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Frozen teaser trailer to arrive next week
…week. The teaser will hit online in five days, before premiering in theaters with Monsters University. In other Frozen news, The Rotoscopers points out that PixarDisneyGhibli.Tumblr.com has a new leaked… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…as Snow White dancing with three of the Seven Dwarfs. At other points, a crocodile from Fantasia and elephant gags from Jungle Book are recycled for comedy effect, and even… |
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Planes
…embarrassing musical number and a serious subplot that feels out of place with the tone of the rest of the movie. Two last points I almost hate to bring up,… |
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The Academy speculates about special effects and animation
…would change their rigid constraints on what qualifies for an animated film in his editorial, “Oscars: With Films Like Gravity, Where Does Animation Branch Draw the Line?” Debruge points out… |
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Do Studio Ghibli’s films make Pixar look weak by comparison?
…the bunch. Frozen was intended to be traditional animation, but the writer claims that Tangled’s success changed its style. Despite the differences in story, the editorial points out these two… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #59: A Monster in Paris – Don’t Judge This Flea by Its Cover
…Who is Bibo Bergeron? Where is the making of? • Animation: They used their money wisely. • Character breakdowns and major plot points. • We’re learning French as we go…. |
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Rio 2
…produced. I don’t want to spend much more time with Rio 2 than the hour and a half I was in the theatre. So here are the quick bullet points…. |
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Dragon 2 still not quite taking flight at box office
…box office so far, Collider is reporting. As the site points out, the movie is on track to cross the $100 million mark by Tuesday (which is nothing to sneeze… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…the best that the US studios are putting out (fewer points of animation in faces, less convincing effects work, and less thorough blending of objects into backgrounds), but overall the… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…conflict of the character, the development, the first act, second act, third act, all the story structure points put up on storyboards. Developing the story immediately posed problems because one… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…SpongeBob. Since then, in my opinion, things have gotten… stupid for lack of a more tactful word! All the characters have lost 50 IQ points and become one-dimensional. The situations… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #88: Shrek – The Anti-Fairytale
…better? Donkey or Mushu? This movie works because it points out the ridiculousness of fairy tales. Duloc is a ripoff of Disneyland. But it’s hilarious. Donkey is so dense, but… |
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Miles From Tomorrowland: Let’s Rocket!
…a big deal about it. Both Miles’ mom and especially his sister Loretta are strong and likable female role models, but the series, thankfully, never points out their gender. Trusting… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…favorite stories included Doctor explaining just how naive they were at various points in production. “We figured we’d only need seven animators, one layout artist,” he began. “Andrew and I… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording
…writing to cover the main story points, but, as is generally the case, it’s not quite the same as experiencing the story being acted out. Then again, we’re fortunate we’re… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…kind of context other than that they might have been destined for the short film follow-up, their inclusion points out all that is good and bad about this Signature release… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…decides are the important points we want to present. Besides giving me so much to work with musically he’s a great source if I get stuck on a word for… |
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Zootopia
…as it needs to be, and is hypocritical with it’s already heavy-handed message. Even with everything else done right, failing on those two most important points warrants a savage review…. |
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Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice
…film, with so many plot points and characters vying for attention that none of them are able to make their desired impact individually. It’s far from being the mess that… |
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Alice Through The Looking Glass
…sequel per se. There are certainly some debatable plot points (all the Red Queen needed all along was an apology?), and the movie makes the regrettable move of re-introducing Alice’s… |
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Elstree 1976
…own making, being that, during production on the films, Lucas was consistently frustrated by his blabbing of plot points and a certain disregard for the material. The story goes that… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…be happening in a scene. They had time for a Q&A session. Most were expanding upon certain points in the animation process, although I did like the question about how… |
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DC Superhero Girls: Hero of the Year
…points. Still, since it could’ve just been my laptop, I won’t lower the score by much for that. French and Spanish language tracks are also included. Final Cut: I love… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…superficial, especially considering some of the more bold choices the filmmakers made at other points in the story. The animation in Kubo is stunningly beautiful in design. While the stop… |
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The Jungle Book
…interact with the book (here a dancing, digital creation) in a sequence actually devised by the folks at Pixar, whose Brain Trust also contributed many points to the rest of… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…included, disappoints with what it has left out. Case Study: With Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs setting up the “plain and simple” style to the Walt Disney Signature Collection… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…production design, particularly the characters’ costumes, while The Elements Of… looks at additional specific points, including Eric Goldberg’s Mini-Maui contributions, the film’s awesome water and volcanic effects, as well as… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…that region, because it was one of the origin points of that type of racing. We also went to an old dirt track up there, and then drove through the… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…the Studios’ movies from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs through The Jungle Book and beyond. Bohn underscores these points while presenting a detailed history of music in Disney’s animated… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…my girlfriend, Kim Leow. Her support took me through a lot of the low points of production. Fox & The Whale is my first professional film. The learning curve was… |
