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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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… |
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Andy Serkis on Beowulf, motion-capture animation
…use the same motion-capture technique employed for his adaptation of The Polar Express. During the conversation, Serkis explained, “I think that more motion capture is [being] used in film, and… |
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Contour improving motion-capture process
San Francisco-based Mova LLC is working to improve the motion-capture technology used in such movies as Monster House and The Polar Express, writes Yahoo! News/Associated Press. Employing a system of… |
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Stop-Mo Expo
Reminding people that hand-drawn and computer-generated are not the only two types of animation, ASIFA-Hollywood will be hosting a Stop-Mo Expo on April 21 at Woodbury University. Organized primarily by… |
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Stop-Mo Expo Pics
The following are ten pictures taken at last Saturday’s Stop-Mo Expo put on by Larry Loc and hosted by ASIFA-Hollywood:… |
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Song of the Summer? Timberlake releases Can’t Stop the Feeling from DreamWorks’ Trolls
Justin Timberlake released Can’t Stop the Feeling today, which will be featured on the soundtrack for DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls. The video for the song includes co-stars James Corden, Anna Kendrick,… |
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Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series
…and his Vulture Squadron, including the sniggering dog Muttley, attempt to stop a carrier pigeon from delivering his messages. The Sweatbox Review: 1969 saw two significant events for Hanna-Barbera: the… |
