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Agenda set for the Animation Block Party
…the day after the festival ends. Prizes this year include copies of After Effects 7, Sketchbook Pro, I-Stop Motion, bags from Crumpler, subscriptions from RES, Animation Magazine, and much more…. |
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Fourteen year-old turns down Aardman job due to age
Inspired by the Wallace & Gromit shorts, British filmmaker Lewi Firth Bolton began creating stop–motion animation in his bedroom three years ago. Recently, he submitted his work to Aardman Animations,… |
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Will Vinton Lecture Tonight
For those in the Orange County area tonight, stop motion legend Will Vinton will be lecturing at the Art Institute of California – Orange County at 5:30pm (plan to arrive… |
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The Los Angeles Animation Festival 2007
…http://www.kachew.com/clients/rockinanimation Deadline October 10. SPONSORS Titmouse Inc., S4 Studios, Z-Animation, Parallax Studioworks Inc., Toon Boom, Sprecher Brewing Co., Stop Motion Pro, Animator DV, Ka-Chew!, ASIFA-Hollywood If you wish to be… |
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Jack Frost: Deluxe Edition
…to take on Kubla’s mechanical henchmen, rescue Elisa and save the day. The Sweatbox Review: The Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass produced stop–motion television specials of yesteryear have become staples… |
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Ratatouille wins Oscar
…Templeton and Hugh Welchman won Best Animated Short Film for their stop motion version of Peter and the Wolf. Best Visual Effects went to Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris… |
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Alchemy of Animation video teaser
…Get a taste for the book by hearing (and watching) Don discuss the three principle types of animation: hand-drawn, stop motion, and computer-generated. (Viewing tip: look for the “watch in… |
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Best-reviewed animated films of all time
…Studio Ghibli’s anime classic Spirited Away, Aardman’s stop motion smash Chicken Run, acclaimed and surreal foreign entries such as The Triplets of Belleville, and most of the CGI works from… |
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New Coraline poster
IMPAwards shares a one sheet poster for the upcoming stop motion film Coraline. Directed by Henry Selick, Coraline opens in theaters on February 6, 2009…. |
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Robot Chicken team hatches Titan Maximum
…show from the creators of the stop–motion animated series Robot Chicken. The new show will be called Titan Maximum and will use stop–motion to “satirize Japanese cartoons of the 1980s”…. |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…stop–motion animated films (the actual animation was done by a talented crew in Japan). The name is very apt, as there is an undeniable magic at work when watching those… |
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Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy
…but that seems hypocritical. Done well, there is no reason that Popeye could not translate to CGI— or stop–motion animation, for that matter. His creator never designed Popeye as an… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…feature, and will be released after Henry Selicks stop motion film, Coraline. I can’t share anything about the story or designs yet but if you go to Laika’s website they… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…I was more interested in what animation does best – caricature. I saw human characters in 3D computer animation as just stylized puppets. The same as stop–motion. But with the… |
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Mad Monster Party
…a film created in this way (stop–motion) and at the time, without the aid of CGI-enhanced effects. The Nightmare Before Christmas owes a great dept to this film in more… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…stop–motion animated Christmas specials Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty The Snowman, the Rankin/Bass team were much better at structuring their television outings rather than anything feature-length, though they had… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
Often called the “Walt Disney of Norway” (though his puppet and stop–motion techniques are probably more akin to Ray Harryhausen’s fairy-tales or the Rankin/Bass specials of the 1950s and 60s),… |
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Peter, the Wolf, and a Nutty Professor! Plus Watership Down's composer remembered…
…screen. It’s a highly evocative and stark piece, deftly brought to life with a super-fine stop–motion rendering, a tribute to all those involved including perfectionist Wyrwas, who still doesn’t seem… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…Danny arrives at the set, he is very excited to be in a major motion picture, but when he gets his script, he realizes that all he has been hired… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…(1933) turns out to be something quite spooky: a stop–motion puppet short by Len Lye that isn’t quite, as the packaging notes, “unintentionally terrifying”, though still pretty peculiar all the… |
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Tim Burton to do animated Addams Family movie
…90s feature films based on the same work, the stop motion animated film will presumably start production once Burton is finished with Frankenweenie. It is currently without a release date…. |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…had, of course, became known for their sometimes quite brilliant and often very charming stop–motion films, from theatrical outings such as the underrated and all-too forgotten Mad Monster Party, to… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…they contained two stop motion films, (Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox), one digital film, (Up), and two hand drawn films, (The Secret of Kells and our movie). It’s nice… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…help from his friend Walter Lantz, after moving from Hungary to run his own studio in Berlin, developing his patented stop–motion Puppetoon system. With the threat of war in Europe,… |
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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…stymies his plans. The Sweatbox Review: Rankin-Bass made its reputation largely on its holiday specials done for television in the 1960s and 1970s, with their stop–motion animated productions generally getting… |
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D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets
…a demonstration on how these fascinating characters come to life through stop–motion animation. Official Synopsis: From creative genius Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas) comes Frankenweenie, a… |
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First look at Frankenweenie
The first images from Tim Burton’s highly anticipated return to stop motion animation Frankenweenie have been posted online with a special behind-the-scenes article over at EW.com. The movie–a remake of… |
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The first trailer for ParaNorman scares its way online
…horror story that tells the tale of an odd boy who must save his town from an army of supernatural forces. The stop motion animated feature comes to theaters everywhere… |
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New Pirates: Band of Misfits trailer
Arrrr! The full trailer for Aardman Animation’s The Pirates: Band of Misfits has just been revealed and can be viewed at ComingSoon.net. The film marks the studio’s first stop motion… |
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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…largely on its holiday specials done for television in the 1960s and 1970s, with their stop–motion animated productions generally getting the most attention, in particular the all-time classic Rudolph The… |
