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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…The Frog another hand drawn animated movie and not a computer animated movie? RC: All the movies John Musker and I have directed were hand drawn films. We love this… |
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Annies online!
…the year’s best animated productions and outstanding individual achievements in the field of animation. The webcast also featured a special tribute to the late Roy Disney and the presentation of… |
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Aardman’s Timmy Time to premiere on Disney Channel
…very special people who make up the Aardman team. The studio’s work is often imitated and yet the company continues to lead the field producing a rare brand of visually… |
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ASIFA-Hollywood calls for 2010 Annie entries
…field of animation, the Annie Awards will be presented in 26 categories including best animated feature, home entertainment, television production, television commercial, short subject, video game, as well as individual… |
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Flintstones celebrate original premiere with day-long marathon!
…television was becoming popular in America; its popularity also rested heavily on the juxtaposition of modern-day concerns in a Stone Age setting. The original series presented 166 half-hour episodes, and… |
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The Essential Bugs Bunny
…personality, in the same year’s Oscar-nominated A Wild Hare, widely acknowledged and accepted as the first true Bugs Bunny cartoon even if his actual name wouldn’t be seen on screen… |
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Bambi coming in March 2011
…led to the creation of this classic film. · 2 Never Before Seen Deleted Scenes · Deleted Song: “Twitterpated” · Blu-ray Galleries—A collection of the extraordinary images originally created as… |
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Picks Of The Year 2004
…Animated News’ first complete one! – and another selection of all fine things animated. The Animated News team have once again taken a look back at the wonderful offerings presented… |
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Tron: then and now…
An announcement for an intriguing event hosted by the Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH along with The Visual Effects Society Archive Committee, named Tron – Now and Then,… |
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Space: 1999: Season One
…to take place entirely off Earth. They also wanted an American to direct the pilot, to make sure that the show would cater to American sensibilities. Additionally, they wanted Martin… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…He talked with me at least three sharing moments I can remember. He was interested in my being reported (press) as reading news clips at age five. He was a… |
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The Ballad Of Rango
…undisputed leader in their field. Arguably Lucas’ own Star Wars prequels featured as much animation as a fully-animated feature on the short end of the spectrum, and so the timing… |
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DreamWorks bringing characters to vacations
DreamWorks is continuing it’s encroachment into rival Disney’s turf, this time in the vacation field. The company has announced an alliance with Gaylord to bring the DreamWorks Animation characters to… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…tornado – these are presented as deleted scenes for some reason). Also great is Williams’ triumphant score, here adapted with his authorization by his old orchestrator Alexander Courage (yep, the… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl set to the music of Alexander Borodin, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Animated Film…. |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…the DTV team (he’s credited as a Consultant on the movie) to continue in his chosen traditional art field (there’s certainly the implication that he animated at least one scene… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…& the Beast opened with massive praise and became the first animated feature nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Clements and Musker then returned with Aladdin, the world’s highest-grossing… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…Jones directed both shows, but it is strange to see similar body movements and facial expressions on two unrelated enterprises. As soon as “Sasquashed” started I knew it was going… |
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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
…based on the episode theme featuring (in voice only), Wallace’s “archive librarian” Goronwy, and an insert hosted by Wallace’s “man in the field”, Jem Stansfield. This isn’t to take away… |
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The Muppets
…was inevitable that Disney would take advantage to table another offer which, this time was accepted. Unfortunately, although Eisner had really wanted to give the Muppets a safe home, the… |
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X-Men Anime
…including the original Japanese track. Extras are also better than what we can usually expect for animated TV shows, making this DVD set a nice surprise all around. Animated Classic… |
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Home On The Range
…5.1, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Famously the last – for a while at least – traditionally produced animated feature from the Mouse House, Home On The Range’s wild-west spoof… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Young Jim Hawkins is your usual Disney loner, although this time around he happens to live on an isolated spaceport with his Mom. One night,… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
When Tim Burton originally conceived the idea for Frankenweenie, he envisioned it as a full-length, stop-motion animated film. Due to budget constraints, he instead directed it as a live-action short,… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominees for Best Animated Features… |
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Disney Historian J.B. Kaufman on the greatest Snow White books of all!
…reproduced from original concept sketches, background paintings, and production cels, as well as alternate character concepts, deleted scenes, and step-by-step process shots. A genuine piece of animation history! Animated Views:… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…Fergus & Mor’Du: An Alternate Opening (2:40) seems to belong with the deleted material we’ve just seen, but it feels separated and disjointed for that here. Andrews intros again, this… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…later, the execs requested a meeting. Thus, Reece presented more of his work and offered a few original ideas. Disney responded with a job offer. “It was my turn to… |
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Frankenweenie
…animated characters more disconnected from the vocals than anything. The fun here is in the rear channels’ directional effects, but demo moments are restricted toward the end of the movie:… |
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Open the door to The Art Of Monsters University!
…story. AV: You wrote some important Pixar books. How did you come to the writing field? KP: It started with To Infinity And Beyond! The project was in progress when… |
