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The Boxtrolls
…feel that a lot of “cheats” have been deployed here. A further selection of behind the scenes featurettes looks into several aspects of the production with a little more of… |
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Kung Fu Panda 3
…of striving to make ourselves better than we are. In this regard, one of the real strengths of this trilogy has been its ability to include positive messages for its… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…medieval depictions of sea monsters. I tried to do a lot of exploration around the historical art of sea monsters, sculpted fountains, mosaics, etc. A lot of this sea monster… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…it one of the most beautiful of the Puppetoons, replete with crystalline imagery, a castle in the clouds, and other fairy tale wonder, set to the music of Tchaikovsky’s The… |
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
…Movie. After the attempt to do a live-action blockbuster back in 1993 immediately ran out of lives at the box office, everyone’s favorite hopping plumbers had to wait three decades… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…know what? As much as I adore the Classic Trio of mouse, duck, and goof, one of my favorites of the Treasures sets was the Silly Symphonies edition. I just… |
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Tintin turns 75!
…printed in newspapers across his native Belgium and France, according to {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=493&e=1&u=/ap/20040108/ap_en_mo/belgium_tintin Yahoo News}}. He’s also the face on {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040108/481/bru10401081829 two new Euro coins}}, reports the Associated Press…. |
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More Rings for your buck…
{{link http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/critics.choice.awards.reut/index.html CNN Online}} just posted a story on Saturday’s Annual Critics’ Choice Awards, where Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King was named best… |
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Paul McCartney Web Chat Transcript
…help us with the flow of the story. Paul McCartney says: We spoke to a children’s book publisher in England and she, Susie Jendy of Faber and Faber, decided she… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
…Ox. Bunyan and Babe tells the story of Bunyan’s attempts, with the help of a couple of kids, to rescue his ox from the evil clutches of a demented circus… |
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Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels
…Species†Chapter 6 • Storyboarding and Animatics • Storyboards • Storyboard Formats • Creating the Storyboard • Tips for Storyboarding • Reusing Drawings • Panning Sequences • Numbering Frames •… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spotting” fun facts with Andreas Deja
Andreas Deja was probably the youngest of Disney artists ever, since he first applied for a job as a Disney animator at the age of 10! Born in Poland and… |
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Bee Movie: A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition
…bee Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) feels ready to break out of the monotony of black and yellow striped life and finds his way out of the hive… |
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Shrek the Third fun facts
…voice of Raul, the beauty salon owner providing the makeover eye for the green guy (and his wife) prior to one of their official engagements. He was also the voice… |
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Sabrina, The Animated Series: Witch In Training
…they are in service of a tired story. Of course, viewers under twelve may not have seen this story dozens of times on countless TV series, so fair enough. Strange… |
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Latest on Rapunzel
…Dean Wellins are moving ahead with the story, which is now up on reels. The “Story Trust” of Disney and “Brain Trust” of Pixar have contributed valuable assistance to the… |
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Please welcome Glago's Guest
Follow the ‘More’ link to read the official synopsis of Glago’s Guest, the new CGI short which will show in theaters with Disney’s Bolt for the Thanksgiving 2008 season, and… |
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Bolt
…Unfortunately, this high intensity can’t be kept up for another 90 minutes, of course, and the rest of Bolt simply fails to make much of an impact. With the action… |
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Snoopy’s Reunion: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…real speech instead of the trombone voices of previous specials. The pups get along from the start, and quickly take to playing a variety of musical instruments, forming a type… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 1
…every story offered in every show, and each one is selectable. Ink And Paint: Prior to the main menu, each disc offers an apology of sorts, explaining that portions of… |
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Ponyo, or Hayao Miyazaki’s Inner Child
…and shapes, the sea becomes not only the setting of our story, and at the same time one of the main protagonists. A small boy and a little girl, love… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…they told an ongoing story, lending the series its seat-of-the-pants storytelling. The DVD has four fairly random episodes. Obviously, it would have been nice to see a string of episodes… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…ABC in 1973, after premiering with a story in 1972 on the highest-rated episode of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. In this version of the famous collie’s story, she belonged… |
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Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection
…of the latter seasons. The change in story direction was mirrored by the look of the show as well. Backgrounds in the initial season were often simple. The sky was… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…TV special. The movie, however, is terribly padded with a number of musical numbers that often do nothing to advance or even recognize the story. Even that could be forgiven,… |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…have no memory of The Chipmunk Adventure debuting in theaters in May of that year. Honestly, I have no recollection of this, and yet the movie did gross over 2… |
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Popeye 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…mostly in being able to experience what it was like on the animation scene in the early days of television. The appearance of many of Popeye’s supporting cast adds interest… |
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The New Adventures Of Batman: DC Classics
…course), repeats of Spider-Man, and the animated Batman show that I grew up on, 1977’s The New Adventures Of Batman. This was a Batman made for those of us still… |
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Return To Never-Land: Pixie-Powered Edition
…generally feels “right,” until a moment of slapstick, a wild expression, or the offering of body fluids and sounds reminds one that this is a 21st century Disney film. The… |
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Turok: Son Of Stone
…the production of the film itself. After all these years, I finally know something of the origins of Turok, and it is fun to see some of those great painted… |
