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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…goofiest criminal turned superhero crime fighter stretches into his own animated program from the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons, facing a number of wild and wacky foes through a… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…the seemingly preposterous notion of auditioning for a cartoon. “A talent scout came to my father’s studio sometime in 1933,” Marge said, “and chose three of us out of the… |
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A Christmas Carol
…game extras into his way. And then Zemeckis doesn’t know when to cut, the chase turning into an overproduced cartoon with plenty of perspective background animation that was amazing back… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…(around the time that the Studio had switched to fully color cartoons in its Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony series) to tell them a story and let them into his… |
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The Gremlins
…one in town planning gremlin cartoons, and that Roy Disney politely asked other cartoon producers to put a stop to them while the Disney studio finished their version. The Warner… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…$75,000 an episode— less than what a Superman cartoon short cost in the 1940s). The show used its share of stock footage, limited animation, and recycled music cues. But for… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…are second to none in the popularity stakes. Asterix The Gaul, Lucky Luke the lonesome cowboy and even neighboring Belgium’s Tin Tin are among the top selling characters, with cartoon… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…although there were attempts by Warners, United Artists and the UPA Studio, none proved enough to shift Disney from the top spot until the modern wonders of computer-assisted cartooning made… |
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Grayskull needs a hero in the Masters of the Universe: Revelation trailer
…“conclusion” to the classic 80s cartoon, the animation and character designs are much more similar to the Cartoon Network reboot series from 2002. With an all-star voice cast (including Mark… |
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A Duo of Triplets News…
The National Public Radio, via Cartoon Research, has a great article about the music of The Triplets of Belleville, and speculates about the film’s chances at the Oscars this year…. |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…Bros characters, and their design transitions throughout several decades. Highlighting the changes in direction, as well as bringing some lesser characters to the fore, is a series of nine cartoon… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season One
Noodle Soup/Astro Base Go/Cartoon Network (2004), Warner Home Video (May 30, 2006), 2 discs, 291 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated (package… |
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Why Pixar's films are more "Disney" than Disney's…
…to the younger generations, abandoning the company’s roots of whimsical, artist-nurtured stories. At Animation Nation, he argues that, “any theme, no matter how serious, can be used in a cartoon,… |
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Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy
…quartet of these cartoons from Executive Producer Al Brodax, each about five and a half minutes long. Three are directed by Seymour Kneitel, who generally did the better cartoons from… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…Little Toaster, and FernGully; The Last Rainforest, and created the original story for the Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse cartoon, Runaway Brain. I was also the editor for Roy E. Disney and… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…Crazy, Ollie examines the animation of the time and how Disney changed the way cartoon characters would “think” in the Mickey films, with sequences from the Ub Iwerks-animated short. Frank… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…older and every time you read it, it’s about something else. First, when you read that story, it was a kid’s tale. When you read it as an adult, it… |
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A new toon "Brew"…
…toons and promote their upcoming projects: {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew.com}}. Both the writers’ previous sites will remain active as archives, but look to the Brew for new updates, features and… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…there’s not a whole lot of differences between the studios themselves. There are always cool perks. Cartoon Network gives us lots of free toys and promotional items, Nickelodeon had a… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…hand from classic cartoons to illustrate the points. Once I realized that the notes were being passed around by the animation folks in London, and that I had amassed a… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…one of Walt’s most popular characters, Goofy, in an update to the ever popular How To… cartoons of the ’40s and ’50s in which a deadpan narrator (usually John McLeish)… |
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The Incredibles: booked
Over at {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew}}, Amid Amidi has posted a look at some upcoming animation books he’d love to own, including The Art Of The Incredibles, a 160 page… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…first season, gaining immediate attention and a large fan base with their unique style, which was much darker than most Disney television cartoons of their time. Even the first episode… |
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The Hanna-Barbera Treasury
The Hanna-Barbera Treasury: Rare Art And Mementos From Your Favorite Cartoon Classics By Jerry Beck Insight Editions November 20, 2007 Hardcover $45.00 I love Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I always have. Oh,… |
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Wonder Woman
…DC Comics cartoon. As far as how this movie ranks with its predecessors in the DC Universe line, I’d still place it behind Justice League: The New Frontier (I just… |
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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Volume Three
…toy commercials disguised as cartoon shows. Still, I’ll rate this one while keeping its audience in mind, and for those that love He-Man, I feel reasonably comfortable saying that this… |
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An educational special for British inmates
According to the Big Cartoon Database, prisoners in England will be treated to an educational, animated special – and no, it is not part of their punishment. In fact, the… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Review: In the grand scheme of things, Chuck Jones will always be remembered chiefly as the instigator behind many of the best Looney Tunes cartoon shorts, and the best animated-cats-in-France-musical… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…style was predominant in all Hollywood cartoons at this time. Most fun is that fact that the scene (which shows the Triplets in their vaudeville act heyday) is presented –… |
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Up
…the main feature and might as well be an extended and completed deleted scene. Not satisfactory as a stand-along cartoon, Mission expands on the chase Dug and the dogs from… |
