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Exclusive! Legends Of Oz producer talks franchise’s future after box office disappoints
…classic. They say it has brilliant animation and the music is not to be missed. It’s a good movie. AV: By comparison, Neighbors, the movie everyone is talking about at… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…hard at work finishing and promoting the first Treasure Planet, which was months away from release. In October 2002, Thomas Schumacher, then-President of Walt Disney Feature Animation, spoke with Cinescape… |
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Son Of Batman
…a great promo, with a nice combination of finished animation and production art, with comments from the voice cast, writer, and director. From The DC Comics Vault includes episodes from… |
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SpongeBob SquarePants sequel details surface
…Water and the website is at www.spongebobmovie.com. ComingSoon.net has a first look at the poster, which appears to feature CG animation rather than the hand drawn animation of the TV… |
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Updated: Studio Ghibli may no longer make feature films
…the full TV interview, adding more data. No doubt that this is a very sad news for Japanese animation, of which we are all fans, because it is undeniable everything… |
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The Boxtrolls
I may not be the person you want to trust reviewing The Boxtrolls! First of all, unlike most other animation fans I’ve never been a fan of any of Laika’s… |
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Maleficent
…expand a potential franchise? Disney has found a way, mostly thanks to new CG technology that can create a “live-action” version of films previously only achievable in animation, and creating… |
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The Wind Rises
…also no coincidence that Gianni Caproni was the designer of the Caproni Ca.309 “Ghibli,” a plane that provided Miyazaki with the name of his animation studio. So, in The Wind… |
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Strange Magic
…plugged into their assigned spots with no further tweaking for this specific film required. As you’d hope for from a company like Industrial Light & Magic, the animation is actually… |
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness
…of the world’s most revered animation studios is presented. During the production of The Wind Rises and The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, the studio grapples with tight deadlines and… |
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Home
…of them didn’t work well together. We all know that most of the time in animation the actors aren’t actually doing their lines at the same time. But you can… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…also won Emmy awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation in both 2013 and 2014. So, it won the same award twice for what was really the same season. For… |
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Justice League: Gods And Monsters
…Television Animation has for years relied on product based on the DC Comics properties, most notably cranking out series after series of Batman shows of varying quality. It has been… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…show seemed like the perfect motivator for jumping further into my interest in animation and creating something with monsters for Halloween. What resulted was a 2 minute short called Midnight… |
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Hotel Transylvania 2
…getting a little old and have lost their monster mojo. The animation is what you would expect from a major-but-not-top animation studio sequel: satisfactory. The sight gags weren’t as numerous… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…fans and the incoming Pixar regime after the merge with Disney Animation. Ironically, this merger has resulted in a mixing of cultures, with Disney taking on a renewed Pixar-styled shorts… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…growing up. Sanjay’s Super Team blends many exciting elements – traditional 2D and 3D animation, alternate realities, ancient temples, deities, cosmic action sequences – with a story about family, identity… |
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Norm Of The North
…read about it. What’s wrong with the film? What isn’t: a ridiculous story, bad dialogue, awful casting, terrible performances, uninspired designs, below average animation, a score I can literally not… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…didn’t get hit by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago, leaving them to develop into an Aardman Animation-like species (check out those teeth!) that, for… |
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Zootopia
…their purposes. Let’s put aside the “message” part of the film now and move on to the secondary parts of the movie: story, characters, animation, music, and everything else! The… |
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Academy event to honor 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast
…Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Part of the Academy’s Marc Davis Celebration of Animation, the event will include a screening of the 1991 film from a pristine 70mm original… |
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The Jungle Book
…seen as a way to pay homage to the 1967 animated version of the story. One that, to this day, is a beloved entry in the Walt Disney Feature Animation… |
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The Loud House
In 2012, Nickelodeon launched the Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program. It allowed an opportunity for creators who have worked in all areas of animation to create a short and submit it… |
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Captain America: Civil War
…much character driven, there was a great deal of character animation that’s deceptively good and impressive. Some of the ones that left audiences in awe were those displaying the incredible… |
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The Angry Birds Movie
…to work off each other. These guys could easily be exploited for future spinoff or sequel projects. The animation was very nice — well beyond the usual “just good enough”… |
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Only Yesterday
…local animation producer and huge Ghibli fan, along with his daughter, who is a good friend of my own girl, and we all viewed it together. And… hmmmmm. I can… |
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Listen to the Sound of Silence in bizarre new Trolls clip
If you were worried that DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Trolls wouldn’t include any Simon & Garfunkel references, you can put your mind at ease regarding the matter after watching the clip… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote (twice) as he pleased…
…Hall, who shaped the style of the Studio’s animation during this period of unbridled creativity. This book is undoubtedly a gem in the field of the history of the Disney… |
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DC Superhero Girls: Hero of the Year
Warner Bros. Animation (2016), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (August 23rd, 2016), 1 DVD, 76 minutes plus supplements, 16:9 1.78:1 ratio, English 5.1 Dolby Audio, Not rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Superhero… |
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Finding Dory swimming onto Blu-ray in November
…Animation & Acting – How do you create a connection between a human audience and a fish? This behind-the-scenes look behind the curtain examines the process of constructing believable performances… |
