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Blue Speaks
…February 8, at 8:00 p.m. In the episode, Blue visits a playroom where she is transformed from a cartoon into a puppet who can speak. In an interview with the… |
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Pinocchio Deluxe Edition
…for the Pinocchio puppet, and other conceptual drawings. There’s a look at the animators’ models and model sheets for each character, as well as inspirational paintings and completed backgrounds. The… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…special, also featuring Bergen and his puppet friends Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. For Disney, who was a friend of Bergen’s, this presented a cheap way of keeping animation costs… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…the Wolf film, and it needed to be our version. Learning about stop motion animation process. Working with hyper-real finishes to the set and puppets, which moved all the time… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…with that character? HS: He was a huge puppet, very difficult to muscle around it was almost as if he was trying to push back while you were animating him…. |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…film direction? KL: I think it definitely did. I became a puppeteer when I was 12 years old. I was an apprentice puppeteer with a professional group called The Puppet… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…Barrie come in, who people might know as Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf, and he also had been doing all the puppet voices for Spitting Image in London at the… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Vol. 3 – Hello Mummy
…a bit far-fetched (the puppeteer just happened to have a puppet poodle in his car to fool Scooby?), the idea of the gang solving a counterfeiting ring operation is very… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…I interviewed with a guy doing a show called The Book of Pooh, which was for the Disney Channel. It featured live-action puppetry with virtual sets. I didn’t get the… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…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, and backgrounds…. |
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A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition
…Fleabie Reel is a short film that outlined the idea behind A Bug’s Life for Disney. This is a cute little comedic documentary-styled film that features a small puppet named… |
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Tinker Bell
…a core issue with CGI animation; when a figure isn’t being drawn from scratch each frame or two, and is instead basically a virtual puppet being manipulated, there are just… |
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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…special bits like Lucy enjoying a “paw-pet” show being put on by Snoopy (though decidedly not enjoying the puppet show’s special environmental effects). The story constantly returns, though, to the… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938
…such as Leonard Maltin and John Canemaker to discuss the origins of animation. They cover topics such as the zoetrope, Winsor McCay, early special effects techniques, puppet animation, and the… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…Making Television History Previous TV animation had been included as part of puppet shows or new presentations of old theatrical material. Jay Ward’s 1949 Crusader Rabbit, for example, was on… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…were installed into the heads of the puppets that allowed the faces to change expression. This meant that the older method of changing heads between frames was no longer necessary…. |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…Clark’s sidekick in this episode! The Four, after their accident in the flashback, immediately decide to take on code names and fight for humanity; it all seems pretty fast. Puppet… |
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Kaena: The Prophecy
…a bit exaggerated (especially Kaena’s figure), making the humans look something like Thunderbirds puppets. The puppet analogy is made all the more strong by the frankly stilted animation (think Reboot)… |
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Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season
…The medium of animation opened up all new possibilities, allowing stories that were difficult or impossible to do as live action or puppet shows. The characters on the show traveled… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…by the above summary, this is a bizarre take on the classic puppet-boy. For me, that alone made this movie worth a look. I enjoy retellings of fairy tales, and… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…had moderate success back in the 1960s with the limited animation feature The Wacky World Of Mother Goose and stop-motion puppet films The Daydreamer and, perhaps most memorably, Mad Monster… |
