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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…manager later, we hit on the idea of doing it as an illustrated children’s book. And of course that’s how we did it. I’d still love to make it into… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…And… oh my gosh. It was then that I knew that this was the great Batman show that I had always wanted to see, but had never known it. It… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…the Dead, to see if its infinite cityscape of towers would actually work and be inviting. And then, to contrast that, I’d mention the scene in the family compound in… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…historian Michael Barrier if he could share with me the interview he had conducted with John Rose (the only interview ever conducted with Rose). When I started reading that interview,… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…out is found in Freak-A-Panel / Tomb Of Invisibo, the season’s only two-part show, and one that still feels the need to play some repeat footage as filler in the… |
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A new toon "Brew"…
Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi, known online for their animation history and comment sites Cartoon Research and Animation Blast respectively, have joined together to launch a new place to discuss… |
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Brad Bird wants respect for toon writers
…Bird says, “The whole question of writing for animation is skewed. There isn’t a giant difference between animation and live action. You need characters, stories, themes. It’s called good storytelling.”… |
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And now for some random 'toon trivia…
…from the final film. I’ve never seen it but somewhere in the Disney Archives it still exists.” Here’s hoping this stuff will make it to the Masterpiece Edition DVD coming… |
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Shrek 2 is the #1 toon of All Time!
…in an additional half a billion dollars in sales on its international roll out. Can Shrek 2 hold the top spot long? Will it remain the biggest film of the… |
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Klasky Csupo launches adult toon site
…over rumors of its recent financial struggles. {{link http://www.globaltantrum.com. Global Tantrum.com}}, the studio’s new site, is naughty, rude and full of very adult-natured content. The animation is low-tech and the… |
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Independent studios spark a change of 'toon
…than 120 countries and includes in-house DPS/Film Roman and Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment. That production pipeline is being used for Happily N’Ever After, a twisted action/adventure take on the tales of… |
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New teaser trailer for Spanish toon Foosball
…get back together after having been dismantled. Juan Jose Campanella is best known for his Spanish thriller The Secret in their Eyes which won the 2009 Best Foreign Film Oscar…. |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…is so much going on in Rex Steele, that it is impossible just to think of this as a “student film”, from the exceptional animation (most of it full 24… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…reading this review I would imagine, happened recently within our lifetimes. It’s no less interesting for that, and in fact it may be more interesting to younger viewers than Walt… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…in the order found in the syndication package created by Hanna-Barbera at the end of the series. This is not a major issue for me as it does not influence… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…characteristic, but the audio is uniformly even throughout. Dialogue is often sparse in these films, but when it comes it’s clear and as defined as the individual instruments in the… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…Jones Collection titles (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Mowgli’s Brothers, The White Seal and Jones’ Cricket trilogy) into a single disc reissue, going the extra mile to include a short retrospective on Chuck’s 70s… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…“stars” that even company and corporate information is lost. Once we start to delve into the character profiles, the comic book business in general is almost omitted entirely, including what… |
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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…Bold is slated to premiere on Cartoon Network in 2008. Description: Batman isn’t going at it alone this time! From Warner Bros. Animation comes the latest interpretation of the classic… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…the DTV sequel treatment, and when I first saw it I was ready to tear it apart. I’d memorized Peter Pan from an unofficial VHS that my Dad had brought… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…its best reception, in a 1976 ABC Christmas airing that featured Bill Cosby as the Wizard Of Oz (otherwise not featured in the film) in live-action interstitials. When it became… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…is good is the production design, and although series designer Rick Heinrichs is a no-show, his imprint is clearly felt. The opening London scenes, shot authentically in Greenwich, are impressive… |
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Star Trek Animated Adventures Celebrates 30th Aniversary
The official {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/index.html Star Trek website}} is celebrating the 30th aniversary of the Star Trek Cartoon with a {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/cda/html/images/feature/community/contests/031202_animated/detail.jsp contest}}, {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/bst/article/2843.html interview}} with the animated shows story… |
