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Challenge Of The Gobots: The Original Miniseries
…season of thirteen episodes, which likely accounts for the perception of Gobots coming late to the party). The five-part Challenge Of The Gobots miniseries sets up the premise of the… |
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Bravestarr: The Movie
…other Filmation shows of the past, this one was to present morals at the end of the story, clarifying for younger viewers what we had learned in each story. While… |
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Go to infinity and beyond with the Lightyear trailer
…in June. Lightyear is the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure. “Buzz’s world was always something I… |
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The Art Of Pixar Short Films
…shorts. The first forty-some pages of his book constitute an Introduction, engaging the reader with a history of the studio from the perspective of creating the shorts. Naturally, this becomes… |
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
…to learn the full story. Meanwhile, some of the Team travels to Superman’s Fortress of Solitude to put his things in order. Darkseid attempts to take full advantage of the… |
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Castle In The Sky
…origins and the secrets of a fabled castle in the sky. The Sweatbox Review: Following the success of the film Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, the publisher of… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
…another studio’s first film that was once similarly in danger of cancellation: Pixar’s Toy Story. Hence, when original screenwriter Craig Mazin pitched him the premise of Turkeys, Hayward knew the… |
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UPDATED: Olaf’s Frozen Adventure will go to theaters in front of Coco; first trailer released
…they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history. Directed by Lee Unkrich (“Toy Story 3”), co-directed by Adrian Molina (story artist “Monsters… |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: New Bug's Life Flick Flicks Flik's Bic
In addition to the recently announced Toy Story 3 project, it has been reported that Disney is also prepping a prequel to computer-animated insect hit A Bug’s Life. The as-yet-unnamed… |
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Frank Thomas has passed away…
…scenes story of the creation of one of the greatest animated films of all-time. Their final collaboration, The Disney Villain (1993), explored the richest and most colorful rogue’s gallery in… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…last decade. Indeed since the debut of “Toy Story” in 1995, Pixar has consistently set the standard and pushed the envelope of computer animation with each of their subsequent films…. |
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Hoodwinked DVD details
…every legend lies the real and surprising story of what actually happened. Genius Products, Inc. (OTCBB:GNPI), Kanbar Entertainment and The Weinstein Company retell the classic story of Red Riding Hood… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…series that were just reruns of prime time shows, but their impact on Saturday morning television is undeniable. Of course, the most disappointing aspect of having representative episodes of Top… |
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The Amazing Screw-On Head
…has only a couple of items, but they satisfy. A Storyboard Comparison (2:14) shows a scene with the storyboard at the top of the screen, while the bottom of the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…Storyboard: Basil of Baker Street leaps into action and jumps to the rescue when young Olivia Flaversham’s toy maker father is kidnapped. Hot on criminal mastermind Professor Ratigan’s trail, Basil… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…in full flight, while the reverse makes mention of the game and storybook. Best of all is the enclosed 12-page Animals Of The Outback booklet which offers some facts, figures… |
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Shrek 2
…The Godfather Part II, The Empire Strikes Back and Toy Story 2 to be one of filmmaking’s exceptional re-treads that betters the original. While I wasn’t the biggest fan of… |
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Cars
…and do not sport any personal characteristics is perhaps one of the drawbacks of computer animation. But the history of cartooning is steeped with such an approach in a number… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…Kingdom starts things off with the first half of this two-handed compilation. In a story reminiscent of one of the similar episodes in Cinderella II, the little woman is put… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…one of the most well-known of the Rankin/Bass cast of characters. A Miser Brothers’ Christmas begins with Mrs. Claus telling the story of how Christmas was almost cancelled for the… |
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Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty
…Sleeping Beauty, about that animation renaissance of the 90s. Why this idea of Disney’s talking that way about its own history? DH: I feel like we wanted to make it… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…stop motion animated films of the distant past, and even shows off later examples of the form, in one of the most surprising DVD releases of the past year. The… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…Lion was another westernized anime. Even renowned storyteller and animator Hayao Miyazaki saw his legendary film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind butchered and Frankensteined into Warriors of the… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…children have. It’s something that just stuck with me. It’s really the heart of the story of Brave. It’s not really specifically about a relationship between a mother and her… |
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Turbo
…an imagined apparition of his hero is right from Ratatouille. During the first thirty minutes of the film these similarities almost overshadow the rest of the story. Luckily, the film… |
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Author Charles Solomon puts the chill to us with The Art Of Frozen
…The History Of Animation. In The Art Of Frozen, he delves behind the scenes to get to the heart of Walt Disney Studios’ latest feature, Frozen, which takes inspiration from… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…a “brave little tailor” scene with a Smurf for the study of the animation style. AV: Do the characteristics of the “School of Marcinelle” (Peyo’s style, part of one of… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…of visual styles was standout: freeze any of this CGI pic’s frames and it looks hand painted, and extraordinary. Elsewhere, Marvel came along again with a trio of feature offerings,… |
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Arcane
…form of co-existence was left in place, but that fragile peace is now in danger of shattering with the discovery of hextech. The mixing of magic and science has allowed… |
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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
…(9 min), a home-made short that uses Caprino’s patented puppet-animation technique to tell the story of another pair of heroes, this time two musicians on the trail of a lost… |
