The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
Les Armateurs/Vivi Film/Cartoon Saloon/France 2 Cinema (February 8 2009), New Video (October 5 2010), single BD plus DVD, 79 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition widescreen and 1.78:1 anamorphic, DTS-HD Master… |
Toy Story 3: Pixar writer Michael Arndt tells the story behind the story
…encouraged to let our imaginations run wild, and (I hope) the film reflects that. RI: The creative process for an animated film is quite different from a live-action one. Did… |
Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…Animated News & Views’ Josh Armstrong. The publication examines how one may best apply the popular software, while also discussing other rules and tips that may help those working, and… |
Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…Ahsoka. Sinister villains—led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous—are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands… |
Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…and the celebrated animated series, to Alan Moore’s complete rewriting of the comic book rules in Watchmen and its ensuing “British Invasion” of writers, such as Neil Gaiman and his… |
Animated shorts up for an Oscar
…and Angels is also up for the award. Warner Brothers also makes the list with their short “Coyote Falls,” starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, scheduled to run… |
Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
…“like they were one person”, as Glen Keane put it. Indeed, in the same year’s Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain, one character is named Dr Frankenollie in tribute to the… |
2010 Annie Award nominations announced
…Sylvain Chomet The Illusionist – Django Films Pierre Coffin Despicable Me – Illumination Entertainment Mamoru Hosoda Summer Wars – Madhouse/Funimation Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois How To Train Your Dragon –… |
Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…The Ruggles (1949-1952), portraying Sharon, the daughter of Charles Ruggles. Likewise, Kerry found a part as Jane Carter in the Lone Ranger adventure The Squire (1950). At the age of… |
Loads of Christmas DVDs
…Amazon | Barnes and Noble Short found on the Finding Nemo DVD. Rankin Bass: The Original Television Christmas Classics | Amazon | Barnes and Noble Rankin-Bass specials including Rudolph the… |
Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…sensed that and I was proud to know that I helped change that. Walter Brennan treated me like a grandson. Ruby Keller was a gentle queen. I think she just… |
Kachow! The Cars 2: Agents On A Mission Tour
…the vehicles in the 2006 Cars: Road Trip promotional tour were gasoline-powered, each new vehicle is powered by four automotive-style batteries at 48 volts, able to run 30 minutes at… |
Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents Annette
…entertaining, due to the charisma of the many interesting young actors, such as Rudy Lee’s incorrigible, diminutive Steady Ware. Director Charles Lamont did a superb job of moving things along,… |
Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…than a few Looney Tunes specials – when theatrical shorts stopped being made. Created towards the tail-end of DePatie-Freleng’s run of Seuss television shows (which included The Lorax in 1972),… |
The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…this selected series of ten “shorts” are potted, re-voiced, re-scored and slightly rushed oddities, running around two and a half minutes each. Winnie The Pooh’s narrator John Cleese now narrates,… |
The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…touch of caricatures of the artists involved, levelling the criticism aimed at Fantasia, which didn’t name anyone apart from Walt himself in its original premiere release. Running just short of… |
Television Academy hypocrisy allowing live action writers into animation categories?
…categories after foregoing a chance at the animation awards over the years. But now the Television Academy has them riled up again with their latest ruling allowing the live action… |
Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…on this set, which were episodes 28-37 by airdate order, the production numbers run 27, 23, 41, 46, 43, 55, 42, 49, 26, and 20. To make things more confusing,… |
The Tick Vs. Season Two
…is especially unfortunate, since it means we never see how the face of the moon was altered (again) in the series’ longest-running continuity sight gag. However, there are still twelve… |
Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
Aardman Animation for the BBC (2010), Lionsgate (March 13 2012), single disc, 174 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio, Not Rated, Retail: $14.99 Storyboard: Nick… |
Mad: Season One, Part Two
…had given the comics industry a controversial name in the 1950s, the satirical Mad Magazine offered a humorous counterpoint to those publications and over it’s continuing, almost 60-year run, has… |
Real Steel
DreamWorks Pictures (October 27 2011), Touchstone Home Entertainment (January 24 2012), 1 Blu-ray and 1 DVD combo, 127 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 2.35:1 widescreen, DTS-HD 7.1 Master Audio, Rated… |
Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…to rave reviews. Critics praised Verbinski’s direction as well as the stunning visual design and intelligent dialogue. By the end of its theatrical run, Rango had collected more than $245… |
The Essential Daffy Duck
…than Bugs and Daffy bickering about how Daffy’s plan to run for President and sanction Rabbit Hunting 365 days of the year is doomed to fail. It is, ultimately, a… |
Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…show which was on WMUR, channel 9. He used to run Dick Tracy, Mr. Magoo, and Popeye. He ran all the World War Two ones, all the racial ones. AV:… |
Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy
…a running gag while never becoming an integral part of the story. The rest of the characters launch into a not-bad We’re Off To Rescue Pappy song that did not… |
Annie nominations for 2011 films announced
…— FX Productions Green Lantern: The Animated Series — Warner Bros. Animation Hoops & YoYo Ruin Christmas — Hallmark MAD — Warner Bros. Animation Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole Season 2 —… |
Stronger Than Spinach
…Fleischer Studio, when their distributor, Paramount, decided to muscle the Fleischers out and simply run a cartoon studio themselves. Many of the same folks stayed on to direct, draw, and… |
35th Annual Annie Award nominees announced
…Danny Elfman, Rufus Wainwright & Rob Thomas, Meet The Robinsons (Walt Disney Feature Animation) • Michael Giacchino, Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) • Rupert Gregson-Williams, Bee Movie, DreamWorks Animation) • Amy… |
Nexus Gets Animated
AWN has an article about Comic book artist Steve Rude’s animated project Nexus. After 16 years, Rude finally managed to put together a promotional DVD that will be presented an… |