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The Smurfs 2
…in full high definition. A CGI introduction sees Narrator Smurf telling ghost stories to stranded Smurfs, then this gives way to hand-drawn animation to actually tell the tale, similar to… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…out to display different emotions. Even the bodies of the figures would be switched out to simulate movement, often exaggerating the squash and stretch techniques of drawn animation. There was… |
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Oscar nominated animated shorts of 2013
…that will stick in your memory. Feral When I think of a typical independent animated short, I usually think of something dark and brooding, roughly drawn, and with an allegorical… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Fifth Season
…It is such a treat these days to see such a well-animated hand-drawn cartoon on television. Too bad, in a way, that it’s only for grown-ups. Scratch Tracks: The Dolby… |
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SpongeBob SquarePants sequel details surface
…Water and the website is at www.spongebobmovie.com. ComingSoon.net has a first look at the poster, which appears to feature CG animation rather than the hand drawn animation of the TV… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #71: The Land Before Time – Fellowship of the Tree Star
…die? • Props to Don Bluth for his stunning hand-drawn effects like bubbles, tar, egg shell fragments, lava, rain, and, of course, the classic Don Bluth sparkle. • 9 minutes… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…right or wrong but rather an interpretation of what you see or hear trying to put it together in a form that makes sense to you and not necessarily to… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…Phineas and Ferb’s parents got together, and so on. It’s like a regular episode, only more Star Wars-y. Is This Thing Loaded? The DVD comes with five bonus episodes from… |
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Princess Mononoke
…gods are protecting their land, but are more interested in fighting than reasoning. Mononoke is a walking dichotomy: a human who fights for the beasts. The film is drawn with… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…to the image, while Nocturna‘s shout for traditional hand-drawn animation finally came out of the dark after some years in Europe with a lovely, crisp transfer that showed off this… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…of the plot. While there is a string of a story that weaves throughout the film, for the most part the movie almost comes across as several episodes woven together…. |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…Dalmatians. Broken up into several smaller featurettes, a handy Play All runs them together in a coherent 34 minute stream, covering everything from the publication of Dodie Smith’s book, storyman… |
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Big Hero 6
…little film in its own right, bringing color to the quasi-hand-drawn-cum-CG look of the studio’s last Oscar winning short Paperman (here dubbed Hyperion Rendering in a nod to Walt’s first… |
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Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast
…delightful short, mixing CGI and traditional drawn animation, with Fawn teaching her friends what groups of animals are called. With its catchy tune and high energy, it’s the most fun… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…of what makes Thunderbean the go-to source for vintage animation. Is This Thing Loaded? Thunderbean put together a small but impressive selection of bonus features, starting with a Model Sheets… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…selling the novel they wrote together, Rescue Sirens. It is the first in a planned series of books about mermaids who disguise themselves as human lifeguards to watch over and… |
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The Peanuts Movie
…could cut all of these scenes together and have one of the funniest Peanuts shows ever! Don’t assume this wasn’t a good story! I may be being a little harsh… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…the time of its theatrical release to go and see it on the big screen, and so we discovered Inside Out all together, along with his mother, my lovely Caroline,… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…drawn out introduction for this review. Why? Because Open Season: Scared Silly offers very little to talk about, and even attempting to discuss it for a great amount of time… |
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The Jungle Book
When The Jungle Book opens, it presents a sort of hand-drawn animated version of the current Walt Disney Pictures logo. While it does look rather odd, it can also be… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…the lead, they released films that covered all forms of animation – hand-drawn, stop-motion, and computer generated – in an attempt to compete with the industry elite in Disney, from… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…flight and fire that continued to inspire awe from audiences of all ages. Virtually everything about How to Train Your Dragon came together beautifully. The story was a compelling and… |
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Anomalisa
…hear a genuine female voice (Jennifer Jason Leigh, having a great year along with The Hateful Eight, although that’s a very long and drawn-out film devoid of Tarantino’s usually sparky… |
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The Jungle Book
…would have captured Walt’s imagination and made him excited about animation again. Has this been the case, I wonder if traditional, hand-drawn Disney animation would have lasted as long as… |
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The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot To Remember
…are a little more sketchily drawn – although it’s always fun to see the Studio used as the Medfield College campus in the Dexter Riley comedies of the ’70s –… |
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The BFG stomping home in December
…wasn’t the first “bean” in Giant Country—many illustrations were created as if drawn by a little boy who was there long before Sophie. This charming, in-world short will bring the… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…as animation’s country cousin, even back in the hand-drawn days when it fell mostly to George Pal’s Puppetoons to provide the initial kind of three-dimensional animation imagery that CG makes… |
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The Red Turtle
…woman. She initially keeps her distance, but eventually they become intimate, and live out their life together on the island. This life includes many challenges, whether it be for food,… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…of the original voices of the Disney Princesses as possible on stage together. Those who were able to be present were Paige O’Hara (Belle), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Mandy Moore (Rapunzel),… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…some selected script readings of fourthcoming episodes. The cast read two scenes from “Sandboy”, one of which featured the seemingly anticipated first to feature Tikki and Plagg together, and then… |
