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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition

…with Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius by Paramount/Nickelodeon. If Ice Age is any indication of the future of animation, we can bet on more successful collaborations between Fox and Blue Sky…

Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees

…documentary is a great recap of animation’s Golden Age in general, wrapping itself up around the birth of UPA’s changing the face of animation, the end of the original Studio…

Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition

…rubber hose type of animation. BG: Yes, it’s quite interesting, of course, for people who love animation, but I had to choose one point of view, and the most efficient,…

Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force

…the changing face of Disney Animation throughout the period of switching from traditional hand-drawn features to CGI, the arrival of John Lasseter, and the outside influence of live-action/animation combination family…

2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…talk about animation so fondly. Legends Talk Animation One of the great pleasures of Comic Con would be some of the programs that honored creators of the past. It’s a…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase

…is also a combination of the principles of classical animation, the principles of romantic comedy and the principles of action-adventure films. How did you manage to mix and, most of

Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane

…their old material and they would send us photocopies of animation material when they could. So, most of the time, we would have copies of them with their model sheets…

Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels

…the business of animation for a good deal of its history. In the last twenty years, the so-called “digital revolution” has brought sweeping changes to animation, or at least that…

A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero

animation into achieving the squash and stretch method that had been tried and true with traditional animation, while PDI added polish and enhanced some of the more realistic aspects of

A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!

…The Prince of Egypt was the first hand-drawn animated feature from DreamWorks Animation. Adapted from the Book of Exodus, it was a retelling of the story of Moses. The film…

AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.

…date, so they did all of the animation over a crazy course of 13 months, or 18 months, which is absolutely nuts for a movie of this scale, especially in…

Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow

…an animatic of scene 2 of the film. It was very full 2D animation and it was just beautiful. I was like –hearing the song with this animation, this is…

D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive

of Mickey: The Story of a Mouse As Walt Disney himself would often say, “It all started with a mouse.” The unparalleled success of Mickey Mouse following the release of

The Flintstones: The Complete Series

…Digital Mono, Not Rated (nothing offensive), Retail: $129.98 Storyboard: Flintstones, meet the Flintstones – they’re the modern stone-age family! From the town of Bedrock, they’re a page right out of

2006: A Year In Review

…growing presence of foreign films in the American market, as well as the rising number of foreign studios investing in animation. Many of the major animation studios from around the…

How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!

animation, we talked about and looked at animation drawings of the classic films, a lot of Chuck Jones drawings from Looney Tunes, saying “that type of animation would fit with…

Big Hero 6

…to be a notable omission from its line-up. Over at Warners and MGM during the golden age of animation, such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and even Tom &…

Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!

…tablets in place of traditional animation discs and drawing in programs like TVP Animation, which has the ability to simulate the texture of pencil and watercolors, or ToonBoom Harmony? Are…

From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting

…Disney CEO Robert Iger named Pixar leader John Lasseter as the Chief Creative Officer of Feature Animation, which Lasseter renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios. Believing direct-to-video sequels were harming the…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One

…mega-box set Golden Age Of Looney Tunes collections rest assured – these toons would only fill half of one of those tomes, so there is still a huge amount that…

David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career

…ones of Ice Age 2 to the ones of Madagascar 2and Kung Fu Panda. How did you approach that kind of animation? DC: We made trips to the zoo, watched…

Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty

…horror” of a Disney Animation apocalypse. A fix of sorts comes with the introduction of Schneider, who revolutionizes the thinking process and gets everybody excited about animation again, leading to…

DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter

…the unit. A big name in the animation industry, the award-winning Director of Animation and Story Artist began his 15-year career in film and animation as a graduate of the…

\\Wallace & Gromit\\ leads 2005 Annie Award nominations

…Walt Disney Feature Animation Jason Wen – “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” – Aardman Features Martin Usiak – “Madagascar” – DreamWorks Animation Character Animation Claire Billett –…

Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty

…are at the dawn of a new golden age of animation? DH: Yes. It’s a really good time for animation, right now. Even if you look broader, beyond the walls…

Were-Rabbit hops away with ten Annies

…art and industry of animation. Mark Kausler Winsor McCay Award – Recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation. Cornelius Cole Fred Crippen Tyrus Wong Ub Iwerks…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five

…controlled, meaning that many of these cartoons are built around songs and sequences from the WB musicals of the 1930s, and some of these shorts even predate the introduction of

The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi

Animation Festival (Canada), Elektra: International Digital Arts Festival (Canada), Anima Mundi (Brazil), Fredrikstad Animation Festival (Norway), Projector Festival (Scotland), Platform International Animation Festival (Portland), Los Angeles Times Festival of Books,…

Disney announces ten animated films through 2012

of new animated features includes six new films from Pixar Animation Studios, four from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and the first four in a series of direct-to-DVD films featuring Disney…

2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive

…to check out live demonstrations of traditional animation, digital animation, painting, and more from some of the top artists in the industry. A unique feature at the convention was the…