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Cool World
…and insanity, and it deserves a look if you’ve never seen it, if only to wince at the sheer ineptitude on display in trying to meld the two worlds. If… |
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Welcome to ANIMATED VIEWS!
…and speculation floating around on the various projects in development right now. There’s more feature writing in The Wide Wide World Of Toons as we offer you a ticket to… |
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How to Train Your Dragon reclaims top spot
…an estimated $20 million take this weekend, the 3D toon bounced back to the top spot after four weeks in release. The toon has grossed $158.6 million domestically since its… |
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Hotel Transylvania Production Designer Marcelo Vignali’s “Suite” Time!
…in animation. Marcelo Vignali: What’s interesting is the tracks that my career ended up having. When I was younger, one of the things I wanted to do is I wanted… |
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Planes already a hit; could possibly lead the weekend?
Proving that the theatrical release is going to pay off big time for the studio, Disney’s Planes is already doing strong business, THR is reporting, and is expected to gross… |
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Exclusive news on DreamWorks at Comic-Con!
…Academy Award-winning shorts is also Aardman Animations’ follow-up to the critically acclaimed Chicken Run. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, written and directed by Mamoru Oshii, is the anticipated sequel… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
…be working with Exodus and Melwood. Max has been instrumental in my transition from a life in illusion to, as legendary Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston put it,… |
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Richard Fleischer: RIP
…well as the still-in-print recent biography {{link http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813123550/qid=1143420657/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0149939-6787122?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Out Of The Inkwell: Max Fleischer And The Animation Revolution}}. Fleischer died on Saturday of natural causes in Los Angeles, aged 89…. |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL*E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most incredible comedy adventures ever brought to the big… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…did in my mind. But as I kept stopping the tape to see how far I’d got, I began to catch other moments in the film that are just as… |
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The Jetsons: The Complete First Season
…is shown in the original 1.33:1 television aspect ratio. For a forty-year-old show, the image is not that bad. It is comparable to The Flintstones set that was released two… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…It is important to understand how the two series, especially the first one, were produced in order to discuss the video quality. As I mentioned, Time For Beany went out… |
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DuckTales: Volume 2
…though the improvement is subtle. Or maybe I’m imagining it. I did do comparisons, though, and I would give the edge to Volume 2, which has fewer tendencies to give… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…the years of my wondering if I’d dreamt I’d seen Poppins in a theater with an intermission are answered too). There are also a few words from his brother Robert… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…see why it garnered Young praise: it’s elaborately animated, with many inventive ideas that give it a surrealistic edge that was missing from many other of the Symphony imitators. Monkeydoodle… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…call 1-800-723-4763 in the US or 1-888-877-2843 in Canada. Thankfully, Disney is honoring international customers too…just send an email explaining the problem and giving your shipping information to: ReportProblem@dvd-videosupport.com and… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…color work we do is in a very high definition digital format. This is the way the film is projected in digital theaters and is the ideal way we intend… |
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Space: 1999: Season One
…many ways it is one of the more cerebral sci-fi shows to have ever aired. It is a show about ideas, and man’s reaction to new phenomena. At its core,… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…investing further into the film.” “In all honesty, I think we did a good job integrating that song from the Broadway show into the movie,” added Allers. “But I have… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…those characters. That was my biggest challenge at that time since I was just learning how to animate. Somehow, I must have been all right! AV: Sure! How did Walt… |
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Batman: Year One
…came out in 1987 as four regular issues in the monthly Batman comic book. It drew back the curtain on what Batman’s first year operating in Gotham City consisted of,… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…is set to get the Diamond treatment towards the end of this year and it will be interesting to see if it can beat the surprisingly light treatment it got… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…has seen the sheer level of intricate work involved in matching up just two screen elements in an age before digital imagery made it all too simple – I myself… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…through its many years of production. Which is why I’m still baffled as to why I liked it so much overall. I suppose what feels most refreshing is that it… |
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Great and Powerful concept artist Dawn Brown journeys to Oz!
…no difference between an illustrator and a concept artist. It is my understanding that “illustrator” is an older term from the days of the studio system. To me, the term… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…(4:25) has Suzuki and mainly Miyazaki explaining how the characters were conceived and presented, and what Miyazaki’s influences were. In The Totoro Experience (2:00), the two men describe how the… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…argued that both versions (an intended theatrical widescreen ratio and the original negative aspect) were valid and could be included, as I have indeed insisted upon in some reviews in… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…dramatic moments involving life and death. The film has been one of my all-time favorite non-Disney animated features since its release. It’s a film I can put on at any… |
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Miss Hokusai
…International Film Festival. I’m not ready yet to give it quite so high praise, but I’m interested in getting there. I need to revisit it, with an open mind, and… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…previous ventures. I still had a good many, but I noticed I was apparently interested in those dressed as Astrid Hofferson (How to Train Your Dragon), Chloe Price (Life is… |
