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Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris
…immediately bought into it. Two weeks later, he asked me to stop by to listen to the first song, which he had already written: when Francoeur meets Lucille and sings… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…eight months, maybe. We’ve been working on it almost non-stop since then. It’s gone through many incarnations. The rewrites were very intensive. We probably did 70 drafts of the script…. |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…notepads. I just couldn’t stop doing it! Then my wife and I were on a vacation at Disney World, and we went to the animation tour in the Florida facility…. |
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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Cyborg, and Booster Gold battling a group of villains in Metropolis, but Batman realizes that something is off about the whole situation. The second episode finds Booster Gold holding fort… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…is featured time and time again throughout this second season. In some episodes, the Autobots malfunction or the Decepticons find a way to make them stop working properly. It’s actually… |
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Real Steel
…of the production, speaking almost non-stop about his experiences on the film. In the video sections, he becomes much more lively again – maybe he’s just a little nervous at… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two
…coming. The Secret Society is after the corpse of the Viking Prince, buried in a glacier for hundreds of years, and the League must stop them. If those aren’t real… |
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Selick And Vinton Adapting Coraline
…The means of animation to be used in the film are unknown at the time, but one could expect it to use stop–motion animation given Selick and Vinton’s track record…. |
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Bride woos Depp
Variety reports that Johnny Depp will provide the lead voice in Warner Brothers’ The Corpse Bride, Tim Burton’s stop–motion animated film. With Michael Johnson directing and Allison Abbateand co-producing, The… |
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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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First look at The Corpse Bride!
…stop–motion feature from Tim Burton, and produced at Will Vinton Studios in Oregon, The Corpse Bride is tenatively slated for October 2005. The template of the story is based on… |
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Animated Poo
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=117410 Toon Zone}} has a great article up about a half-hour stop–motion animated Korean film, Doggy Poo, which turns out to be a surprisingly tender, gentle and profound story… |
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Revolution & Anderson Are Fantastic
Variety is reporting that Wes Anderson (Rushmore) and Revolution Studios will turn Roald Dahl’s book The Fantastic Mr. Fox into a stop–motion film. The book tells the story of a… |
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Announcing Cartoon Brew Films
…That Jack Built by Grantray-Lawrence, and the stop–motion short The Lady Said No by Frank Tashlin. Viewers can leave comments and in some cases submit questions to be answered by… |
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Details on Coraline video games
D3Publisher will release the video games based on Focus Features and Laika’s stop–motion feature film Coraline, credited as the first to be originally filmed in 3-D. Directed by Henry Selick,… |
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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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Coraline sneak peek
IGN reports about a special screening of roughly half an hour of footage from the upcoming 3D stop–motion animation film Coraline which they attended recently. Based on the novella by… |
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Coraline interviews
…in-depth article also includes descriptions of several scenes from the stop–motion film, which are received extremely positively by the sneak peak’s author. Coraline opens in theaters on February 6th in… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…Toons’ review here. THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES: THE COMPLETE DVD MOVIE COLLECTION The last great movie series to use stop–motion and pre-digital effects. DVD File digs deep into the… |
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Don Hahn panel at Woodbury University
…insights into the highly creative and involved process of making animated films across a variety of mediums – traditional, computer and stop–motion animation – as reflected in The Alchemy of… |
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Murray on Mr. Fox
ComingSoon currently features an interview with actor Bill Murray on several of his most recent and upcoming films. In the article, Murray shortly discusses his role in the stop–motion flick… |
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Reminder: Robbie the Reindeer tonight on CBS
CBS is airing a Christmas special tonight at 8:00 PM: two episodes of the stop motion show Robbie the Reindeeer. The show is a production of BBC’s Animation Unit in… |
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Christmas Nightmare
…tenth year celebrations come to a close, Alex Weitzman at The Big Cartoon Database’s {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view&post=16860 The Animated Word}} takes a look back at the 1993 stop–motion musical and finds… |
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RIP…
…two such artists: stop–motion animator Wah Chang (Oscar winner for special effects on George Pal’s The Time Machine and contributor to animated sequences in other Pal features), and voice actor… |
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The Animated Games of E3
…ultimate Nick gaming adventure. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas – CAPCOM – PS2 This action game is based on Henry Selick’s stop–motion movie masterpiece. Players slip into the role… |
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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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Parent Trap set for television twins
Walt Disney’s 1961 live-action feature The Parent Trap (which featured a classic stop–motion animated opening sequence) is being lined up to appear on the Mouse’s ABC Network as a new… |
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Roecker set to Live Freaky
Rolling Stone reports that John Roecker will write and direct Live Freaky, Die Freaky, a new stop–motion effects/puppetry movie. The premise is, “Set in the future, the twisted tale follows… |
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Ray Harryhausen on The DVD Collection
The BBC’s disc review show, The DVD Collection, looks at the work of stop–motion animation director Ray Harryhausen today, plus the UK Looney Tunes releases and Belleville Rendezvous, on their… |
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Exclusive sneak peek at Coraline
RottenTomatoes shares an exclusive video on director Henry Selick’s latest stop–motion project Coraline, featuring clips, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with the cast and crew, including Selick, novelist Neil Gaiman, and… |
