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The Venture Bros.: The Fifth Season
…Island. Flashbacks to Doc’s childhood, a Spanakopita competition, albino brotherhood, and interference from the insufferable Augustus St. Cloud all figure into the nutty plot. Look for a stop–motion tribute to… |
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Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart
…puppets and early silent film, to cut-outs and stop–motion animation, and of course state of the art CGI, to tell the tale. From a production design standpoint, the visuals are… |
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Laika announces new feature Kubo and the Two Strings
…adventure set in a mythical ancient Japan. It is being brought to life at LAIKA’s Oregon studios via the company’s innovative 3D stop–motion and CG hybrid technique. In addition to… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie opens
…Tomatoes. Their critical consensus: “Warm, funny, and brilliantly animated, Shaun the Sheep is yet another stop–motion jewel in Aardman’s family-friendly crown”. Box Office Prophets projects a $15 million five-day opening…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #103: Fantastic Mr. Fox – Are You Cussing at Me?
…stop–motion animation style adds charm. Characters: who did we like most? Why the “cuss”? – Do you think it’ll catch on? The wolf – what does it represent? Listener Twitter… |
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Oscar nominations for 2016 films announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced nominations for the 89th Academy Awards today. Categories featuring animated films include: Best Animated Film • Kubo and the Two Strings… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…Snow White has the distinction of being the first motion picture soundtrack released, in an album of 78rpm records), but in Pinocchio the broad strokes of Ned Washington, Leigh Harline… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…highest grossing animated feature of the time, The Lion King, not to mention experimentation in stop–motion (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and computer graphics (Toy Story) that took Disney even further… |
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Early Man
…and more smooth than stop–motion clay should possibly be! The human and animal figures are done in the usual company style, so nothing groundbreaking in the design there. But the… |
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
…design of Spider-Ham to the anime design of Peni Parker and her SP//dr mech suit. I rather like how the animation isn’t entirely smooth, being more in line with stop–motion… |
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Director Juan Antin talks about Pachamama on Netflix
…visual universe of the film. But, at that time, I was imagining it as a stop–motion film. I even shot a teaser, but then I was delayed by difficulties on… |
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The return of Puppetoons
…George Pal, The Puppetoon Movie, 2002’s The Time Machine) proudly presents a landmark collection of beautifully restored stop–motion animated shorts. Leibovit’s mentor and friend George Pal began his Academy Award-winning… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…whereas Aardman parlayed whatever concepts they had been nurturing into the slightly similar inventor-caveman stop–motion feature Early Man (with Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton still receiving thanks in The… |
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Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 now available for a reduced price at Amazon.com and Puppetoon.net
…DVD combo contains some of the most miraculous stop–motion animated shorts ever produced. Copies are available for immediate shipment – shipping is free within the USA. The Puppetoon Movie Volume… |
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Thor mighty at box office with best opening in series to date
…with Shoes On made it into the top ten while playing on just 45 screens. The critically acclaimed movie about a talking stop–motion seashell is set to go wide soon…. |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Musker and Clements got rolling, there was hardly anything that could be done to stop them. They could have spent multiple hours talking as opposed to the scheduled one hour…. |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
As a child, director Chris Williams (Big Hero 6, Moana, Bolt) was obsessed with drawing and writing and working on stop–motion films. He loved movies, and particularly enjoyed adventure stories… |
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Things get freaky in the Wendell and Wild trailer
Fans of acclaimed stop–motion animation director Henry Selick are in for a treat as the trailer for his new film Wendell and Wild is now online, and can be checked… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…the new logo so much that he played it again to our delight. Bergman handed things over to Sean Bailey, President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, to begin… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 Blu-ray Limited Edition is a third landmark collection of 28 more spectacular George Pal Academy Award-winning stop–motion and hand-drawn animated shorts, totaling some five hours… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…that might be described as digital stop–motion, though that hardly does justice to what a cool look it had. Then there was, undoubtedly, my favorite film of the year, Spider-Man:… |
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Short Film Has Tall Implications
…members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 307 can vote for the short and feature animation entries. Ballots must be returned by February 24, five days before… |
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Andrew Stanton named "Animation Director of the Year" by ShoWest
…2004 in Las Vegas. The film screened at last year’s event. As the largest annual convention for the motion picture industry, ShoWest is also the single largest international gathering of… |
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THE 76th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS – Nemo wins, Rings is King and Krumpet amazes!
…Peter Jackson, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Best Motion Picture: The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King For a complete list of… |
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AICN \\Sky Captain\\ and \\Ghost in the Shell 2\\ reviews, \\Fantastic Four\\ followup
…report of a possible first look at Fantastic Four‘s Ben Grimm/The Thing, Mike Elizalde from the special effects company Spectral Motion has sent an e-mail to AICN that places an… |
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DreamWorks previews upcoming slate at 2005's Comic-Con International
…action thriller The Island. In addition, it has recently been announced that DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Hasbro, Inc., will produce a new live-action motion picture based… |
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A Pixar geek's guide to the latest \\Cars\\ trailer
…wears “Lightyear” brand tires! “Motion Doctor” decal on wheel. Motion Doctor was an animation program used to animate the Pixar shorts The Aventures of Andre and Wally B. and Luxo… |
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Animation in the Grammy Award nominations
…Murphy, producers [Geffen Records, Fox Music] **Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media** \\The Incredibles\\ Michael Giacchino, composer [Walt Disney Records] **Best Song Written For… |
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In the Primate of His Life
The Orlando Sentinel via the Los Angeles Times has an interesting article up about Andy Serkis’ research and preparation for his motion-capture acting of the title character in King Kong…. |
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Pencils to Pixels to Prominence
…targeted first to Asian markets, and subsequently for global distribution. He also wrote Bulletproof Monk, the basis for John Woo’s MGM motion picture, and he is developing several film projects… |
