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Character Animation Panel Discussion
…(Stop Motion Animation) Dave Barclay, Perform FX (Puppet Capture Technology) Michelle Papandrew, Cartoon Network (Flash Animation) Ken McDonald, Sony Pictures Imageworks, (Motion Capture) Saturday, January 19th, 2008 11am – 1pm… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…look at the story. The events of the first movie are first shown in a delightful shadow puppet sequence performed by Mowgli. He shows the people of his new village… |
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Shrek the Third fun facts
…– is the voice of the Puppet Master (one of the villains hanging out at the Poison Apple Bar) in Shrek the Third. •Producer Aron Warner voiced the Wolf in… |
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Animation at the 2007 NBFF
…in prior years to show a third installment of her Handmade Puppet Dreams series. The eighth annual Newport Beach Film Festival will run from April 19th through April 29th, 2007…. |
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Restoring Rankin/Bass' Rudolph and Santa
…puppets will be displayed at the Center for Puppetry Arts, in Atlanta, Georgia, until January 13. In the meantime, one can catch a unique glimpse of the figures’ noted restoration… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
…Lisa Henson and Scott Stewart, and conceptual designer Brian Froud. The film, incorporating puppet characters with computer animated backgrounds, was previewed with artwork of characters Jen and Kira, new creatures,… |
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Loads of Christmas DVDs
…Shiny New Year. Frosty’s Winter Wonderland/’Twas the Night Before Christmas DVD: | Amazon | Barnes and Noble Jack Frost: An Animated Puppet Christmas Adventure | Amazon | Barnes and Noble… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…sounds like a cartoon show, but it wasn’t). It was a sad day for supporters of the classic adventure series, kids’ puppet shows, and programs with live hosts, but it… |
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Nick gets Insanely Twisted
Michel Gagne has announced at his art site that his online fan favorite Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppet will be appearing on Nickelodeon this Halloween season as eleven short pieces…. |
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Dont forget! The Muppets' Wizard Of OZ premieres tonight!
…another little green puppet and join Kermit and co in the debut of their latest, hitting TV screens just as the last chapter of the space saga opens. The Muppets’… |
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Mirrormask Trailer
…enormous power. The movie uses a mix of live action, stop motion, CG and puppet animation to create its unique visuals. A trailer is available at the official web site…. |
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Ollie the Otter and Sprung! The Magic Roundabout updates
…feature Sprung! The Magic Roundabout. In post-production and set to be completed in January, Sprung! The Magic Roundabout is based on the vintage U.K. puppet TV series of the same… |
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Shrek headed to Broadway
Oscar- and Tony-winning director Sam Mendes is teaming up with DreamWorks Animation and one of the masterminds behind the puppet-powered hit production Avenue Q to bring Shrek–The Musical to Broadway…. |
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Team America Gets an 'R'
…violent images & strong language; all involving puppets”. Apparently, scenes of graphic puppet sex had to be cut from the film to ensure it the R, which is part of… |
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Team America Creators Interview
In Focus has a hilarious interview with the geniuses behind this upcoming puppet action movie: South Park masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone…. |
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Team America is go!
…Parker’s new ‘super-marionette’ musical movie {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040810b.php Team America}}, where the boys reveal their Thunderbirds influences and the tricky act of juggling South Park and making an action puppet blockbuster!… |
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Academy Award-nominated director awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
…portrait of someone so in need of a companion that he takes material from his own clay puppet body to create a friend in his own image. The story is… |
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The new live-action Thunderbirds – a "Thunder-bomb"?
…least the acting, which is either over-hammy or more wooden than the original puppet version!” Another source adds: “They’ve tried to give it a 60s retro look, but it looks… |
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A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films
…entertain the other residents with their mischievous acts; getting drunk, practical jokes, escaping from the home and naked puppet shows. Despite these high jinks, Harvie’s condition worsens and he falls… |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…getting paid for it obviously. As a kid, I was always making either puppet shows or movies of my own or with friends of mine, cartoons, comic strips… I just… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…from a simple puppet to something that attempts to add more movement into his face but comes out looking too overcomplicated, bulky and not as consistent. The Turtles are altered… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…(1933) turns out to be something quite spooky: a stop-motion puppet short by Len Lye that isn’t quite, as the packaging notes, “unintentionally terrifying”, though still pretty peculiar all the… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…very robotic, puppet-like, mannequin-like, but not like real flesh-and-blood people. And you also loose the ability to bring out that emotion in the characters again. So we just really wanted… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…features interviews with Bronwen Kyffin (animator), Melissa Nicoll (Puppets Department Head), Aaron Woodley (Animator), Lynda Craigmyle, Brenda Baumgarter (Puppet Builder), Samara McAdam (Wardrobe), Rob White and Allan Meuse (Set Department),… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…per se. Beowulf’s main difficulty in being in any way believable is that, for the most part, it tries to make a CGI puppet version of Anthony Hopkins look like… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…monkey magic could all be traced back to what he had learned from the first feature film to bring dinosaurs to life using puppet animation: 1925’s special effects filled The… |
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TMNT
…amazing animatronic puppet wizardry of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, though the second film, The Secret Of The Ooze was a tired re-tread. I think Mad Magazine’s spoof title The Secret… |
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Almost in Paris; Kammerud Komes Klean; and a Merry Christmas to all!
…(another) tease for the Disney Paris feature, I’ll leave you with this photograph of the actual life size puppet rendering of Pinocchio that the animators used to assist them in… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…Me knock off, with its big band jazz being very out of place in the final film. More fun is an original shadow puppet opening that sets up not only… |
