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Bambi II: Special Edition
…sequels may have been, for a long while, the only place you could catch hand-drawn animation from the Studio that had built its name on such entertainment, but they also… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…have looked had this been traditionally drawn. Also good is a collection of Production Artwork, and although it repeats many of the same images as seen floating by in the… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…Robot Chicken-like stop-motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the original actors’ heads… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…movie and join me on it, or not,” remembered Minkoff. “The two of us got together and talked over my ideas. Roger had some ideas that hadn’t quite managed to… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…his looks (he actually resembles the “pig head” that is drawn onto the detective in a cut scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit) or a smart enough personality to make… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…but also lots of crude, badly drawn cartoons. The sound era brought the magic of Disney, and the brilliance of the Fleischers. And somewhere in there … there was Paul… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…other top animators had done. So, I was just trying to keep them drawn right, not only on model, but with the life and the spontaneity they had put in… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…Rudy Ising and Hugh Harmon’s outfit, Joe from Paul Terry’s TerryToons), Hanna and Barbera had met and been encouraged to work together at MGM during the 1930s, producing a number… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…and are about to work together again on another western, The Lone Ranger, he declined to return to the helmer’s chair when an inevitable fourth sailing was suggested. The intention… |
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Can Tintin become a frontrunner for Best Animated Feature this year?
…way of being a frontrunner, though, is its use of motion capture animation, which has drawn controversy from the Academy in the past. Andy Serkis, who plays Tintin’s buddy Captain… |
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Cars 2
…including a potential girlfriend for Mater and a train named Stevenson, ultimately don’t break the formulaic and broadly drawn commercial aspirations. Holley Shiftwell may as well be one of Austin… |
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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Red-Nosed Reindeer. They also did do a number of hand-drawn animated favorites, including (among many others) Frosty the Snowman and ’Twas The Night Before Christmas. ’Twas was produced in 1974,… |
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Two New Foreign Flicks: Redline and A Cat in Paris
…in the national and international film festival circuits. Redline comes from Japan and will entertain New York City before its DVD/Blu-Ray release. Both movies are hand drawn and have a… |
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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…to capture the look of the lavish budget that Jones enjoyed. There are some nice touches though: the Grinch himself is pretty nicely drawn, but as with so much of… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…to make Mrs. Potts feel better, learning that cooperation brings people together. In the last episode, “The Broken Wing,” Belle finds a wounded bird and nurses him back to health…. |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…for some skits, Robot Chicken-like stop-motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…to Aladdin, The Return Of Jafar, which was merely the first few episodes of the spin-off television show strung together and slapped out as a “movie” (with all the inherent… |
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Iron Man Anime
…fight scenes and cutting-edge animation. While the animation is hand-drawn for the most part, the use of CGI for the combatants is seamless, giving the show a sophisticated look that… |
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Paperman gets buzz
…About Paperman: “Introducing a groundbreaking technique that seamlessly merges computer-generated and hand-drawn animation techniques, first-time director John Kahrs takes the art of animation in a bold new direction with Paperman…. |
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First images from Paperman now online
The first images from Disney’s upcoming animated short Paperman have been revealed by EW.com. The short, which uses new technology to make CGI animation look as though it was drawn… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…put together and the Nautical voice over explaining the geography and purpose of each prop and machine (this second version, for some reason on the BD, cutting out at just… |
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First Glimpse of DreamWorks Me and My Shadow
…more exciting life, Shadow Stan takes control of his human with ensuing comedy and chaos following. Animation will be a blend of traditional and CGI with the shadows being drawn… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…directing ParaNorman. Together, they also wrote the forewords of The Art and Making of ParaNorman, an intriguing book published by Chronicle, that reveals that, in that movie, art is not… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…first sight, a powerful force bringing them together. When Ratcliffe finds out about Smith’s private encounter, he uses him as a way to locate the Indians, whom he sees as… |
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Wolverine Anime
…drawn inconsistently over the years), while the lanky anime Logan appears to be proportioned to be about eight feet tall. (I’m exaggerating a little, and Logan’s stylized physique is not… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…the Bayou where Penny is being held captive by the twisted, and not altogether sane, Madame Medusa. She has Penny locked up so as to use the girl to fit… |
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Bob Lambert Passes On
It is with solemn regret, that we annouce the death of Bob Lambert. Bob Lambert was the pioneering force behind Disney’s transition from hand-drawn cel animation to CGI. He intitated… |
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Heidi’s Song
…the years apparently been erased from existence I still had the tape with its lavishly drawn poster image and its catchy, Sammy Cahn-lyric songs. Now, after an interminable wait to… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…All the heads of the different departments came together and discussed the approach on a shot by shot basis. As new sets came from the work shop into the shooting… |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
…his hand-drawn animation for Secrets of the Furious Five) to lead animator (Lord Shen, Kung Fu Panda 2, an Annie Award nominee), he’s now one of the Animation Supervisors of… |
