…least this simplicity leads to ease of animation, and the show piles on plenty of strong animation when the action kicks into gear. With its charming blend of humor, conflict,…

Lucasfilm Animation (October 3-17, 2008), Warner Home Video (March 24, 2009), single disc, 90 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard:…

…some impressive animation. Early animation for this series was done by Graz Entertainment and featured bright, sometimes neon, colors and mostly realistic backgrounds and set designs. There is a good…

…of facial expressions that actually match the visual, much to the credit of the animation directors. My main issue with regards to the animation here is with the animated eyes….

…live action and animation. Sure, 1964’s Mary Poppins is the most famous, and there was its follow-up Bedknobs And Broomsticks in 1971; but this tradition goes back to Disney’s pre-Mickey…

…herring to put the viewer off the trail, but that was rare. The animation was also typical of Hanna-Barbera TV shows, done on the cheap with limited animation and questionable…

…Despite the fantasy/sci-fi trappings of the story, the events seem startlingly real, thanks to the beautiful animation. It may not be as “full” as American feature films, or as “realistic”…

Vanguard Animation (August 19, 2005), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (December 13, 2005), single disc, 76 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: A…

…then with a few B-movies and a 1951 TV show (mostly played in these incarnations by Ralph Byrd). Then, in 1960, trend-setting animation studio UPA took a crack at the…

…mixed with weak work from the Korean production studio combined to create a series that had inconsistent animation to say the least. While much of the drawing is very detailed,…

…animation kind of way), with the scenes spanning the globe and more than one dimension. Zarbor tries to get revenge on Batman and Robin in This Looks Like A Job…

…stories themselves are pretty light on plot. There’s plenty of action, too, in a Hanna-Barbera limited animation kind of way. Of course, it was all that action and violence seen…

…it was in earlier seasons, where the artists often butchered poor Alex Toth’s designs. In Legendary, the drawing seems more consistent, but though the animation mistakes are kept to a…

…it does well. Filmation’s animation is actually quite nice, having a professional and polished look, though of course you may expect the usual reliance on stock animation footage. In fact,…

…writing is unreasonably earnest, punctuated by too many “gollys” and “gees;” and the solutions to problems tend to involve scientifically implausible uses of super powers or gimmickry. The animation is…

…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 characters, figured out their walk…

…$32.99 Storyboard: Between 1929 and 1939, Disney released several cartoons as an experiment in the field of animation. The Silly Symphonies were created to experiment with music, animation, and color…

…niche market in North America. In its native Japan, where this unique form of animation originated, it is highly successful. While in America, and much of the west, cartoons are…

…of this animation in this show blew my mind away, not only because of how good it was, but because it is so un-like most Disney animation. It is modern,…

…changes of the last 1000 years. The show also marked a turn for Disney TV animation with its darker themes of death and rebirth, and probably marked the first time…

…multiplication. An artist named Tom Yohe heard the song and decided to add animation to the music. After a meeting with Michael Eisner, then Vice President of Children’s Programming at…

…Working for Peanuts commentary, Beck and Maltin talk about the use of 3D animation in the short and about the heyday of 3D use in Hollywood. They also talk about…

…the live action bears speak with the help of CGI. The animation in this case was done by Optix Digital Pictures, an animation and special effects company from Toronto. The…