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Disney unveils 2011 3D Blu-ray plans including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
…movies, music and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. Feature films are released under four banners: Walt Disney Pictures, which includes Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios,… |
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Dragon wins big at VES Awards
…were for Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature, Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature, and Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature. Pixar’s Day and Night won Outstanding Achievement… |
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Biggest Collection of Early Animated Cartoons
One would imagine that the world’s biggest collection of early animation would be housed in an archive or a museum. It’s actually owned by a 21 year college student José… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…1930s are the gold standard for the sailor in animation. Unless you simply hate black and white, there is hardly a bad thing to be said about them. The Fleischer… |
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Jabberjaw: The Complete Series
…colourful assortment of villains. Defying the weak animation, the excellent backgrounds save the show from visual boredom, allowing Jabberjaw to look like a first-class TV cartoon production. It’s all pretty… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…education that goes with animation. People might think: because something’s animated, it’s for children. But they were very insightful. They tried to engage the conversation about score almost like a… |
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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
…animation, but we do hear from the producers, directors and voice actors (Ben McKenzie, Eliza Dukshu, Katee Sackhoff, Alex Rocco), about their respect for the source material. I’m looking forward… |
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Watch 9 Minutes of the New ThunderCats
ThunderCats, one of the biggest TV animation premieres of the summer, has a new sneak peak. Nine minutes of the pilot episode is available for previewing. Based off the popular… |
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits trailer sails online
The first trailer for Aardman Animation’s The Piartes! Band of Misfits is now online at IMDB.com. The film marks the first feature film from the animation studio since 2006’s Flushed… |
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Conan O’Brien is The Flaming C!
A while ago Conan O’Brien visited Bruce Timm at Warner Brothers Animation, home of the DC animated universe. Coco asked Timm to draw him as a superhero, fishnet stockings, garters,… |
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Fist Of The North Star director Toyoo Ashida dies
Sad news for the anime community. Satoshi Kon passed away in the recent months and now Toyoo Ashida has joined him in the big animation studio in the sky. Ashida… |
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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Vol. 1 – Heroes Assemble & Vol. 2 – Captain America Reborn
Marvel Animation (September 22, 2010 – November 26, 2010), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (April 26, 2011), Single Disc (each), 154 mins and 135 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 aspect ratio,… |
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M.A.S.K.: Volume One
…animation expense of lip-synching, but it robs the audience of any chance to relate to the characters while they are wearing the helmets (which is only part of the time)…. |
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New Preview for French Animated Film Le Tableau
France is usually responsible for some Wonderful and avant-garde animated films. The French animation website Catsuka posted the trailer to a new picture called Le Tableau by director Jean François… |
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Pixar founder Steve Jobs dead at 56
…different industries (computing, animation, music, and phones). According to the Wall Street Journal his family said he “died peacefully today surrounded by his family…We know many of you will mourn… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series Premieres this November
…DC Animated Universe veteran Bruce Timm heads the Green Lantern series rendered entirely in 3-D animation. In the TV movie release, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps face off… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…new Dreamworks Animation movie, a notorious fighter and lover, a rebel with a thirst for adventure who always lands on his feet as a cat should, Puss goes in search… |
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Puss In Boots DVD and Blu-ray in February
DVDActive reports that DreamWorks Animation has announced DVD, 2D Blu-ray/DVD Combo, and 2D & 3D Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of their latest hit Puss In Boots for February 24th 2012. Extras… |
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DreamWorks Updates: Gregg Taylor and Mr. Peabody and Sherman
The Sacramento Bee has two major headlines from DreamWorks. Gregg Taylor has been named the new head of development. Taylor started his DreamWorks animation relationship began with Shrek and prior… |
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DC Nation Starts Saving TV Waves March 3
…Bringing them to life will be the result of a collaboration with some of the top talents in the animation industry, which include award-winning Aardman Studios (Arthur Christmas, Wallace and… |
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BAA announces finalists and search for greatest character
Televisual reports that the British Animation Awards has announced the finalists for the 2012 British Animation Awards. They’ve also kicked off a search (via public voting) for the UK’s favorite… |
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Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots
May 18, 2001 saw the release of DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek. Eleven years, three sequels, and three and a half billion dollars later, it’s safe to say that they did something… |
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Rango wins Academy Award
…follow: Verbinski: (on live action vs animation filmmaking) “They’re two completely different hats. I suppose underneath all of it it’s just, you know, finding a story you want to tell… |
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Bubble Guppies-Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale
…it ends happily. The animation is actually quite good for a children’s show, the colorful, shiny plastic shapes have depth and shadow, the character’s mouths, however, are weird. Everything in… |
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Glen Keane leaves Disney
…but it’s apparently not because he’s done with animation. “I am convinced that animation really is the ultimate form of our time with endless new territories to explore,” he said…. |
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Pirates! roundup
Aardman’s The Pirates! Band of Misfits made the publicity rounds this week. Indiewire talked with director Peter Lord about DreamWorks Animation, Batman, and the allure of Pirates, while SFGate continues… |
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Independents breaking into tough China market
NPR has a piece about what independent animation companies have to do to compete in a tough Chinese market dominated by state run media and foreign animation studios…. |
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Lasseter talks to the Academy about the digital animator
…animation vs computer generated, his thoughts on motion capture, and said Pixar is interested in is bringing in new blood so “this Golden Age of animation can live beyond the… |
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Restoring Laugh-O-Gram Studio
A group called Thank You Walt Disney Inc. are in the final stages of fundraising in an attempt to revitalize Laugh-O-Gram, Disney’s first professional animation studio, according to the Kansas… |
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Feeding aliens, feuding mimes, and foodie astronauts
Digital Animation and Visual Effects School The DAVE School was created in the late 1990’s on the back lot of Universal Studios in Orlando by Jeff Scheetz, an animator at… |
