that has stood the test of time more solidly, unhampered by the diminishing returns of the sequels upon sequels that the not-so-jolly green ogre… |
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ParaNorman
…films over the next decade, to many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons. Out of all the animated methods, stop-motion seems… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…time,” he recalls. The screenwriter stops short of revealing more about the film, though, as he must do with most of the animated films he has written. “Regrettably, I can’t… |
