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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…hi! In regular site news, we’ve got some Surf’s Up goodness for you: Josh has dropped in with his latest interview, extensively talking to the directors of the Sony Animation… |
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Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…
New to the site is Josh Armstrong’s latest interview, and today he’s talking with Mark Smith, the author of new book The Art Of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning. Mark came… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…Blu-Ray or at least go format neutral, a major studio has carried out what is effectively a surprise 180-degree turn in policy. What does this mean for us animation fans?… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…most of these cartoons for the first time, and it was quite something, like a whole new rush of untapped Golden Age animation come flooding through to be discovered. It’s… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…the man who inspired Harryhausen himself was Willis O’Brien, whose pioneering dinosaur animation has come to disc as part of Fox’s ongoing line of Irwin Allen releases. O’Brien had started… |
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Not even a B- for Bee Movie!?
…word of mouth. While he’s a fan of both Seinfeld and animation (as one would hope, writing for an animation website!), he can’t get to grips with the final result,… |
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“Life is like a hurricane…”: DuckTales; plus Sonic and Snow White at 70!
…that was a big hit for the Mouse’s fledgling television animation arm back in the mid-80s. As such, does the Disney of today merit the release with any decent extras?… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…as this. While the script punches in all the required elements, and there are some good vocal performances, the animation is painfully amateur at times, trying its best to hide… |
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Warner's Academy Award Collection is here, and we have two to give away!
…Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees. There are two releases out today: a single-disc round-up of the 15 Oscar-winning shorts from the Golden Age of animation might sound pretty… |
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Bruce Broughton's Bambi II; More Justice League and Tom & Jerry Tales
…most handsome of DisneyToons’ films to stand up to the feature qualities of Disney animation. There are still copies of the film to be found out there, and perhaps Jeremie’s… |
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WALL•E wins over the critics; Brit legend Oliver Postgate RIP…
…He’s a hitherto unknown name in American animation, but was a genuine legendary pioneer of stop-motion in Britain, famous for his many long-running animated series that would inspire the likes… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…that I might actually go…if the guests were any good. It so happened that they had just announced that Batman animation legend Bruce Timm was going to be there. Okay,… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…spin-offs, until the Warner Bros. Television Animation team that had also proven successes with shows as Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz Mania, Pinky And The Brain and, of course, Animaniacs, which… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…there, but it never gets too distracting. Here, the episodes have undergone a restoration not only in quality of the print, but also in colors and restored animation. Episodes are… |
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Animated Views 2.0 is here!
…animation sites joined together to keep the flame going. Animated-News.com enjoyed a successful first few years, covering all aspects of the animation realm as it grew. We expanded, too, launching… |
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Halo video game becomes animated disc debut
…Knight), Bones (Cowboy Bebop, Fell Metal Alchemist) and Toei Animation (Dragonball Z, Digimon) to Studio 4oC (The Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knight) and Casio Entertainment. The stellar roster of animation talent… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…reigns, but these are minor aspects that can easily be discarded and probably won’t be noticed by the majority. Adding further visual value is the clever use of animation and… |
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Prep & Landing
…and Disney is no exception. Prep & Landing is the latest in a series of Christmas specials produced by major Hollywood animation studios in 2009. While the genre was long-neglected… |
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Little Nemo, The Muppet Movie among those added to National Film Registry
…inductees follows: Little Nemo (1911) This classic work, a mix of live action and animation, was adapted from Winsor McCay’s famed 1905 comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. Its fluidity,… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 3: The Orlando Features
…and serving as supervising animator on the Studio’s current contemporary classic! Disney’s Floridian animation studio is famous for the three animated features they produced, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch and Brother… |
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Harryhausen returns to Clash again
…boy was born to Perseus and Andromeda, he is chilling that dish of revenge… The Wrath Of The Titans DVD is a revolutionary convergence of animation and comics. It utilizes… |
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1978 Rings deluxe cover art
…which features a Blu-ray, DVD and bonus digital copy. The film will also be available for Digital Download. This film is rated PG. One of the great visionary animation directors… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…became less viable, and the cost of overseas cel animation became more attractive to Saturday morning television programmers, Rankin/Bass returned to the hand-drawn medium for their later shows, where they… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…it meant for them and the studio. There are also interviews with Charles Zembillas (founder of the Animation Academy), Chuck Sheetz (Professor of animation at UCLA), and Christopher Vogler (author… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 5
…new animation company to take over when the original one was booked on a different project. This was related to the fact that initially the show was supposed to end… |
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Shrek Forever After
Nine years after the first installment solidified DreamWorks as an animation powerhouse, the final chapter of the Shrek series is here. The first film, though not a favorite of mine,… |
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Toy Story 3
It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since Pixar introduced the world to computer animated feature films. The original Toy Story kicked off the CG animation craze. But sometimes… |
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Scooby’s back from July 12
…destination showcasing original and acquired animation for young adults 18-34. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments… |
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Poser 8 goes international
…Easy-To-Use Solutionfor Making 3D Figure Art and Animation Now Available to French and German Language Customers June 29, 2010 – Smith Micro Software, Inc. Productivity and Graphics Group today announced… |
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Super Hero Squad Show: Volume One
…every aspect, but with square bodies and large heads. Overall, the show features a very nice animation style that is consistent throughout the episodes I have watched. The animation style,… |
