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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…choice and search deep within herself to find the answers to her destiny… The Sweatbox Review: Before Jeffrey Katzenberg came to Disney and heralded the “second coming” of feature animation… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…series of cartoons that would go on to change animation as it was then known. Their film featured a character with personality and a real inner thought process – a… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…wire fence give him and his friends the idea for some very colourful kites. What’s immediately striking about this new film is the quality of animation, by Feature Animation and… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks (September 29 2006), Sony Home Entertainment (January 30 1007), single disc, 86 mins plus supplements including limited-time Amazon-exclusive bonus DVD of The ChubbChubbs, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen,… |
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Flushed Away
DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Features (November 3 2006), DreamWorks/Paramount Home Video (February 20 2007), single disc, 84 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard:… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…on the action aspects, cleverly using the limited animation techniques the low budget could only afford as a way of approximating a moving comic strip. Never before had comic book… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…Nikita. When Arthur was announced – as the biggest animated undertaking in French movie history – opinions were split on whether this would be some groundbreaking new direction for animation,… |
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TMNT
Warner Bros/The Weinstein Company/Imagi Animation (March 23 2007), Warner Home Video (August 7 2007), double-sided single disc, 87 mins plus supplements, 2:35:1 anamorphic widescreen and 1.33:1 cropped pan-and-scan, Dolby Digital… |
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Character Animation Crash Course's winner!
…actual animation files that express what Eric is describing. I was lucky enough to pick up Character Animation Crash Course at this year’s Comic-Con International, and was even in the… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…because of the CGI animation of the opening segment in Christopher Robin’s playroom and the modern animation that ties the Find Her, Keep Her segment to the rest of the… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
Marvel Animation, Lionsgate (May 17, 2011), 2 disc combo set of Blu-ray and DVD, 77 mins. plus supplements, 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS-HD Master Audio, Not Rated, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Young Thor… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…The Hat well, while an embarrassing Mike Myers film, intended to cash in on Carrey’s Grinch, almost put paid to Seuss on film until Blue Sky Animation’s wonderfully realized Horton… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…meant Dumbo could be put into animation rapidly. With such a simplistic plot, the animators had time to pepper Dumbo with much more of the cartoon sensibility that had been… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…a menagerie of happy animals provide loony performances in these merry symphonies from the golden age of animation. The Sweatbox Review: The silent era of cartoons gave us several innovators,… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…the celluloid. The original quality is preserved with that “grainy” feeling you get from older animation. Other restorations jobs lose this retro effect, which in turn harms the animation’s quality…. |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
Warner Bros. Animation (1937-2005), Warner Home Video (November 1 2011), 2 discs, 169 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital, Not Rated (some cartoons rated G, but… |
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Happy Feet Two
…from Sony Animation’s own penguin “mockumentary” Surf’s Up, DreamWorks got in on the act with their Madagascar spin-offs, while Happy Feet’s phenomenal success even propelled it to walk away with… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…with the kind of artistry only possible through the animation of the Walt Disney Studios. This was, remember, after Burroughs’ had attempted a live-action silent film himself, and after some… |
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Fox Gets Own Late Night Animation Block
Adult Swim used to be the only late night block that catered to mature animation fans, but now Fox, home to Animation Domination, can now claim some midnight viewers. The… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
Walt Disney Feature Animation, DisneyToon Studios (June 19 1998, November 15 2004), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 12 2013), Blu-ray plus two DVD discs, 88 and 79 mins plus supplements,… |
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Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris
…American voices and flew out to L.A. to record them. We recorded the French voices after the animation phase. Q: When did you start work on the actual animation process?… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
…shop for other studios and companies, offering animation and visual effects. Reel FX provided significant animation for both direct-to-video Open Season sequels, TV special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, theme… |
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Author Charles Solomon puts the chill to us with The Art Of Frozen
Internationally known animation historian and critic Charles Solomon has written some of the most appreciated books on the subject, among which are The Art Of Peanuts Animation and Enchanted Drawings:… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…this film represents a feeling that people who love animation can go ahead. The French/English book Créateurs et créatures: 50 ans de festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy is available… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…the golden age of animation – work because we know they’re anthropomorphized characters based on real inanimate objects, just like Woody and Buzz in Toy Story or, to use a… |
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The Boxtrolls
Laika Animation/Focus Features (September 26 2014), Universal Home Entertainment (January 20 2015), 2 discs, 96 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen , DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated PG, Retail:… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…in this book has not been seen by the general public since it was carefully catalogued and preserved decades ago in Disney’s Animation Research Library, the Walt Disney Archives, and… |
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Some time with Borrowed Time directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
…“Borrowed Time” the program was mostly supporting live-action films. AV: What are the most important things about animation you learned during your journey? AC: Animation is inherently a long, meticulous… |
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Discover League of Legends League Animation Workshop featuring Glen Keane
Riot Games have launched what is considered to be the start of a series of short animation videos centered on their popular title League of Legends. Dubbed League Animation Workshop,… |
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VIEW Conference 2017: an interview with director Maria Elena Gutierrez
…an introduction to previs animation, and Carlos Zaragoza, production designer for The Emoji Movie will offer Scenography For Animation: Designing For The Camera. Zootopia director Byron Howard at last year’s… |
