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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
…that I be assigned shots featuring the human characters. I don’t have a lot of experience animating naturalistic humans, and I thought this would be a good learning opportunity for… |
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Toy Story 3
…really good movies is hard work! There’s not much negative to say — which is always the easiest stuff to write! There’s only so many positive adjectives you can use… |
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Brave
…has outdone themselves creating realistic family connections — the good and the not so good. When you can actually see how much the characters on screen care for each other… |
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The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi
…at Chronicle and Pixar. They’ve consistently shown good taste with their Art Of… books so I trusted they’d do a fine job with this book as well. AV: How would… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…tone Howard Ashman originally brought to the piece. How did you manage that? GS: Let me set back for a moment. The original film of Little Mermaid came out while… |
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The Princess and the Frog
…and score when instead Pixar favorite Randy Newman was given the job. True, Newman’s music doesn’t always have the same catchy hooks as Menken’s. But they did make the right… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…a good idea to nurture new talents and attach directors and storytellers to the new films, and everyone was thrilled. They were going to give the director of each short… |
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Arthur Christmas composer Harry Gregson-Williams: from Venice Beach to the North Pole!
…before. AV: I understand you’ve already worked with Aardman before. HGW: I do have a relationship with Aardman, notably with the Producer Carla Shelley. I did Chicken Run with John… |
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The Simpsons Movie
…they were new. The unlucky among us started to watch after the late 1990s when the show changed focus and started to go downhill. For many of those late-comers the… |
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Shark Tale sinks with critics in early reviews
…Finding Nemo, this movie isn’t nearly as good as it wants to be.” Meanwhile, Moviepie.com, via Rotten Tomatoes, deduces, “There are brief showings of a good film, somewhere under the… |
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Happily N’Ever After
…wait for the film to begin. But first there is another production logo, Vanguard Animation’s. No big deal – Disney and DreamWorks do that too with their Pixar and Aardman… |
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Looney gold; Beetle Bailey reviewed!
…begin to slide into very good, but not all time great shorts. There are still a few truly great cartoons no doubt being held back for future releases, but with… |
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The Lorax wins again
…from critics. The Disney sci-fi epic made $30 million, which was good for second place, but was not good at all when its $250 million is brought into play. It… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…to be better. But unfortunately, I’ve disliked almost every DreamWorks film! Yes, their animation is very good. And yes they can attract big names (which is actually to the detriment… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…think that on many levels Norman is an everyman, yet he’s unusual. Basically, Kodi Smith McPhee is a phenomenal actor. You know, Norman is a fairly complex character. He has… |
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Despicable Hollywood
…the year before Batman began again. Indeed, one of the reasons The Incredibles probably hit so hard was because the genre was so ripe for being turned on its head!… |
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Jackson up for Tintin; plus Venture and Ghostbusters reviews
…well-served by this set, which completes the series on DVD. Jumping back to just over twenty years ago (man, that’s an easy way to start feeling your age!) I then… |
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Star Wars – The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
…it came to the puppet-like depictions of its human characters. Personally, I thought the direct-to-video Barbie movies handled people better. But the best was yet to come! Over the course… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…be yours! Our Animated News & Views Forum continues to run overtime since we launched Animated Views last week, and we’ve gotten a heap of suggestions for the MIA:DVD list,… |
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Ratatouille arrives, and Jason review lands
…for Brad Bird’s Pixar film being very good overall, Ratatouille may prove to have (furry) legs over the summer. Our own man James saw Ratatouille on the weekend and will… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
Welcome to a new week! We’ve official word from DreamWorks this morning, on that stand-alone release of Shrek The Halls on DVD, the cover art for which can be seen… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…who use the crosswalk, Batman & Robin play the word game, Aquaman does a magic trick, and Superman congratulates a youth on not taking drugs. 2. Superman and Aquaman get… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…often conniving or lazy straight man, while the shorter and rounder Costello played a bumbling simpleton who nevertheless could often end up getting the better end of things. Most of… |
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Harvey Birdman flies again
…of its first DVD release in April, Harvey Birdman (produced in Atlanta, GA) is more outrageous than ever in a new crop of episodes from creators Michael Ouweleen and Erik… |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…so far of $316m added to the international gross of $324m, Shrek 3 sits at a comfortable $640m and counting. While the finances look good, the series became creatively bankrupt… |
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New Clips from Tintin Movie
New clips for the The Adventures of Tintin movie have made their way to the Internet via a German trailer. Europe is getting more Tintin treatment because of the larger… |
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Delgo
Before seeing the trailer for Delgo a few weeks ago before Madagascar 2, I really did not know much about it. I had never been to their website, had never… |
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Trailers: TMNT, Robinsons, Shrek, Simpsons
The latest trailer for TMNT, the return of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is now hosted at MTV.com. Thanks to “YCougar” at the Animated News & Views Forum for the… |
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Conan O’Brien is The Flaming C!
…style used in Firebreather, a made-for-TV movie that aired last December. The trailer takes itself so seriously that you can’t help but laugh. The trailer premiered at Comic-Con this year…. |
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Merry Madagascar
…be an invasion of the “marauding red knight goblin”, bringing Alex, Melman, Gloria and Marty back to Madagascar. The red goblin naturally turns out to be Santa Claus, passing over… |
