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JoJo balloon to debut in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
…long, 32 feet wide, and 63 feet high, the attraction will be the first-ever animated giant helium balloon, as one of JoJo’s three juggling balls will be a separate balloon… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…sound effects for when characters walked or ran, their feet treading the computer landscape like Pac-Man eating up his points. In Legacy there’s none of that, which means feet clunk… |
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Wolverine Anime
…here. Logan is also younger, and much leaner and taller; his comic book counterpart is a squat, middle-aged (in appearance) guy only a little over five feet tall (though certainly… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…a variety of real animals for me. There’s different kinds of feet and, you know, claws, exploration of a wide variety of characters that we explored. You start looking in… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…to singing “Happy Birthday” to her brother at the end. Yet it was still a delightful presentation as it explored the process of creating a new gaming system almost from… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…but he was like fighting the dragon. It was just a gorgeous, gorgeous drawing. So, happy to get that. AN: Did you ever know Milt Kahl? AD: I knew him… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…get the film made. Generally, they are very happy to accommodate you after the film is done. It was very hard to get the film made. Everyone said, why don’t… |
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Mickey And The Roadster Racers
…a sort of “sub series,” Minnie and Daisy run their own private business (called “The Happy Helpers”) in which they help their patrons with tasks which range from something as… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…never seen that drawing. But he was like fighting the dragon. It was just a gorgeous, gorgeous drawing. So, happy to get that. AV: Did you ever know Milt Kahl?… |
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Oscar nominations announced
…Broom BEST ORIGINAL SONG – Alone Yet Not Alone from Alone Yet Not Alone – Happy from Despicable Me 2 – Let it Go from Frozen – The Moon Song… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…you‘ve seen Adventure Time blown up to almost eight feet! The opening is dizzying.) With Blu-ray, the colors can be just that much brighter, and better yet a proper transfer… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…management wanted to make the animation building suites for production deals for live-action, and they weren’t happy about it. As for myself, I was so happy to be there. I… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…made from the same model. Smurfette has her own model. Her head shape is rounder than that of the boys. She has a smaller nose, smaller hands and feet. Peyo… |
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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…concerts worldwide. The concert was stupendous, to say the least. Everyone was on their feet rocking out to the bangers LiSA and her band performed. And while all the songs… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…to be released by Paramount. American audiences get introduced to Jim Dandy, a happy-go-lucky fellow who falls in love with a rancher’s daughter but gets framed by horse thieves. Another… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…earlier selection from Pluto’s career yields some odd choices. While the Treasures have been good so far in holding off on repeating material between sets, The Complete Pluto seems happy… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…of all the characters around the same action. My favorite shot in terms of result was either that very one, which I was quite happy with in the end, or… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…Lasseter’s disliking of the material (it wouldn’t then be seen as “a Disney picture”) and managing to keep the movie alive (and Elton John happy). A new director was sought,… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…initially unhappy with their giving the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale a happy ending and it bothered Clements enough that he apologized to the Queen for it. The Queen laughed… |
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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…the wrong time, Sneezy is a hardworking and loyal friend…in between sneezes! • A fat, roly-poly little fellow, Happy is easily recognized with a perpetual smile and his bright, cheery… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…on Oscar night, little did the world know that the happy, brotherly image that they had portrayed – and would continue to shape – over the years was a fabricated… |
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McDonald’s Gundam Toys, Go!
McDonald’s makes mecha history by giving away Gundam toys in their Happy Meals…but only in Japan where they are called Happy Sets. Anime News Network has the basic rundown. The… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…by them that I was hired, I just screamed over the phone because I was so happy and excited and just shocked, and then I immediately started crying because it… |
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Bedtime Stories
…really cool, and more along the lines of what the similar Inkheart sounds like it could be – with Bedtime Stories more happy to settle for vague ideas rather than… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…Andrew. We would look at it and then Andrew would click the animation until he was completely happy with it. Once he was happy, we’d go to a guy named… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…story might have been too personal. But it seems as though it’s relevant to a larger audience. We’re so fortunate for that. WJ: And happy. BO: Very happy. WJ: But… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…in any of them. That was a difficult period. But fortunately, at the end of it all, I was able to put back the original intention. So, that’s a happy… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…Through the Looking Glass is wrapping up its theatrical run and will be on Blu-ray in a few months. Happy Happy Joy Joy There was a packed room of… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…created the first MGM cartoons under the Happy Harmonies banner, and dozens of these were collected into the LaserDisc set MGM Cartoon Classics: Happy Harmonies, along with a few cartoons… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…Happy Days Gang (1980, with a time travel twist), Laverne And Shirley (1981) and Mork And Mindy (1982; did you forget that Mork first appeared on Happy Days?). The Gary… |