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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…regular Oscars, but also help promote it on the radio and in the singles chart at the same time. Thus Katzenberg lined up a still impressive number of musical talents… |
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Gollum creator Letteri talks evolution of computer animation
With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug now in theatres, Joe Letteri, the Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, writes for the journal Nature about the evolution of computer animation…. |
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Now Playing: The World’s End and more
…glut of those already. Fun, but disappointing. The highlight once again is Chloe Grace Moretz, who will have an Oscar for something within the decade. August 16, 2013 / 103… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…handful of other oversights, too: a resume for Menken doesn’t mention his other Oscar-winning work for Disney past Aladdin‘s 1992 release, and a rundown of other pre-Disney versions of the… |
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Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 now available for a reduced price at Amazon.com and Puppetoon.net
The acclaimed second volume of restored Technicolor George Pal Oscar-winning Puppetoons are available now at reduced prices on both Amazon and Puppetoon.net. Perfect for holiday gift-giving, this high-definition Blu-ray and… |
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John Kahrs of Paperman leaves Disney
In an astounding move, John Kahrs, director of the Oscar-winning animated short Paperman, is set to leave Disney. An unofficial resignation came from a post on the Disney Animators Twitter… |
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John Kahrs explains why he left Disney
Anyone would think John Kahrs was crazy for leaving Disney after his Paperman short won the Oscar, thus abandoning a promising career. Kahrs offers us curious fans a statement about… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…some beating to that Best Animated Feature Oscar, though that it’s a sequel may curb its chances against Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron, the “last” film from the critical… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…an iPhone app. We have a long-running Oscar contest that has given away over $1,000 in prizes over the years. Our forum, also turning ten this year, has been the… |
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Snowman and the Snowdog nominated for Children’s BAFTA
…its Oscar-nominated predecessor, The Snowman, which won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Children’s Programme in 1983. For its own BAFTA, The Snowman and the Snowdog will face The Amazing… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…Zootopia won over the just as adored traditional musical Moana, taking the major Best Animated Feature prizes at the Golden Globes, Annies and Oscars, the only notable standout against that… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…of 2021 were. So please allow us — if we May (!) — to proceed with our own version of the Oscars — only with a lot less slapping! For… |
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The Academy speculates about special effects and animation
…would change their rigid constraints on what qualifies for an animated film in his editorial, “Oscars: With Films Like Gravity, Where Does Animation Branch Draw the Line?” Debruge points out… |
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Criterion Collection edition of Fantastic Mr. Fox on the way
The Criterion Collection will be releasing a special deluxe edition of Wes Anderson’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated comedy Fantastic Mr. Fox on Blu-Ray and DVD, Blu-Ray.Com is reporting. Among the all-new… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
Ten years ago, Brother Bear, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 44th feature, entered theaters nationwide. Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature, the traditionally animated film grossed more than $250 million worldwide, becoming… |
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Saving Mr Banks
…I didn’t think they truly inhabit their characters apart from two or three moments each, and the film may have too light a touch to really win over Oscar voters… |
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Paperman director goes to Paramount’s Shedd
Variety reports that Oscar winner John Kahrs, of Paperman fame, has been chosen to direct Paramount Pictures’ Shedd. “Tripper Clancy is writing the script, which is based on an original… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Oscar, a low-level fish who dreamed of living the high-life. But when he would be falsely identified as a sharkslayer, the fame would go to his head and his little… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…One of the songs he arranged and orchestrated for Moana, “How Far I’ll go” was recently nominated for an Oscar. For Animated Views, he kindly accepted to talk about the… |
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Finding Dory
…the poor man an Oscar already? Maybe not for this film, but c’mon! With thirteen nominations and zero wins he is the third most nominated living person to have never… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…Its soundtrack was arguably an even bigger home run for them, with the chart-topping Can’t Stop the Feeling! even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Trolls may have… |
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Teaser trailer for Disney’s Wish
…Tudyk as Asha’s favorite goat, Valentino, the film is helmed by Oscar-winning director Chris Buck (Frozen, Frozen 2) and Fawn Veerasunthorn (Raya and the Last Dragon), produced by Peter Del… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…all manner of photos, from film sets, to movie marquees, to behind-the-scenes shots from the films, to Pal posing with his Oscar, Robert Wise, and Ray Harryhausen. Reminiscing With Puppetoon… |
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Peek behind scenes of Pacific Rim, Star Trek, Lone Ranger with ILM
Over the past two weeks (and probably in anticipation of the recent end of Oscar nomination voting) the Industrial Light & Magic YouTube channel has posted almost 30 minutes worth… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild (Searchlight), Maniac (Netflix), Good Doctor (ABC), Beasts Of No Nation (Netflix), Atypical (Netflix), Skin (A24), Station Eleven (HBO Max), and the Emmy award-winning series… |
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Anomalisa
…can easily see the various reasons as to why the film was Oscar-nominated. Anomalisa is recommended for when in the right frame of mind, although probably not for when one… |
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Watch the trippy new trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…with The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The much-anticipated sequel arrives this June. Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting… |
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Smallfoot
…flipped again. The animation here is beautiful, the music Oscar-worthy, and the twist (while not completely unforeseen by the audience) so well down in-story to make you doubt everything you… |
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The Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken trailer makes a big splash
…fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom (Oscar® nominee Toni Collette, Knives Out), has forbade Ruby from ever getting… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…feelings for each other. BOTTOM LINE: Vivo may not be an Oscar contender, but it is entertaining and made with care — far beyond the assembly line animated fare studios… |
