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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…or Your Gang, in which a live-action host presented an assortment of cartoons, each a parody of popular cartoon scenarios. Camp and Kricfalusi shared an office with animation historian Jerry… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…animation was directed by Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh and produced by Chris Finnegan of animation collective Screen Novelties, whose whimsical approach to filmmaking combines classic cartoon dynamics with puppetry… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…was a division of George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic visual effects unit named The LucasFilm Computer Animation Project. Lasseter had been brought in as an animator to help the… |
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Disney pulls away from traditional animation
Bad news for traditional/2D animation fans, from The Guardian, Disney states they do not have any future plans for the medium. All of the current Disney movies in production are… |
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Disney and Pixar set release dates for eight upcoming films
…be found below… UNTITLED DISNEY ANIMATION now dated on 3/4/16 wide in 3D UNTITLED PIXAR ANIMATION now dated on 6/17/16 wide in 3D UNTITLED DISNEY ANIMATION now dated on Wed… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…groundbreaking traditional animation that redefined the technique and paved the way for the CG-enhanced “tradigital” films of the 1990s, Roger once again leaps from the screen to amaze and astound,… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
Walt Disney Feature Animation (December 10 2000), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (June 11 2013), Blu-ray plus two DVD set, 78 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.66:1 widescreen, 5.1 DTS-HD Master… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 picks up where Sony Pictures Animation’s mouth-watering comedy left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his most… |
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The Academy speculates about special effects and animation
As movie magic technology has become more advanced, the border between live action with special effects and full animation has been blurred. Peter Debruge of Variety wondered when the Academy… |
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Gollum creator Letteri talks evolution of computer animation
…“Computer animation is a natural extension of hand-drawn methods developed during the early-twentieth-century golden age of ‘cel’ animation ushered in by Walt Disney, in which a series of images is… |
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New president named at Warner Bros Animation
…“Sam has done an outstanding job shepherding Warner Bros Animation over the past six years, reinvigorating one of the most storied and accomplished animation production companies in this industry. His… |
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Around the world with Mila: Additional Character Designer Matthew Bates
…Babies television series, with his first foray into feature animation with the Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1986. His character artistry can be seen in movies like Oliver & Company… |
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The Jungle Book
…would have captured Walt’s imagination and made him excited about animation again. Has this been the case, I wonder if traditional, hand-drawn Disney animation would have lasted as long as… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…Behind The Story, Disney Animation Magic), developmental sequences (the Maurice version of Be Our Guest, and Human Again from before it was cut and then added in again), animation and… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…Walt Disney Studio running every department at top notch fever pitch; it’s an absolute triumph of animation, color design, lighting, music, vocal performances (Pinocchio’s Dickie Jones’ reading of the line… |
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Sing
…theater in business. The Sweatbox Review: 2016 may well have belonged to Disney, but each of the other major animation studios all put up a fair fight, especially in the… |
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VIEW Conference announces additional speakers added to stellar line-up
…previously announced VIEW Conference slate include: Randy Lake, President, Sony Pictures Imageworks Larry Cutler, CTO, Baobab Studios Leslie Iwerks, Director, Iwerks & Co. Elaina Scott, Animation Supervisor for the popular… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…project using reversed animation -filming things backwards-, so that you believe things are flying from out of the bed to into the bed! There was also the animation of the… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…animation was created at Magic Light’s Berlin studio and at Triggerfish Animation Studios in Cape Town. Revolting Rhymes interweaves Dahl’s retellings of classic fairy tales with playful twists and surprising… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…and it’s another success for famed Disney historian Didier Ghez, as he examines the fascinating history of the Walt Disney Animation Studios as never seen before. In the 1950s and… |
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
…audiences to discover. Now we come to the animation. Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks are to be commended for creating a visual look that is breathtaking and stunning… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…stop-motion. AV: How did you get to work with Bron animation? KP: Bron actually found me, you know. It was sort of a weird, small-world scenario in animation. I was… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…It focuses on the 1990s through 2010, when Walt Disney Animation Studios experienced a dramatic creative shift as advancements in digital technology gave rise to computer-generated animation and produced blockbuster… |
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Disney animation news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…magical home. Directed by Byron Howard and Jared Bush, co-directed and co-written by Charise Castro Smith, and music written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. pic.twitter.com/bdxag3SzPv — Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) December 11, 2020… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…place in the awakening German animation industry. Later, he studied classical animation in Dublin, Ireland and moved as an “animation nomad” to Hamburg, Seoul, Copenhagen, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Los… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…Jerry, and then – with the closure of the MGM cartoon unit – almost out of desperation founding what would become the largest animation company in the world. That animation… |
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Podcast roundup
The first of a three-part interview with Pixar writer/director Andrew Stanton can be found at Spline Doctors. The first podcast at o-meon has interviews from the red carpet at the… |
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Chicken Little creator's podcast
To mark the occasion of Chicken Little’s release on DVD, o-meon grownup geeks’ guide podcast host C. W. Oberleitner sat down with Chicken Little director Mark Dindal, producer Randy Fullmer,… |
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New Ratatouille podcast, 6 new high-res images
Film Ick provides direct download for a new Ratatouille podcast entitled: Linguini A La Carte. As the title suggests, Linguini receives most of the spotlight in this one. The podcast… |
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New Ratatouille Podcast, Big Cheese Tour photos
Film Ick provides direct download for a new Ratatouille Podcast entitled: Parlez-Vous Francais?. The Podcast mainly focuses on how the Pixar crew went about in creating an authentic looking Paris…. |
