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Shrek The Halls
DreamWorks Animation (November 28 2007), DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment (November 4 2008), single disc, 28 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and 1.33:1 pan-and-scan crop, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated (nothing… |
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Interview: Kyle MacLachlan on voicing Superman
Animation Magazine has published an interview with actor Kyle MacLachlan regarding his recent work as a voice-artist in the upcoming Warner Bros/ DC Universe animated feature Justice League: The New… |
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Andrew Adamson discusses CG creatures in Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian director Andrew Adamson, best known by animation fan as the helmer of Shrek and Shrek 2, talks to the New York Daily News about… |
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The Tale of Despereaux
…of kids and I’ve never seen an audience lose interest so fast and so fully. Even I was having to work to keep my focus. The animation is pretty good…. |
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New animated projects for Mike Johnson, Tyler Perry
In an interesting article about independent animation producers working without the traditional pipelines and high overhead, Variety reveals that Vanguard Animation, which plans to unveil its Space Chimps at the… |
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Panda's 2D opening scene
…traditional animation, with more 2-D character animation being featured in the end credits. The opening sequence was created by James Baxter’s studio, also responsible for the animation in Disney’s Enchanted…. |
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Please welcome Glago's Guest
…always what they appear to be. With its bold art direction, stark but stylish depiction of the frozen Russian landscape, and inspired computer-animation, Glago’s Guest is an exciting, entertaining, and… |
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Ollie Johnston: In Remembrance
Animation World Network now sports a collection of remembrances by many in the animation industry (including Don Hahn, Glen Keane, Gene Deitch, Chuck Williams, Chris Wedge, John Lasseter, and Jeffrey… |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…repertoire. The first great musical innovation of Pinocchio is in its extensive use of the Leitmotive Technique in the history of animation. Richard Wagner’s device consists in associating characters or… |
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DreamWorks announces upcoming slate
DreamWorks Animation has announced its upcoming slate of eight animated feature film releases through 2012. They also announced plans to release five feature films every two years, up one from… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…Max and someone who has previously rigorously defended damaging his father and uncle’s animation legacy. Having passed on during the restoration process, I wonder if he really ever had a… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…action film (and switches back and forth throughout between live action and CG animation). Arthur is a 10 year old boy who lives in 1960’s Connecticut and things aren’t going… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Volume Two: Bump in the Night
…animation. The show featured minimal animation and the reuse of previously animated cells all to reduce production costs. The show is presented in its original 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Scratch Tracks:… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…featurette, Andrea Romano (The Jetsons Casting Director), Jerry Beck (Animation Historian), Mark Evanier (Animation Historian), Gordon Hunt (Recording Director, The Jetsons), Janet Waldo (Voice of “Judy Jetson”), and Jeff Hall… |
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The Jetsons: The Complete First Season
…well. This is a classic episode and is one of the most memorable, with the music and the great animation. Joe Barbera loved the animation in this episode so much,… |
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The Art Of Up
…animation that is more about believability and caricature than realism, always at the service of story and emotion; the signature of one vision. “It’s not that this was a simple… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…in both print illustration and character design for animation was almost exclusively 2D. The medium of CG animated films was still quite new. So, when I first came to Blue… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…Japanese animation took the American children’s populace by storm. It was therefore only natural that Ladd would look towards Japan for his next potential hit. He found what seemed to… |
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Peanuts: 1960’s Collection
…shall skip past the history section. To learn more about the evolution of Charles Schulz’s characters in animation, please see our reviews of the A Boy Named Charlie Brown documentary,… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure: Ellen Jin Over on art directing Pixie Dust and Art Nouveau!
…at Rainbow Animation and her talent caught the eye of Pixibox Studio (The Prince of Atlantis) where she became one of the earliest digital background painters in the United States…. |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…screen live-action Batman adventure currently in development, Warner Bros. Television Animation once again shows how they’ve been getting it right for years. Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman is a direct-to-video… |
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Presenting Felix the Cat: The Otto Mesmer Classics 1919-1924
…new possibilities in the art of animation and became the subject of a huge merchandising blitz. Felix was pushed to the sidelines by the advent of sound cartoons, but would… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…Hanna-Barbera and Filmation had their heyday throughout those decades, and are fondly remembered for a number of fun cartoons that were hampered by limited animation. Detractors will say that the… |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…stop-motion animated films (the actual animation was done by a talented crew in Japan). The name is very apt, as there is an undeniable magic at work when watching those… |
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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…have just gotten better and better. Starting things off is the nicely produced animated main menu, featuring all the characters in their home of Hoagy’s Alley. It’s not full animation,… |
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Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series
…now? Well, it’s like watching the Road Runner and Coyote, but with duller backgrounds, weaker gags, and poorer drawing. This wasn’t the nadir of Hanna-Barbera animation, but it was now… |
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Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection
…the show. The same animation is reused over and over, notably the web-swinging cycles— the half-hour stories are notably padded with swing cycles. The animation is quite limited, with only… |
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Pom Poko
…it to believe it. And, they are not “pouches”, as the English dub clumsily describes them.) The animation varies from ultra-realistic to very cartoony, reminiscent of the simplest anime, but… |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…be exaggerating, but to me the visual style was another drawback for a film that already had a weak script. A note about that animation style, though: Although no mention… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…motion in the animation came in part from this method of preparing the film. The film was last available on VHS and laserdisc in 1995, and its last time in… |
