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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
Welcome to Persistence Of Vision, where the spotlight is thrown on animation history’s illustrious past, present and future! So how better than to start with a brief overview on the… |
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Balto
…advantage of the animation medium. However, Balto was a real dog and the events depicted in the film did happen, and even though many may know the eventual outcome there… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…another recent animation documentary, Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, did with its archive material. However, this is as close to knowing the real Walt that you’re going to get, and… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…very clever repeated animation on the pups themselves, typically strong character work, and a heck of a paint job from the inking department! Beach Picnic, the next short, is actually… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…and South Park, to which ATHF owes much and so painfully attempts to mimic right down to the purposefully crappy animation. The “jokes” come over as either mean spirited or… |
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Shrek The Third
DreamWorks Animation (May 18 2007), Paramount/DreamWorks Home Entertainment (November 13 2007), single disc, 92 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Shrek… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…an equally long half-hour peek behind the scenes, Inside The Wrong Trousers, providing a glimpse into the Aardman factory. The Wrong Trousers is rightfully an animation classic, and was the… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…came with the animation and related categories. Trumping Disney’s strong contender The Little Matchgirl and Pixar’s Lifted was Torill Kove’s The Danish Poet, a nice little film with a very… |
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WB DVD: more Animaniacs, and The Phantom Tollbooth!
…Quite exciting is the news that – finally – we’ll be able to bring home Twilight Zone: The Movie on DVD in time for this Halloween. As you animation fans… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…many laughs for even the most casual of film fans, though real aficionados and animation nuts will catch more jibes than most. The scripts are witty and fast, sometimes far… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…the closest Britain ever came to having a fully-fledged animation industry before Nick Park (who writes the foreword) and Aardman Animation came along. They launched into animated features, most notably… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…out either way… I was never hugely into the 1960s Underdog show, a limited animation filler that was very much in the Rocky And Bullwinkle and Roger Ramjet mould. Despite… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez on the Walt Disney Family Museum: a flame more alive than ever
…myself. We’re passionate about everything, from the 1910s when Walt was a kid to the 1990s, more than 30 years after his passing away, be it in matters of animation,… |
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Tying Your Own Shoes takes home Leipzig award
…to hear the unique perspectives of four adult artists with Down Syndrome. Shira Avni follows her award-winning animation, John and Michael, with this auteur hybrid film in which Petra, Matthew,… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures (June 9 2006), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (November 10 2009), 2 disc gift set, 116 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 2.39:1 widescreen, Dolby Digital… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…us in our interview, it is mostly Ronnie del Carmen’s work. Ronnie del Carmen joined Pixar Animation Studios in the summer of 2000 during the production of Finding Nemo as… |
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The Art Of The Princess And The Frog Book – Winners Announced!
…And The Frog This Fall, The Walt Disney Animation Studios returns to its timeless art form of hand-drawn animation. From the creative minds of directors John Musker and Ron Clements… |
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The first and fairest meets the latest for Thanksgiving!
…Shrek”…! It’s a big day across America, not only because of the holiday tomorrow but because Disney’s latest princess is finally here! After much lobbying by traditional animation fans and… |
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Madagascar Penguins land own DVD feature
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced The Penguins Of Madagascar – Operation: DVD Premiere! will arrive on a fully-featured DVD from DreamWorks Animation on February 9th, 2010. Promising “brand new missions… |
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Volume 2
Marvel Animation/Method Animation (May 22, 2009 – August 7, 2009), Vivendi Entertainment (January 5, 2010), single disc, 138 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated,… |
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Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You
…too distracting. The overall look of the older episodes is already grainier due to the animation style and the age. I prefer the older animation in terms of style mostly… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…Ink And Paint: Those accustomed to watching American animation may be under-whelmed by the visual experience of My Neighbor Totoro. Colors are kept relatively muted, and the animation itself is… |
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Ponyo
…the greatest animation directors ever, Hayao Miyazaki continues to come up with exciting visuals and heartfelt stories well into his sixties. His latest film began production in 2006, and was… |
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How To Train Your Dragon
If there is one thing every other animation studio could learn from DreamWorks it is this: when talent is out there snatch it up! For years DreamWorks has gone after… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…the 30s and 40s were popular filler until original, limited animation programming began to be created in the 1950s. A cheaper alternative was to mix the two, and in the… |
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Day & Night
…the computer animation imagery the Studio has built its reputation upon, the primary characters are hand drawn in traditional animation. It’s the melding of these two approaches that makes Day… |
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Timmy Time
As we wait with baited breath for the next feature-length project to emerge from the UK’s Aardman Animation studios, which will be their first collaboration with new distribution partners Sony,… |
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Flintstones celebrate original premiere with day-long marathon!
…Day-and-Date Anniversary Premiere Followed by 24-Hour Marathon Spotlighting 50 Greatest Episodes CartoonNetwork.com to Showcase “Bedrock Bowling” Game Sept. 20 – Oct. 3 Boomerang, Cartoon Network’s 24-hour commercial-free classic animation network,… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
…House); I liked him just fine, really, but no one does Darkseid like Ironside. The animation style is obviously inspired by the artwork of the late Michael Turner, who did… |
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Bambi coming in March 2011
…the story of the multiplane camera, an animation innovation crucial to the production of BAMBI. · Inside the Disney Archives—Disney Supervising Animator Andreas Deja guides viewers through Disney’s Animation Research… |
