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Newport Beach Film Festival announces the "Chuck Jones Award"
…globe with original animated works, utilizing traditional hand drawn and/or computer generated techniques, created in feature length and short form may submit their films for consideration. “Chuck Jones lived in… |
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Paul & The Dragon: Cartoon Laugh-O-Therapy with the Film’s Creators!
…Dragon, an animated short created by two young and talented Dutch animators/directors, Paco Vink [below, left] and Albert ’t Hooft [right]. Their movie is about Paul, a young boy who… |
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To Revise or not to Revise: Stan, Kyle and Cartman's Broadening Influence
…South Park episode. My editorial opinion, which is not necessarily the opinion of the entire Animated News staff, follows. To me the whole issue opens up a whole big philosophical… |
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Academy to double Best Picture nominations
…a wider field competed for the top award of the year. The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to… |
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Ultimate Avengers 2
…and overstuffed. This is the second in a line of direct-to-DVD animated films based on Marvel Comics properties. No time was wasted in providing a follow-up to the first one,… |
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Turok: Son Of Stone
…severely limited their target audience. One thing I appreciated is that it was decided that Turok largely eschew the usual hokey pseudo-mysticism often included in animated tales of American Indians…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…$32.99 Storyboard: Between 1929 and 1939, Disney released several cartoons as an experiment in the field of animation. The Silly Symphonies were created to experiment with music, animation, and color… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…and posted excellent images from her experience at the Animated News & Views Forum. Those photos and more pictures of the event are also hosted at Webshots. The images cover… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…assignments to include some kind of graphics whenever possible. When I saw John Lasseter’s short Luxo Jr. I was inspired. I knew I wanted to work in that field. After… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…Shaggy Dog remake, and another mid-quel, the actually none-too bad looking Bambi II. Accessible via a dedicated menu are further previews for the underrated Mouse House pickup Valiant, and more… |
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Chicken Little
…school hand drawn animation tradition gets blasted out the window in favor of flash-bang-wallop computer generated trickery. All of which overbalances what should be a fairly simple story of a… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…you really wanted to see, so we were intent to get there early and rush to whatever panel interested us the most. For Ben and me, we definitely wanted to… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…involved, suggested what lyrics should be used in songs, selected the songs to the used, cast the voices, and lived and breathed the film for the more than three years… |
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2009 Annie Nominees announced
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 37th Annual Annie Awards, which recognize the year’s best achievements in the field of animation. The Best Animated Feature nominees are Cloudy With… |
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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
…I was asked to write The Art of The Princess and the Frog, I was naturally both flattered and excited. AV: You started working in the field of Imagineering and… |
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Volume 2
…by an animated version for television. This happened when the original X-Men film came out and again after the success of Spider-Man (although both of those had successful animated series… |
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My Life With Charlie Brown
My Life With Charlie Brown By Charles M. Schulz Edited and Introduction by M. Thomas Inge University Press Of Mississippi April 1, 2010 Hardcover, 144 pages $25.00 One tragedy of… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…reach and touch these hand-crafted puppets. Because of that, Coraline invited audiences in to the screen rather than throwing things out at them. And it worked really well. It was… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…had different incarnations, and I was there when they were still writing it. As far as music, I started writing it about eight months ago. AV: Director Genndy Tartakovsky wanted… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…– a remarkable group of artists volunteering their time and talent towards this common goal. This is such an extraordinary story that we, at Animated Views, definitely wanted to tell… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote (twice) as he pleased…
…life and career of Disney’s first female animator, Retta Scott, who also happened to be a talented member of the Story Department, I contacted Retta’s sons. One of them did… |
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Back-to-Back Pirates Sequels?
…least one sequel are producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski, writers Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott (who haven’t completed the script), and talent Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley…. |
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Frank and Ollie's director speaks up!
The usually quiet Ted Thomas, director of the 1995 documentary Frank And Ollie, recently released on DVD, steps out into the limelight to reflect on making the film and putting… |
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\\Aladdin\\ scribes interviewed for disc… but not paid
At the {{link http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/movies/index.cgi?read=62799 WordPlayer forums}}, \\Aladdin\\ writers Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio confirm that they were interviewed for the upcoming Platinum Edition of the film. Rossio adds that: Even… |
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Philadelphia 2004: Eisner steps down as Chairman; Comcast back; Disney issues statement
…Stanley Gold accurately predicted at the beginning of Wednesday’s meeting that more than 40 percent of shareholders would withhold their votes for Eisner. ‘It is an unprecedented no-confidence vote in… |
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The Digital Bits on Disney DVD documentaries
…director (and son of Frank), {{link http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/barriemaxwell/tedthomasinterview.html Ted Thomas}}, discussing both the making of a film on his father and his friend, and its DVD incarnation. Great reads all around!… |
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Turner's Beef With Big Media
…well.” Turner cited such examples as, “[Eisner], after buying ABC in 1995, was quoted in LA Weekly as saying, “I would prefer ABC not cover Disney.” A few days later,… |
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Sony buys MGM!
…perfect sense, if it were not for the fact that Warners owns all of the pre-1980s MGM features, through their acquisition of Ted Turner’s company (who had bought the MGM… |
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Annie Award nominations announced
…Awards will be annouced in a ceremony hosted by Tom Kenny on January 30, 2005. The nominees are: PRODUCTION CATEGORIES Best Animated Feature Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence –… |
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Annie Awards results – \\The Incredibles\\ wins big
…Best Animated Feature has gone on to win the Academy Award every year since the Oscar category was added four years ago. The awards are presented by The International Animated… |
