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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…they contained two stop motion films, (Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox), one digital film, (Up), and two hand drawn films, (The Secret of Kells and our movie). It’s nice… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…– the first cartoon released that had a synchronised soundtrack attached to the film itself. The two previous Mickey films, Plane Crazy and The Gallopin’ Goucho, had soundtracks written for… |
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Frankenweenie
…Batman, too often overlooked nowadays in light of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight update but just as impressive, and perhaps more so, as those films in terms of visual achievements, and… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…in high school and college. I then went into film school because it has always been my dream and I only admired visual effects films, and in particular the films… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…leads us through a projection room that highlights several film clips that influenced the Disney films of the time. The Mad Doctor is juxtaposed with a scene from Frankenstein, while… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…a test run to see how to best approach running the convention through an ongoing pandemic. The back-to-basics approach provided organizers with insightful information while it also gave attendees a… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…so-so filmmaking endeavors: Man Of Steel wasn’t “Superman Returns bad” and at times recaptured some of the magic of the Chris Reeve films and, more importantly, the Superman character; but… |
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Nextoons: The NickToons Film Festival Announces Festival Judges
…Film Roman, DiMartino animated and directed the short animated film Atomic Love, which has gone on to screen at festivals across the country, including Sundance and the Los Angeles Film… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…never been as direct and heartfelt or dressed up as in this film. It’s just ironic that, for a film that is all about embracing failure, picking one’s self up… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…everything Pixar had learned from these films and much, much more to tell its wideranging story of a family facing its greatest adventure. Rick Sayre, who served as the film’s… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…retained: running almost eight minutes, you’ll find all the cast and crew gushing about making the film from the time of the film’s release, from a nice bunch of soundbites… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…the original The Rescuers film that had been a big hit in 1977. In some ways, it’s easy to make lazy comparisons with Atlantis: the film was the first to… |
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Shark Tale
…film’s title change (even though there are still references to this in the film). The much-vaunted Club Oscar follows the footsteps of similar features on the Shrek DVDs by being… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…more sincerity than most of the films to emerge from that Studio. I don’t think it’s a Pixar film either, even though the production design and really neat little technical… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…technical skill of its filmmakers and never smacks of the “hey, look at me!” posturing syndrome that a lot of shorts from young filmmakers can sometimes do. Of course the… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…believe it will make much of a splash. The film remains one of my most favorite Pixar pleasures; it’s a film that I’m always happy to watch again whenever and… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…misses the point…Barrie’s Pan was originally developed as a pantomime-styled stage play – and an interactive one at that – and the film retains this feel. Also, being a film… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…films as an influence on her work. Following time spent training with animators Eric Goldberg and Bert Klein, Hyun-min embarked on her own traditionally animated short film, The Chestnut Tree,… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…film’s title), the 1961 animated feature that ushered in the pencil lined Xerox process and saw the animators’ original images transferred more directly to the screen. The film was something… |
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The Red Turtle
…art of the film, with Dudok de Wit describing all of his various choices concerning the film’s style and numerous artistic choices. It is a nearly hour-long lecture by a… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…The Jungle Book’s favor. It quickly became a legendary movie, and is still revered today: if there’s any animated film that repeatedly turns up on many non-animation “best film” lists,… |
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The Rescuers
…that The Rescuers pioneered the use of songs on the soundtrack as opposed to having the characters actually mouthing the words. Another recently broken “rule”, that animated films don’t usually… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration
…resident film format expert, and especially in widescreen formats. And then we have Joe Jiuliano who runs our film and digital camera services over at Feature Animation. That makes up… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…Of Adventure Anniversary Collectors’ Edition features 13 films, ranging from shorts based on Norwegian folk lore to the comical adventure feature film Pinchcliffe Grand Prix. All the films have been… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…Reluctant Dragon, a live action tour around the Disney Studio lot, which included several featurettes woven throughout the film, was an attempt to turn around a quality film quickly, but… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…an animated film’s screenplay is completed and the storyboards created, the next step is to cast the film. For Bird, who came to know and love the characters of The… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…film for what it is and enjoy it immensely, it’s still one of the shortcomings that rankles throughout the film: Carl just looks and sounds old, but his adventures don’t… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…per year. Of these 21 films, it is important to highlight the presence of 6 non-American films that made their North American debut this year. These six films represent the… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…newly built Caprino Filmcenter. The making of Ivo’s early characters and films are explored and there are film clips aplenty from both films featured in the set and additional Caprino… |
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Some time with Borrowed Time directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
…and versions as “Borrowed Time”, is that you weave those metaphors in different ways for each incarnation of the film. Since the film is so visual, tweaking the presentation of… |
