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Animation Addicts Podcast #45: Kevin Schreck Interview
…The Thief and the Cobbler. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6660489959.mp3 Highlights: • Kevin’s interest in stop motion. • Catch and Fire: Jafar and Iago were college roommates. • Where did you get the name?… |
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Ray Harryhausen RIP
In news that will sadden many in the animation community, legendary stop–motion and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen has died aged 92, The Hollywood Reporter has announced. Starting out under… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…set media when I jumped on board. It could have been stop motion at first, then extremely realistic CG, and finally what we are doing now, which is an in-between… |
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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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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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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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New trailer for The Boxtrolls now online
Universal and Focus Features have released a new trailer for their new animated adventure The Boxtrolls, an upcoming stop motion animated feature from Laika Entertainment, the studio behind the visually… |
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Passion of the Miracle Maker
…a look at an older but often overlooked film based on the life of Jesus, Miracle Maker: The Story Of Jesus, which beautifully blends traditional, computer, and stop motion animation…. |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…and reintroduced the notion of full-length stop–motion features, becoming a sizable cult hit into the bargain and inspiring a still-ongoing line of similar films. Ironically enough, one of the animation… |
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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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Charley Bowers: profile and review of a forgotten pioneer
…Of An American Comic Genius. Bowers’ life is pretty sketchy, though this extensive article reveals all there is to know about this early stop–motion animator and live-action comedy director, primarily… |
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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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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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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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Anomalisa
…more recent work has been a little hit and miss, and Anomalisa itself had to turn to Kickstarter to raise funding. Co-directed with stop–motion animator Duke Johnson, it’s clear from… |
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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
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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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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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…borin’.” Chicken Run was the first stop–motion animated feature from DreamWorks Animation as well as the first full-length film from acclaimed production house Aardman Animations. It told the story of… |
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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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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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Latest on Trace Pictures
…Trace Pictures: Trace Pictures is a mixed media Animation and Design company that combines 2d, 3d, stop motion, live action and more to create innovative broadcast design and commercial projects…. |
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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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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…trend being the British Academy awards, where Universal/Laika’s Kubo And The Two Strings perhaps called out to the Brits’ much more wide acceptance, adoration and acknowledgment of the stop–motion process… |
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Gold Nugget, Common Sense, Two-Headed Cop, and Junkyard
…Plus Two french animators in Paris, Antoine Kinget and Rémi Parisse, have entirely self produced an impressive stop motion animated short film titled Pour une Pepite de Plus (For a… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…bring us a unique feature but also keep the stop–motion medium going strong. In live-action, things weren’t much better, with an over-abundance of big budget fare that outright disappointed (Independence… |
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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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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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Santa Inc.
…even mentioned Candy’s terrible mother (who constantly gets naked around her daughter, and fair warning to the sensitive, this show does have graphic stop–motion nudity), or her perverted, money-obsessed grandfather… |
