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The Wild
…animated films such as Chicken Little, itself the supposed reason as to why Valiant’s marketing was so botched. Then, in late 2006, Mouse and Lamp were united again – this… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…a full-on pitch of a “little kids” movie. Bob went, “Eh, not really interested in that.” We thought, “Oh, okay. All right.” So we thought out a completely different storyline,… |
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Meet the flockers: the Animated-News Valiant review
…happy to look for their CGI fixes elsewhere. The studio’s own Chicken Little marks the first foray into the totally computer animated realm for them, after years of “tradigital” films… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…and still photos and wanted to use my eyes and facial expressions to help draw animations on little Bambi. So, he called my mother in Westwood, California….near UCLA, and told… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…stop-motion animation, using hundreds of little carved wooden puppets in a single film. The extraordinary result is still thrilling to see, even now, with the wooden characters dancing, swinging, and… |
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The Smurfs, Vol. 1: True Blue Friends
…a little kid at some point in the eighties, odds are that you watched this popular show at some point. Some people watched it because of the cute characters and… |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…where the movie is going to be filmed, guerrilla style, from secretly placed cameras. However, little known to the group, including rapper Alpa Chino (an absurd gag name that is… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…hit Batman show, looking a little pudgier and a little sillier in the tights. And Ward is even less convincing at this point in playing a teenage boy! Their casting… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…efforts, I was hoping for much more from the Test Flight Of Air Penguin game, which I found to be little more than the usual fare. Again, even HD can’t… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…similar to what we saw in the last set, while the shorter stories are naturally a little simpler. Anyone who has ever seen the Clayton Moore television series of the… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs
…her friends and co-workers. She also enjoys making little t-shirts for her guinea pig, Tobi. Bobby Chiu’s art career started at the age of two with a box of crayons… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…came with the animation and related categories. Trumping Disney’s strong contender The Little Matchgirl and Pixar’s Lifted was Torill Kove’s The Danish Poet, a nice little film with a very… |
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Avengers: Endgame
…create their own expectations for what they think the movie will be, and if you go in wanting another non-stop roller coaster like Infinity War, you might be a little… |
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Captain America: Civil War
…all that interesting or necessary. One can’t help but think that it’s a little weird he goes from being in love with Peggy Carter during World War II to sharing… |
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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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Hunting for treasure "under the sea" of rumor
A recent Animated News article on the rumored cancellation of The Little Mermaid III has sparked debate amongst readers and a handful of e-mails supporting a counter-claim. One e-mail in… |
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Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Aladdin was also produced by the same team that had turned The Little Mermaid into such a successful project for Disney,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…Oz picture eventually became. Once again the festivities are largely – and more obviously – scripted, and Walt cheats a little here by being matted in on some shots (probably… |
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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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Animated News takes a look at Dreamer…
…early 90s, Dreamer shows how, when more-or-less ignored by the Disney company “suits,” these talented artists were able to craft the “Fab Four” masterpieces – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…a little less of the constant Disney-bashing that often permeates Ralph’s remarks (though it’s still there, from himself and other contributors), and he remains sprightly and outspoken even in his… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…Linda, quirky little brother Aaron, their squishy pug, Monchi, and two friendly, but simple-minded robots to save humanity. Produced by Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and Kurt Albrecht,… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…a little bit, because they take a percentage. AV: I have a question about Jasper. Despite him having appeared in around half of the Puppetoons, there wasn’t much of him… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…the wilderness— Steve Bierly. Bierly is a pastor by occupation, so I cannot help being obvious in stating that his book comes off a little like preaching. He wrote the… |
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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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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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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…and Jungle Cubs did little for me other than to tarnish the reputation of the film that “inspired” them, and as for the knock offs to the recent features, such… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
…necessary. This is apparent when the majority of the supporting cast has pretty much been pushed to the background with very little screen time for each. And while Grimmel actually… |
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Elstree 1976
…titled a little more snappily as Elstree ’76, which promised to delve into the stories and experiences of those actors, bit-part players and extras that remained largely hidden under latex… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…hair. KP: Very early on, I was discussing with Production Designer Kyle McQueen about our visual point of view. Imagine you’re a little lower to the ground, a little closer… |
