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Director Kevin Munroe revisits Imagi’s TMNT franchise
…be kind of cool to go back to him. I’d love to use — and this is sort of the ‘out there’ one, as I don’t think it would work… |
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Big Hero 6
…for me was the story. Don’t get me wrong. It was a perfectly fine story. But with just about every other aspect of the film overachieving, the story issues were… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…California. It is a unique classroom invented from our personal stories. Again, we don’t necessarily talk too much about it specifically but it is probably embedded in our work without… |
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Uncle Grandpa: Tiger Trails
…episode, don’t have any rules to them. Much like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies on the cable channel’s Adult Swim schedule, these are television programs where literally anything can… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #85: Cinderella – Mason Dubs
…or entitled, just grateful. • Voicemail • Don’t forget to use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #AnimAddicts85 when talking about this episode on Twitter! • Don’t forget to vote of the… |
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Gladiators Of Rome
…has to cross a rickety bridge over a canyon at one point) don’t technically “work” since they are so inconsistent in terms of whatever tone the movie is attempting to… |
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Ant-Man
…beats that I don’t think there’s any need for me to explain the film’s plot. From the beginning, you know what the hero’s goal is going to be. You can… |
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Animation Addicts 100th Episode Spectacular
…fandoms have rabid fan bases, but the others not so much. What’s the difference? Don’t forget to use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #AnimAddicts100 when talking about this episode on Twitter!… |
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Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem
…of visualizing something that takes place in a digital realm. It doesn’t help that many writers don’t seem to understand (or care about) how computers actually work. Showing a computer… |
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Exclusive WonderCon 2016 Recap
…doing commissioned sketches. I don’t know if he was doing this all weekend, but he was certainly doing it for that day I saw him. Another animator I spotted was… |
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X-Men ’92 Vol. 0: Warzones!
…the obligatory Secret Wars tie-ins that are more distracting than subtle or characterizations that don’t fit with how the X-Men have otherwise been portrayed in comic books over the last… |
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Ratchet & Clank
…difficult to follow because it was complex, it was just hard to see why people were doing the things they did. And, in fact, I still don’t know what the… |
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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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Anomalisa
…work in Team America: World Police, although the costuming goes back earlier to that film’s original Thunderbirds inspiration, where the clothes don’t quite fit properly and come off a little… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
…“We are very busy bringing joy to children. We don’t have time…for children.” Rise of the Guardians would be the last feature from DreamWorks Animation to be distributed by Paramount… |
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DC Superhero Girls: Hero of the Year
…little fun with its high school concept (which does seem to be lifted from Disney’s very underrated 2005 comedy Sky High, but I digress), even though its main characters don’t… |
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
…the first season of the incredible and quite exquisite television reimagining of Fargo. I don’t want to keep making comparisons with his Beatle-fan Dad, but it’s clear the appreciation of… |
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The Secret Life Of Pets
…I’m not the hugest Hart fan, and although I’ll admit I enjoyed his character in Pets a lot, I don’t think we really needed The Best Of Snowball recap, an… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…an interview format. Even though we don’t strictly follow the “nuts and bolts” of assembling the production from scratch to opening night, there’s still something of a linear approach that… |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
…I consider seeing a movie I don’t immediately think of as a waste of time a win! But overall the best word that comes to mind to describe Captain Underpants… |
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Coco
…— animated films aren’t required to be funny. But I don’t feel that was the goal with this story. They didn’t set out to make a laugh-out-loud movie, but I… |
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The Star
…writers sometimes assume the audience already knows the story so they don’t always fill in certain gaps in the narrative. The animal character storylines make up the bulk of the… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…frame prevented the film from feeling as epic as it could and should have done. Showing again how effortlessly it can be done right was Marvel’s other big hit, Guardians… |
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Pixar Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire reveals the “incredible” art behind I2
…useful for that. It’s very nice because it feels real, but because the scale could be bigger or smaller, or something you don’t usually see in real life, it allows… |
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Incredibles 2
…it with a superhero overlay gave it a new fresh and fun twist. I obviously don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone, but I do want to go a… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…I don’t know if there’s a direct correlation, but as an environment designer I like that there seems to be a lot of space in this movie for the environments… |
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Animated Views IV: A New Hope
…you may or may not know, this website is a labor of love by several animation fans just like you. Which means we don’t make money off of it and… |
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Smallfoot
…is absurdly cheerful and upbeat, almost sickeningly so at points! Second, it’s a musical?! I don’t watch every trailer because, like I said earlier, I don’t like to be spoiled…. |
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
…was going nowhere in life, they certainly don’t get any better upon receiving a bite from a genetically modified spider. He is confused and at a complete loss at what’s… |
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The Grinch
…this film not being true to the book or the TV version, you don’t have to worry much. Yes, there are differences — after all, they do have to stretch… |
