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DreamWorks Animation SKG announces changes in key personnel
…films. She most recently spent eight years as Executive Vice President of Production at the Jim Henson Company. During her tenure, she developed a slate of more than 40 live–action… |
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Cartoon Network to explore Jimmy's Head
Coming Soon reports that Cartoon Network will bring viewers the live–action/animated series Out of Jimmy’s Head this fall. The show will expand the world introduced last year in the channel’s… |
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Latest on Trace Pictures
…live action, 2D and 3D animation, Trace created a fast paced sequence that pitted the All-Star chefs against each other in a battle of the BBQ. Click link to view:… |
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The Smurfs coming to the big screen
Variety reveals exclusively this morning that Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation are bringing a live–action/animated Smurfs project to the big screen, in what will be SPA’s first hybrid film…. |
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Renaissance
…(the movie’s credits list the “technical support” of major contributor IBM) behind the film, whose origins are revealed to lie in a 1997 short film, Maaz, that combined live–action actors… |
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
…say unrealistic–expectations surrounding it. Would it be able to live up to them? Here’s the first thing to be said about the movie: it’s familiar. Even though Disney has made… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Four
…studio was focusing more attention to their feature length movies and Walt Disney started branching out into live action films and television. Disneyland opened in 1955, further dividing the company’s… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…I interviewed with a guy doing a show called The Book of Pooh, which was for the Disney Channel. It featured live–action puppetry with virtual sets. I didn’t get the… |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
…asked them to do two animation tests. One was based on eyes study. Eyes animation from live action reference. What makes an eye move naturally? That means studying very carefully… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…play that dialog out visually in a sequence of actions that communicates clearly. For example, when WALL•E sees the red laser dot on the ground his first reaction is curiosity,… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…really goes to town, touching on the True Life Adventures, the animatronics of DisneyLand’s Jungle Cruise, live–action features, and right up to date with Brother Bear – coupled with the… |
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What do Beowulf, Enchanted, and Fritz The Cat all have in common?
…have explored this technical territory, including Ralph Bakshi’s animated movies of the 70’s. The story also mentions that while live–action/animation hybrids were once a novelty element, they are now frequently… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…the many worlds of Disney. Walt Disney originally wrote the idea for the live action movie, Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. on the back of an air sickness bag. A voice… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
Warner Bros. Animation (September 14, 2010), Warner Home Video (September 14, 2010), single disc, 75 mins plus supplements, 1.79:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Scooby-Doo… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 5
Marvel Entertainment (September 7, 1996 – September 20, 1997), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (May 4, 2010), two discs, 308 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated,… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…times slow LA city traffic. We would be at the studio for no more than two hours each recording session. RI: Did you shoot any live–action reference footage for the… |
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Nikkatsu teams with Madhouse for animation
…to make both live–action films from animation and animation from live–action films.” As Japan’s oldest studio, Nikkatsu has a library of more than 3,000 titles, whereas Madhouse contributes its production… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…favorite character actors since when I was a kid growing up. I’d seen him when I was younger in Disney’s live–action films Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo and the pair… |
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Viewers get Re-Animated, avoid Year Without a Santa Claus
…live–action, the film scored double-digit delivery and ratings gains for its key demographics. Re-Animated also set a record, becoming the network’s highest-rated original movie ever for the target audience of… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
…Avenger’s: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon. Drawing on the advertising for the live–action movie, Marvel Animation produced Thor: Tales of Asgard a direct to video movie meant to rouse younger fans’… |
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Shane Acker to direct Thomas the Tank Engine movie
…to hit theaters. A live–action film starring Alec Baldwin and Peter Fonda, called Thomas and the Magic Railroad, was released in 2000 to savage reviews and poor box office results…. |
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Elliott and Rossio talk animation
…action movies aren’t,” says Rossio. “Live action movies a lot of times you can have the actor, simply seeing that person on screen being charming, can carry a lot of… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…promotional Blu-ray reissue confound box-office projections? Although one couldn’t really say The Lion King’s reissue was a “limited” release with over 4,000 screens booked to play the movie, the industry… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…families by doing their art. AV: How did you find yourself at Disney? RR: I had been writing live–action scripts for the studios for a few years when my manager… |
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ASIFA-Hollywood calls for 2010 Annie entries
…recognize the achievements of character animation and effects animation in live action productions. “With so much great character and effects animation being created for live action productions, ASIFA-Hollywood felt that… |
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Enter The Scooby Sweepstakes and win a frightful gift pack – Winner Announced!
…prize — a trip to Los Angeles to visit the set of the new live–action Scooby-Doo movie! Animated Views Scooby-Doo Gift Pack Giveaway The contest is now closed and the… |
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Annie nominations for 2011 films announced
…Cars 2 — Pixar Animation Studios Kevin Romond Tintin — Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall Willi Geiger Rango — Industrial Light & Magic Animated Effects in a Live Action… |
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Hank Azaria joins Smurfs cast as Gargamel
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that funnyman Hank Azaria is set to voice the evil wizard Gargamel in the live action/animated Smurfs movie. The key word to note there is “voice,”… |
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del Toro talks animation and more
Hero Complex talks with DreamWorks’ Guillermo del Toro, who discusses the studio’s two Best Animated Feature nominees, his thoughts on live action directors crossing to animation and animation directors doing… |
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Smurfy casting news
ComingSoon.net has revealed casting news for Sony’s upcoming Smurfs movie, which is going to be a mix of live action and animation. Original Smurfs voice actor Jonathan Winters will be… |
