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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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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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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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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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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… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…latest installment to new heights comparable or better than most other animation studios choose to release as primary product. As a huge fan of Walt’s 1953 film, I can now… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…all these pieces. Though Hanna-Barbera was often criticized for its limited animation, its many Scooby-Doo clones, and eventually outsourcing animation to a number of overseas studios, they also need to… |
