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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…by the digital perfection of today’s animation systems. The animation itself sits somewhere between the higher grade of the sequels (Never-Land) and the bottom of the barrel TV quality (Cinderella… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…series on the spot! After The New Adventures Of Superman there was no stopping Filmation, and they grew to dominance alongside Hanna-Barbera in the television animation market. The New Adventures… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…on its grill and never missing the opportunity to make an obnoxious comment at the most inopportune time! Filmation was famous, of course, for reusing multiple stock shots and animation… |
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What the heck? Cult animation, live-action and seals in love!
We jump again into the wayback machine for today’s roundup of two vintage animation compendiums: first up is the wacky Cultoons! – Ads And Oddities, a collection of some sometimes… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
Walt Disney Studios/Television Animation (1937-2002), Walt Disney Home Video (September 3 2002), single disc, 70 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital, Not Rated, Retail: $19.99 Storyboard:… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…of Pooh animated offerings, including a series of TV and video specials. The animation at this time strayed away from the “black marker” approach that Disney’s television animation took on… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…from an age when animation was created with pencils, is no less sophisticated, being enormously amusing from beginning to end. Director Chuck Jones had previously collaborated with Theodor “Dr Seuss”… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…of styles that mirrors animation history. From the single images and simple story, we get simple chalk-like animation, a riff on Winsor McCay’s Gertie The Dinosaur, primitive rubber hose styling,… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…towards this reaction 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,… |
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DC Universe Original Movie Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths arrives February 23, 2010
…entry in the successful ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies coming February 23, 2010 from Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation. The full-length animated film… |
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Anchor Bay unleashes the fire for Dante
…this unprecedented project enlisted some of the best animation studios in the business to create unique visions of the underworld, including such noted Asian animation studios as Production IG (Kill… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…part of our discussion with Mark, he shares his memories of this new golden age of animation, the Disney renaissance. Animated Views: At the beginning of the Florida studio’s launch,… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
Warner Bros. Animation (December 13, 2008), Warner Home Video (October 6, 2009), single disc, 44 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Two… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans
…the Studio’s current contemporary classic! From “Disney dreams” of working at Disney Animation and landing his first assignments working on such classics as The Fox And The Hound, Mickey’s Christmas… |
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Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series
…sub par. Drawings are sometimes in poor proportion, and animation is jumpy. Characters are often over-designed, following the annoying contemporary comics trend, but this comes off especially poorly in animation…. |
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MacCurdy, Snyder join Technicolor for Berkeley Breathed project
Technicolor Animation, previously Paprikaas Animation based in India, has welcomed veteran producers Jean MacCurdy and Fonda Snyder on board to develop their new property, Pete & Pickles, based on the… |
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New project for DreamWorks Animation: Imaginary Enemies
…being made about the movie possibly being a mix of live-action and animation, which would be a first for the animation studio. Risky Business has more information on the project…. |
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ASIFA-Hollywood Student Award announced
…ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators Forum Student Animation Film Festival is quickly approaching. This event is open to all and will be a full day of film screenings, panels and portfolio reviews,… |
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Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork
…TO ENJOY! They’re back! Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios present the critically-acclaimed, global box office smash Toy Story 3, an exciting, heart-warming story filled with humor, adventure… |
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Bill Plympton returns!
…Supervisor Kerri Allegretta Original Music:Corey A. Jackson and Nicole Renaud Awards: • Grand Jury Award, Best Animation, Florida Film Festival, Maitland FL, April 2010 • 1st Prize, Animation, Delray Beach… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…just as with so many of the funky tunes television animation producers Hanna-Barbera commissioned for their programs in the 1960s and 70s. Scooby-Doo quickly became one of the most popular… |
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The Ballad Of Rango
…Pixar’s original parent finally enter the feature animation realm. Back in 1984, Pixar was of course the fledgling computer animation division of LucasFilm, whose Industrial Light & Magic visual effects… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…as well as traditional, computer, and motion capture animation. Born in Cambridge, England, Wells studied audio-visual design at the De Montfort University. Upon graduating, he directed commercials at Richard Williams’… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…Production on The Lion King took place at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Glendale, California, and the Feature Animation satellite studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Minkoff… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…exposure is to their later limited television animation work, the Tom & Jerry series will be a real eye-opener as to how fluid, rounded and full the theatrical animation is…. |
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Stainton out as head of Paramount animation
…Adam Goodman will now oversee the animation department. Stainton, who spent 17 years at Walt Disney studios culminating his time there as president of feature animation, signed on with Paramount… |
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UPA’s continuing influence on animation
…featuring “visually-exciting and rarely seen cartoons in 35mm”. Also in attendance will be Adam Abraham, author of When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA, and animation… |
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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
…defined since Park’s initial student animation film A Grand Day Out got him noticed and a place at Britain’s answer to Pixar, Aardman Animation, where he developed two further half-hour… |
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Good and Sad News From Toei Animation
…Toei recently selected Katushiro Takagi to head the animation company. Takagi has worked at the company for over 30 years and he hopes to increase international relationships and expand animation…. |
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DreamWorks Animation reveals massive release date slate
DreamWorks Animation, via its new distributor, 20th Century Fox, has revealed its upcoming movies from 2013-2016, ComingSoon.net is reporting. The slate, which begins with next spring’s The Croods, includes 16… |
