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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…all in Norwegian of course, and understandably so in these cases. Finally a couple of Easter Eggs reveal a fun three-dimensional point-of-view of being in the actual race, and though… |
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Broadway Tarzan battling story problems?
…story, responding to the responses of his readers. According to the article, the main problem with the new Tarzan musical is not necessarily in the seating, but in the story…. |
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WALL-E
…a lot of the things he finds in the piles of garbage. He’s become a collector. And a fan of musical theatre! One day Earth is visited by a space… |
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Ratatouille story supervisor discusses research and challenges
…we could look at shots of Paris until our eyes bleed, but you don’t get a sense of the true light there. You don’t get a sense of the people,… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…after setting up the Alex-as-a-predator story line before immediately and abruptly starting the resolution. Overall, I think it is one of the most enjoyable and re-watchable of all of DreamWorks’… |
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Starz to broadcast The Pixar Story
…premiere of The Pixar Story: A Leslie Iwerks Film. Immediately following will be a presentation of Starz Inside: The Pixar Story Continues, with scenes from Ratatouille and WALL•E. Official Site… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…set an overall score of seven points, valid in the face of some of the shortcomings explained in the full review. But the sheer concept of the set itself, an… |
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Delgo
…story of a Lockni orphan named Delgo and the Nohrin King’s daughter Kyla is set. I know this film is getting a lot of negative buzz. And almost all of… |
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Pom Poko
…dub. It has the odd effect of reminding one of Disney’s True Life Adventures films, minus some of the folksiness. The narrator provides a timeframe, e.g. “Year 33 of the… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…of art can take on lives of their own, and this was certainly the case with Segar and Popeye. Popeye’s star status was proven with the arrival of scads of… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
…some of the best use of sound effects on the show, but the action taking place in individual scenes often doesn’t see the soundtrack take full advantage of what is… |
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Astro Boy (2003): The Complete Series
…the anti-robot forces of Drake, the rebel forces of the Blue Knight, the military forces of General Red, and of course there is Tenma the mad scientist who believes that… |
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…of this miniseries was to place the Peanuts kids in historical settings, in order to teach history. This was one of the more effective entries, discussing some of the hard… |
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Wonder Woman
…of Wonder Woman in 1941, a female hero borne of mythology. She was the creation of psychologist William Moulton Marston, celebrated inventor of the early lie detector machine. Her first… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…often. JCK: And it’s also rare to find an animator who can do story, because a lot of times animators are not in story for a reason…they have to animate…. |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…there’s not a whole lot of differences between the studios themselves. There are always cool perks. Cartoon Network gives us lots of free toys and promotional items, Nickelodeon had a… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…that? JB: I do agree with that. I think they did a beautiful job of creating a new story but being very, very true to the style of animation from… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…with Gone With the Wind, the first feature film to be totally storyboarded, the process of drawing story sketches in order to have a global view of the story and… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…out of a scene from the film. It was written much more in the style of Poor Unfortunate Souls. It had a sort of Kurt Weill, Weimar, Germany sort of… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…as a sequence in an intended sequel to Fantasia. And it’s that same power of attraction that seduced the creators of the latest (and certainly most distinguished) version of the… |
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Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life
…talent, artists or styles to pursue outside of their own pool of artists. So, I came at the very beginning of that and saw myself very busy from Hunchback of… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…making of the “one that started it all”, Walt Disney’s 1937 triumphant Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs? Restored and released as the first of the series of Platinum Edition… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…just made a live-action remake with John Hughes (he of the Home Alone films), which had gone through the roof at the box-office. The movie was announced as being the… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…$29.99 Storyboard: As this new Jungle Book begins, we find Mowgli recapping the story of the first film in an imaginative sequence using silhouetted figures. This quickly dealt with, we… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The lives, times and works of the two last surviving of Walt Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” group of trusted animation geniuses, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston…. |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…an end to a proposed series of films. In truth, this version of the story is pretty tight, and retains the feel of the original, and while the animation cannot… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…of new animation. The Many Hats Of Mickey is perhaps the most meaty of the bonuses, at least for aficionados, due to the history of the character that is involved…. |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…years after the events of Kuzco’s original Emperor’s New Groove, we find villainess-of-the-original Yzma’s henchman, the-couple-of-reels-short-of-a-final-cut Kronk, heading up Mudka’s Meat Hut, the restaurant that featured in the farcical “dinner… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…animated puppet technique, the animal cast relate the story of a group of mice who learn the benefits of putting aside their nuts instead of frittering them away. As with… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…Disney version of the Cinderella story gets deconstructed in this second belated sequel that has a surprisingly unique twist of its own and dares to ask the question of what… |
