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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…of Marcinelle” makes for very appealing characters in volume, whether for 3D CG or as a collectible toy. However, one of the biggest challenges with these characters is that they… |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series
…also brought the characters into the modern era with Velma using a computer and the characters getting late 80’s updates in clothing and style. The episodes included on this two… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…as its zeitgeist-whacking cultural impact, Frozen Fever feels thrown together as if a need for speed to get the characters back out there on the silver screen was the primary… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…and Charlie Shows; and the considerable voice talents of Daws Butler and Don Messick, who brought a tremendous appeal to the characters. The richness of the various characters is evidenced… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…attention with their brief attempt at publishing unique characters by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko in the 1970s, but flooding the market with bizarre new titles was not the way… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…the golden age of animation – work because we know they’re anthropomorphized characters based on real inanimate objects, just like Woody and Buzz in Toy Story or, to use a… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…animation of human characters while still finding ways to add more definition to the non-human characters. Furthermore, the film continued the franchise’s efforts in portraying realism while still allowing for… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…and the characters, not to worry about the particular look of the characters or the design of the characters. That job fell to the character designers and the animators in… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…mean, the characters sell used cars, not me.” Producer John Davis, known for such movies as Predator and Waterworld, hired Reece to write the supernatural comedy Ghost Detective, also in… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…the drawings exhibited, lunging from keyframe to keyframe. For me in such cases, as with much Japanese anime, I find it difficult to engage with characters who can not come… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…Kung Fu Panda’s characters is the voice work, of course, and despite the star wattage, the casting seems to have been more finely tuned to the sensibilities the story demands…. |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…endings for such characters as Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Jack from the Beanstalk. Cinders, known in this updated spoof fairytale world as Ella, gives up on her stoopid Prince Charming… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…able to refine the technique to at least “sit” with the more traditionally animated characters, sometimes in the same frame. The cartoony animation of Fritz, which peppered and looked out… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…Part of what made the show refreshing, as it continued through its first and second seasons, was that it developed characters that were originally minor characters and it paid attention… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Two-Disc Special Edition)
…the way in which they took some favorite characters from previous Star Wars movies and gave them new dimensions. It was also fun to see characters that we barely knew… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…a lot of time to make it! AV: How was it to turn hand-drawn classic Disney characters into CG characters? GS: It was a great challenge. The toughest one was… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part II
…adventure, unconventional families, inventive thrills, cutting-edge imagery, sharp humor and characters so compelling and true-to-life you can’t help but become involved in their emotional and moral dilemmas. The hitch was… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…a DreamWorks movie, what with its many pop-culture references and mostly loud action and characters, but it has a little less of a cynical edge to it and a lot… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…actually run a cartoon unit was to lease the characters to Czech animator/director Gene Deitch, who created a short-lived series of such lacklustre shorts that they were all but disowned… |
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Classic characters to run marathon with Boomerang
…within its esteemed vaults of classic cartoon characters. The commercial-free all-animation network will feature characters representing the full spectrum of classic cartoons – from hand-painted theatrical shorts of the golden… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…bringing them fully to life. Explains Teddy Newton, who drew many of the characters in the film for the first time: “Brad would simply describe the characters to me—he wouldn’t… |
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Space Jam: 2-Disc Special Edition
…Tunes characters team up with NBA superstar Michael Jordon to defeat space aliens in a high-stakes basketball game. The Sweatbox Review: When Space Jam first came out in 1996, I… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…below. Tiny Toons Looniversity On September 14, 1990, Warner Bros. and the legendary Steven Spielberg presented Tiny Toon Adventures. Following the numerous, wacky escapades of young cartoon characters inspired by… |
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Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…introductory episodes where the characters establish their roles and test-drive their inter-relationship dynamics. Previous DC Animated Universe cartoons were working with already established characters, so only a few episodes were… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…many French names and phrases in Gay Purr-ee don’t always work, but are fun nonetheless, although the film isn’t exactly a laugh a minute, being more of a whimsical musical… |
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UPDATE! Forbes names wealthiest fifteen fictional characters
Forbes Magazine has composed a list of the richest fifteen fictional characters. Animated and sometimes-animated faces in the lineup include: Santa Clause, worth “infinity”; Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks, worth $27.3 billion;… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…full-color cartoons by the Fleischer Studios. Hey, there were the names I recognised on those excellent Popeye cartoons! Wow – this must be awesome, I thought. I begged my mother… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…in addition to offering a wrap up for one of the central characters, the final credits intersperse their names with snippets of original production concept art that really shows the… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…Dorothy Gale finds herself headed back over the rainbow to the wonderful land of Oz, for more encounters with some oddly familiar characters… The Sweatbox Review: Primarily because of BCI’s… |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
…the Animation Sups led us to those very specific characters. Of course, it was not just done at the beginning of the production. The characters are always evolving throughout the… |
