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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…the home video and the then-growing DVD market. The Aladdin spin-off, The Return Of Jafar, had been an experiment, and a highly successful one at that, and though its animation… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…after all these years is the animation itself, which for the television episodes was drawn on twos for the most part – more frames than was usual in television animation… |
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AOD: San Francisco Animation Convention coming this August
Checking into the Cathedral Hill Hotel this August 4-6 is AOD 2006: The San Francisco Animation Convention. Including a splendid array of guest, industry, and fan panel programming, the convention… |
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Heavy Metal: Collector’s Edition
…hometown who worked on both Heavy Metal and Toy Story, so there is definitely some talent on display here. Some of the animation is actually very good, and animation buffs… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
…Disney Feature Animation was promoted officially. Nonetheless, at the “State of the Animation Industry” panel, Animation Guild leader Kevin Koch mentioned The Frog Princess as being a traditionally animated feature… |
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Pencils to Pixels to Prominence
…RichCrest Animation [Div. Crest Animation / INDIA] Rick Rich is among the best known and most respected US animation creators. Beginning his career at Disney, he was the studio’s youngest… |
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Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season
…strikes me most about the show visually is the economy of the animation. Yes, it is “limited” in many ways, but in Jonny Quest it seems that the best animation… |
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Stop Mo Expo Tomorrow
…annual gala event recognizing individual and collaborative excellence with animation’s highest honor. ASIFA-Hollywood has also created the Animation Archive, an ambitious project that includes a digital animation archive, museum, and… |
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The Swan Princess Lasts Far Longer Than Forever with Director Richard Rich
…you as a director, is there any difference between working with computer animation and traditional hand-drawn animation? Richard: “Well, there is, but a lot of things are exactly the same…. |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…in the history of animation: Pixar joining forces with Disney animation! AV: Who did you work with? LBM: It was Glen Keane and Lisa Keene, the art director then, that… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…and Mike Polvani. Combemale did a great job in structuring the panel with Ito explaining the old-school method of animation, Baer talking about the transition from traditional to CG animation,… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…the original London park backdrop, and directed by one time Disney Animation and Studio head Peter Schneider. The animation, directed by Walt Disney Treasures producer Dave Bossert, was co-ordinated by… |
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35th ANNIE AWARDS: Call for Entries
…design, character animation, character design, and effects animation to storyboarding, writing, directing, music, and voice acting. Entries submitted for Annie consideration must be from productions that originally aired, were exhibited… |
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Shark Tale
DreamWorks Animation (October 1 2004), DreamWorks Home Entertainment (February 8 2005), single disc, 90 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $19.99 Storyboard: Ostensibly… |
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Changes in store for ASIFA-Hollywood, Annie Awards
…the status quo. For starters, this includes updating our membership qualifications, establishing a representative voice for every animation studio and creative technique, building an advisory board of animation luminaries and… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…animation lovers everywhere. Always something of an underdog despite their frequent success, Blue Sky consistently exceled as far as their visuals went, never delivering a film that looked the same… |
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The View Conference 2018 complete program now announced
…AATOAA; Marino Guarieri who directed Gatta Cenerentola; Simone Giampaolo, director of animation at Aardman Animation; Alex Williams, head of animation at Escape Studios; Troy Saliba, director of animation at Double… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…this is the Lasseter effect having a reverse engineering moment? With animation taking so long to come to fruition from a projects initial genesis, through development, animation and final production,… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…balked at the new film’s “wildlife illustrations”. Bambi was an ambitious step toward the artistic nature of animation that Walt had begun with Fantasia, but coupled with a strong narrative… |
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Looking at the Critical Role animated Kickstarter campaign with Sam Riegel
…ended up receiving more animation requests than T-shirt orders. Switching gears to focus on animation, Titmouse went on to become a renowned studio with credits that include the Netflix series… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…An admirer of American animation, Olivier Adam has traveled all over the planet to lend his talents, be it as a layout artist and supervisor for Walt Disney Feature Animation… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…clip is fun, but it will soon become apparent to animation aficionados that there isn’t a frame of new animation here as there were in the special previews that the… |
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The View 2017 program and guests now announced
…x LAB 8. Mark Osborne – The Little Prince and Kung Fu Panda, DreamWorks Animation 9. Kris Pearn – Director The Willoughbys, Bron Animation and Cloudy With A Chance of… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
In 1995, a small animation studio named Pixar released a movie that revolutionized the world of animated films. With genre-defining technology, gorgeous colors and animation, irresistible characters and a healthy… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…is the truly handcrafted nature of the models and animation. While everything is super-slick and fluidly animated, there’s a slight art-house European animation sensibility to the characters, their clothing ruffled… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…that result, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, naturally changed not only the face of animation, but of filmmaking in general. Without it, we wouldn’t have had MGM’s The Wizard… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…Disney’s films to stay contemporary and blend in with the growing trend for stylised, limited animation methods. Cartoon shorts had been going this way throughout the 1950s, led originally by… |
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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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Paramount Pictures to Launch its Own Animation Studio
Paramount Pictures has just announced that it is going to launch its first in-house animation studio: Paramount Animation. Beginning in 2014, the studio plans to release one family-friendly animated film… |
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Two New Series Coming to NickToons
…his family up and moved to Palermo, Montana in America. Year-old Animation Collective (www.animationcollective.com) creates Flash-based animation for television, the Internet, home video and feature films. Animation Collective produces programming… |
