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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…after his grandmother told him about the animation program at the school. He majored in character animation, and graduated in 1984, moving on to work at Marvel Comics. He came… |
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
…that audiences haven’t lost their fondness for such films: the trick allowing for a quicker live-action shoot and the look of elaborate CGI animation, the result a novelty production that… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…new logo for the newly renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios (formally Walt Disney Feature Animation) which features a classic Mickey Mouse animation from his debut in Steamboat Willie. The film… |
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Ratatouille
…his reputation as the premiere American animation director. One of the biggest things that struck me about this movie is that it takes something really great animated films are known… |
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Bee Movie
I’m a big fan of Jerry Seinfeld and his eponymous sitcom from the 1990’s. And obviously I’m a big fan of animation. So when I heard the two were joining… |
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Bolt
Please indulge me as I do a very, very brief run down of the past two decades of Disney animation. Disney kicked off a new golden age of animation in… |
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From one sanctuary to another: Christophe Vacher on art directing 9
…course the animation. My job is not to control animation -– that’s the animation director’s job — but I nevertheless have a look on it so that there’s no flaws… |
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Beetle Bailey/Hagar The Horrible/Betty Boop
…are just as funny as the strip. They remind me very much of the early Hanna-Barbera TV animation, and I mean that in a good way. Just like the Yogi… |
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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Special Edition
…Performance (13:40) looks at how acting is achieved via the animation and inspired by voice performances, key framing vs. motion capture, lighting, and the computer animation process in general. Spider-Man… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…ol’ Charlie Brown. Naturally, creator/writer Charles Schulz and his animation production team of Mendelson and Melendez make this story about more than just a kid failing for the umpteenth time…. |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…snakes, but perhaps I was reading too much into that.) The greatest surprise in watching the movie was seeing just how wonderful the animation was. When Bagdasarian and Karman produced… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
…CGI Mickey will obviously not be enamored with the animation here, but for a television budget the characters move quite fluidly. (The animation, attributed to Walt Disney Television Animation, was… |
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The Invincible Iron Man
…this opening superfluous, I did enjoy the succinct recap here. The animation here is like highly polished animatics, with more image manipulation than actual animation, but it does seem fully… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One
…the results are evident. The Korean animation is choppy though ambitious, and animation mistakes are not hard to spot. Continuity is an ongoing problem, and people’s limbs tend to disappear… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…helping to demonstrate how animation is being used in the commercial sector these days. Of course, we still love theatricals around here too, and James has checked in with his… |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…genre-blending concept behind Bravestarr, but rather the story of the demise of a major animation studio. It is a shame to have to discuss it here, as Bravestarr is considered… |
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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…into animation can’t check out the Fleischers on TV. That means that there’s no source of study for animation scholars or young animators. So, the only way that people will… |
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Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition
…when the early days of the 21st century can be viewed with greater perspective. One thing I love about watching direct-to-video features is the use of hand-drawn animation. The animation… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series
…side-by-side comparison between storyboard and final animation, or with final animation on screen and the storyboard in the corner. It is a great idea, and it was really interesting to… |
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Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition
…Maid Marian who was a noble woman under the care of the Prince. In 1973, the Walt Disney Company was still trying to re-establish itself as the animation powerhouse that… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
In the beginning… On Friday, May 26, a film premiere was held for both animation lovers and sports fans. It was the day that Disney/Pixar’s latest computer animated venture, Cars,… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…started in animation? Mike Scully: The Simpsons was my first job in animation. I actually knew nothing about the process until I was hired on the show. I didn’t how… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…one; everyone’s talking about John Sibley again since Pete Docter wrote that article about him in Amid’s Animation Blast magazine. Sibley did so much of that Goofy animation way back… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…storytelling through animation and music. MS: You’re right. Music is terribly important. The soundtrack influences up to 80% the way the film can be felt and understood. So, we were… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…blasted onto our screens in late 2001, the first of Paramount’s leaps into CGI animation. Following the success of the two safe-bet Rug-Rats movies, Paramount’s kids division Nickelodeon decided to… |
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Mad Monster Party
…that seemed to drag – not through the writing, but in the pacing of the animation and direction. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but at over 90 minutes,… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…came right at the end of the Disney SE boon for laser animation fans. Although several more releases would feature limited extras, Sleeping Beauty went all out, including an entire… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…second in a series of novels based in the land of Narnia, was adapted in the late 1970s by a maverick animation director, and saw only limited success, which put… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
Walt Disney Feature Animation (June 19 1998), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (October 26 2004), 2 discs, 88 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail:… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…on home video where the film has become a bit of a cult hit even among non-animation fans, that we have finally been rewarded the wait with not only this… |
