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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…many of the same questions were asked of a CG feature. Would audiences sit for an hour and a half of this new style of animation? Would they be able… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…turn of the last century, we find female feline Mewsette stuck on a farm and dreaming of the big city life. When country-bumpkin beau Juane Tom offers her a mouse… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…than stellar box office runs of Pinocchio and Fantasia (partly based on the cutting off of revenue from foreign markets involved in the Second World War), Walt was looking for… |
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Focal Press educates on animation with recent projects
…Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, 2e; Animating with Flash 8; Animation: The Mechanics of Motion and Designing Sound for Animation. For info on these publications, please click: Force: Dynamic Life… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…30 per cent futuristic style to the overall film, from the look of the ships, the design of Silver and the audiences’ perception of the use of CG in the… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…that seems to have “more” of everything in it. It’s certainly the most commercial and pop-culture heavy of the Pixar releases, and though I wouldn’t offend it by saying it… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…its native France, and even shorn of a couple of features from its single disc UK counterpart, this US edition of The Triplets Of Belleville has been given a very… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…in 1937, and the then less than stellar box office runs of Pinocchio and Fantasia (partly based on the cutting off of revenue from foreign markets involved in the Second… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…of starting off with a whiz-bang sequence that really gets you excited, before often shifting back into a lower gear for a good following amount of the screen time. The… |
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Shark Tale
…a rip-off of the old Reluctant Dragon story, Shark Tale finds young fish Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) deep in dept. The party amphibian likes to show off and spread… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…less a celebration of one of Walt’s most successful films, and little more than an assemblage of archive material of various vintages; while one could make the argument that these… |
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Annie Award nominations announced
…Acting in an Animated Television Production Maile Flanagan – Voice of Piggley Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley WinksCarolyn Lawrence – Voice of Cindy Vortex The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…one of those at the top of the list! Is This Thing Loaded? The original two-disc Collectors’ Edition of Monsters, Inc. was a doozy of a set, featuring a huge… |
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The Jungle Book arriving on Blu-ray August 30th
…and Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) as the voice of mother wolf Raksha. Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Age of Ultron) gives life to Kaa, Giancarlo… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…They brought a lot to it and loved the idea of being part of something larger than themselves, because animated movies have a much longer life than a lot of… |
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Walt's People: Third volume released
…the birth of Chip ‘n Dale, the making of the True Life Adventures, and life at the Studio ‘after Walt.’ It contains hundreds of new stories about the Studio and… |
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Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7
…of massive scale brought to fiery life by character, technical and effects animators. • Hair – One of the greatest technical achievements of the film was the animation of the… |
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Bambi II
…cinema’s greatest moments of loss as its starting point offers up enough scope to develop an often wondered about time in the young fawn’s life – namely, bridging the gap… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…Wright and Wendy Rogers about how they made the magical world of Narnia really take life right before our eyes. Both VFX wizards are no strangers to the company of… |
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Only Yesterday
…Grave of the Fireflies, he crafts a beautiful, dramatic tale of life through all of its up and especially its downs. If audiences like to compare Hayao Miyazaki with John… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…an authentic example of pure cinema, brilliantly brought to life through the ultimate medium of animation. Even outside of the Ice Age films, Scrat is credibly the purest CG character… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…spot, although it’s fun enough and offers at least one element of the film’s promotional campaign. Covering more of the production side of things is a Ringmasters featurette (15:27), which… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…thing that wouldn’t even be dreamed of being acceptable today, though it’s all part and parcel of the archival nature of the material. The Complete Animated Adventures Of Van Beuren… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…quite gelling to get fully off the ground. The US box-office failure of Aardman Animation’s collaborations with DreamWorks might have had something to do with Gnomeo’s drawn-out creation of the… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…Illusion of Life. So, we got to see a lot of them. A lot of the old guard were just dying and retiring at the time. It was kind of… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 3: The Orlando Features
…life. That, to me, was very exciting. That was definitely one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences that a lot of people just don’t get to have. AV: In what way did… |
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A Christmas Carol
…instead of a CG edition of many things we have. An example is that the director quite often likes to spin us around London via swirling aerial camera swoops, but… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…computer aided systems of today have great trouble in replicating. Somewhere in the middle of all of this was The Sword In The Stone, an often underrated Disney picture that… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…business? Ben Balistreri: I was starting to look into the idea of a career in animation as a senior in High School. I read The Illusion of Life and was… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…to create a new canvas for the next generation of storytelling. Duet tells the story of Mia and Tosh and how their individual paths in life weave together to create… |
