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Animation Block Party calling for summer submissions
…will have the opportunity to direct an animation spot for the Animation Block Party sponsor, Crumpler Bags. To learn more about the festival, please visit Animation Block Party’s official site…. |
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Christian Renaut’s book trilogy on Walt Disney animation comes full circle
…you watch each extract, this book informs you scene by scene on what it took to achieve those unforgettable moments of Disney animation. But before diving into these gems under… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…1990s TV animation, I just don’t get the “kids” angle: Jerry basically looks the same anyway and, baby Tom aside, this is a routine T&J outing. As animation took off… |
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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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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…visionary. As for Disney, he really did love animation. His first introduction to animation of course as everyone was a Disney film when we were children, and our grandmother took… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!
…director because he had the perfect background, with his experience in live-action and in animation, his really amazing storytelling sense and his love and understanding of animation. Because the hardest… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…the 19th century, and has never sounded more timely than when thinking about WALL•E; about the magic of animation that gave a personality – actually more, a soul – to… |
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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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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…only since the days that home video, television and theatrical animation were split into separate entities – that the original Burbank feature animation unit had never really turned out a… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…to have caught on in subsequent animation releases. The Animation Of Spirit featurette is a quick “run-through” the production process that lasts around seven minutes. Covering the different aspects of… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…old and disused studio of the San Francisco Bay area, and an artist’s impressive career went from Skellington Productions to Pixar Animation Studios… Animated Views: We’re talking today about your… |
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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… |
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Animex Student Animation Awards 2006 results
The winners and runners up for the Animex Student Animation Awards were announced at Animex Talk! on Friday 10 February 2006 by Shelley Page, European Representative for Feature Animation DreamWorks,… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration
…company founded on animation, to both preserve and restore its heritage. That’s why, when Disney goes back to its roots, it’s with state-of-the art technology. In 2001, they initiated the… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938
…the first bonus feature on Disc 2, Forging The Frame: The Roots Of Animation 1900-1920 (31:00). Filmmakers and animators like Terry Gilliam and Ray Harryhausen are joined by animation historians… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…of the time. In 1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the mainstream, proving that Western animation could be a hit among the older teenagers and adults for whom the “cartoons… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Animation had become a renowned and invaluable institution. It was the premiere touring exhibition and promotion of animation as art and not just a medium or genre. Prominent figures within… |
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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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The Princess And The Frog
Walt Disney Animation Studios (December 11 2009), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 16 2010), single BD plus DVD and Digital Copy disc, 97 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen,… |
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Bee Movie Fun Facts
…in California and New York to celebrate. The animators, to date, have animated almost 11,000 feet of animation. The first production shot on Bee Movie was finalized in animation on… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…and the animation switched from Wang Film Productions to Philippine Animation Studio, granting the cartoon a much more polished and professional look. As soon as you see the second season… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…traditional animation was being edged towards the back door. TV animation hadn’t fallen into the mass-produced digital rut yet, so they were still using hand drawn cells for Belle’s Magical… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…here marshalling additional animation from outsourced companies Reel FX, who handle the CG aspects, and traditional animation outfit Film Roman, who manage to bring a very authentic theatrical feel to… |
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UPDATED: Looking forward to the WABAC
…About DreamWorks Animation SKG DreamWorks Animation SKG (NYSE-DWA) is devoted to producing high-quality family entertainment through the use of computer-generated (CG) animation. Utilizing world-class creative talent and state-of-the-art technological capabilities,… |
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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… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…ailing fortunes (the rest of the company was in a bad shape as well) and the Studio decided to permanently close down the animation department and cease all animation production… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…I started animation, I didn’t want to leave. I wanted to stay there. But Frank Thomas like the thumbnails I was doing on the animation of Pooh and he said,… |
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Animation Podcast: Back in Action
Clay Kaytis’ formidable Animation Podcast website returns after a several month hiatus with Part One of an interview with Eric Goldberg discussing his career from making flip books at the… |
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Skwigly launches animation podcast
Skwigly Animation Magazine has launched a podcast. The first edition features an interview with Peter Lord on his new Pirates! film, along with discussion on other news of the day… |
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Canadian NFB moves into Hothouse
…Hothouse is a NFB project that encourages new talent, provides an A-Z experience in professional animation filmmaking and re-imagines ways of making animation: ways that are faster, more flexible and… |
