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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…daring fight held deep in the cogs of the Big Ben clock. This was the first time computer animation had been combined with full-quality drawn character animation, and much was… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios booths in which the talent would be surprises. The results were that for the Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios booth they had the… |
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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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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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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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Jim Hill briefs Harry Knowles on the latest at Disney
…who actually knew how to do traditional animation”! The Imagineers were forced to go outside the company, to {{link http://www.renegadeanimation.com/ Renegade Animation}} to do the work! – {{link http://www.legacyanimation.net/ Legacy… |
