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The cell phone is in charge in independent animated short film Like and Follow
…us about Like and Follow’s production. “Tobi and I met in 2017 at an animation studio in Tokyo,” Forrest said. “We’re both compulsive filmmakers and we’d both just finished making… |
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Warning From Space
…A Critical History And Filmography Of Toho’s Godzilla Series, he explains some of the differences between Japanese and western culture, and how they relate to storytelling in film. While creators… |
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Dog Man
…movie needs 2,000 or so words to be discussed properly, and Dog Man is one such example. And that’s not a bad thing! This is breezy, non-demanding entertainment which should… |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…offerings devolved into largely formulaic and bland cartoons that many fans don’t mind forgetting. And next came the television cartoons and a further, inevitable dip in quality. Popeye animated cartoons… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…with lighting and CFX/SFIN (Character Effects and Shot Finalizing). Following our own path around the world with Mila, we’re moving forward interviewing members of the world-wide crew. Here is Art… |
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Tom & Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection DVD in June
…and 2 bonus documentaries titled, “Tom and Jerry…and Chuck” and “Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood.” List of the cartoons along with the official package artwork can be found here…. |
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Netflix announces cast and first look for animated feature My Father’s Dragon
…Cartoon Saloon. – Executive Producers: Meg LeFauve and John Morgan, Tomm Moore and Gerry Shirren of Cartoon Saloon, and Alan Moloney and Ruth Coady of Parallel Films. Synopsis: Struggling to… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…still need color and lighters, compositers, effects animators and character animators, of course, on an animated feature. The difference lies mainly in how the work is managed or organized, and… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Bartholomew Cubbins (1943), Dr. Seuss’s And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1944), Rhythm In The Ranks (1941) and Jasper And The Beanstalk (1945); plus Date With… |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…and Endgame (originally titled Infinity War Parts One and Two) took one epic story, and strategically divided its story elements over two films. These two series of movies worked well… |
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DuckTales to air 90 minute series finale in March
…Glenn, Libe Barer, Jaleel White and Amy Sedaris. Noël Wells and Riki Lindhome guest star as sisters, June and May, respectively. DuckTales is a production of Disney Television Animation and… |
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Bee Movie Fun Facts
…produced on the spot and a great deal ended up in the final film. The Pollen Jocks are voiced by stand-up comedians and friends of Jerry’s—including Tom Papa and Mario… |
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Tom & Jerry’s Greatest Chases Volume 3: Mouse Trap (cartoon short clip)
Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 3 is available to order now from Amazon.com [AMZ]B002DY9KRU[/AMZ]… |
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TV to DVD: Tick, Fantastic Four, Tom & Jerry
…and Jerry – Spotlight Collection Volume 3, thus revealing the bonus features for the upcoming 2-disc DVD set. Concurrently, it has been learned that Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes –… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…Bright and Beautiful) as The Horse, and newcomer Jude Coward Nicoll as The Boy. The film is presented in partnership with the BBC. A story of kindness, friendship, courage and… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…way they moved on TV. And facial expressions lose a lot of the frenetic and fun energy they used to have, and instead feel more rigid and rubbery. As I’ve… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba. Strings: violin I & II, viola, cello and bass.] AV: There’s a huge contrast between the TV series sequence and the “real life” sequences, from… |
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Mulan
…attempts to make this stand-out from the animated original and craft its own story with some depth to the character is admirable. And it is a visually stunning film by… |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
French author Christian Renaut is not only a distinguished English teacher, a fantastic singer, drum kit and keyboard player, an appreciated painter, a great comedian and playwright and a beloved… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…was drawn onto the screen using crayons, explosions look like pencil scribbles, and New York City is large, enticing, and messy. Seriously, you could take stills from this and easily… |
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Inside Out 2
…especially when it relates to growing up and dealing with life changes, the sophisticated but not overly complicated metaphors on the psychology of how our minds and memories work, and… |
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Bee Movie: A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition
…black and yellow fellows buzzing around in miniature-miniature automobiles, working in factory-like hives, and worrying about job satisfaction. Yep, Seinfeld is alive and well and living in bee land…! In… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…by Tom And Jerry fans. Tom And Jerry, Grape Ape, and a character similar to Wacky Races’ Muttley appeared in The Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show. A year later, a… |
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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…being the creators of Tom and Jerry. Carvone and Brandt, having been the primary directors of Tom and Jerry productions since 2005 when Brandt co-directed the short The Karate Guard… |
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Lightyear
…they make for personally important reasons. And those are explored. And we can understand their differing points of view. True, it never rises to the point of making you feel… |
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Elemental
…speculated on feelings having feelings. And now in the 2020s, we get the latest entry, Elemental, which is about the four classical elements of earth, air, fire, and water. Those… |
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Marvel news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…Romanoff’s efforts to deal with her history as a spy long before she became an Avenger. Directed by Cate Shortland and starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, and Rachel… |
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Disney’s Encanto digital soundtrack release now available!
…Tangled), co-directed by Charise Castro Smith (writer The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez) and produced by Yvett Merino, pga, and Clark Spencer, pga. Castro Smith and Bush are screenwriters on… |
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Tom & Jerry Tales Volume 4 – Winner Announced!
…Everyone’s favorite cat and mouse are back with 12 cartoon shorts from the popular Kids WB television series. Tom & Jerry Tales Volume 4 finds Tom chasing Jerry through a… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
…film, I can forgive the formulaic narrative here because, despite there being no surprises, it is fairly well told. But some of these characters are so tedious and annoying and… |
