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ACM SIGGRAPH presents Army of 300
…p.m. – 7:30 p.m., when the presentation will begin. The event will take place at Barnsdall Gallery Theater, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90027. For more details, please visit www.la.siggraph.org…. |
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Academy Sends Animation Teaching Kits To 18,000 Schools
{{link http://www.awn.com/index.php Animation World Network}} {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=date&newsitem_no=10043 reports}} The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has produced its fifth high school teaching kit to promote understanding and appreciate the… |
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Mickey's Musketeers on the big screen!
…Muvico Theater, June 20th – this Sunday! – at 3:30pm), {{link http://www.outfest.org/fest2004/ Outfest 2004}} (Los Angeles, at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, July 11th at… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…a different look – puppets, stop motion, paper cut out and mo-cap. Each iteration came with a different team and a different way of funding. By the time the film… |
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Character Animation Panel Discussion
…(Stop Motion Animation) Dave Barclay, Perform FX (Puppet Capture Technology) Michelle Papandrew, Cartoon Network (Flash Animation) Ken McDonald, Sony Pictures Imageworks, (Motion Capture) Saturday, January 19th, 2008 11am – 1pm… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 Blu-ray Limited Edition is a third landmark collection of 28 more spectacular George Pal Academy Award-winning stop–motion and hand-drawn animated shorts, totaling some five hours… |
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Afternoon of Remembrance
…away in 2004. The event is jointly sponsored by ASIFA–Hollywood, The Animation Guild, and Women in Animation, and is free of charge and open to everyone. A reception begins at… |
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Coming events
There’s a couple good animation events in the Hollywood area this weekend. On Friday night the Science and Technology Council of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents… |
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Afternoon of Remembrance
This coming Saturday, February 3rd, The Animation Guild, ASIFA Hollywood and Women In Animation will pay tribute to those from the animation community who passed away in 2006. The meeting… |
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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
…Branded Television, Toon Boom Animation Inc., Laika Studios, FlareNova Studios, Visit Burbank, ASIFA–Hollywood and Xencelabs. “We are also excited to launch an innovative mobile app platform that enables creatives to… |
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Dinotrux
…home to D-Structs, a massive dinosaur truck (or truck dinosaur?) who hates sharing, and will stop at nothing to stop Ty Rux and anyone else who tries to enter from… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…was hooked. I couldn’t stop watching and the show quickly became one of my all-time favorite Nickelodeon show, and perhaps one of my favorite half-hour television shows ever. Unfortunately, the… |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…displays the fact that he’s going to go on to become one of the best actors of his generation to look out for, seemingly forgoing the glitzy Hollywood lifestyle to… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…are not limited in the way that you used to be limited. Typically, when I would animate, say, Ariel singing her song and she swims off-screen, she never stopped swimming… |
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Nike's Knight moving into feature animation
Studio Briefing for July 20 reports that Phil Knight, founder of athletic footware company Nike, is gearing up to create a stop–motion/computer-animation hybrid animated feature to be released in 2007…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #101: Shaun the Sheep Movie
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers are together for their very first live video show with a discussion and their reviews of the critically acclaimed Aardman Animations stop–motion film… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Corpse Bride puppeteer speaks
…article by Mike Johnson, who gets into the gruesome details of his demanding stop–motion work on The Corpse Bride and tells of an encounter with legendary stop–motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen…. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Watch the beautiful full trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
The full trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is now online for your viewing pleasure, and you can check it out in the player above. The stop–motion animation continues to… |
