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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…Notre Dame to The Emperor’s New Groove, Home of the Range, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, and currently the Studio’s new animated feature Bolt, in theaters now. We had the… |
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Ambitious plans for Portland-based animation studio Laika
Variety reveals what Laika has in the works post Coraline , and it’s quite exciting! The studio, which does both CG and stop-motion features, was created when Phil Knight, whose… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
Isn’t that AWESOME? Last week, Animated Views was kindly invited by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to take part in a roundtable discussion with the creators of Rhino themselves: Bolt‘s… |
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From one sanctuary to another: Christophe Vacher on art directing 9
…to work in a context different from the one I had worked the previous years insofar as Focus Features is an independent studio. It worked differently from studios like Disney… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…familiar about The Walt Disney Studio’s return to live-action wildlife motion picture making. Walt himself was a groundbreaker, of course, launching the True Life Adventures series at a time when… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
With the recent passing of Joe Barbera, we have now lost both of the giants responsible for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio. These two men had amazing success in both theatrical… |
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The Hanna-Barbera Treasury
…those less well versed on the studio will certainly find this a fount of information. And, even for those that have read the Bill and Joe autobiographies, or other studio… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…when the boss of the studio would walk in, there would practically be trumpeters going first. You know, ‘Studio boss here! Everything stop! Everybody kneel down!’ You got that feeling…. |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…to work with many extraordinary people in my 13 years with the studio. I am proud to have been part of the studio’s development and rise over the years. It’s… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…from many who worked with Walt at his Studio. The Sweatbox Review: Previously released on VHS following its showing on TV’s The Wonderful World Of Disney to mark the 100th… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…them and re-issued on wide release. Immediately, Walt, Roy and Ub were in the Mouse business – the beginnings of the Disney Studio as we know it. Mickey made Steamboat… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…frame stuff which puts some big studio features to shame) and vocals, to the exhilarating John Williams-esque music score and designs. No wonder the film has won so many awards… |
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Home On The Range
…catch Disney’s farewell to traditional Burbank-drawn hand animation when it was released just one month ago in the UK. Until the Studio sets itself right and decides to pick up… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White, Volume Two
…Incredibles (a case, if nothing else, of more animation filling the Studio’s coffers). One bright spot has been Donovan Cook’s theatrically worthy, traditionally animated adventure The Three Musketeers, which saw… |
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Shark Tale
…studio Pixar’s The Incredibles). On the surface of things (and make no mistake… Shark Tale is all about surface, despite being set underwater), the film is enjoyable enough, though the… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…anniversary edition DVD is a timely reminder of one of the Studio’s most overlooked and much-maligned features. After the box off punch of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…at Dunwyn Castle. High adventure that’s beyond compare, indeed! The Sweatbox Review: Based on a concept by then-new Mouse House head honcho Michael Eisner, who questioned why the studio he… |
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Flushed Away
…animated at DreamWorks’ Californian studio, overseen by the Bristol, England, Aardman crew. Right from the start Flushed Away feels distinctly different from DreamWorks’ usual fare as it starts with a… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…new wave) to Mickey’s most recent theatrical appearance in 1996’s Runaway Brain. Then there’s Walt the film studio head and television pioneer, presenting peeks into how the magic happens as… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…politics new Disney chief Bob Iger went through to bring Walt’s first animated star “home” could go down as the stuff of legend, and that the Studio has actually done… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…at MGM. With distributors finding they could reissue their shorts instead of producing new ones, Hanna-Barbera found themselves setting up their own Studio to create animation exclusively for the new… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
…Home Entertainment announced a somewhat groundbreaking new product line, the WB Archive Collection. The Studio has built up an impressive, if actually unwieldy, library of catalog titles, from the Warner… |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
…Home Entertainment announced a somewhat groundbreaking new product line, the WB Archive Collection. The Studio has built up an impressive, if actually unwieldy, library of catalog titles, from the Warner… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: The demise of the short subject since the collapse of the Studio System and their monopoly on the movie theater chains… |
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Up
…sentimental drabness going by the story synopsis, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. The unprecedented tenth straight hit in a row from the Studio, the film is truly… |
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DreamWorks sells stake in animated studio Paprikaas
According to Variety, Technicolor has purchased the stake previously owned by Dreamworks in the India-based animation house, Paprikaas. The move has given Technicolor complete ownership of the studio responsible for… |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…Amblimation studio that only amounted to a handful of releases. Even the big Disney renaissance of the 1990s, during which it seemed almost every other studio attempted to grab some… |
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Disney goes back to Canada with new Pixar shorts studio
After closing its previously owned DisneyToon studio in Toronto and cutting ties with The Wild producers CORE Animation, the Disney organization has returned again to Canada for the location of… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…the move to bring the Studio’s impressive, if actually unwieldy, library of titles, has proven to be a big hit with collectors. Titles from the Warner Bros. Pictures the Studio… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…or stamp of approval, on a quality product. But it seems the Studio puts just as much faith in Burton’s name, unlike, perhaps, other recent directors that have returned to… |
