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Animation among 50th Grammy Awards nominees
…Toni Morrison [Simon & Schuster Audio] •Wickety Whack – Brer Rabbit Is Back Diane Ferlatte [Diane Ferlatte] Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Award… |
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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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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…took the film home that night, played it in slow motion and then speeded it up and then slow motion and speeded it up and that’s kind of where the… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…of animation in the marketplace today, traditional, CGI, Flash, stop–motion. They should not be in competition but in collaboration. Audiences love traditional animation. Students love traditional animation. Everyone seems to… |
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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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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… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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… |
