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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
In The Art Of Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatball 2, author Tracey Miller-Zarneke described the studio as “a group of talented artists who really know how… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #50: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Introducing Deafy, the Dwarf
…Vote for the Animation Addicts Podcast in the Podcast Awards! • Nerdy Couch Discussion Lecture: The History of Snow White, based on the two art/history books by J .B. Kaufman… |
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The Simpsons’ Marcia Wallace passes away
…story that says that she died from complications of a long battle with breast cancer, while also providing an official press statement from Simpsons executive producer Al Jean. “I was… |
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Nineteen animated films up for Oscar noms
…– Rebellion, Rio: 2096 A Story of Love and Fury, The Smurfs 2, Turbo, and The Wind Rises Several of the films still need to have their required Los Angeles… |
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Maleficent trailer now online.
The first trailer for Maleficent has been revealed and can be seen over at EW. The live-action movie starring Angelina Jolie tells the story of Sleepy Beauty from the famous… |
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Marine Boy: The Complete First Season
…a lack of imagination lead to scripts becoming dull and repetitive. I’m quite glad to have had the chance to enjoy the first chunk of episodes in the form of… |
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New motion capture movie Tarzan 3D trailer premieres
…King of the Jungle and a bunch of aliens stand in the corporation’s way. ContactMusic has the full English trailer for viewing. Sadly, the film will not contain the iconic… |
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Lasseter’s Disney and Pixar tug-of-war
The Hollywood Reporter looks at the “Tricky Tug-of-War” John Lasseter is in the middle of in running both Disney Animation and Pixar. “Borrowing a page from Pixar, Lasseter is hands-on… |
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Saving Mr. Banks roundup
…ignored her input and all the restrictions she had agreed to. And that’s how the film got made. That revisionist history — that’s part of the myth of Walt Disney.”… |
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Holocaust victim Anne Frank gets her own animated picture
Anne Frank has been the subject of film, plays, and television since her diary chronicling her years hiding from the Nazis was published in 1947. Animation Magazine reports that the… |
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New Rio 2 trailer
Rio 2’s new trailer premiered today with details about the movie’s story. Blu, Jewel, and their three chicks discover they are not the only blue macaws left in the world…. |
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Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?
…book by Donaldson and Scheffler, Room On The Broom. Released in 2001, the children’s best-seller tells of a kindly witch who allows a collection of animals to hitch a ride… |
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New Nut Job trailer
A new trailer for The Nut Job is online at iTunes. The story “follows the travails of Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy,… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…case with a disc in each side. A fold-out 6-page pamphlet details some of the history of George Pal and his Puppetoons, with a few stills and a couple of… |
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Frozen soundtrack tops Billboard 200
Another day, another news story regarding how well Frozen has been doing for Disney. Today the movie had the first motion picture soundtrack from an animated movie to top the… |
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Animated Van Gogh movie now in the works
…at BreakThru Films, the studio responsible for the Oscar-winning 2008 animated short Peter and the Wolf. The aim of the film is to tell the story of Van Gogh in… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #60: The Lion King – It’s SFX!
…the iconic film from their childhood! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV7481157451.mp3 Highlights: • First impressions and stats: The Lion King vs. Frozen. • Story: was this REALLY based on Hamlet? A Mason theory. •… |
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Oscar Night 2014
…win a $50 Amazon of Fandango gift card. If so, you can view or print a PDF of all the nominees and your picks to check how you’re doing while… |
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Disney staff celebrates Oscar win
…DreamWorks Animation have won all other years… Never winning was a humiliation for a lot of artists at Disney, the shop where the art of mainstream animation was essentially born”…. |
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Final Maleficent trailer now online
…a number of things about the classic villain–including how she “lost her wings”–and of course will retell the story of Sleeping Beauty. Starring Angelina Jolie, Maleficent opens everywhere May 30th…. |
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Disney’s new short Feast announced
…the short “is the story of one man’s love life as seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #65: Balto – Streetdog
…all the sidekicks? • Did Balto have to be half wolf? • How Mason would have expanded the story. • All the different possible deaths of Steele. • We rate… |
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Here’s your first look at Big Hero 6
…of the studio’s first animated film to be based off of a Marvel comic. “At every turn we try to give the audience something they haven’t really seen before.” The… |
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Anniversary Features
…to vote again, this time for the top annual slate of movies during our second decade. Animated News Weekly Archive From the first week of our launch in October of… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…is great news for those of us tired of formulaic Hollywood fare. The release in question here is Thunder And The House Of Magic (the on-screen title is just House… |
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Boxtrolls event this weekend features art, book signing, and a panel of filmmakers
…signing. Panelists include directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi alongside story artist Vera Brosgol, concept artist Michel Breton, and head of armature Jeremy Spake. Later that evening, they’ll be opening… |
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The Boxtrolls coming to Blu-Ray January 20th
…featuring 6x the picture resolution of DVD, exclusive extras and theater-quality surround sound. • DVD offers the flexibility and convenience of playing movies in more places, both at home and… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #82: Duet – Interview with Glen Keane
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Disney Legend, Glen Keane, takes a moment out of his very busy schedule to talk to Mason and Chelsea about his new short, Duet! Check… |
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 wins big at Annie Awards
…Animated TV/Broadcast Production ___ Joaquim Dos Santos – ‘Legend of Korra, Venom of the Red Lotus’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studio Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production ___ Truong “Tron” Son… |
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Oscar Night 2015
The biggest night in movies is here…even if none of the movies themselves are that big! Come be part of our 11th Oscar event, with live show chat, our contest… |
