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The Lion King to roar again for crew reunion
…supports film preservation, and hosts the Annie Awards®, an annual gala event recognizing individual and collaborative excellence with animation’s highest honor. For more information about ASIFA-Hollywood, visit {{link http://www.asifa-hollywood.org www.asifa-hollywood.org}}… |
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Canadian NFB moves into Hothouse
…Board of Canada’s Hothouse 4 films. Located at www.nfb.ca/hothouse, this year’s Hothouse includes a regular behind-the-scenes podcast series beginning in mid-March and films from Hothouse. Now in its fourth edition,… |
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Incredible reading and photos!
Showing just how traditional hand-drawn cartooning can contain more life and energy than the now ultra-popular CG approach, the French {{link http://www.theincredibles.free.fr/ Incredibles Fansite}} features large-scale looks at The Art… |
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Walt's Dreaming Tree – grow your own!
Ken Roberts, Marketing Director of {{link http://www.historictrees.org American Forests’ Historic Tree Nursery}} has written in to let us know that “Walt (and Roy) Disney’s beloved Dreaming Tree is still standing… |
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Northeastern University to host Visual Music Marathon
…effort between Northeastern’s Department of Music and the Multimedia Studies Program. For more information, please visit www.music.neu.edu/vmm. For a preview of works to be shown at the event, visit www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html…. |
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The return of Puppetoons
…film pioneer George Pal. Now, prepare for the second volume of these amazing Pal creations, coming soon in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack! Producer Arnold Leibovit (The Fantasy Film Worlds of… |
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Tron: then and now…
…Professional Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics, serving the Los Angeles area. Organized and operating exclusively for educational and scientific purposes relating to… |
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Animex Student Animation Awards last call for entries
From visual effects to architectural visualisation, computer games art to 3d computer animation, the {{link http://www.animex.net/awards Animex Student Animation Awards}} once again invites students from around the world to submit… |
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Mainframe Animation develops ties with Tony Hawk
{{link http://www.mainframe.ca/mainframe/ Mainframe Entertainment}}, the Canadian animation company responsible for some of the most prolific CG television animation of recent years, including Re-Boot and the Barbie video movies, is developing… |
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CINEME 2004 shedule
The {{link http://www.cineme.org/ CINEME International Animation Festival}}, held each year in Chicago, is gearing up for this year’s event, to be held September 24-26, 2004. Guests from Weta, Cartoon Network,… |
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\\Shrek 3\\ and \\Shark Tale 2\\ already in the works
\\Variety\\ reports (via {{link http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3133 ComingSoon.net}}) that DreamWorks is already fast-tracking production of \\Shrek 3\\ and \\Shark Tale 2\\, months before the first \\Shrek\\ sequel is released and more than… |
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Academy event to honor 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast
…ID, and may be purchased online at www.oscars.org. The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org…. |
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Winners Announced for FJORG! Animation Contest Sponsored by DreamWorks Animation
SIGGRAPH 2007 officials, along with DreamWorks Animation, HP, and AMD, just announced the winners of the world’s first international FJORG! Competition – an “iron animator” event in which 16 competing… |
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The Disney Board answers Roy Disney's Save Disney email
…this attack, which comes at a time when your company is achieving very positive results. We, as the continuing directors of the company, want to provide you with some perspective… |
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Become an animated judge in the Animex Student Animation Awards
…animation or computer games to take part in this unique scheme.” If you would like to take part in the Audience Award then visit www.animex.net/audience and vote for your favourite… |
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Steamboy steams onto international screens
…at the Venice Film Festival, where it will close the event. For more information, trailers, clips, and a link to the US Sony Pictures site, check out {{link http://www.ultimatedvd.org/en/trailers/Details.aspx?Trailer_Id=-890448521 UltimateDVD}}…. |
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Have a question for Cindy and Don Hewitt?
{{link http://www.nausicaa.net Nausicaa.net}} will be interviewing Cindy and Don Hewitt, “the duo behind the English adaptations of \\Spirited Away\\, \\Porco Rosso\\, and \\Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind\\ (among others)”…. |
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Three Miyazaki films on TV
{{link http://www.nausicaa.net/index.shtml Nausicaa.net}} notes that 3 Hayao Miyazaki films will be airing on cable TV during the next few weeks. \\Only Yesterday\\ and \\Pom Poko\\ will be broadcast on Turner… |
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Up
…the time has come to start that adventure by getting himself and his beloved home away from it all. However, a stow-away, a rare bird, and a fallen hero make… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…so. Not only is time a continuing pressure in picking what to watch and when, but a lack of really striking new concepts and titles that truly jump out amongst… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…past weekend of Sam Raimi’s third Spider-Man picture. Though I’ll go light on anything really spoilerific, those who want to come to this big, awkward – but fun – splashy… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…(1980), Oliver & Company (1988), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Emperor’s New Groove (2000). For his directorial debut, Allers co-directed The Lion… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…replaced by lower grade color comedy versions, while the emphasis was on bringing newer comic book characters – most notably Casper The Friendly Ghost – to the screen. But Paramount… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…an inside joke.’ I would say the comedy just tends to come from just a personal point of view or experience. For instance, when it comes to the princesses in… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…on the Archie Comics brands. But Fred Ladd’s Oz picture never went away, even though the company was the victim of their own success and time could never be found… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…to make life easier, but end up making it more complicated than expected. In SuperGeorge, a Thinko machine makes the Jetsons wishes come true, including turning George into a superhero…. |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…disappearances. Disc Two Assault On QuestWorld – Surd launches a strike against the Quest compound while Dr. Quest and Race are away. The second part of his attack involves QuestWorld…. |
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Bolt
…is sheer class, Chris Sanders’ watercolor-preferred styled backgrounds somewhat retained with a computer generated painterly approach. It mostly works but can also come over as not being one thing or… |
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A tribute to Hayao Miyazaki by John Lasseter
Anime News Network reports that Hayao Miyazaki, the director of the Academy award winning film Spirited Away, will appear at the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and… |
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Shrek the Third
…while making more money. Reason number 1 is obviously the more common of the two. This explains the general rule that sequels are never as good or better than the… |
