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Disney, Zemeckis form motion capture company
…Under the deal, Zemeckis, Rapke and Starkey will produce all of the films, several of which Zemeckis is expected to direct. Disney will distribute and market the motion pictures worldwide…. |
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Renaissance
…big fan of motion-capture, and I find that most animation aficionados agree. When its done well, as with Gollum or King Kong, it is usually augmented with keyframed poses, or… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
Following on the crime-fighting heels of Batman, it’s the turn of the big blue boy scout to come to Blu-ray with the release of The Superman Motion Picture Anthology: 1978-2006,… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…successful hero, John Clayton, otherwise known as Tarzan, Burroughs exclaimed that the only way to convert his vine-swinger stories using the then-new motion picture process would be to adapt them… |
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Who screened Roger Rabbit? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen a new digital restoration of Who Framed Roger Rabbit to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary, on Thursday, April 4, at… |
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New motion capture movie Tarzan 3D trailer premieres
…Tarzan yell. It follows in the footsteps of The Polar Express and Avatar by using motion capture. Tarzan 3D has a distinctive visual quality and style that may limit its… |
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New Kubo and the Two Strings motion poster
A new motion poster for Kubo & the Two Strings has just been released by Focus Features and can be viewed below. The movie opens everywhere this August…. |
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Britney Spears to stop and smell The English Roses
M&C Movies indicates that Britney Spears will voice the heroine Binah in the animated film based on the Madonna’s children’s book The English Roses. David Bowie and rapper Snoop Dogg… |
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Eisner attempted to stop the War
The Internet Movie Database observes that from Wednesday, January 26 through Friday, January 28, Michael Eisner conversed with DisneyWar author James Stewart, from mid-afternoon to 10:00pm. These talks consisted of… |
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Iger continues push to stop delay between theater and DVD release
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, via the Internet Movie Database, Disney CEO Robert Iger shows no signs of backing down from his stance of eliminating the delay… |
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Eisner eyed attempt to stop recent Disney/Pixar merger?
Through The Internet Movie Database, The New York Post reports that Michael Eisner may have “lobbied” certain members of the Walt Disney Co. board in an attempt to halt the… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
The following is the final part of a retrospective article on the history of DreamWorks Animation through its films leading to the purchase by NBC/Universal on April 28, 2016. Catch… |
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Strange Magic
…Return To Oz set, respectively. An ongoing dabbling with animation (the stop–motion Twice Upon A Time was an early experiment) resulted in the creation of the unit later sold to… |
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Directors Bowers and Fell talk Away animation
…noted, “With the spindly legs and big body, it would have been a nightmare.” Nonetheless, Flushed Away does playfully pay homage to certain stop–motion trademarks, including thumbprints and stop-frame models…. |
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New ParaNorman trailer
…boy–who has the power to speak with the dead–facing a supernatural army that he must find a way to stop. Given that the studio’s last stop–motion animated feature, Coraline, ended… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…before his stop–motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s caper made an appearance in the collection. Fox Video’s original disc was no slouch but Criterion adds a wealth of extra extras befitting… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
Aardman Animations, the wizards behind top stop–motion animated films like Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and The Pirates! Band of Misfits are back with Shaun the… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…of collaborations followed: there was another stop–motion film, James And The Giant Peach, another personal black and white feature, the exceptionally brilliant Ed Wood, and an intended crowd-pleaser, the underrated… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…too highbrow for the American box-office, but whichever way you saw it, Aardman’s second collaboration with their new studio home at Columbia/Sony Pictures Animation was a stop–motion marvel whose claymation… |
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Persepolis in motion and life during wartime
AWN has an in-depth article which focuses on how Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novels were brought to life in the award winning film Persepolis. The article examines how the novels were… |
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James Cameron discusses 3D motion-capture Avatar
Titanic director James Cameron discussed yesterday at Microsoft Advance ’08 his new film Avatar, about a man who tries to become a miner by combining his being with an alien… |
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New motion capture techniques give filmmakers greater flexibility
Variety takes a look at “newer, less-obtrusive options” for performance capture…. |
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Rango wins big at VES
…in an Animated Feature Motion Picture, Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture, Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture, and Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in an… |
