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Academy to screen Sleeping Beauty
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is screening the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty as the second film in their series The Last 70mm Film Festival. Showtime is… |
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DreamWorks buys Classic Media
…branded assets that is extremely complementary to DreamWorks Animation’s franchise business, and we plan to leverage it across our motion picture, television, home entertainment, consumer products, digital theme park and… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…and technical prowess of the movie leave you enough room for emotion? BB: I think that there was probably more emotion in the movie than it seems. The opening credits… |
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Ten films up for animated short film Oscar
…will be announced on January 10th. The full press release can be found below… The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will… |
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Disney Historian J.B. Kaufman on the greatest Snow White books of all!
…your emotion getting access to all those treasures? JBK: Actually, at the Disney company there are both the Walt Disney Archives and the ARL — both of them absolutely invaluable… |
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Tintin sequel is still happening
…in the near future. According to Bleeding Cool, Jackson will shoot the motion capture footage sometime next year, with the movie aiming for a 2015 release. Although only a reasonable… |
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Wreck-It Ralph wins PGA award
Deadline reports that Wreck-It Ralph outscored the competition for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Producers Guild Awards. Winner Clark Spencer said, “I joined Disney 23 years… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #33: The Adventures of Tintin – Relax, I Interviewed A Pilot Once
…Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson. • Mind boggling photo-real animation (motion capture) from the start. • Belgium/At sea:… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…phase of Pocahontas and Hunchback’s mid-90s Disney (the result of the earlier Beauty And The Beast being taken seriously by the motion picture Academy and their Oscar nomination for Best… |
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Constantin Film’s Tarzan poster
FilmStarts.de, via Coming Soon, has the first poster for Constantin Film’s 3D animated adventure Tarzan. The film features the motion captured performances of Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga) as Tarzan… |
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Poster artwork arrives for Constantin’s Tarzan
Constantin Film has sent Animated Views the poster artwork for Tarzan, the latest adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary hero. The poster for the motion capture film first debuted in… |
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Trailer for The Congress now online
It’s been quite some time since Waltz With Bashir was in theaters, but director Ari Folman is following his Oscar-nominated film this year with The Congress, a motion-capture animated movie… |
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Academy changes Best Animated Feature rules
While many candidates for next year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar have yet to be released, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is already looking ahead to the ceremony,… |
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Superman Unbound
…the show. This transfer captures well all the color, motion, and sheer spectacle in the story. Note that the screen captures are mostly taken from the DVD. The Blu-ray images… |
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Lasseter number two at Academy
Pixar and Disney creative head John Lasseter was just elected to the post of First Vice President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He previously served terms… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…(3:25). You may also view shot footage from the Robotech 3000 motion capture sequences (0:21). The disc also offers up twelve Deleted scenes with optional commentary, including alternate opening and… |
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Obama visits DreamWorks and “wants to work there.”
…any particular demonstration and notes that Obama was given high class treatment on his visit. He was able to watch a motion capture demonstration for How To Train Your Dragon… |
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Gollum creator Letteri talks evolution of computer animation
…in the most basic terms, tracing the motion from a film one frame at a time. This technique, although now slightly more sophisticated in its application, is still in use.”… |
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Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?
So far, this year’s awards season has been good to the creative team behind Room On The Broom. Last month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it… |
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Frozen soundtrack tops Billboard 200
Another day, another news story regarding how well Frozen has been doing for Disney. Today the movie had the first motion picture soundtrack from an animated movie to top the… |
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VES nominees announced
…animation titles with four each. Also of special note is the nod for Sandra Bullock’s character from Gravity, Ryan Stone, in the Outstanding Animated Character in a Live-Action Feature Motion… |
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Disney staff celebrates Oscar win
…Ever since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences created the best animated feature prize in 2001, Pixar has dominated the category, winning seven times. Rivals including DreamWorks Animation… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #62: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron – Tradigital Animation
…– CGI opening scene with the eagle Morgan loves. • Matt Damon is channeling his inner Matthew Broderick. • Morgan’s motion blur rant. • What’s with the colonel in the… |
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Bob Hoskins passes away at 71
…played several characters in motion-capture animated film Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Hoskins had suffered from Parkinson’s Disease and retired from acting 2012 after he finished filming on Snow White and… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…chapter stops after the show’s opening, at the end credits, and in-between story acts. Ink And Paint: Just… wow. This hi-def transfer is wondrous and plain perfect. When you look… |
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Son Of Batman
…plot in motion with a siege on Ra’s al Ghul’s mountain stronghold. Deathstroke wants to take over al Ghul’s League Of Shadows, after leaving the group when al Ghul refused… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…WDI both really extend that tradition. At Pixar, we created the first computer-animated motion picture with Toy Story, driven by John Lasseter’s passion to use this new technology to tell… |
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20 animated features submitted for 2014 Oscar race
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 87th Academy Awards. Big… |
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Ten films to compete for visual effects Oscar this year
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 87th Oscars®. The films are listed… |
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Strange Magic
Strange Magic is a bit of an odd bird for a supposedly major motion picture these days, from its creation, to its announcement, and its eventual release. Star Wars guru… |
