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Monsters Vs. Aliens! Smurfs! Plus the WB Archives open up!
…helmed the movie with Rob Letterman. DreamWorks’ latest animated movie took a little while to get me juiced up about seeing it, having given the look of being highly derivative,… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…Violet, the speedy ten year-old Dash and little baby Jack-Jack. In developing their individual superpowers, personalities and human foibles, Brad Bird looked at typical American families all around him for… |
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Frozen
…little more cookie-cutter, and could easily take the place of Rapunzel (not just in looks but personality as well), though she is less expressive than her long-haired counterpart. Their characters… |
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Where Did These AWOL Animated Movies Get To?
…is available elsewhere. So, let’s take a little look at what we’re missing, shall we? Twice Upon A Time (1983) – two versions of this somewhat experimental George Lucas-produced stop-motion… |
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The Pirate Fairy
…obvious— though a few may think they’ve gone a little too far. The animation is first-rate, only a notch below theatrical quality, at a level that would undoubtedly surprise many… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Fifth Season
…isn’t really all that confusing, until you add in The Monarch, who is trying to do a little destroying of his own at the Venture compound, all the while thinking… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Howard Ashman and Alan Menken at the time of their work on Little Shop Of Horrors. At that time, Dan concluded our interview saying: “Art direction-wise, we are still in… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…think he did a great job. Max Charles’ Sherman was a little too childlike for my taste, but was otherwise fine. Ariel Winter was perfect as his bullying nemesis Penny…. |
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Justice League: War
…writers over the past twenty-five years. Watching Shazam embarrass himself by his childish behavior is not all that appealing, and even a little creepy, particularly when he sheepishly asks Wonder… |
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Is Shrek 5 on the way?
…is reporting that DreamWorks Animation honcho Jeffery Katzenberg is hinting at a continuation of the franchise. “We like to let them have a little bit of time to rest,” he… |
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Disney princesses may be better role models than some claim
Disney princesses take a lot of heat for being poor influences on little girls, because Disney associates them with fashion, make-up, etc. Some say it is easy to pick on… |
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Marine Boy: The Complete First Season
…Marine Boy?” I asked. Information on the Net was scarce, too, though I did find some reference to its Japanese origins. Four years later, I was a little amazed, but… |
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How To Train Your Dragon 2
…it here. Tiny little almost throwaway movements by the characters can convey big emotions and make them seem like real, feeling people. I can’t say it any better than I… |
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Free Birds
…being a bit too predictable and a little too long, for the most part the story delivers. The first two acts are especially solid. While the film rushes to get… |
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Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels: The Complete Series
…ladies, Brenda, Taffy, and Dee Dee— a brunette, a blonde, and an African American. While the blonde is portrayed as being a little ditzy, at least the African American girl… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…Of The Rings: The Two Towers, Stuart Little 2 and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, to mention only a few. He also supervised the Sony Pictures Imageworks team who… |
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CINEME 2004 Official Winners
…land with little shelter from the midday heat. Their desperation is heightened by the strange and continuous disappearance of the coveted shade… Best First Film The Monkey and the Bananas… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…their boss Benson, probably the first anthropomorphic gumball machine to ever star in a TV show. Benson has little patience for Mordecai and Rigby’s antics, but endures them regardless. Maybe… |
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Despicable Me 2
…Pixar, a sequel is a given, is expected, and is looked forward to. After adopting the three little girls in the first film and giving up a life of crime… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…who does not have that little tiny part of them that remembers what being a kid and loving cartoons was like. A triumph of animation and special effects, Roger himself… |
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Looney Tunes 2: Daffy Duck For President stills; no Chuck Amuck
…A Conversation With Tex Avery and a TV pilot for The Adventures Of The Road Runner, plus music-only and voice-only supplemental tracks for The Three Little Bops and What’s Opera,… |
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Jeepers! The ponies are now human!
No one and we must admit no one saw this coming: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. The fan favorite cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is getting its first… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…that, a short film called 9 came on. It was about this little knitted character that was extremely curious. So I watched this and I remember being so infatuated with… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…really feel little). And then as you go through the attraction, we use these enormous custom screens with the highest resolution animation that we’ve ever produced at Pixar using stereo… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #110: Don Bluth & Gary Goldman Interview
…newest episode of the Animation Addicts Podcast! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9402124462.mp3 Highlights A little bit about Dragon’s Lair‘s history and cult status. Why they made the jump from Kickstarter to Indiegogo. A little… |
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Batman Vs. Robin: Exclusive Figure Edition
…a little chat, and make Bruce an offer to have him join the Court. Bruce’s assured refusal is in stark contrast to the conflicted Damian, who prefers Talon’s company to… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…human world was the more standard Pixar style, leaning towards naturalistic. We struggled a little to find this style at first, assuming that we really needed to contrast it with… |
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New Disney DVD news
…3rd: The Black Hole, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Oliver Twist, Unidentified Flying Oddball, The Watcher In The Woods, The Shaggy DA, Paradise, Darby O’Gill And The Little People and… |
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Hotel Transylvania 2
…himself is given so little to do that he seems more like a “me too” character, who does nothing but nod in agreement with other more useful characters. Another story… |
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Lego Justice League: Attack Of The Legion Of Doom
…knock the charm of Lego minifigures springing into action, though, and the brick-like nature of the characters does allow for sillier gags to be carried maybe a little better. This… |
