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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…Starz Animation’s name appear in the credits as one of the animation vendors. I guess they had to match the quality of work from other studios, but everything they learned… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
Warner Bros. Animation (2010), Warner Home Video (September 20 2011), single disc, 146 mins, 1.78:1 letterboxed widescreen, Dolby Stereo Surround, Not Rated (nothing particularly offensive), Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The pages… |
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Gnomeo director Kelly Asbury gets “pooched” to Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation continues to advance its development slate with the hiring of veteran animation writer/director Kelly Asbury to write Pooch Café. The CG-animated feature is based on Paul Gilligan’s… |
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Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…Animation, sound, and voice acting were superior to the average cartoon, but the plots were lacking in originality and could have been taken from any children’s cartoon. Warner Brothers Animation… |
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Animation at Sundance
The Hollywood Reporter has a roundup of animation from the recent Sundance Film Festival. While several different styles of animation were represented the themes were more consistent with the bottom… |
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del Toro talks animation and more
Hero Complex talks with DreamWorks’ Guillermo del Toro, who discusses the studio’s two Best Animated Feature nominees, his thoughts on live action directors crossing to animation and animation directors doing… |
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FOX Heads to Saturday Night Prime Time Animation
FOX already dominates the market in late-night and prime time adult animation with Animation Domination on the Sunday night block. The Big Cartoon Database Blog reports that FOX is setting… |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
Warner Bros. Animation (2010), Warner Home Video (January 17 2012), single disc, 146 mins, 1.78:1 letterboxed widescreen, Dolby Stereo Surround, Not Rated (nothing particularly offensive), Retail: $19.97 Storyboard: The pages… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…the medium of animation, tinted by the unique brand of motion-capture techniques that Jackson’s Weta Digital effects company had perfected through Gollum in his Lord Of The Rings trilogy and… |
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Disney Will Develop Chinese Animation Industry
According to Bloomberg, Disney has partnered with the the Ministry of Culture’s China Animation Group and Tencent, China’s largest Internet provider, to develop and create animation for TV, movies, and… |
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Fox Animation Buys Rights To The Hero’s Guide To Saving Your Kingdom
Fox Animation, according to CinemaBlend, has bought the movie rights to The Hero’s Guide To Saving Your Kingdom, a children’s book by Christopher Healy. The book takes an opposite approach… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
DreamWorks Animation (June 8 2012), DreamWorks Home Entertainment (October 16 2012), Blu-ray plus DVD with Digital Copy, 93 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, Dolby True-HD 7.1, Rated PG,… |
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An author named Charles Solomon about a boy named Charlie Brown…
At Animated Views, we can but celebrate that celebration of fifty years of Peanuts TV specials proposed by Chronicle Books. A long-awaited compendium, The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation… |
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DreamWorks Animation one of the best companies to work for
The L.A. Times reports that for the fifth year in a row DreamWorks Animation was named to Fortune’s list of the Best 100 Companies to Work For. The company came… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…animation was well taken care of with the Looney Tunes Golden Collection releases, but WB’s 1990s collaborations with Steven Spielberg – including Tiny Toons, Animaniacs and Freakazoid – found their… |
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Taking animation seriously
Contactmusic and the AP say it’s time to take the animation category at the oscar seriously. Brave director Mark Andrews says, “I think this year with these films — and… |
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Angry Birds creators launch mobile game for The Croods
DreamWorks Animation has teamed with Rovio Entertainment, the creators of Angry Birds, to release a mobile game based on the upcoming computer animated film The Croods. The game will debut… |
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Animation Guild provides free lunch to VFX house Rhythm & Hues
To help start one’s week, The Hollywood Reporter delivers news of a good deed: The Animation Guild, Local 839 of IATSE, provided 64 pizzas for lunch Saturday for the employees… |
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Year long Stravinsky celebration excludes animation
Charles Solomon, writing for the Southern California Public Radio decries the latest Los Angeles cultural event to exclude animation — a year-long cultural celebration of The Rite of Spring called… |
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China Gets Another Animation Studio
China is the hotbed for the animation industry these days. Oriental Dreamworks is going into Shanghai and now Gary Wang, the Tudou founder, will build his own studio in Beijing…. |
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Frozen reindeer visits Walt Disney Animation Studios
This week, Walt Disney Animation Studios welcomed a special guest: a reindeer, as a reference for the animators of Frozen. Feature animation coordinator Laura Meredith and effects animator Bruce Wright… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…really make the kind of impact those kinds of films can do, but top of the heap must be the major offerings from three of the biggest animation companies releasing… |
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A new hope for Star Wars animation?
…Wars TV series was a blow to animation fans, but IGN has word that there is another… maybe. RebelForce Radio spoke with Dave Filoni, supervising director of The Clone Wars,… |
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Dawn Taubin new head of DreamWorks Animation marketing
Perhaps it happened because of the disappointing returns from Turbo, or perhaps it was going to happen regardless, but Dawn Taubin is the new head of marketing at DreamWorks Animation,… |
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Here comes Captain Underpants from DreamWorks Animation
Dav Pilkey’s children’s book hero Captain Underpants is set to make his big screen debut courtesy of DreamWorks Animation, THR is reporting. The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted director Nicolas… |
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Disney celebrates ninety years of animation
The LA Times highlights that Disney Animation Studios will be celebrating ninety years in existence by basking in Frozen’s continuing success. There will also be an invitation only event at… |
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Five 2013 animation directors sit down together for discussion
An L.A. Times interview brings together five of this year’s top animation directors — Frozen’s Jennifer Lee, Despicable Me 2’s Chris Renaud, The Croods’ Chris Sanders, Monsters University’s Dan Scanlon,… |
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CalArts class has huge impact on animation history
Vanity Fair has a fascinating article about how much of the best animation of the past quarter century has almost entirely come from one group of students at the California… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…an animated musical is that with Animation you take away the “live” part and you have to be careful not to cheat the audience, thinking, “Since it is animation, we… |
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Prolific animation composer Powell profiled
…original Shrek, it’s hard to dispute that Powell has made a lasting impression on the genre.” Powell said of his partiality towards animation, “I grew up on The Jungle Book,… |
