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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…of it true, most of it embellished, of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman is told through the use of his autobiographical audiobook recordings and several different animation methods to create a… |
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Kids’ Choice Awards feature Epic preview, animation categories, Monsters vs Aliens debut
A preview of Blue Sky’s upcoming film Epic will air tonight during the Kids’ Choice Awards. Animation fans may also be interested in several of the awards which include Favorite… |
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Science explains the attraction of animation
…assistant professor of communication, says “When people talk about Disney animation, they may describe it as magical or wonderful, and I don’t think that has so much to do with… |
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Animated look at MU animation process
Disney Insider is giving fans a chance to get a behind the scenes look at the making of Monsters University and Pixar’s six-step progressive animation process, showing one scene from… |
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Who will win this summer’s “animation war”?
The Hollywood Reporter profiles what it calls “summer’s brutal animation war.” A record six animated features are scheduled this summer: Blue Sky’s Epic, Pixar’s Monsters University, Illumination’s Despicable Me 2,… |
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Rotoscopers YouTube: Frozen, Animation Showdown, Turbo
…on Disney’s Frozen and reviews DreamWorks’ Turbo. Then Chelsea joins her to discuss the differences and similarities between Pixar’s The Blue Umbrella and Disney’s Paperman in their first Animation Showdown…. |
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Steve Martin is going Home for DreamWorks Animation
Steve Martin is going to lend his voice to the commander of an alien race that has taken over the world in DreamWorks Animation’s Home, the studio said in an… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
…the ABC network’s Saturday morning block. Writer Bart Jennett had a deal with Walt Disney Television Animation, which would soon become the animation production arm of Disney Channel Worldwide. DTVA… |
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Animation spirits riding high, but is darkness around the corner?
…“Frozen’s journey to the screen has taken some seven decades; it began as a project dreamed up by Walt Disney himself. Perhaps good things come to animation studios that wait.”… |
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Seibert innovating with online animation channel
…of animation. he Internet provides an outlet for people who can’t get their material seen in traditional places and opens up new creative avenues and new creative audiences, just like… |
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Historian draws attention to black animation art
NPR has a report on Pamela Thomas who for the past 12 years has been collecting black animation art. She later began sharing the collection online with her Museum of… |
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Five 2013 animation filmmakers sit down for discussion… again
…one another, the “animation” of the film Gravity, the costs of productions, and whether 3D is now standard for animated movies. You can read several quotes from the interview or… |
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Animation pioneer brings his perspective to the stage
…bringing a comedic animation perspective to the stage… We’ve already put several years of blood, sweat, and tears into The Kiss originally as an animated concept, then another year of… |
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Behind the animation on Cosmos
…(who is obviously best known for his animated comedies Family Guy and American Dad!). The site features an interview with MacFarlane’s animation producing partner, Ann Druyan. “I didn’t want the… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…from its status as a lovely family film. The movie’s energy, positive messages, and unique set-up propel it past its slightly derivative plot. The animation may fall just short of… |
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Dragons: Race To The Edge
The How to Train Your Dragon series is one of the most revered franchises under the DreamWorks Animation banner. The two films have been box office successes and are the… |
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Watch the “stunning animation” A Little Time Off Ahead
…you should still be able to appreciate the video, which NPR describes as “colorful, familiar worlds that hit right at the heart” with “stunning animation (that) comes to tangible life.”… |
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Watch the making of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, aging characters in game animation
…the evolution in character animation in video games and the process of aging their characters and how important it plays in storytelling and presentation. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will… |
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Anomalisa
…woods, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the Academy Award-nominated Anomalisa, the latest diversion into animation by a live-action director, in this case the mind of Charlie Kaufman,… |
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Press Release: Sony Pictures Imageworks announces key new hires
…production at Deluxe and Encore. Sue Rowe, visual effects supervisor, joins Imageworks from MPC in Vancouver. Talented in traditional animation, 3D animation and compositing, she has nearly 20 years of… |
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
…in Square Enix dedicated to creating the cutscenes in the games, are constantly trying to improve their animation, specifically motion capture. With the first Final Fantasy film, The Spirits Within,… |
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Watch the evolution of stop-motion animation
…Vimeo: “With the release of Kubo and the Two Strings, it is a perfect moment to go back in time and see the evolution of stop-motion animation throughout the years.”… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
DreamWorks Animation (November 4th, 2016), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (February 7th, 2017), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 93 minutes plus supplements, 16:9 2.35:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Rated… |
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Beauty and the Beast
…that bothered me big time was the character animation. How could this be possible? From Disney, no less. A good portion of the time, I’m watching the animation to Beast… |
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UPDATED: Olaf’s Frozen Adventure will go to theaters in front of Coco; first trailer released
…this may be because Disney still plans to air it on ABC this year. UPDATE: A full press release and plot summary have been revealed by Disney. Walt Disney Animation… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
While research on Disney animation has been particularly vivid and productive over the last decade, very little has been done on Disney music. The work of some prominent historians like… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…personal savings. Robin Joseph was born and brought up in a tiny coastal town in Kerala, India. He then moved to Canada to pursue film & animation. He has worked… |
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Spider-Man, Bao win animation Oscars, First Man wins VFX award
Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature this evening. It’s the first non-Disney/non-Pixar winner since 2011’s Rango. On their Twitter account the studio… |
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Hazbin Hotel
…possessed a delightful visual aesthetic and a fascinating storytelling approach to garner a large enough following to be able to financially amass a talented crew to produce high quality animation… |
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Behind the scenes look at writing Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina for animation
…the unique challenge of adapting material presented in live broadcasts of Dungeons & Dragons gaming sessions played by animation voice actors into an episodic medium. It also introduces the writing… |
