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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…a story supervisor on the film. He did production design on the Academy Award-nominated short film, One Man Band, story work on the Oscar-winning, Ratatouille, and was the Head of… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…couple of weeks ago before reportedly going wider in March 2007. With five spots in this year’s Oscar race for Best Animated Feature, maybe the Academy will save one for… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…efforts was an Oscar nomination, and three popular hits. From A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes to Bibbidy-Bobbidy-Boo, the songs are eminently hum-able and have become quintessential Disney… |
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Whisper Of The Heart
…one was undoubtedly Whisper Of The Heart. While Howl’s Moving Castle was nominated for an Oscar, and My Neighbor Totoro had a previous successful home video release from Fox and… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…it just doesn’t feel like a Peanuts cartoon if it has music that isn’t dominated by nifty piano jazz. (Even though the music was Oscar nominated.) And, it would have… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…this featurette win the Oscar that year. Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too brings the spotlight onto Tigger, whose bouncing is driving Rabbit crazy. Rabbit convinces the others that Tigger… |
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Looking ahead to the long weekend
…me, not to mention the upcoming BluRay releases of Surf’s Up (which will also include ChubbChubbs shorts, including the original Oscar-winning one), the partially-animated Spider-Man Trilogy, and the Spielberg classic… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three
…Chinaman gag near the end of it. I could see how the African and African American caricaturing in the Oscar-nominated Tea For Two Hundred could be a problem for some,… |
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Tinker Bell
…Kathy Najimy and even Oscar winner Angelica Huston (sounding surprisingly elegant as Queen Clarion). Final Cut: This is just the type of film that the male adult animation fan would… |
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Rumors abound for Disney, Fox projects
…score by Oscar-winning composer James Horner. In other animation stories, Wikipedia offers its take on some future films from Disney. One of those films, as it turns out, is not… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…Pooh and Tigger Too. Following this, he worked on storyboards and title designs for The Rescuers and The Fox and the Hound, before directing the Oscar-nominated Mickey’s Christmas Carol in… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…as a bonus feature on The Little Mermaid Platinum Edition DVD. It would later garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short. Days before this year’s Oscar ceremony took… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…Now having a strong desire to create more blockbusters and more Oscar nominees, management descended upon the artists in an effort to “streamline” production, calculate a formula for success, and… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…think there are less blockbusters these days. I think they are starting to understand maybe all that good cash for bad isn’t worth their while. And obviously at Oscar time… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…energy, passion, emotion… and a great sense of swing! That’s where we reach the unexpected in his score for the Oscar-winning Ratatouille. No Frenchy muzak in here. Just an incredible… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…than one of the greatest storytellers and animation artists. So, I went to Jan Pinkava, who happens to be that great artist, just before the Oscar ceremony for which he… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…Little Toaster, and FernGully; The Last Rainforest, and created the original story for the Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse cartoon, Runaway Brain. I was also the editor for Roy E. Disney and… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…storyboards before the movie is made and then shot a frame a time like traditional animation. RI: Do you think the Best Animated Feature Oscar category does more good or… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…produced being attributed to them. A little digging on the IMDB revealed that this 1949 Chuck Jones cartoon actually won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short! The second film, a… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…– and Oscar winning – performance, or Dick Van Dyke’s hysterically so-bad-it’s-all-part-of-the-fun “Cock-er-nee” English accent, nor even about the protracted history behind the book to screen adaptation. Yes, the film… |
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Mulan II
…of Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated, epic original, but it pushes all the right emotional buttons, especially considering that, due to the nature of such projects, he is unable to use melodies from… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…Osborne’s movie makes it three-for-three in this year’s Oscar worthy run of releases from the majors, easily standing shoulder to shoulder alongside Pixar’s WALL-E and Blue Sky’s Horton Hears A… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…Beery had been a star for over ten years before appearing in The Lost World, and would go on to famously win the Best Actor Oscar for The Champ (1931,… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Oscar time. The Studio artists’ animation is uniformly excellent, apart from the occasional character, and again for such a bustling, crowded film there were not many people on the streets…a… |
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Ratatouille
…For all the toying with gravity, it lacks weight, no pun intended, which could well have contributed to the lack of an Oscar win earlier this year. Long-time Pixar sound… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…small nitpick and again, this wasn’t ever intended to be an Oscar nominee and the movie has a lot of fun getting more right than wrong: a sequence working through… |
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Awards, Neverland's composers, and a 2-disc for the Rat!?
…both. It can only be a matter of time before director Brad Bird adds the ultimate golden statuette – the Oscar, of course – to his growing collection of accolades… |
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Meet Madame Tutli-Putli and one of her directors!
We’ve a great way to end Oscar week, with Jeremie’s latest interview. Today he’s speaking with Marciek Szczerbowski, the co-director of Madame Tutli-Putli, nominated for a Best Animated Short at… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…the stories behind his stories (he’s confirmed to be a Jonathan Swift reader, which explains a bit), including a glimpse at the controversial 1945 Oscar-winning documentary short Hitler Lives, which… |
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Yogi! New announcements! And tons of Pinocchio clips!
…All three of these titles came out from Warners last fall, with Yogi catching up to complete our coverage of that batch! We’ve some new announcements for ya: the Oscar-sweeping… |
