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Seth MacFarlane on boundaries and beginnings
…there are no boundaries he won’t cross, and even gets into his personal life and how he got into animation in a long piece over at the Scottish Daily Record…. |
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What Ever Happened to Newt?
Disney/Pixar’s Newt was scheduled for a 2012 release. Recently however, Disney veteran Floyd Norman commented that “Newt is dead” on The Animation Guild Blog. Pixar hasn’t said anything about it,… |
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Steven Spielberg talks Tintin
…art of Hergé. Produced by Peter Jackson, with the animation done by Weta Workshop, the movie uses special performance-capture technology that James Cameron used on Avatar. The Adventures of Tintin:… |
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You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Gesner’s musical adaptation of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip in turn gets adapted into animation. The Sweatbox Review: Peanuts was never more popular than in the 1960s. Already a hit… |
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Up, Avatar win BAFTAs
…in six of the eight categories it was up for, but taking home the Best Special Visual Effects and Best Production Design awards. Mother of Many won Best Short Animation…. |
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Oscar goes Blu!
…Winnie the Pooh. • Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 4 – Animation’s most famous cat and mouse duo return with the fourth volume of their Greatest Chases. After two… |
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Final How to Train Your Dragon trailer
The final trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon can now be found online over at Yahoo! Movies. The animated adventure comedy, featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel,… |
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Shrek Forever After to open Tribeca Film Festival
…open a major film festival after Pixar’s Up which was the opening night film at Cannes last year. DreamWorks animation and Paramount’s fourth and final chapter in the Shrek franchise… |
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Avatar scores big at VES Awards
…world of special effects over the course of his career. Meanwhile, Disney and Pixar’s Up won a couple of awards as well, including Best Effects Animation in an Animated Feature…. |
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First look: Legend of the Guardians
USA Today has an exclusive first look at Warner Brothers’ upcoming animated movie Legend of the Guardians (not to be confused with The Guardians, a DreamWorks Animation movie currently in… |
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Smurfy casting news
ComingSoon.net has revealed casting news for Sony’s upcoming Smurfs movie, which is going to be a mix of live action and animation. Original Smurfs voice actor Jonathan Winters will be… |
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An interview with John Musker and Ron Clements
…UltimateDisney brings an exclusive interview with its directors John Musker and Ron Clements wherein the duo speak about their return to traditional animation for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog…. |
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New trailer for Shrek Forever After
DreamWorks Animation has just revealed a brand new trailer for their upcoming movie Shrek Forever After. The fourth film–and reportedly the final one–in the popular series opens in theaters on… |
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Dragon faced a tough deadline
…see more of this model according to Bill Damaschke, co-president of production for DreamWorks animation: “Chris and Dean are part of an overall shift in what we’re trying to do.”… |
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Reaction to Tangled title change
The L.A. Times has more about and reaction to the recent name change of Disney’s Rapunzel to Tangled. Ed Catmull, president of Disney and Pixar Animation Studios said, “We did… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrator Dawn Brown decorated the Red Queen’s Castle
…career in animation. As hard as I tried, I just could not make that happen. I just didn’t have the chops. After a few years bouncing around entry-level jobs, I… |
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Hank Azaria joins Smurfs cast as Gargamel
…which strongly indicates that Gargamel will in fact be an animated human in a live action world. Azaria, of course, is no stranger to animation, having voiced several characters on… |
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Megamind teaser trailer now online
The first teaser trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind is now online to be viewed at Yahoo! Movies. Although less than a minute long, it does introduce its main character, a… |
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The Disney Channel…in Russian
…China’s animation/live-action combo The Secret Of The Magic Gourd. Disney has already had success in Russia with The Book Of Masters, a theatrical film that has prompted the company’s latest… |
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Turkeys set for 2011; Rats of NIMH on the way
According to Variety, a new animation house titled Bedrock Studios has plans for creating family-friendly films with budgets under $35 million. Their first project, centered around a pair of turkeys… |
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The lighting and look of Dragons
…Deakins is most well known for his live action work (No Country for Old Men, The Village, A Beautiful Mind, The Shawshank Redemption) and had little experience in animation —… |
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Catmull discusses keys to success
Mashable discusses a talk Disney and Pixar Animation President Ed Catmull gave at the Economist Innovation Conference. He said Pixar’s success was due to being able to trust his managers,… |
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Why DreamWorks tops Pixar
Cinema Blend has a piece with the link-baiting title “5 Ways DreamWorks Animation Is Better Than Pixar”. The article isn’t nearly as contentious as the title would suggest, however, and… |
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Universal and Illumination ready to Hop
With Despicable Me still to come, Universal has announced that they are ready to develop their next project with animation studio Illumination. I Hop will be an live-action/CG hybrid with… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (song clip)
…number seven on the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Animated Films, Beauty and the Beast helped define Disney animation for a new generation as the second film in the “Disney… |
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Henry Selick bringing stop-motion back to Disney
Henry Selick is returning back to Disney, reports Variety. The director of Coraline who began his animation career at Disney in the late ’70s, has struck an exclusive long-term deal… |
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Easter goodies, plus a review roundup!
…of Disney’s major titles for the past month, starting with the return of traditional animation with The Princess And The Frog Blu-ray/DVD Combo and the arrival in high-definition of Pixar’s… |
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The Smurfs begins filming
ComingSoon reports that filming on Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation’s live-action and animated comedy The Smurfs began on Friday, March 26, in New York. Directed by Raja Gosnell and featuring the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective Mystery In The Mist Edition: Scotland Yard (DVD bonus clip)
…delight in a heartwarming and suspenseful adventure that goes from Baker Street to the tower of Big Ben in the charmingly downsized London of Mousedom. An intriguing mystery, spectacular animation… |
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The Great Mouse Detective Mystery In The Mist Edition: Sleuth (DVD bonus clip)
…delight in a heartwarming and suspenseful adventure that goes from Baker Street to the tower of Big Ben in the charmingly downsized London of Mousedom. An intriguing mystery, spectacular animation… |
