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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…is absolutely swept up in the story to notice that it is all being told in animation (another nice nod is to two of Brad’s – and animation’s – own… |
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Chicken Little
…The Robinsons, and more excitingly, we’re even hearing whiffs of a return to hand-drawn feature animation. With the glut of CGI animation entering the field, I can’t say that Disney… |
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Joe Barbera; Gremlins and Disney's Dog
…aged 95. As many kids did, I grew up with the animated series Joe produced with his life-long partner in animation, Bill Hanna (who died March 2001), and they truly… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
Walt Disney Television Animation/DQ Entertainment. Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 20 2007), single disc, 49 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Not Rated (TV-Y), Retail: $26.99… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis teamed up against Slimer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, three other misfits took on the supernatural. This live-action show from TV animation outfit Filmation has our… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!
…with cut-rate TV animation suppliers DIC Animation and rushed out the first series of the misleadingly titled The Real Ghostbusters. To prevent court action, Scheimer had to change the name… |
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The Reef
…truly intended, for probable commercial and audience recognition reasons. Seemingly made by a consortium of computer animation companies, mainly in South Korea, The Reef boasts but one name in its… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…continued the return to Looney Tunes greatness that had been spearheaded by Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s phenomenal success. Executive producer Steven Spielberg had approached Warner Bros. Animation originally to bring… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…Thompson as Smee, being given much more to do with a great character this time around. Long-time animation vocalist June Foray pops up as a mermaid and an Indian squaw,… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…in animation. While The Polar Express worked visual wonders as eye candy on Imax screens, the animation was anything but state of the art (I wondered, coming almost ten years… |
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Renaissance
…big fan of motion-capture, and I find that most animation aficionados agree. When its done well, as with Gollum or King Kong, it is usually augmented with keyframed poses, or… |
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Space Ghost, Dino Boy and the great animation DVD summer!
…Rand puts it, and yet another worthy addition to our animation collections. Wow, it’s been a terrific summer for classic cartoon and animation fans in general, with a plethora of… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…in the groundbreaking Tiny Toon Adventures, the newly freshened television animation unit was on a roll, going on to populate small screens with a host of immensely impressive and fondly… |
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The Wild
Walt Disney Pictures/CORE Feature Animation (April 14 2006), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (September 12 2006), single disc, 82 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G,… |
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A Christmas Carol
…The Future trilogy, the man that forced animation to find its perspective for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or who pioneered computer-assisted effects in such varied fare as Death Becomes Her,… |
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Paprikaas awarded Nickelodeon’s Kung Fu Panda series
…on Penguins of Madagascar,” stated Mark Taylor, senior vice president and general manager of Nickelodeon Animation Studios. “They have developed a world-class CGI production studio and animation team with an… |
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Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…in New York City tonight, April 29 at 7pm. Complete details can be read here: Puppet Masters of the Macabre: A Night of Spooky Stop-Motion Animation NYC — Thursday, April… |
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Batman Beyond hits DVD
…all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics. About Warner Bros. Animation: Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) has been producing award-winning original animation since 1930, when it… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…instructor (including teaching animation history to interns at Disney Feature Animation Florida), writer (for various Disney magazines and special projects), facilitator (for backstage tours, convention groups and corporate clients) and… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…artist and a mentor. He’s Glen Keane. Last week, Animated Views took part in an amazing roundtable with Glen as he gave us the most intriguing lessons of animation, reminiscing… |
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Toy Story 3
…the thick end of Disney’s own animation renaissance, proved to be a winning combination of star vocals and precision marketing. Not only that, but the movie itself lived up to… |
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Sony Animation teams up with Finding Nemo co-writer
Sony Pictures Animation is teaming up with David Reynolds, the Academy Award nominated co-writer of Finding Nemo for an untitled animated feature, reports HeatVision. Stephan Franck has been signed on… |
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Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection
…a series of Ford commercials, so it was only natural that he be enlisted to provide animation for the documentary. After all, he had already done animation designs for the… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…two to stock up on those last-minute presents. So we thought we’d share what we here at Animated News thought would make great ideas for the animation fan in your… |
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Young Justice
…still the under eighteen crowd. Over the past ten years, Warner Brothers Animation created other DC cartoons that broke away from the regular continuity to create their own. These include… |
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India’s Tata Elxsi purchases majority stock in US animation company
In the past few months, we’ve seen Bollywood trying to develop Indian animation. Tata Elxsi, an Indian based company, recently acquired the majority stock in the US animation company A… |
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Starz Animation Gets A New Name
The visual effects and animation studio based in Toronto Starz Animation sees new ownership and a new name: Arc Productions. The newly named studio will continue to do work on… |
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The Incredibles
…animation (another nice nod is to two of Brad’s – and animation’s – own heroes, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, who again pop up briefly with some prophetic words following… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…medium. There is nobody on earth who loves animation more than John Lasseter; actually, there is no one on earth who loves Disney animation more than John Lasseter. He’s a… |
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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 2
…in the animation industry, managing to survive into the modern day, though their popularity appears to be slipping in recent years. The cat and mouse duo have faced controversies dealing… |
