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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…absolute state of the art in motion-capture animation with his director-buddy Robert Zemeckis’ film The Polar Express. They even came up with a new term to describe the better-than-mo-cap technique… |
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
…in Square Enix dedicated to creating the cutscenes in the games, are constantly trying to improve their animation, specifically motion capture. With the first Final Fantasy film, The Spirits Within,… |
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Academy Award nominations
…ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE) BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN THE CONSTANT GARDENER MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA MUNICH PRIDE & PREJUDICE ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL… |
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AMPAS revises Oscar's animated feature definition
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved several new rule changes to take effect starting with the 80th Annual Academy Awards. Among them is a change in… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…the music video concept, or a continuation of what Max Fleischer did in the early Betty Boop cartoons. If you’ll recall, Fleischer would often stop the Boop cartoons mid-way for… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…of their experience. Nickelodeon Booth So my first stop at Comic Con for 2016? Rushing straight to the Nickelodeon booth to hopefully get my hands on the Con exclusive… |
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Cartoon Network Halloween Treats
…Sight Gang, will have seen their last Halloween if Jimmy succeeds in erasing the day he despises most from the calendar. Unless Hannah can stop him, everything creepy, weird and… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…rumor has never been confirmed, but it didn’t stop at least one American DVD release from carrying the supposed Spielberg quote on its back cover). Another major figure in the… |
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
…he is secretly the leader of a much beloved group of ninjas whose job is to stop the evil Garmadon. In short, he has some serious daddy issues. The Lego… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…are not limited in the way that you used to be limited. Typically, when I would animate, say, Ariel singing her song and she swims off-screen, she never stopped swimming… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…left!). So I went for a full assault on the main exhibition hall, working my way up and down each and every line and attempting to stop by each booth…. |
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DuckTales: Volume 3
…to stop collecting this show, I wouldn’t stop just yet. Even if you did not care for the introduction of Bubba and Gizmoduck in the final ten episodes of this… |
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The Red Turtle
…be receiving a letter from Japan about a project, but that did not stop him from expressing interest immediately. Some people at Studio Ghibli had briefly met Dudok de Wit… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…one of the most brutal, but funniest! Set inside a closed bowling club, the action gets fast and furious as Tom sets out to stop Jerry’s private game, in a… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…is not even believable. They encounter each other in a casino, Max asks Miriya on date, then she tries to murder him, he stops her, and then asks her to… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…studio to be lost within legal rights conundrums for decades. Now, Max’s granddaughter Jane was leading an effort to restore the cartoons and Comic Con was the latest stop to… |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…be Tim Curry), stop-offs along the circuit (including a mad moment of ninja acrobatics in which Pops and mechanic Sparky come into their own), illegal racing tactics (which, truth be… |
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Everything is chaos in the Wendell and Wild trailer
The trailer for the upcoming stop–motion animation horror comedy Wendell and Wild is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. If you’re a fan of… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season
…miniseries and even a stop–motion animated episode. With the series recently announced to end in 2018, after nine seasons, I guess I’m in until the end! By then, the Adventure… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…out machine and manual labor. Shot using stop–motion animated cut-outs, the short retains the rhyming convention of the original, but it drags on for too long, becoming quickly repetitive and… |
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New Paranorman trailer and poster
The movie is still months away, but Focus Features has unleashed another teaser trailer for their upcoming stop–motion feature ParaNorman, compliments of iTunes. In addition, the site also has a… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…and page boy, center-parted haircut, I’m sure he’s meant to be a send up of stop–motion director Henry Selick, who himself directed Brendan Fraser in MonkeyBone. Fraser and Jenna Elfman… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…certainly that itchy, scratchy, fidgety personality wouldn’t work as well hand drawn or quite as dynamically in stop–motion. The introduction of female Scrat – Scratte – puts a new spin… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…theme that intros the film. The editing, like the music, is too staccato, with not nearly enough rhythm in things, throwing the pacing of the overall film into a “start-stop”… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2
…storyline, and setting things into motion for the Phoenix Saga that would dominate season three. Throughout the show’s second and third seasons, it continued to dominate on Saturday mornings and… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…a year after Cook had signed onto the project. The studio had decided to discontinue their computer animated slate, concentrating instead on stop–motion films such as the upcoming ParaNorman. Bob… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…Of Tom And Jerry, brought together all of their motion picture appearances, including original CinemaScope shorts and sequences from other feature films, save their short lived (and best forgotten) European… |
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The Lego Movie
…“Reverend Marijuana”! The animation in the film had a unique computer generated stop–motion look, and the effect was fantastic, especially since the “medium” was Lego bricks. While a lot of… |
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The Gremlins
…Maltin’s fine introduction (which has lots more wonderful details), so let it suffice to say that Mr. Bernstein enthusiastically sent Dahl’s story to his colleague in motion pictures, Walt Disney,… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…to him and such an emotion to his work. He gives so much emotion in what he does that is was perfect for Lewis. I thought: “who can be the… |
