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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
…being in the Gorg. However, upon meeting a human named Tip, he would learn that the Boov invasion of Earth was not as friendly as he had been led to… |
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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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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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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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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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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…quality control issues with some discs meant more were put off than not. As such, the cartoons became vanilla disc fodder, feeding an unending line of single-disc releases aimed at… |
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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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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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The Lego Movie
…“Reverend Marijuana”! The animation in the film had a unique computer generated stop–motion look, and the effect was fantastic, especially since the “medium” was Lego bricks. While a lot of… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…Hunt, Cheech Marin, and Larry the Cable Guy. In the meantime, Owen Wilson mostly directed his attention to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Payday Then, the day finally arrived: Friday,… |
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Latest on Disney/Gold/Eisner, plus a Rankin/Bass treat!
…the groundbreaking stop–motion animation television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964″. Arthur Rankin, Jr will appear in person to “discuss his early work with stop–motion animation, his relationship with… |
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And the Oscar nominations are…
…on scooping runner up places based on their Hollywood connections. Never mind that both those movies were little more than motion-capture exercises to a large extent…just feel the names, such… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…Midler’s lookalike daughter had to fill in for her when Bette’s flight was canceled due to bad weather; her daughter gave a touching, emotion-filled reading of her mom’s speech, and… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…is in Hollywood, with Cecil very concerned that he will “go Hollywood” if they stay too long; before you know it, Dishonest John has hoodwinked him into performing a publicity… |
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Bee Movie Fun Facts
…as they take off. Then, the wings are put through a motion blurred particle render to create the illusion of super-fast wing motion. (It took months to set up this… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…brought together all of their motion picture appearances, including original CinemaScope shorts and sequences from other feature films, save their short lived (and best forgotten) European series and the 1990s… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…Disc Two with Sherman, Woman And Child (featuring a great, stop–motion animated riff on The Nightmare Before Christmas), Sherman Of Arabia and A Song For Margo, while the second season… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…Next stop: Narnia! Animated Views: How did a British student in Graphic Arts come to be a successful storyboard artist and illustrator in Hollywood? Trevor Goring: Long story! Well, I… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…adorable little character, and Bobby Lockwood’s voice reminded me a great deal of Paul Terry’s pitch in the stop–motion James And The Giant Peach. And way down in the cast… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…at all. The use of named actors doesn’t stop with the kids, either: while many people would put money down on knowing legendary Hollywood screen star Mickey Rooney must have… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…show, The Mandalorian [above, top right], the rare event in which fans of the franchise collectively enjoyed something together instead of arguing about it non-stop. Granted, the 2010s weren’t only… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…Buzzard, The Lion’s Busy, Strife With Father; An Itch In Time and A Horsefly Fleas making up the Complete A. Flea appearances, plus a slew of One-Shot Classics: Hollywood Steps… |
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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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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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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… |
