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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
AfroAnimation, the largest annual event featuring diverse and BIPOC animators and creators, announced today the honorees for the first AfroAnimation Summit Icon Awards, along with the films selected as finalists… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…to made them menacing to offset their silly design. When it came to the rigs they were always need-driven. If, say, the script called for one of the characters to… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…of their creator, sci-fi and fantasy pioneer George Pal. The feature compiled a number of Puppetoons that Pal created in the 1930s and 1940s. When The Puppetoon Movie was restored… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…any of their movies… until now. Having scored the music of some of the popular animated films of our times, from Ice Age: The Meltdown, Happy Feet, Horton Hears a… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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Trolls World Tour
…only other tentpoles to find themselves officially taken off the theatrical calendar are Disney’s big budget fantasy caper Artemis Fowl (which will now premiere as a Disney+ exclusive) and the… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…the BBC, who will premiere The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in the UK, with the film available on Apple TV+ outside of the UK, this Christmas…. |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…DVD. Sadly, their decade compilations stalled out at the end of the 1970s, and we are left with a new line of bargain-priced DVDs offering less than an hour of… |
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Elio
…great job of establishing a fractured relationship between youth and parental figure, and while I honestly think Disney’s Chicken Little remains one of the best examples of that in an… |
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Lightyear
…they make for personally important reasons. And those are explored. And we can understand their differing points of view. True, it never rises to the point of making you feel… |
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ZooPhobia: Bad Luck Jack
…nature. There are other characters with defined personalities, but little time is spent on them due to the nature of the story’s focus on Jack and the short runtime. Speaking… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…to being heavy-handed, and while there are gentle themes of prejudice here, they never in any way feel like a lecture. Contrasting the borderline grotesque appearance of most of the… |
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Dog Man
…are about to fight, the more they squint their eyes, the wider the aspect ratio of the screen gets. All of these jokes come so quickly that none of them… |
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Smallfoot
…variety. That may be down to the fact that so much of the first half of the film seems aimed more at the preschool crowd and by the time we… |
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The Bad Guys
…reformed. The story centers around a heist, and the filmmakers have gone out of their way to get the various tropes of the genre right. Adult fans of films like… |
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The Wild Robot
…it takes place in, The Wild Robot almost subconsciously asks for the viewer to be quiet, lest they disturb the wildlife and scare it off into hiding. I’m aware that… |
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Inside Out 2
…the two Inside Out films, the writers had too many conveniently easy solutions for the characters since they could just make up whatever they wanted since they were creating the… |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…of the book is to discover who did what and how they came to such achievements. Thanks to hundreds of interviews, the reader will be within the studio in the… |
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Minions and Monsters
…wont, looking for the biggest bad guy to follow. Things then veer off into an odd tangent when some of the minions break off from the pack and decide to… |
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Disney’s Encanto digital soundtrack release now available!
…bambuco, mapalé, cumbia, and joropo. The score weaves in and out of the beautiful songs of Lin-Manuel Miranda. I hope that the musical imagery of the score evokes the resonant… |
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The cell phone is in charge in independent animated short film Like and Follow
…awards. The main ones were Siggraph, Giffoni and Annecy. The Annecy screening opened up a lot of doors – and when we were selected for the ‘Best of Annecy Kids’… |
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Marvel news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020 Production has just wrapped for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Meet the fantastic cast bringing the film to life.#ShangChi and the Legend… |
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Transformers One
Before they became sworn enemies, Orion Pax (the future Optimus Prime) and D-16 (Megatron) were best friends at the bottom of society on the planet Cybertron. Toiling away in the… |
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The Garfield Movie
…of the film seemed to stick to the Pratt accent (or Prattcent, if you will). There was one area where the movie shined and that was the animation. To be… |
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Anniversary Features
…began the celebration. So the biggest birthday feature was a massive revamp of the site’s design, including a brand new logo, a complete overhaul of the look and layout, and… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
…the controlled and steady parents of the their sometimes manic daughter. And Jane Fonda was kind of fun as Grandmamah. There are a lot of movies out there that should… |
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Deaf Crocodile announces Treasures of Soviet Animation Volume 3: The Short Films of Yuri Norstein
Deaf Crocodile has become one of the most unique and interesting boutique labels out there, usually focusing on releases from eastern Europe. Among their offerings are many animation releases. They… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…back to November, is the Fairytale Collection, with The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Frozen, Moana, and Frozen II. The Adventure Collection will follow soon after, with Winnie the Pooh,… |
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Animation legend Dale Baer passes away at 70
…You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!!). He was a layout and key animator on Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings and… |
