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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and Mini Ninjas. The making of feature is called “What Makes Stop Motion Go” (23:17) and it focuses on recreating the stop–motion world of Rankin/Bass. It… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
When Tim Burton originally conceived the idea for Frankenweenie, he envisioned it as a full-length, stop–motion animated film. Due to budget constraints, he instead directed it as a live-action short,… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
Henry Selick, famed stop–motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James And The Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News &… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
Arthur Christmas is Sony Pictures Animation’s first film collaboration with Aardman, the landmark animation company best-known for their award-winning and crowd-pleasing stop–motion films Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The… |
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The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ To Town: Deluxe Edition
…their perennial classic Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town. Once again narrated by legendary song and dance man Fred Astaire, the stop–motion specials created by the Rankin/Bass studio remain staples… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…in Media Awards for Original Score in Television focusing on his song, Rings of Saturn that is featured in the upcoming stop motion animation comedy Titan Maximum that debuted on… |
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Stop Mo Expo Tomorrow
…will showcase classic and current stop–motion animated films, including rare 16 mm stop–motion films from the collection of animation director Mark Kausler. Running concurrently with these two events will be… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…clearly felt in the inspirations for the likes of Tim Burton’s stop–motion features. Although more recognition for their sometimes quite brilliant and often very charming stop–motion films, such as their… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…did you come to choose stop–motion to tell this story? MS: Stop–motion is one of the oldest and slowest way of doing films. But that allows to have the greatest… |
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Disney starts new stop-motion venture
…stop–motion project coming soon from “the creative mastermind behind the majority of stop–motion pictures in the last decade.” Without directly stating the director’s identity, Cook revealed that more information on… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…5.1 Master Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Roald Dahl’s novel comes to life in the latest screen adaptation of his work, a unique stop–motion telling of the story of… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…“replacement” stop–motion technique that he largely pioneered. It is somewhat amazing that Warner Bros. and Paramount have not yet issued any of his classic films on Blu-ray (Olive Films licensed… |
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A Christmas Carol
…home video – simply being too early to watch a Christmas movie, my underlying disappointment with the motion-capture process (and let’s stop calling it performance capture – certainly the end… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…at the same time. AV: The animation is pretty much reminiscent of stop motion. How’s that? KP: I think the hardest thing, going back to design, is always that translation… |
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Going West, stop-motion style!
London’s Andersen M Studio has just completed work on a stop–motion animation spot for the New Zealand Book Council, the company’s Creative Director Martin Andersen has announced. More information and… |
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Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award
…in animation led him to co-produced the stop-mo feature James and The Giant Peach (1996) and this year’s CG production, 9. Most recently Burton co-directed the stop–motion Corpse Bride (2005)… |
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Pinocchio to be a stop-motion animated feature
Variety reports that a stop–motion animated version of Pinocchio is on its way to the big screen. Being made by the Jim Henson Co., the new adaptation will be co-directed… |
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The Lego Movie to mix stop-motion with CGI
…weren’t playing tricks on you. At Comic-Con today, it was officially revealed that the film would be a mix of stop–motion animation and CGI, i09 is reporting. “The LEGO Movie… |
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Stop-motion SpongeBob special on the way
SpongeBob SquarePants is set go where he’s never gone before: Into the world of stop–motion. Nick has just announced that they will be making a stop–motion Christmas special starring the… |
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Fall brings rise of stop-motion animation
The WCF Courier takes a look at this fall’s two stop–motion animated films: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, opening in limited release September 16th and nationwide September 23rd, and Wallace &… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…our exclusive interviews here! Storyboard: Sergei Prokofiev’s immortal musically told story comes back to life in a stark and stunningly stop–motion rendered retelling which won the Oscar for Best Animated… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…finally win over a stop–motion curmudgeon like me. Kubo lives outside a Japanese village in a cave with his mother. During the day she sits quietly unresponsive to all stimuli,… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season
…a stop–motion episode guest-directed (and written and storyboarded) by Kirsten Lepore. The visual style of this episode was already enough to set it apart, but it was so well received… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…pursuing his bachelor’s degree in fine arts at The Academy Of Art University. He grew up in Washington making stop motion movies with his dad’s video camera, countless flip book… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…Review: If there was ever a significant motion picture property as much maligned as the eventual Superman movie series would become, I’m not sure what it would be. Jaws, perhaps?… |
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Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic
…mean to be appreciated on their own and this is where this motion comic succeeds. By keeping the entire comic book basically intact, the motion comic will undoubtedly become the… |
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Stop-motion Holidaze coming in mid-November
The stop–motion Holidaze: The Christmas that Almost Didn’t Happen is scheduled for a direct-to-video release this November 21. The special will be sold through its online domain and Wal-Mart stores,… |
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Solomon and Matheson's stop-motion film: Hitler to be killed by Automatons
Ain’t It Cool News has the scoop on a project from writers Ed Solomon (Men in Black) and Chris Matheson (A Goofy Movie). In the stop–motion project that has already… |
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Henry Selick bringing stop-motion back to Disney
…with Disney/Pixar to make stop–motion features for the studio. John Lasseter’s decision to bring Selick back to the studio is seen as another boost for the painstaking hand-crafted technique. The… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…of George Pal’s uniquely amazing stop motion shorts features over 20 Puppetoon delights, plus several European cel animated films. The Sweatbox Review: Ten years after the much-welcomed Blu-ray release of… |
