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The Boxtrolls coming to Blu-Ray January 20th
…here – literally! – is how Snatcher’s face changes shape due to his cheese allergy. o DECONSTRUCTING THE DANCE Discover how LAIKA combined traditional stop–motion animation with visual effects in… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…do it”. So, we teamed up and we did many short subjects – a couple of them were nominated for Academy Awards. Walt Disney was very interested in stop–motion at… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
Despite the aggravated proclamations of its animators and heavily dropped rumors that director Wes Anderson was hardly to be seen on the “set” of his latest film, a stop–motion animated… |
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Trolls Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
…for Trolls has been released in advance of the film’s November 4 premiere. The apparent lead single, Can’t Stop the Feeling!, was released way back on May 6, and now… |
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LDI develops motion capture alternative
A new alternative to motion capture technology has been put into production by LookAhead Decisions Incorporated reports Business Wire. ActiveMotion generates realistic motion in any environment and for any multi-articulate… |
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Dead Man's Chest, Cars win VES awards
…in an Animated Motion Picture” due to the character of Mater. THE FIFTH ANNUAL VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY AWARDS Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture Pirates of… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…against a box office take of less than $40m. Causing much embarrassment for the Studio, Disney accepted that audiences were not as embracing of ImageMovers’ style of motion-capture animation as… |
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Flushed Away
…Aardman and their partners at DreamWorks, since the movie is another winner from the stop–motion masters and better than the recent influx of computer animated fare from both DreamWorks and… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…realise that The Nightmare Before Christmas is now approaching its 20th birthday and yet the stop–motion animation feature has really only recently started to breath again, much of it down… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…concept art sprinkled throughout, so that’s something, I guess. Far more interesting is The Potion for Stop–Motion, which explores how the film’s scrapbook sequences were brought to life. This was… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…it became a father/daughter story. AV: Was Crood Awakening going to be a stop–motion animated film? KDM: Yeah, it was originally going to be. That’s the way it was first… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…with Aardman. A Grand Day Out would not be released until 1989. Wallace & Gromit have always been animated in the stop–motion manner, similar to that seen in King Kong,… |
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Classic \\Popeye\\, rare Charley Bowers shorts added to the National Film Registry
{{link http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=24545 }}Max and Dave Fleischer’s 1936 classic \\Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor\\ and a rarely seen short by (hand drawn and stop motion) animator Charley Bowers titled… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…reader will be able to approximate the way I reacted to A Matter Of Loaf And Death. Famously debuting in director Park’s film school graduation piece, celebrated stop–motion studio Aardman… |
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The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
…Wallace’s. The irony inherent in this master-dog relationship is one of the pleasures of watching their films. Wallace & Gromit are animated in the stop–motion manner, similar to that seen… |
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DreamWorks, Aardman split official
…have created together and also greatly admire Aardman’s passion and expertise for stop motion filmmaking and brilliant storytelling.” The companies have clamped down on rumors of a split in the… |
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The Lady of Names, Making an Animatic
…said, we think you’ll find some gems in these labors of love from outside the studio system. This week we have a solo stop–motion effort from Adam Ciolfi and a… |
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The Boxtrolls
…previous work. Yes, I can appreciate the beauty, but other than that I just haven’t been able to get into them. Secondly, I’m not a huge fan of stop–motion. Yes,… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…with their unique stop–motion animation style. While probably most notable for their Asterix and Tintin animated adventures, French animation has been present in the last decade with films such as… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…a motion picture. Although computer animation has progressed by leaps and bounds over the last decade, it has still lagged behind in achieving many key human characteristics. It was previously… |
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A Christmas Carol
…an early November release date simple being too early to go and see a Christmas movie, my underlying disappointment with the motion-capture process (and let’s stop calling it performance capture… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…as well as traditional, computer, and motion capture animation. Born in Cambridge, England, Wells studied audio-visual design at the De Montfort University. Upon graduating, he directed commercials at Richard Williams’… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)
…use small facial motions that are riveting in live action but don’t translate so well with motion capture. Crispin Glover’s Grendel, on the other hand, is a tour de force… |
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Harryhausen returns to Clash again
…developed under the guidance of Ray Harryhausen and presented as a unique motion comic film, fans of the beloved original motion picture can immerse themselves again in the further adventures… |
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History gets explosive (and profane) in America: The Motion Picture trailer
A brand new (and very funny) trailer for Netflix’s upcoming comedy America: The Motion Picture has been released, and can be checked out in the player above. The movie is… |
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Emerging motion capture technology
The Orange County Register yesterday reported on a new motion capture technology pioneered by Gene Alexander. Known as “MaMoCa, which stands for ‘Markerless Motion Capture,’ [it] will cut the cost… |
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Video Effects Society award nominations announced
…a Motion Picture The Aviator Spider-Man 2 Van Helsing Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason I, Robot The Phantom of the… |
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ASIFA-Hollywood Comic-Con Schedule of Events 2008
…pm Preview Night: Volunteers may stop by any time to give breaks to the booth workers. Just stop by the booth when you are available. Thursday, Friday and Saturday July… |
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Flushed Away: The Animated News Review
…yourself sloshing down the coolest water slide that your local water park or stop–motion animation studio ever dreamed of creating? Well, unfortunately, this experience would not have been possible in… |
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Disney boss to be honored by Motion Picture Pioneers
…dinner organized by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. {{link http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031112/law025a_1.html Yahoo News}} has more on the story, announcing that Tarzan and Brother Bear tunesmith Phil Collins will perform… |
