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Eddie Murphy to Voice Hong Kong Phooey

It’s a new Hollywood trend to revive old cartoons by turning them into movies. The cycle continues with Alcon Entertainment and their live-action/animated combo Hong Kong Phooey, the 1970s Hanna-Barbera…

Mars Needs Moms

…the imaginative to the downright wearisome. Theodore Geisel, Dr Seuss himself, collaborated directly with Chuck Jones to create cartoons in the 1940s before taking on How The Grinch Stole Christmas,…

The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D

…of the time. In 1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the mainstream, proving that Western animation could be a hit among the older teenagers and adults for whom the “cartoons

Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil

…is it with “international espionage” in CG cartoons of late!? It’s this kind of thinking that makes Hood Vs. Evil feel old even before its really found its groove, not…

Updates on DC Nation with News on Beware the Batman

…Beware the Batman. It’s drastically different from other Batman cartoons: Robin is replaced by a girl ninja and Alfred is younger and totes a gun. DC Nation is contracted to…

Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition

…Right from the day it premiered, Dumbo was a smash. Critics called it a return to the classic Disney they had known from the short cartoons, the film won Academy…

Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)

…the character animators), and a further two Disney cartoons: The China Shop and Music Land, as well as an excerpt from Alice In Wonderland, all here employed to describe how…

Winnie The Pooh

…Studio released during the 1970s, it’s a classic Disney short designed with the aesthetics of the 1950s cartoons and some of the supporting characters might have been picked right out…

The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi

…his latest trip to Pixar for The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation! Animated Views: What led you to animation? Amid Amidi: I watched cartoons

Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!

…I think I was led to animation just by my own love of cartoons and trying to figure out how they moved, then I discovered flipbooks and started decorating a…

Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force

…to the production design, the artists have fun in their imaginative world, which has seemingly jumped from the classic cartoons of the 1940s into the three-dimensional computer space of today…

DC Nation Starts Saving TV Waves March 3

…My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic).” Cartoon Network hasn’t had an interactive block like this since the early 2000s with Toonami and Miguzi. Be prepared for fun and great cartoons!…

Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition

…aliasing issues intrude on one’s enjoyment. The other two cartoons are another matter. Both Pontofell Pock, Where Are You? and The Butter Battle Book are dreary-looking affairs, with prominent aliasing…

Lady And The Tramp

…labelled the Studio’s most prolific. With a return to full-length feature cartoons after the break of World War II, Disney Studios saw the release of Cinderella, Alice In Wonderland and…

Bubble Guppies-Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale

As a cartoon fanatic, I love all cartoons, even ones intended for children (Bronies, I am right there with you.) Sometimes the ones geared towards very young children can gnaw…

Butch Hartman’s Premiere of YooToon Studios

…a chance to display their talents. The premiere episode aired with three short cartoons and Hartman critiques each one. Professional feedback and entertainment! The age of the Internet is awesome!…

DC Nation-Week 6

…guy is taken down, a new evil waits around the corner for the second season. Young Justice matches the excitement and adventure of prior DC cartoons, while adding a serious…

Margaret Kerry – The Original Tinker Bell

…There weren’t any 6:30 AM mornings, so it was very relaxed compared to my prior work. AV: Can I ask you few questions about Tinker Bell herself? MK: Please do….

Gold Nugget, Common Sense, Two-Headed Cop, and Junkyard

…and are independently financing the film themselves. The computer animated short film from Figment Studios combines the absurdist humor of classic cartoons with the dark sophistication of film noir. As…

DreamWorks Wants Classic Media

…to acquire the company to bolster its less than successful stock this quarter. Classic Media already owns franchises that have built-in fans, ready made cartoons, and potential for new movies….

Ben Affleck May Direct Justice League Movie

…Aquaman, and Flash. Warner Brothers has been very successful with its string of DC animated cartoons, but when it comes to live action superhero movies their record is far from…

The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection

…new AVC transfer offers a fresh look even if the transfer looks interlaced to me and the print still isn’t as clean as other recently remastered cartoons that have been…

The Heathcliff And Dingbat Show

…them to others either. It seems that one can expect only so much out of cartoons of this era. The Heathcliff And Dingbat Show is certainly pleasant enough to watch,…

Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton

…However, I wrote some very similar styled music for the two Roger Rabbit cartoons I did. They were both done in an old-fashioned cartoon style. Music on amphetamines! There’s also…

Cinderella: Diamond Edition

…shoes, but it’s an elaborate inclusion and the Louboutin sketch come to life (through Eric and Susan Goldberg’s Cartoons In The Basement) is priceless. A hitherto unseen Alternate Opening (1:13)…

Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition

…company grew, and success came in the form of the incredibly popular Mickey Mouse cartoons and the Oscar winning Silly Symphonies, but almost twenty years on a second World War…

Fyodor Khitruk Passes Away

…A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh. The three Vinni Pih cartoons were made from 1969 to 1972. Khitruk also adapted Pinnocchio for Russian audiences in 1960 as Priklyucheniya Buratino. Other major…

ParaNorman

…films over the next decade, to many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons. Out of all the animated methods, stop-motion seems…

Frankenweenie

…through many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons, to George Pal’s Puppetoon series in the 1930s, which often featured a terrified…

Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues

…Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Bob McKimson’s legendary Termite Terrace output (the WB animation unit had been trying to push new Looney Tunes cartoons to theaters with little support from…