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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…Deep in all of us is the belief that together we can create something better than we could create on our own. AV: How did you get to Writer Phil… |
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Michael Eisner Is Back in the Game with Universal Pictures
…has recently signed a film distribution deal with Universal Pictures. He plans to bring The Garbage Pail Kids to the silver screen, based off the popular trading cards/stickers drawn by… |
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Combustible wins Grand Prize
…in an ornate and dramatic manner”, says the Festival. Ignited by the traditional style of Japanese painting as inspiration, the short is a stunning combination of hand-drawn and computer-generated animation…. |
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Up: 3D Edition
…children, the next few minutes of montage visually describing their lifetimes together in an honest and truly brilliantly beautiful fashion. It’s a sequence which led the film’s critical praises and… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…many of the film’s best and unexpected moments of comedy) and together they vow to find Nemo and bring him home. Meanwhile, our little flipper has ended up in the… |
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Disney posts Paperman online
Disney Animation’s YouTube channel has posted the full Oscar nomianted short Paperman. “Introducing a groundbreaking technique that seamlessly merges computer-generated and hand-drawn animation techniques, first-time director John Kahrs takes the… |
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Frankenweenie
…when adapting previous work (such as Sweeney Todd), than coming up with his own ideas like Frankenweenie. Burton has a well-known well of ideas on which he has drawn from… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…original characters – Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Foghorn Leghorn and the rest – to the small screen when Roger’s star began to fade thanks to drawn out copyright wrangles (a planned… |
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Paperman progression reel breaks down animation behind pivotal shot
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive progression reel for Disney’s Annie-winning short Paperman, showing how animators placed hand-drawn layers upon computer animated imagery to achieve the film’s stunning look. One might… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…sketch format of their initial and most famous success, the Monty Python’s Flying Circus television series. Banding together as a result of being influenced by post-war comedy such as Peter… |
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Rotoscopers YouTube: Q&A Part 2
Morgan and Chelsea continue to answer your questions! In this installment they discuss topics including when Disney might go back to hand drawn animation and what can be done to… |
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Win a Monster in Paris Blu-ray 3D combo pack – Winners announced!
…PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must provide a full name, mailing address and valid email contact. This information will be kept confidential and deleted after the… |
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Win Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie on Blu-ray – Winner announced!
…Movie is available to pre-order from Amazon.com: THE SMALL PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must provide a full name, mailing address and valid email contact. This… |
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“New” Mickey Mouse short features Walt’s voicing
…will feature Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey Mouse. “This black-and- white, hand-drawn short follows Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse and their friends Horace Horsecollar and… |
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Floyd Norman revisits Huck’s Landing
…Pat Ventura were on the story team. For Huck’s Landing, the artists aspired to composite hand drawn animation into physical backgrounds, seeking assistance from special effects guru Peter Kuran of… |
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Latest on Egill from Legends of Vahalla: Thor creators
Animated Views has a new screenshot from CAOZ’s Egill, a computer animated feature integrating hand drawn elements. Egill is the second CGI film from the Reykjavík-based studio, whose first feature,… |
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Has Disney gotten rid of Merida’s so-called “makeover”?
…removed the more slender, hand-drawn version of her from their website. Whether or not this means they have actually gotten rid of her so-called “new design” remains to be seen…. |
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Jeepers! The ponies are now human!
…ponies into humans? The concept is nothing new in fan circles as many bronies and pega-sisters have drawn the characters as human before, but was that the inspiration to make… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…go on a quest together into the Old Lands. Throughout their journey, they meet the other dwarfs, each of whom is drawn into the quest for reasons of his own…. |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…of retooling. Unlike many animated films, this would involve essentially cancelling the movie altogether, since the result would now change beyond recognition, causing the villainesses’ animator Andreas Deja to leave… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…discs are likely all-region. Ink And Paint: Many will feel that going hi-def for hand-drawn television animation is unnecessary, and I understand those feelings, particularly if they have a smaller… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…a digital-to-digital transfer (though the show is hand-drawn), so each episode is also free of any physical damage or debris. Most of the show has pretty mundane visuals, but for… |
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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…animate the Smurfs. Everybody agreed that they were just perfect for computer animation! From comics to hand-drawn animation on television, and now to computer animation, the evolution is wonderful and… |
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Full Disney D23 panel recap; Mickey Mouse in Get a Horse! to be shown before Frozen
…its U.S. premiere at the D23 Expo. Featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey Mouse, this black-and-white, hand-drawn theatrical short follows Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…be drawn. It comes very late into the movie, by which time the audience may well wonder why the film has been given its name at all. When it does… |
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Planes
…of beating a racecar! The actors hired were drawn mostly from the ranks of TV performers, comedians, and voice actors — another sign of the home video history of the… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…was especially taken with the voice of Umi, Sarah Bolger. Umi is a girl not prone to wild displays of emotion, and is often drawn with suitably subtle expressions— thus… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…to it, from a flying car in The Message or an animated monkey peeling itself off a cartoon-drawn wall and performing with the band in an early music video I… |
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Frozen
…went for an almost hand drawn feel (beautifully done), Frozen embraces computer animation fully. And counterintuitively, it’s so well done the fact that it is computer animated never crosses your… |
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Gollum creator Letteri talks evolution of computer animation
…“Computer animation is a natural extension of hand-drawn methods developed during the early-twentieth-century golden age of ‘cel’ animation ushered in by Walt Disney, in which a series of images is… |
