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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…newspaper strip like Terry And The Pirates (which had itself a live action show way back in 1952). Unfortunately, that would be expensive to do in animation, as Hanna-Barbera found… |
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Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
…Greg Johnson, Boyd Kirkland, and Craig Kyle. Direction was by Curt Geda and Steven G. Gordon. The animation is mainly traditional cel animation, but there is some skilled, subtle use… |
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Ultimate Avengers 2
…new characters. Somewhat suspect are the movies’ creators discussion of why they went with hand-drawn animation instead of CGI, where they show a bias for hand-drawn animation, since they say… |
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Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series
…seen on the show impressed me. The animation is typically limited, but the artists did as great job making the realistic models look good in every shot. I am less… |
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The Fox And The Hound 2
…manage to rise above its questionable pedigree? In many ways, it does. The animation by the Philippines’ Toon City Animation Inc. (with DisneyToon Studios Australia and others) is remarkably good…. |
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The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Rankin-Bass obtained the rights to create an animated film. Beagle had misgivings about the animation being handled by Rankin-Bass, but since the release of the film in 1982, the popularity… |
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Chris Sanders no longer on American Dog?
…Lasseter and Catmull’s decision that following the computer animated Meet the Robinsons, Walt Disney Feature Animation will return to traditional animation. With that said, it appears Sanders had tuned American… |
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Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband
…inspire his animation of the lead character Briar Rose in Sleeping Beauty. Married in June 1956, Alice and Marc enjoyed a Disney fairy-tale-romance-come-true for 44 years until Marc’s death in… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…share that art through these acclaimed books, and The Art of Wall•E is no exception. In this book, writer, creative executive and producer in animation for over 20 years Tim… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
DreamWorks Animation (December 18 1998), DreamWorks Home Entertainment (September 14 1999), single disc, 98 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $19.95 Storyboard: “Disney… |
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The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane
…silent films that he was in. AV: Nowadays Walt’s nephew Roy E. Disney runs the animation department of the Studio, as well as being an executive. How much involvement do… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…budget awarded the project due to expected additional revenue lifts the animation up and above what was being achieved in the standard Tiny Toons show. The TV version also had… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…animation, audiences do tend to forget that a great deal of quality animation is also produced overseas each year, and in France, the home of “film art”, especially. A country… |
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The Lion King 1½
…animation to come from the Australian DisneyToon feature group yet, it was a touch of the “cheapquels” that was mostly in danger of annoying me with this release…that the whole… |
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Mulan II
…not reaching, Feature Animation standard, and a running time which surpasses the usual 66-minute length that places such endeavours firmly in the destined-for-TV movie category. With that longer run time,… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…bringing things back full circle in a way. Indeed, if you enjoyed Titan AE, chances are you’ll get a big kick out of Starchaser. The animation styles of both films… |
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Welcome to ANIMATED VIEWS!
…various inTOONational destinations and discover what’s happening out there in the global animation scene, while MIA-DVD lifts the lid on a selection of classic animation titles that are still Missing… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…DVD capable animation enthusiast. Following Pointer’s own Inkwell Images compilation of Disney’s earliest films, The Laugh-O-Gram Fairy Tales, this program immediately picks up on what Walt did next. The Alice… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…follow-ups, through a quasi-budget feature animation approach that took in the sequels to The Lion King, Lady And The Tramp and One Hundred And One Dalmatians, and finally to a… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…locating of chosen shorts. Picking up in 1947, where we left off from Volume One, the first cartoon featured here is Mail Dog, opening with some great effects animation for… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…absolute state of the art in motion-capture animation with his director-buddy Robert Zemeckis’ film The Polar Express. They even came up with a new term to describe the better-than-mo-cap technique… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…1996 which featured reasonable designs and animation, but was sapped of any real charm by drab live-action sequences and unconvincing new musical arrangements. There was also a Tiny Toons Adventures… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…notice that the animation techniques get more expert over the course of the four films, as the Plasticine comes to remain more rounded and less squashed, and the animation itself… |
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More new holiday animation on TV
…on December 11th. Animation Magazine reports that the story is about eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon who “had always loved Christmas until the playground bully, Charlotte, tells her and the other children… |
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Nick Animation Festival to showcase entries
The winners of Nickelodeon’s Animation Festival have been announced. Select entries will be showcased on Nicktoons from November 16 through November 20, and will also be featured on their website…. |
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Merry Madagascar
DreamWorks Animation‘s second seasonal special amplifies everything that is good and bad about their Madagascar franchise, from the decent squashy animation to loud, shouty dialogue, with too much screen time,… |
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Hollywood Reporter animation updates
One of the movie business’ industry Bibles, The Hollywood Reporter has updated its website with several new animation stories. It confirms Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham… |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…never seen Walt Disney’s debut in the feature-animation field, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, the film that also formed the template for over 70 years of such films to… |
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New upcoming project from DreamWorks Animation: Fright Diner
DreamWorks Animation is planning on going into the world of horror comedy in their recently announced upcoming movie Fright Diner. The movie, based on a novel by A. Lee Martinez,… |
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Disney memorial service held, animation building to be renamed
…clips from some of his work and guests were asked to wear bright colors instead of black. Disney CEO Robert Iger announced that Burbank animation building will be renamed in… |
