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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
Leon Schlesinger Studios / Warner Bros. Animation (1936-2003), Warner Home Video (November 15 2011), 3 disc set, 357 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.37:1 original Academy frame ratio, Dolby Digital… |
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Enchanted
…the musical notes by Alan Menken and the charming tonal quality. It was as if Disney’s fairytale animation had never been away. But then I was surprised to find the… |
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Official Word On My Peoples And Disney's Florida Unit
…raising questions about the fate of the company’s Orlando animation facility and its staff of 258 artists. Disney animation chief David Stainton confirmed Friday that the movie was being shut… |
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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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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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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…Feature Animation 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 in the… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…I was more interested in what animation does best – caricature. I saw human characters in 3D computer animation as just stylized puppets. The same as stop-motion. But with the… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
Walt Disney Feature Animation, DisneyToon Studios (November 1 2003, August 29 2006), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 12 2013), Blu-ray Disc plus two DVDs, 85 and 73 mins plus supplements,… |
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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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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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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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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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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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King Con! News from San Diego…
…ASIFA Vault: the Animation Archives has a massive collection of animation and animation memorabilia going all the way back to 1917, just 11 years after the creation of the animation… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…it marked a definite point when Disney animation seemed as dead as its villain’s army of skeleton corpses. With animation on the block at the Disney Studios, the division turned… |
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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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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…to be around. Regarding animation, one of the things he told me was ‘Animation was 75% thinking and 25% execution’ and I’ve always used that bit of advice throughout my… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…These two animation enthusiasts have done more out of their own pocket to bring really vintage, important animation to wider audiences than even the biggest, well funded corporates, and their… |
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Fantasia 2000
…it does not try to impress the audience visually (although the animation is incredible), but the use of music with the animation is what sets it apart. It deals with… |
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1 week to the London International Animation Festival
The official programme for the first London International Animation Festival hit the streets late last week. LIAF 2004 features the “finest animation from all over the world, bringing more than… |
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Wartime Animation Special Event: Animation At War
Animation historian and writer Jerry Beck, whose {{link http://www.cartoonresearch.com/screenings.html Cartoon Research}} continues to be a well respected and deep source of news and views on animated topics, writes on our… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…Company stuck: there was something new and different going on here that pointed out a new direction for where the company’s animation was headed. Previous films had retained the warm… |
