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The Venture Bros.: Season One

…and Master Billy, explaining the green screen, motion capture process that the show allegedly uses. Once again, what should have been lame verges on genius, making each of the special…

Popeye: A Sailor’s Story

…began his career in a rather unassuming way, as a bit player in an already well-established comic strip by E.C. Segar (1894-1938). The Chester, Illinois native had been a motion-picture…

The Archie Show: The Complete Series

…DVNR, with outlines disappearing when characters are in motion, but this clears up in future episodes. Generally, the shows look pretty spiffy considering their age. The rapid production schedule resulted…

Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection

…so many of the sixties cartoons, the promised visit of an Army dignitary sets the plot into motion, as Sarge and Beetle take turns tying to turn each other into…

Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season

…level of excitement and anticipation was able to generally grow with each story. Disc One Homecoming is a great start to the season, as it immediately sets into motion the…

Batman: The Complete Animated Series

…just for the continuity touches, including seeing a between-model Dick/Robin, there is genuine emotion in this episode that makes it rank near the top. Rather than just offering up some…

Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat

…Winkler package in early 1922, for which Winkler skillfully found solid distribution and promotion. Felix’s popularity took off, resulting in a wide variety of licensed products that proved to be…

Schoolhouse Rock!: Special 30th Anniversary Edition

…and so he designed the slow-motion movements of the trains that fit the song very well. Another highlight from this group of songs includes “Lolly, Lolly…” where they teach children…

The Animatrix

…theatre moved in a matrix-like way). Looking back, we know that The Matrix was a landmark motion picture that redefined the way action movies were made. The bullet speed camera…

Walt Disney Treasures: Tomorrowland: Disney In Space And Beyond

Motion about how every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Most of these segments are animated with some live action and still footage is used as well. Several scientists,…

Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword

…The events are set in motion when the curator at a Japanese culture museum in Tokyo is attacked by the apparent ghost of the Black Samurai. It can be said…

Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!

…a new donut-encrusted logo for the motion picture. Now removed from You Tube, two unfinished scenes from the film were shown, both in animatic form with some animation. Descriptions of…

Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss

…the character you’re looking at would be done in full Disney-style motion. AV: What would you say was the budget for the movie? PN: Oh, I’ve been told I shouldn’t…

Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!

…set up, which I was on to promote the Popeye DVD. That was a good promotion. The Woody Woodpecker DVD set didn’t get that sort of promotion at all. Comic-Con…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny

…backgrounds. I think the high point for that was the entire sequence at the end of the movie when the beast is carrying Robert. In order for that motion to…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase

Enchanted’s popularity is undoubtedly down to two men: director Kevin Lima and executive producer Chris Chase. While Lima honed his creative vision for the film and drew out perfect performances…

Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music

…traditional elements, like melody and harmony, to project some emotion. I tried to fashion themes and phrases that were reminiscent of the romantic music from the 40s. I relied a…

DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter

…major motion picture studios, well known within this circle, and his list of credits continues to grow. His work for Warner Bros. includes animation for Quest For Camelot and Space…

Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!

…for the Arts, a guest lecturer at USC and UCLA, and on the Music Branch Executive Committees for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of…

The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White

…“These were cartoons, just drawings” he said later, “but they gave definite emotion and were real for the audience”. The applause was echoed a few months later, when Walt was…

The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection

…epic re-telling of the story of Moses. When Steven Spielberg asked Jeffrey Katzenberg what made a great animated motion picture, the ex-Disney exec mentioned the grand themes of a powerful…

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition

…Technicolor full-length animated musical motion picture. A wonderous marvel back then, just as amazing CG features astound audiences today, Snow White still holds up as a triumphant technical and creative…

LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format

…two hours to sit on one disc. The added speed in rotating this longer discs, however, did not allow freeze framing, or slow motion replay, so many effects films and…

Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons

…their comic and teamed with their publisher’s motion picture arm, Dargaud Films, to set up an “in house” facility, named Studio Idefix, to carry out production themselves. The first Asterix…

Treasure Planet: Special Edition

…both the motion picture and this DVD incarnation. Directors John Musker and Ron Clements had been trying to get their epic retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island-in-space mounted at…

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

…and Goofy finally star in their first, full-length animated motion picture. While this is technically true, Mickey and co have appeared on the big screen in major Disney features before,…

The Complete Adventures Of The Little King

…appearance with the same character that had help launch the motion picture debut of Popeye…Betty Boop. It’s unknown why he only popped up once: one would wonder if this 1936…

300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition

…The Spirit itself is in the works as a motion picture to be directed by Miller), to the development of 300, of course, on which this most concentrates and compares…

Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition

…know. Bay is, on occasion, an exceptional filmmaker for the brand of motion picture he helped invent during the 1990s with such films as Bad Boys, The Rock and Armageddon….

DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures

…swamped everything with a play-nice blanket, The Atom is allowed to really clobber the bad guys, and The Flash’s clash with the Blue Bolt shows off some admittedly decent motion