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2009 Annie Nominees announced
…Animation • SpongeBob vs. The Big One — Nickelodeon Best Animated Short Subject • Pups of Liberty — Picnic Pictures • Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5 — ShadowMachine • Santa,… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…we are.” It’s a little more metaphoric, a little less direct. So, this is some of the things we talked about when I was writing the song. AV: What relationship… |
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Raketu CEO Greg Parker on John K. collaboration
…Raketeena and create these little shorts for us – sort of animations that would be advertisements for us! That would make it fun and engaging and get the message across.’… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest : Season One, Volume Two
…bring a little exposure to unique settings. It’s too bad that the animation can’t quite keep up, being from a hodgepodge of animation studios from around the world, which often… |
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Iron Man Anime
…little impressed with this fast-moving, battle-filled story that still manages to humanize Tony Stark just about as well as the films. At times I felt a little un-involved from all… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…of a grown up movie and Stanton didn’t want to scare the little kids that came to those previous films? Okay…I can see that, even if I think it would… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…that brought the wavering studios from its 1980s slump (for your trivia buffs out there, the other film was The Little Mermaid). The animation was spectacular, there was true love,… |
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Monster House: Widescreen Edition
…the animation (yes, I’m going to use the word) is pretty engaging at times. Doing it in straight CGI would have worked at least as well (and probably a little… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…ratings. What was a little surprising, though, was that the special actually wasn’t half-bad. It wasn’t quite “memorable,” and certainly didn’t break any new ground, but it was a reasonably… |
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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…Matthew Lillard?) The Vampires Dance is a show stopping ditty that seems a little too smooth to suit its purpose (and is quite reminiscent of a song sung by the… |
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Elemental
…fine little film, but that’s it. It’s not really bad. It gets the job done. But I don’t have much desire to go see it again. Four times in a… |
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The BFG stomping home in December
…– Roald Dahl, Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg – to bring to life the classic tale of a courageous little girl named Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) and a gentle and… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…it look a little weird and odd. We tried those things. AV: How are they dividing up the work? I imagine it’s a little different than with a feature where… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season Two
…It’s a fun idea, skipping the first part altogether to get right to the action-packed finale, but it all made little sense doing it this way. Actually, I think it… |
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Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo
…is just an extra-long episode that probably ranks a little below the middle in terms of my favorites, coming out ahead of stinkers such as when Cyborg entered a videogame… |
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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
…a little harsh, and on the flipside we do now see how the crew, as not entirely poverty stricken adults, may have approached the same kind of effort with years… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…story like this. That said, I did have a few issues that took away from the overall feel. The whole animated-episodic-journey-movie is getting a little overused for my tastes these… |
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Aladdin: Crew Reunion
…wrote more of a Baghdad type. Jeffrey Katzenberg met about what to do after Little Mermaid. The projects Ron and John had to pick from were Swan Lake, one was… |
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Real Steel
…of the production, speaking almost non-stop about his experiences on the film. In the video sections, he becomes much more lively again – maybe he’s just a little nervous at… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #99: Minions – It is what it is, Just go with it!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! We go back to the dawn of time to the inception of everyone’s favorite little yellow henchmen with a review of Illumination Entertainment’s 2015 film… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…a crew on the same jobsite. Joe Barbera was a native New Yorker, born in 1911 to Italian immigrants in the Lower East Side (in Little Italy) shortly before his… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…Age and Disney’s films were second to none! The History Of The Animated Drawing (1955): Moving on a little in time to the 1950s, and disc two features three shows… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…really small guy, about 5’2″, but he was a lion of the industry. He gave his whole life to storytelling. So I wrote this little parable about him. Then Brandon… |
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Miles From Tomorrowland: Let’s Rocket!
…and getting along with others (all worthy topics in their own right), Miles has its sights set a little higher…quite literally, as it teaches its viewers about outer space. And,… |
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Strange Magic
…throwback success of star Ron Howard in television’s Happy Days and the movie smash Grease. Lucas also had a hit around this time, of course, with a little movie called… |
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More Cartoons For Victory!
…Bäumlein, Das Andere Blätter Hat Gewollt (or, The Little Tree That Wished For Different Leaves) from 1940. Based on a poem, it tells the tale of a tree that wishes… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…due to being overworked at my day job through the latter half of the year, to the point that I really had very little energy to do more than just… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…everybody in the room yet it’s not getting a laugh. You’re hesitant to cut it, because you feel like maybe by just making a little tweak in a line or… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…in 1989, I received the top-secret Doughboy “kit”, a little suitcase that contained one of the original stop-motion puppet bodies and heads. The body was made of an incredibly toxic… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season One
…joy that accompanied the end of the Clone Wars has been replaced with something else. To many, there is little doubt that the Empire is a fascist outfit led by… |
