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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…there were certain things we didn’t realize weren’t communicating. So, when he came in and saw that little hole, or the little story points that maybe weren’t pushed enough or… |
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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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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…to animation, all the story points are locked in. So, there were times when I’d be animating and think: “oh, it would great if we could do this! It’d be… |
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20 years of Experimental Animation
Cartoonbrew points to CalArts: 20 Years of Experimental Animation, a website that offers viewing of nearly twenty experimental shorts created at CalArts from 1970 till 1990. The selections were chosen… |
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Framestore on Caspian special effects
IGN FilmForce points to the official website of Framestore, where the special effects house refers to their work for next year’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. “The next Narnia… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…number to take place, so that the songs themselves really put forward either someone’s motivations or major story points.” And everyone agreed. And Jeffrey, to his credit, understood that as… |
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Chicken Little
…something that again points to a more elaborately designed second edition coming down the track. The usual amount of previews play from start up or from the Sneak Peeks menu,… |
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Cars
…fine points about the movie, and indeed a great many of them too (the gentle digs at the nature of how humans deck out their own cars are hilariously amusing,… |
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Warren Ellis Talks Castlevania
GameSetWatch points out that popular comic book writer Warren Ellis has begun blogging on the Castlevania: Dracula’s Curse website about the writing process for the upcoming animated Castlevania direct-to-DVD film,… |
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Robinsons vs. Transformers
…raise my initial score of just 3 points for the movie to a 4, based on the sheer scale of filmmaking on show. Ironically, though it made over $500 million… |
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Make a cartoon
Lifehacker points to a fun, easy way for younger animation enthusiasts to create their own animated shorts. Instructables has the instructions, which call for a whiteboard, a USB camera, a… |
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What the heck? Cult animation, live-action and seals in love!
…the live-action Filmation show The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series, a spin-off from Shazam! which sounds like tremendously bonkers fun! Coming shortly before Jamie Summers and Diana Prince provided… |
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Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!
…in radioactive ooze! Designed for all Ninja lovers, it’s easy, fun and simple – it says here – and all you have to do to score points is interact with… |
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Birdman, Terabithia, and – finally – contest winners!
…scores points for being “a frequently great-looking show with fun stories from the golden age of Saturday mornings. Fans of this era should enjoy the set thanks to some classic… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…a number of highpoints that continue to outweigh the often over-maligned output of the proceeding decade. If it wasn’t to be until the Eisner/Wells/Katzenberg era, from 1984 onwards, that Disney… |
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Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels
…Hierarchy • Adding Control Points • Manipulators and Nulls • Weighting • Lighting and Texturing • Environmental Modeling • “Endangered Species†Chapter 16 • Creating 3D Movement • Blocking Out… |
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Sneak peek at upcoming Cars cars
Jim Hill Media points to an EzBoard post, where listed are past, present, and future die-cast Cars cars. A glimpse at the next line of toys on the way reveals… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…Although the cover points out that the program is presented in 5.1, it does also contain (to its credit) the information that not all programming is in the surround format…. |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
…but done with a black marker effect that looks rushed, lazy in spots and messy in others. Points of irritation: the weak right swish on the W (which looks worse… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…show. I figured it to be just another 1970s cartoon about funny teens, so I was pleasantly surprised to find how much I enjoyed it”. Rand points out the similarities… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…LucasFilm to the DVD bonuses, the simple fact is that most of this will already be on most collectors’ shelves in other forms and it loses points by not being… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…ideas that the Studio has felt the need to actually explain some vital plot points in a supplemental listing! However, despite some of these confusing story strands, as one of… |
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TV Spots: Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
The Movie Box points to four television spots for Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, posted at You Tube. The feline film will claw into theaters this Friday…. |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…Christopher Robin and in comes what many might supposed to be the brash young tones of an annoying moppet. Once again, though, Walt’s own history with the characters points to… |
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Cars finds featurette, bath, and AT&T deal
…of movie merchandise, found at Wal-Mart: Cars Piston Cup and Radiator Springs bubble baths, disguised in “motor oil containers.” In other Cars news, Toon Zone points to the press release… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…look amazing). Most of the shorts have their title cards windowboxed within a slim black border, preserving ratio and text information, but major points must be deducted on the letterboxed… |
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Next year to bring Extra Pixar short?
Upcoming Pixar points to Pixar’s Wikipedia page, where it is listed that in 2007, Pixar will unveil a new short film, The Extra. The only detail found thus far for… |
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Interview: Nate Wragg, Pixar character designer
Luxo points to the Character Design blog, which offers an interview with Nate Wragg, character designer for Pixar. The conversation covers such topics as some specifics of Wragg’s work, other… |
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Narnia news: director Apted an "interesting" choice for Voyage…
…is certainly a man who can coax out the most authentic portrayals from his actors, and this is perhaps where he will score major points, with a mostly young cast…. |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…first four programs of Season Three, which perhaps points to a fifteen-episode final volume to include the final three specials (It’s A Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special from 1992, 1994’s… |
