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Brave wins Cinema Audio Society and ACE Eddie awards
…Award nominees included Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Wreck-It Ralph, Frankenweenie and Rise of the Guardians, while the latter three were also nominated for the ACE Eddie Award. With these latest… |
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Little Mermaid will be 3D, but Planes DTV?
…the Wreck-It Ralph disc give us the answer. The same Little Mermaid trailer posted to Animated Views earlier this month plays in front of the film with two differences: instead… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…which was called Dinosaur. So I ended up working on Dinosaur for 14 months and then I had a visit from Ralph Guggenheim of Pixar Animation Studios, and he said… |
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Animated Rings gets Blu upgrade
Timed to the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy coming to Blu-ray on April 6, distributors Warner Bros. will also upgrade director Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated… |
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Oscar noms for 2018 movies announced
Nominations for the the 91st Academy Awards were announced today. The nominees for Best Animated Film are: Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Mirai, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Spider-Man: Into… |
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The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi
…The person who brought color scripts to Pixar was Ralph Eggleston, and he made the first one for Toy Story in pastel. That tradition stuck for years afterward, largely because… |
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21 films up for Best Animated Feature Oscar
Brave, Wreck-It-Ralph, Hotel Transylvania and Rise of the Guardians are among the 21 films submitted for considering for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards. This means… |
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Wizards
…early 1970s, director Ralph Bakshi was, for some reason, being heralded as the “new Walt Disney”. His adult animation film Fritz The Cat had taken the crudity of disturbed comic… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…Wreck-It Ralph, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, and Ralph Breaks the Internet. Both waves will be available for 90 days before the films are returned to “The Vault”. Suggested retail is… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…edges out by having the cooler surprises, like the Disney Princesses reveal for Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, and more fascinating panels, in particular the Hercules 20th anniversary… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…film. Although the music only version is nice and showcases more of Thomas Newman’s score, the commentary (from production designer Ralph Eggleston, character art director Rick Nierva and shading art… |
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Cool World
…decade until they tried again, with the CGI feature Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Looking back then, it must have seemed that Cool World, to be directed by Ralph Bakshi and… |
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Profile spotlights Frozen co-director Jennifer Lee
…future Wreck-It Ralph co-writer Phil Johnston. After the success of Ralph, Lee was asked to write and co-direct Frozen with Chris Buck. “Every day, it still feels like, ‘Am I… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…retrospective, Finding Nemo: A Filmmakers’ Roundtable (17:37) follows other recent Pixar Blu-ray debuts by reuniting the principle creators of the movie (Stanton, Unkrich, Peterson, producer Graham Walters, production designer Ralph… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…there are pre-shadows of Lasseter’s involvement in Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph in the self-help support group meetings of rejected fast-food restaurant toys, in which Buzz has found himself trapped, replaced by… |
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The Angry Birds Movie
…smart fellow in the forums suggested Wreck-it Ralph might have been the catalyst. That’s a very good thought, but I’m not completely convinced. As the just released Honest Trailer for… |
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Report on AMPAS' Production Design panel
…Science and Psychology of Production Design.” The article highlights quotes from several of the participants including Ralph Ralph Eggleston (Wall•E) who talked to the audience about his experience at Pixar…. |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…care. Even when Horton expresses the notion that the speck of dust he claims to be hearing the voices from, he’s dismissed as a looney, a potentially dangerous creature that… |
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Sing
…Sing means business. This may be a modern jukebox musical…but what a jukebox – a continually revolving mix of massive commercial hit songs and original tunes, both sourced from the… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…music tunes that date the likes of Shrek even now – something I’m particularly hoping the prequel stays away from (but fearing that it won’t) – and skews to a… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…Medrano assembled a crew to create an incredible show featuring high quality animation, wonderful characters, and catchy show-tunes. Backed by a dedicated fanbase, I strongly believe we’ll see more episodes… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…own tunes. Skaggs also collaborated with Hank Williams III to revitalize a classic Hank Williams Sr. song for My Peoples. Rumors suggested Parton, Judd, Tritt and Rawls would perform in… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…adults?) T-Squad, from the DisneyMania 5 album. Unlike previous Disney pop tunes, this one bears little resemblance to the original melody at all and is simply one minute of pure… |
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Heidi’s Song
…as to hire that Studio’s songwriters the Sherman Brothers to provide the tunes, but for me the full animation just isn’t there; the movie struggles as a result and the… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…twenty years. The company’s more recent fortunes are well documented, of course, the bottom line being that, almost another twenty years later, the future of not only Disney animation but… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…The Disney Music Emporium booth hosted a special autograph session with the famed husband and wife song writing team behind the mega hit tunes from the mega hit film Frozen,… |
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Penguins of Madagascar
…with the Looney Tunes cartoons of the past — zany, silly fun for fun’s sake. And, Hoover Dam, does it succeed! Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board? The… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
…no involvement with the series, remaining at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida. Kurt Dumas (Looney Tunes: Back in Action) joined the series as a storyboard artist, with Jill Daniels (Phineas… |
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The Bad Guys
…Rather than perfect CG models and effects, the film has a more hand drawn feel, like a mix of their usual style with Into the Spider-Verse and Looney Tunes added… |
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Indiana Jones and the alien borefest of doom…
Welcome to a new week, and we have a bunch of reviews on the way for you that should be up for the weekend: Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6… |
