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DreamWorks to make Alma into feature film
…is drawn into a mysterious toy store where she discovers a doll that looks just like her, not realizing that she’s walking into a dangerous trap. The animated film–which is… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
…whether or not the Blu-ray is an upgrade in the video department. There was a time that I felt that hand-drawn animation would not benefit from HD transfers, and I’ve… |
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Toy Story 3
…the hype, changing the face of animation from hand-drawn musicals to computer-generated comedies practically overnight. Within months, rival studios were in on the game, with the ripple effect still being… |
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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory iTunes Download – Winner!
…Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is available to download here. Catch a sneak peek behind the scenes here: THE SMALL PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must… |
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A Christmas Carol
…almost – and found myself wanting to be – drawn in, frustrating details kept appearing to me, even though I wasn’t looking for them and didn’t want to be distracted…. |
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Firebreather
…Chung is a veteran of hand drawn animation and this was his first foray into CGI. His influence is heavily noted in the action scenes. Chung is best known for… |
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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…the most attention, in particular the all-time classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. They also did do a number of hand-drawn animated favorites, including (among many others) Frosty the Snowman and… |
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Tangled
…unfair to knock that aspect of the plot much. What makes it all come together so well is the characters placed in this new version of the tale. Rapunzel is… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…fuss was made of the CGI Great Dane when images first appeared, not least because he was the first really major character to go through the transition from traditional, hand-drawn… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…the Disney Studio’s legacy. Even before Snow White premiered in 1937, Walt had put together a reel showcasing how animation at the Studio was produced. Originally meant only for exhibitors’… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…the era, drawn unfairly with over-characteristically buck teeth and braids, and the demeanor that suggests she is happy to serve the beautiful (white) centaur getting ready to entertain the visiting… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…and created a genre of its own that is still drawn on today. The first season established much of the later work, particularly the first two episodes, the pilot What… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…season, the show’s look gelled much better, characters were drawn more dynamically and with better style, colors were darker and less garish, and the camera movement was not so overdone…. |
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The Looney Tunes Treasury
…falls a little short, mostly on the pages with the most text. Typically, the text pages include stills from the cartoons, or newly drawn re-creations of classic scenes. Again, that’s… |
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Spain’s Newest Animated Film: Arrugas
…is a hand drawn feature length film. Cartoon Brew has the trailer. The movie is set to be released in Fall 2011 for Spain, but there isn’t a date for… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…heard it would be CG, since I prefer hand drawn animation (even if, since Ratatouille, we’ve seen we could do interesting things in CG!), while waiting for it with great… |
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All*Star Superman
…well to animation on a budget. James Denton (Desperate Housewives) does his best to provide Superman with a rugged, matter-of-fact voice. I only wish he’d been written and drawn with… |
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Tales From Earthsea
…A troubled boy takes up with a wise wizard, a farm lady, and a girl; and all together they face an evil wizard, in the midst of magical imbalance. The… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…Goldsmith’s many attempts to weave the two together. By now, I expect Tron has been seen by more people than not, even perhaps by the inquisitive that were drawn to… |
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The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2
…before. With the switch to all-CGI production after the majestic hand-drawn films The Prince Of Egypt and Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, the DreamWorks animated films settled more and more… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…there are many styles to choose from. Some more realistic, some with a cartoon style, stop-motion technique and also some using the classic hand drawn cartoons style. What made you… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
…each presents the same cover picture. The cover image displays a hand-drawn/painted adult Thor by Alex Ross holding the Sword of Surtur, which does not resemble the film’s actual animation…. |
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Challenge Of The Gobots: The Original Miniseries
…lacking in polish; this is particularly true of the humans, which appear to be drawn by art school dropouts. And what was the rationale behind the color choices for the… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…some, if only a handful of shots, don’t quite reach the heights that the rest of the film soars to. Here, the matting of Superman and Lois flying together is… |
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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 2
…I didn’t like it. Part of Tom and Jerry’s charm is the hand-drawn animation that bespeaks of a quality that is lost in today’s world of computer’s only (although there… |
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D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets
…(Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…and a drawn out borefest, respectively, that saw both stretched to breaking point and, with Wild Things, proved that John Lasseter should have been allowed to make his version back… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…not get drawn too badly, but the Japanese characters seen in the cartoons all have squinty eyes and overbites. The viewer should keep in mind that such caricatures were done… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…extremely charming, and nicely drawn, with some wonderfully authentic performances from child actors Keith Mitchell and Corey Feldman – yes, that Corey Feldman – that sound authentic and not precocious… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…flew out to NY city with Mike Surrey, the animator on Timon, where both Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane (Timon) were in Guys and Dolls together on Broadway. It was… |
