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The Swan Princess Lasts Far Longer Than Forever with Director Richard Rich
…a half years to make this happen.” AV: Let’s talk about the process of adapting the story of “Swan Lake” into an animated feature. The original tale kind of has… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…is also a combination of the principles of classical animation, the principles of romantic comedy and the principles of action-adventure films. How did you manage to mix and, most of… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…caps, which should warn you to the terror within. A chapter card and money-off coupons complete the package. Speaking of the differences between the “life” of the 2D vs 3D… |
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Despicable Me 2, Ninja Turtles top summer toy sales
While animation may have suffered at the box office this summer, The Hollywood Reporter notes that it thrived in the toy aisles of retail stores. Thinkway Toys’ line of Despicable… |
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Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows giveaway contest
…with two Toy of the Year awards, including “Most Innovative Toy” and “Best Boy Toy of the Year” by the American Toy Association. Based in Billund, Denmark, the LEGO Company,… |
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Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
…re-tooling of the show also saw two of Superman’s greatest enemies get a television facelift that was reflected in (or reflective of) the comics of the time. It was here… |
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Doc McStuffins
…is greeted by her bevy of toy friends that magically come to life with a sprinkle of fairy dust or magic—it is something sparkly. The main toy friends are sweet… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…the origins of the toy line to talk to Hasbro consultants about the history of the Japanese created characters and how the company was able to interject the notion of… |
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2010 Annie Award nominations announced
…Train Your Dragon – DreamWorks Animation Sebastian Quessy Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole – Warner Bros. Pictures Kryzstof Rost Megamind – DreamWorks Animation Character Animation in a… |
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Spider-Man swings high over holiday weekend
…its run. And speaking of the $300 million mark, Toy Story 4 crossed it during its third weekend of release, bringing its total to $305 million. Again, as with Far… |
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UPDATED: Disney acquires Pixar
…properties, including potential feature animation sequels. Pixar’s 20-year unrivaled creative track record includes the hits Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles…. |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…of Cars. He began his time at Pixar as a freelancer on Toy Story, which led to positions as a production designer on A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2 and… |
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Home On The Range
…partnership with Pixar and the rise of PDI/DreamWorks, their biggest rival. With these two new kids on the block, providing the whiz-bang fireworks of Toy Story and Shrek, no wonder… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…series of wisecracking adventures. The Sweatbox Review: When I was a kid, I just didn’t really warm to the television animation offerings of the 1980s. I enjoyed the various “comedy”… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…the story some sudden emotional weight. The drama of the search, and the question of the mother’s health, provides all the conflict the story needs. There are no villains here,… |
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Home On The Range
…shine on their particular brand of animation ever again… Overall, the score offers an interesting cross of styles, being a combination of character-led songs and the overlaid tracks we’ve come… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…Story, Darla is a bit of a psycho (complete with Bernard Herrmann’s unforgettable string theme), and deadly to all fish. Will Marlin, Dory, a team of stoner-surfing turtles and a… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…Beast: Diamond Edition, Toy Story 3, and the 2010 wave of Studio Ghibli DVDs. Further Sneak Peeks available from the DVD menu include those for the Toy Story Blu-rays, The… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…business in order to help investigate a series of Green Lantern deaths in “frontier space.” The mystery of the deaths, and indeed the plot of the first half of the… |
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Insider Access To Inside Out
…Dinosaur could be seen, and we got just a glimpse of the Toy Story 4 story room between the fingers of Lasseter’s outstretched hand. Of particular note was the graciousness… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…of emotion and imagination. Animator Victor Navone was not deprived of imagination either, when it came to animating Toy Story 3, Cars, Monsters, Inc. or Wall-E. With the production of… |
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The Secret Life Of Pets
…to team up to get back home, the film just about escapes story comparisons with Toy Story by way of a subplot that finds the unwanted pets of NYC plotting… |
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The Pixar Story
For those in the Los Angeles/Hollywood region please make note of a special one-week engagement of The Pixar Story which began last Friday and plays through to Thursday, August 30,… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…was a lot of fun. I didn’t have an office; everybody just came over to my apartment. I was animating, my brother and one of our friends, Shawn – both… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…being deprived of certain means of expression? VN: As daunting a task as this seems, that’s absolutely the kind of challenge that animators love. We enjoy bringing inanimate objects to… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…a lot of noise which, with the added barrage of stock effects, adds up to a something of an over busy and, at times, shrill soundtrack. The story, by project… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…with close to ten minutes of credits). That can be no bad thing, of course, if the plotting can sustain it, but rather than be reminded of the strengths of… |
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VeggieTales: Robin Good And His Not-So-Merry Men
…up the majority of the video. This episode starts off with Larry the Cucumber, dealing with the grief of his missing hamster, saying how bad of a day he is… |
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Book excerpt from The CG Story
…exclusive excerpt this week at Deadline. The extended sample details “the near-disaster that almost was when the upstarts at Pixar pacted with Disney to make their first feature: Toy Story“…. |
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Update on American Dog, Frog, Rapunzel story reels
…one story artist. “The crew worked lots of o.t. getting things up in a few months, and they’re pretty satisfied. They know they’ve got lots of work ahead, but the… |
