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The Fox And The Hound 2
…drawn and they movie fluidly. The shading done on the characters is also surprisingly rich, and again challenges what is seen in some features (granted, there are not a whole… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…animator’s assistant, but like Hanna, Barbera soon found that his real talent existed in the story department where he showed a talent for coming up with drawn gags. Unfortunately, Joe… |
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The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series
…but the casual viewer would likely find these cartoons of weak interest. They are not particularly well-drawn, animated, designed, or written. They are a good representation of their era, when… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys
…as a newsreel (including a tour of an atomic submarine whose insignia was “drawn by Walt Disney”), a “Fun With Music” segment, and a Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey’s Rival. Though… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…Under the Special Features menu, though, you will find a great selection. Drawn To The Final Frontier: The Making Of Star Trek The Animated Series (24:21) discusses making the animated… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…new series in 1973’s Yogi’s Gang. This hour-long show began a tradition of featuring the H-B stable of characters together, showing that they were all great pals. The show had… |
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Hero High: The Complete Series
…about it. An Image Gallery has just under twenty publicity shots (both drawn pictures as well as actor photos). Hero High Live (20:48) was what I was really looking forward… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…these shorts visually is the hand-drawn look that is so evident from the Xerox process that Disney was using at the time. Many of the animator’s own pencil marks delineating… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…Peter David, and drawn by Dave Garcia and Sam de la Rosa. The cover was by Tom Grummett (who resides in my hometown!), best known for being one of the… |
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Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
…two overlapping single-sided discs) has Justice League characters that do not appear on the show itself. The Flash’s emblem is also drawn and colored wrong on the back of the… |
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Superman – Doomsday
…the advantage of having been drawn by someone who already draws in an “animated” style.) Everyone in Doomsday appears somewhat different from how they were seen in Superman: The Animated… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
…as Enchanted brought in 35 million dollars. The hybrid, which contains hand-drawn animation as well as live action, marks a partial return to traditional animation by the Disney studio, and… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…like myself. Finally, Madman Entertainment managed to put together two huge box sets of the English-language version of the 1960s Astro Boy. It was released first in Australia, and now… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…contempt by older generation of parents. The film includes many visual puns including The King of the Isle of Jazz who is drawn to resemble the then King of Jazz,… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…Orko the clumsy wizard, and two other friends from the royal palace – the inventive Duncan (aka Man At Arms) and the lovely female captain of the guard, Teela. Together… |
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Chris Sanders no longer on American Dog?
…story reels for the upcoming traditionally-animated The Frog Princess, as well as how the hand-drawn/live-action Enchanted performs at the box office next November, before fully committing to Lasseter and Catmull’s… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…movies together. But it was sort of fun – yes, of course, it was challenging, and it was fun. Brian and I had been together so long, it was fun… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…that I just kind of started learning how to do animation. It was in ’94 or ’93, maybe. Might have been in ’93. I was just drawn to it, because… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…thing came together pretty clearly right from the beginning. I had great guys working with me. They made short work. AV: Are there any inside references that folks should look… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…tied our legs together and put us on these ramps that looked like stones that we would actually be sitting on, as the mermaids. And we did the reference work…. |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…industry together. I’m a big fan of Tim. He’s always had that quirky sensibility, even since our first year at school. But he’s an amazing guy. Even though in his… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…was able to overlay my animated characters over live camcorder video of backgrounds I’d drawn in art markers. The first time I guess I really ‘broke out’ in getting more… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…been drawing cartoons ever since I can remember. I’ve always drawn. I’ve filled my closet with sketch pads. I guess in junior high, I bought the Super 8 camera and… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…Bros. and Universal wanted to release the Popeye and Woody sets so close together in August? JB: I know that Warner Bros. has a regular release schedule throughout the year…. |
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Aladdin: Crew Reunion
…based on Aladdin. Howard and Alan Menken put together with songs and basic story idea and it was in work for a year before with the tentative title Arabian Nights…. |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…is the current status of Seaweed? BB: All 64 pages are written and drawn. As of now I have 30 pages fully inked and colored. AV: Do you have an… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…Then we can work together. What I really enjoy is my time on the scoring stage with him because we can work together, we can listen to it and say:… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…exactly what one would expect from such characters. Maybe a little more so, or maybe with an air of exaggeration, but it’s definitely vocabulary drawn from the same book. AV:… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…of them, all come together. An alumnus of the Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art in England, Mr Walsh made himself famous for his work on… |
