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Strange Magic
…Return To Oz set, respectively. An ongoing dabbling with animation (the stop-motion Twice Upon A Time was an early experiment) resulted in the creation of the unit later sold to… |
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Spirited Away
…old girl finds herself trapped in a fantastical world both terrifying and wondrous. All she needs to do in order to escape and save her parents is to remember her… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…mean what it used to mean. Back in the old days, shows began their seasons in September, ended in the spring, and ran reruns over the summer. For cartoon shows,… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…of the stories told in the program have been told before elsewhere. It did, though, come down to which ones each individual attendee knew. Nevertheless, we loved hearing Lasseter and… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…read in Corinthians 5:17: “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” I was animating that kind… |
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Hotel Transylvania 2
…again until the final act. He’s part of the old guard of monsters who still hate humans and the late entrance makes any potential arc with him automatically have to… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…band of reviewers and news contributors to paint their own pictures of the year, from movie releases, books, music, shows and, yes, those good old DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. So… |
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The Angry Birds Movie
…all we get is a bonus level of the old game. This is a film that is a lot better than you might expect, but feels disappointing because of the… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…for another animation studio. AV: Your program features four of the greatest cartoon music masters ever: Frank Churchill (Three Little Pigs), Leigh Harline (The Old Mill, Music Land), Albert Hay… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick Release Date: May 19, 2006 “That, my friend, is a magical combination of corn flour, dehydrated cheese solids, BHA, BHT, and good old… |
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Anomalisa
…although new experiences and relationships can feel different and exciting at first, at the end of the day the new can quickly become the same-old same-old. And perhaps that’s just… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…That question is worth a book! It has been quite a challenge as well as a satisfaction. When I arrived to Mila, Cinzia had a beautiful old trailer created from… |
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2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive
…Illustrating Tigger kicked off talk about the Nine Old Men, relating to the book Deja had written fairly recently. He noted how the legendary animators had interesting comments about one… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…spades. Official Website:: LegoBatman.com Release Date: February 10th. Rock Dog Studio: Lionsgate Entertainment, Reel FX Storyboard: For the Tibetan Mastiffs living on Snow Mountain, a dog’s life has a… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…that, even less enticingly, the Signature moniker was just the latest name in branding for these films on home video, following years of Classics, Masterpieces, Gold, Platinum and Diamond cycles… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…from a whizz-bang recap of the orginal film’s plot for those that missed it. Told in stills, the visuals here remind of Mary Blair’s concept art for many a Disney… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn
…after another, whether it’s all of them turning old or Buttercup becoming obsessed with killing a lobster. Sure, they still battle a monster or two, and old faces do show… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…key color because of marigold, which are flowers that are very symbolic of the holiday. Marigold orange and magenta are at the core of our color palette. Any color would… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…is an old gothic revival style building, made from bricks and stone; grass and trees are everywhere. It is richer in texture and small details, it looks more organic, imperfect,… |
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The Breadwinner
…material in an evening, immediately seeing the possibilities for a powerful film. Both the book and the film tell the story of Parvana, an eleven-year old girl from Kabul who… |
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Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
…kids. The other half are rabid haters who are upset that the old show they liked better was cancelled. Obviously I’m firmly in the first camp! This version of the… |
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AV is fifteen!
…interesting info on old classics (facts that never made it to the then nascent Wikipedia!), learn about major changes to films you thought you knew since released in the 2000s,… |
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Wonder Park’s heroine June takes center stage in new STEM PSA ad campaign
…PSA follows 12-year-old June as she creates the whimsical, “splendiferous” amusement park, Wonderland, using STEM. The wildly creative June has a maker spirit and excels at engineering, building and math…. |
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Toy Story 4
…lamp belonging to his old flame Bo Peep. But the store is also the home of Gabby Gabby, an old talking doll who is desperate for something he has, and… |
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Finding Santa: A Christmas Adventure
Julias, an eight-year old who was left on the steps of an orphanage as a baby on Christmas Eve, firmly loves the holiday season and believes in Santa Claus. But… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…the older tapes I already had on my shelf!) Besides the cassette itself, inside is an ad for the Disney Movie Club and a code to earn points with Disney… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…Disney was always talking about the ‘plausible impossible.’ And I thought, a 13-year-old girl building a rocket to the moon? I don’t know… But as I was reading it, I… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…Klept “stealing” mentality. SC: It’s an old story told with new cosmetics, new characters. AV: How did you go from the book to the screen? SC: The story is very… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…a household name to the kids of the region. There would usually be skits with a regular cast of characters and cartoons. A big part of their appeal was the… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…and Patrick going to look for Gary after he’s taken; a strange and completely unnecessary trip to an old west town with zombies; Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Sandy, and Plankton going… |
