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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…how you felt being assigned to Cars 2? Victor Navone: It was 6 years ago that I worked on the first Cars, so my memory of that is a little… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
…to, but that was all. I had to relocate from Bristol to Culver City with about 16 other Aardman staff so we brought a little bit of the Aardman community… |
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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…his letter “from all of us.” One can see why Santa was a little put off, though one does wonder what he really had to gain by essentially providing evidence… |
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Real Steel
…of the production, speaking almost non-stop about his experiences on the film. In the video sections, he becomes much more lively again – maybe he’s just a little nervous at… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…really small guy, about 5’2″, but he was a lion of the industry. He gave his whole life to storytelling. So I wrote this little parable about him. Then Brandon… |
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Justice League: Doom
…be recognized by anyone who read the John Ostrander Martian Manhunter comic years ago. Therein lies an issue with this movie: Too many characters, with too little explanation of who… |
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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…Matthew Lillard?) The Vampires Dance is a show stopping ditty that seems a little too smooth to suit its purpose (and is quite reminiscent of a song sung by the… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest : Season One, Volume Two
…bring a little exposure to unique settings. It’s too bad that the animation can’t quite keep up, being from a hodgepodge of animation studios from around the world, which often… |
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Iron Man Anime
…little impressed with this fast-moving, battle-filled story that still manages to humanize Tony Stark just about as well as the films. At times I felt a little un-involved from all… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…of a grown up movie and Stanton didn’t want to scare the little kids that came to those previous films? Okay…I can see that, even if I think it would… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…we are.” It’s a little more metaphoric, a little less direct. So, this is some of the things we talked about when I was writing the song. AV: What relationship… |
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The Heathcliff And Dingbat Show
…itself. He has a little of Bugs Bunny in him, in the manner in which he engages his opponents, though Heathcliff (unlike Bugs) tends to be the instigator of any… |
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The Halloween Tree
…to spend out a little more on them at the time, and The Halloween Tree certainly benefits from a lavish treatment (although this is its first time on disc, it… |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
…animation. After that, I went on doing some CG. I worked a little bit on Monsters Vs. Aliens for like two months. Then I moved to Shrek 4 – I… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…little trickier because you have to build unique puppets for each expression, as opposed to drawing them. So we had to pick our spots and be inventive, and we love… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…not be lost on those who know their Wizard Of Oz well. There are other brilliant little touches, too, like the Shady Oaks assistant’s shirt label sticking out at the… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Bob McKimson’s legendary Termite Terrace output (the WB animation unit had been trying to push new Looney Tunes cartoons to theaters with little support from… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…course, would later be in the receiving end of the same kind of treatment, when his Chicken Little went through several reiterations, to less successful results.) If anything, Groove’s visual… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #40: Robin Hood – Cheap Quotable Thrills
…funny Disney films. • Voice acting filled with Disney veterans (read Blake’s opinion piece about Robin Hood’s voice actors); Accents = proper English and backwood rednecks. • A little history… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…fight for Earth’s survival. The Sweatbox Review: This is going to be a little complicated… Robotech was an American television series produced by Harmony Gold in the mid-1980s, utilizing animation… |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
The world’s most beloved little blue creatures embark on a new spooky adventure this fall! The Smurfs: The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow is an all-new animated mini-movie from Sony Pictures… |
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Scooby-Doo: Stage Fright
…is the first time that the idea has been explored. It’s a little bizarre that they would bother with that particular storyline, and it certainly makes it difficult to imagine… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…highly unsatisfactory. We had never seen a photo of Bill Levy, there was little that we knew about George Kamen’s career, and the overall picture simply was not there. Then,… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…seen so far from Monsters University. It’s a nice little exchange, actually, leaving the feature pictures to have basically been Andy’s story, and for these extensions (they don’t quite seem… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…ratings. What was a little surprising, though, was that the special actually wasn’t half-bad. It wasn’t quite “memorable,” and certainly didn’t break any new ground, but it was a reasonably… |
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More Cartoons For Victory!
…Bäumlein, Das Andere Blätter Hat Gewollt (or, The Little Tree That Wished For Different Leaves) from 1940. Based on a poem, it tells the tale of a tree that wishes… |
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Strange Magic
…throwback success of star Ron Howard in television’s Happy Days and the movie smash Grease. Lucas also had a hit around this time, of course, with a little movie called… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #99: Minions – It is what it is, Just go with it!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! We go back to the dawn of time to the inception of everyone’s favorite little yellow henchmen with a review of Illumination Entertainment’s 2015 film… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…to go over each one, even briefly. Many stories stand out, however, for various reasons. I liked the concept of miniature versions of Finn’s friends in All The Little People,… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…film is a “hilarious mash up of Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, and more!”, those children’s story icons only show up for frankly confusingly random cameos. Red Riding Hood,… |
