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Brando's last "animated" role…
Oscar-winning Marlon Brando, who died last week in Hollywood aged 80, had just finished recording his lines for what will eventually be his final screen outing, Big Bug Man. {{link… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…on paintings in a gallery, is a bit hit-or-miss in terms of entertainment, but there are a few good scenes in there. I especially liked the tale of the bug… |
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Despicable Hollywood
…studio that feeds of Pixar’s offcuts, right from when both studios launched competing bug movies A Big’s Life and Antz, the similarities between some of the DWs movies can not… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…Toy Story, this is director John Lasseter’s “difficult second movie”. Yes, he also helmed the Studio’s second and third features A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2, but he had… |
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The Art Of The Princess And The Frog Book – Winners Announced!
…designers, including veteran hand drawn animators that brought you many of Disney’s most classic and unforgettable characters. Jeff Kurtti is the author of more than 20 books including A Bug’s… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…singing animals in school King of The Bugs (1930) – a bug monarch oversees royal games, and a spider makes off with the princess A Toy Town Tale (1931) –… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…Joyce was already no stranger to animation. He was instrumental in establishing character designs for Pixar’s earliest films, Toy Story (1995) and A Bug’s Life (1998). Joyce then moved to… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…Bugs Bunny cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit, directed by Friz Freleng. The basic set up for both cartoons is simple: Bugs/Tom portrays an acknowledged master pianist primed to give his greatest performance… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…Bug’s Life. He kindly talked exclusively to Animated Views about his experience on the sequel of the 2009 hit. Animated Views: How much fun did you have working on Cloudy… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…traditional Pixar film. For Bug’s Life, they would go low into the grass using little cameras. They would put those little cameras on a Lego dolly and see what it… |
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The new Bumblebee trailer explodes with nostalgia
…turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug…. |
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Pixar Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire reveals the “incredible” art behind I2
…explore new paths while remaining true to the original flavor. Bryn joined Pixar Animation Studios in June 1996 as a digital painter on A Bug’s Life. She worked in the… |
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John Lasseter to receive Art Directors Guild Award
…Story\\, \\A Bug’s Life\\, \\Toy Story 2\\, and the upcoming \\Cars\\, and executive producing \\Monsters, Inc.\\, \\Finding Nemo\\, and the upcoming \\The Incredibles\\, Lasseter is also Pixar’s Executive Vice President,… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote (twice) as he pleased…
…helps give a sense of scale to the bug orchestra in this concept piece by Lloyd Harting for Fantasia. Center: stunning piece of concept art created by the Danish artist… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…great A Bug’s Life, and one I don’t think it can ever escape from. With production on both films running at the same time and at the same pace, accusations… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…even younger eyes. For older fans of the Studio’s films, it could be said that The Good Dinosaur returns to the simpler feel of A Bug’s Life but without the… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…a bug earning a chuckle. Wrapping up the “kiddie extras,” we have Open Season: Super Speedy Recap, which is exactly what it sounds like as it recounts the events of… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…A Bug’s Life’s Dave Foley as Wayne, and he’s good casting, as is Derek Richardson’s over-enthusiastic Lanny, with this 2010 “Stocking Stuffer”, Operation: Secret Santa (another Emmy winner), giving the… |
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Another new studio to go after former WDFA-Florida animators
…animated television programs that Raven Moon has set for development in 2004, including the award-winning \\Mr. Bicycle Man\\, \\The Bobo Blocks\\ and \\The Cuddle Bug Cousins\\, picking up these out… |
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Strange Magic
…more reminded of Luc Besson’s Arthur And The Minimoys films, and even more strangely the ostensible villain resembled Pete Docter as he would look if he was a Bug’s Life… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…Travels and Mr. Bug Goes To Town) under-performed. A costly move to Florida, staff issues, and a rocky relationship between Max and Dave all contributed as well. Paramount was able… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…such a fun film, and it seems to have finally given them the animation bug: a new edition for Watership Down is next. Support Animated Views and buy The Criterion… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…more related example, Herbie the Volkswagen in the Love Bug movies. These characters all live in our world, possessing characteristics that we know can’t be real in any logical sense… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…he had put in place to oversee continuing projects in the film division (The Happiest Millionaire and The Love Bug were due to be big 1968 releases, the Herbie movie… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…synonymous with the actual word. Another director at Warners’ old Termite Terrace animation headquarters often gets overlooked, even though he was a major force behind the creation of Bugs Bunny,… |
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Turbo
…Bug’s Life. The sociopathic neighbor kid who wants to destroy the main character’s kind was well established in Toy Story. And an impossible dreamer who gets advice and motivation from… |
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Cars News
…Lasseter and produced by Darla K. Anderson (A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc.), Cars, described as “a high octane adventure comedy that features a wide assortment of cars as characters who… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…resulted in Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. Disney also had to contend with the growing rivalry of DreamWorks, co-founded by Disney’s previous Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg,… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…and Hercules had proved less successful in the second half of the 1990s, when Pixar’s rise had resulted in Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. The Emperor’s… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…and gets into a complicated relationship with, her captain, Shang, and is aided and abetted by her ancestral protector, the diminutive dragon Mushu, and a “lucky” bug, a cricket named… |
