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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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The first trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is gorgeous
The first trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. The stop–motion animation looks pretty impressive here, which should… |
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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… |
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Watch the teaser for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
A teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro stop–motion version of Pinocchio is now online, and can be checked out in the player above. Be warned that it’s a very brief… |
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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… |
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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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"Ray Harryhausen Presents" new projects
Reuters, via Yahoo! News, reports that stop–motion legend Ray Harryhausen is “helping to develop” brand-new films, television movies, video games, and merchandise, all within the banner of “Ray Harryhausen Presents.”… |
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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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New Henry Selick interview
Over at Animation World Magazine there’s an interview with stop–motion director Henry Selick, where he discusses a wide range of topics. Selick’s current film The Life Aquatic, in which he… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…with Aardman. A Grand Day Out would not be released until 1989. Wallace & Gromit have always been animated in the stop–motion manner, similar to that seen in King Kong,… |
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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 Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…Of Tom And Jerry, 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… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…a year after Cook had signed onto the project. The studio had decided to discontinue their computer animated slate, concentrating instead on stop–motion films such as the upcoming ParaNorman. Bob… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…that this collection is for the adult collector and is not suitable for children), Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: Superman soars on the motion picture screen for the first time, battling mad… |
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Ratatouille
…six-to-eight would have left ’em wanting more. Although the short contains a few shots created in CG (and even some in stop–motion!), it’s predominantly been hand animated and as such… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…of these upcoming films can be found in the Animated News & Views Forum) The Walt Disney Studios Rolls Out Slate of 10 New Animated Motion Pictures Through 2012 NEW… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…Tim Watts and David Stoten’s stop–motion spoof The Big Story, complete with chin dimple! Here he is voiced by another Hollywood stalwart, Christopher Plummer, and while he’s a less successful… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…played while Second Screen is active. Since their introduction to the short film world some ten or so years ago (as a stop–motion fan-made spoof, I believe, of Star Wars),… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…soprano Elizabeth Schwarzkopf at the Hollywood Bowl later, her new career was launched. She was now singing all over the world in the greatest opera houses, from the Met to… |
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Armageddon
…to stop the sinking ship. It wasn’t until a decade later, when Bruce Willis saved a group of hostages being held at the top of a skyscraper by terrorists, that… |
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Up
…Louis”. I can’t believe no-one else has noted the Kirk Douglas resemblance, especially close to the way he was caricatured in Tim Watts and David Stoten’s stop–motion spoof The Big… |
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
…the Dog Movie is almost its own genre in Hollywood these days! Dogs have always been good box office business, from the silent days of Rin Tin Tin, through the… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…audiences were about to witness. More than anyone in Hollywood cartoons at the time, Tex pushed the boundaries of not only animation, but the medium of film itself, creating the… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…layer of irony in that it was released in the year that Walt himself stopped being the young hot-shot wunderkind of Hollywood and became one of the big boy players… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…wasn’t a “face” in Hollywood at the time, having already starred with the Marx Brothers in Love Happy as far back as 1949, enjoying poster-billed bit parts in such notable… |
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
…in Square Enix dedicated to creating the cutscenes in the games, are constantly trying to improve their animation, specifically motion capture. With the first Final Fantasy film, The Spirits Within,… |
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AMPAS revises Oscar's animated feature definition
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved several new rule changes to take effect starting with the 80th Annual Academy Awards. Among them is a change in… |
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Animation among 50th Grammy Awards nominees
…Toni Morrison [Simon & Schuster Audio] •Wickety Whack – Brer Rabbit Is Back Diane Ferlatte [Diane Ferlatte] Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Award… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…took the film home that night, played it in slow motion and then speeded it up and then slow motion and speeded it up and that’s kind of where the… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…absolute state of the art in motion-capture animation with his director-buddy Robert Zemeckis’ film The Polar Express. They even came up with a new term to describe the better-than-mo-cap technique… |
