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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…an animation studio in this park in Florida, then it needs to be of the same quality and have the same ideals than the studio here in Burbank. I spent… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…Production on The Lion King took place at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Glendale, California, and the Feature Animation satellite studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Minkoff… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…a fair chunk of them! Topics explored include the sources of the studio’s stories, celebrations of the theme park, and hopping behind the scenes on one of his most enjoyable… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…“unique” way Universal Studios handled their classic animation catalog, by way of electing to do scant all with it. Part was my own misguided feeling that the Lantz studio never… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…With a more tumultuous than usual production history, it’s rather difficult to ascertain the origins of the Disney Studios and Elton John’s animated Shakespeare pastiche Gnomeo & Juliet. It would… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…of Pixar veterans and the personal journeys they took before landing their roles at the Studio. A handful of Studio Stories are next, continuing the Pixar family theme, and John… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…as appreciative fans will tell you, long overdue, since the movie was actually always an important one in the Studio’s history, not to mention being very fun and highly entertaining!… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…hurrah of the kind of vibe that had defined the technological, artistic and commercial breakthroughs of the Studio’s past ten years or so, and led a mini-creative spurt that resulted… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
Walt Disney Productions (December 25 1963), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (August 6 2013), Blu-ray plus DVD, 79 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.75:1 widescreen, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…of those particular three films. The Studio’s three early August titles also share something in common: with respect they pretty much represent something of a creative nadir from consecutive decade… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Stone and Robin Hood from the 1970s) in new Blu-ray HD updates, I can still very vividly remember the first time I saw Oliver & Company, the Studio’s 27th animated… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…the UPA Studio, and slowly the ethos of more simply designed characters, sharper movement (which required fewer images) and broader, emptier backgrounds (kept interesting by sometimes daringly used graphic representations… |
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The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot To Remember
…cartoon star, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, to the Disney Studio, it seems the company has eschewed various opportunities to showcase its amazingly storied history. Yes, there are ongoing efforts to… |
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Ghibli animator talks Ponyo on the Cliff
GhibliWorld has posted an English summary of an interview with Studio Ghibli veteran Kondo Katsuya, one of their top animators. Starting his career with Castle in the Sky in 1986,… |
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Pom Poko
Studio Ghibli (July 16, 1994), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 16, 2005), 2 discs, 119 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: A… |
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Ghibli adds two new films to their upcoming slate
Time to rejoice Studio Ghibli fans! The much loved Japanese animation studio has just added two new films from their most acclaimed directors- Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, to their… |
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The Wind Rises
Studio Ghibli (2013), Touchstone Home Entertainment (November 18, 2014), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 127 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0, Rated PG-13, Retail: $36.99 Storyboard: A young man… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
Studio Ghibli (1988), Central Park Media (October 8, 2002), 2 discs, 88 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated PG, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: Orphaned siblings must cope… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…to able to watch. Marvel Studios The monumental success of Marvel Studios had made their presentations at Comic Con must-see events. Attendees would camp out over night in order to… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…studio Ghibli, and effectively ended his long career on TV productions. But shortly before that happened, in the last small-screen production to involve Miyazaki, he managed to give Lupin III… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…Arietty kept the Studio Ghibli titles rolling along, and The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under 2-Movie Collection brought back two of the Studio’s most underrated animated features in wonderfully filmic presentations… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…overcome at the Studio (and, later, theme parks). The Hand Behind The Mouse primarily concentrates on the early days of the Disney Studio, when it was a three-man team headed… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…Studio had been in production on a Mickey Mouse vehicle The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, designed to bring a little lustre back to the Studio’s star character, whose popularity was on the… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…Studios has been one of John Lasseter’s pet projects, and he has put together the same kind of working environment as he has with Pixar. Even recently, DisneyToon Studios moved… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…the Studio’s next big franchise and led to further books in Burroughs’ saga being adapted. That some Studio personnel’s heads rolled was the right course of action (not that they… |
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Annie Award nominees for 2013 films revealed
…Justin Time – Guru Studio • Peter Rabbit – Nickelodeon Animation Studio Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children’s Audience • Adventure Time – Cartoon Network Studios • Beware the Batman… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…that his LaserDisc, DVD and Blu-ray collection looks like my own one rearranged – not too far from Elstree Studios, just outside London, where Terry made his mark early and… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…Schlesinger studio. The studio’s other composer was Scott Bradley, who later did superlative work directly for MGM’s cartoon unit. New artists at Iwerks’ included Grim Natwick, Rudy Zamora, Irv Spece,… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…certainly predates the “limited animation” techniques that would identify several studios’ work in the 1950s, most notably Hanna-Barbera’s TV output and especially that of the UPA Studio. Designed exclusively for… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…studios. Among them were Mixfilm, Animandus, La Lanterna Magica and Animation Studio. Cinzia created a series of individually painted guitars that won critical acclaim, and were then featured in various… |
