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The Look of Mr. Fox
Comingsoon.net has a behind-the-scenes article about how director Wes Anderson and his team achieved the unique look of the stop–motion animated comedy Fantastic Mr. Fox. Starring George Clooney and based… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…at a loose end…hahahahahahahahaha!! • Mad Monster Party – the original stop–motion spook-fest! • Monster House – dare you knock on the door? • Groovie Goolies – the Saturday mourning… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…matte paintings – by Studio legends Albert Whitlock and Peter Ellenshaw – which really open up the scope, and the stop–motion employed for the cutting of the iconic “Z” into… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Fifth Season
…Island. Flashbacks to Doc’s childhood, a Spanakopita competition, albino brotherhood, and interference from the insufferable Augustus St. Cloud all figure into the nutty plot. Look for a stop–motion tribute to… |
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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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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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Robot Chicken greenlit for two more seasons
Cartoon Network’s popular stop–motion animated series Robot Chicken has been greenlit for two more seasons, according to ComingSoon.Net. The sketch comedy show, perhaps best known for its Star Wars parodies,… |
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Oscar reactions from Coraline, French Roast
…Kells, done in hand-drawn animation; Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox, in stop–motion; and Up, in glorious CG. It’s a great day for me, my family, and for all of us… |
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Meet Madame Tutli-Putli and one of her directors!
…their film, which is created in the stop–motion medium that I’m a big fan of and that I hope to see soon, I wish them all the best. I think… |
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Henry Selick to make animated horror Shademaker
…be produced at his new studio, reports /Film. Selick is heading a new stop–motion animation studio in San Francisco, Shademaker Productions, whose mandate is “to make great, scary films for… |
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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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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…now President of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists guild, and Chris Bailey, recently of the Clerks cartoon series, Mickey’s Runaway Brain short and the Kim Possible show. Making perhaps the… |
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Oscar nominations for 2016 films announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced nominations for the 89th Academy Awards today. Categories featuring animated films include: Best Animated Film • Kubo and the Two Strings… |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…for some skits, Robot Chicken-like stop–motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the… |
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The Rescuers
…Bianca. Bianca is an agent for The Rescue Aid Society, a secret rodent organization that helps those bigger than themselves out of danger. When a message in a bottle is… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…his nemesis Jerry, the mouse. These collections, under the banner of The Art Of Tom And Jerry, brought together all of their motion picture appearances, including original CinemaScope shorts and… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: As with many films to emerge from the Disney Studios over the years, it’s the death of a parent that sets the plot in motion, when… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…is a weirdo-bizarro look at Mickey’s enduring popularity by stop–motion/pixelation animator Mike Jittlov, perhaps best known for his The Wizard Of Speed And Time feature. Absolute die-hard fans will have… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…Beauty, perhaps the zenith of the Disney-styled fairytale picture. Walt’s Nine Old Men certainly pulled out all the stops in their cartooning of the canine stars and though one never… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie opens
…Tomatoes. Their critical consensus: “Warm, funny, and brilliantly animated, Shaun the Sheep is yet another stop–motion jewel in Aardman’s family-friendly crown”. Box Office Prophets projects a $15 million five-day opening…. |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…themes up with sometimes mawkish moments that stop the dramatic flow. Watership has none of that to worry about, though it is not the po-faced, sorry, sad and depressing motion… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #113: The Boxtrolls – Oh, Mason, Where Art Thou?!
…stop motion animated film, The Boxtrolls! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV1467045568.mp3 Highlights Nerdy Couch Discussion: Travis Knight – Laika CEO, Producer, & Lead Animator Main Discussion: General info, budget, & the melodic saw. 12… |
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First trailer for Frankenweenie now online
The first trailer for Tim Burton’s stop–motion feature Frankenweenie has just gone online and is available to watch on Yahoo!Movies. Featuring the voices of Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short,… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…and could have done with a bigger bang and more clarity to set things in motion. But it’s fun to hear Lewis again: reprising his role, he’s not just relegated… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…included Popeye, Dick Tracy and Superman, while due was given to stop–motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen with the publication in the US of a book that had long been available worldwide…. |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…that it was the stop–motion work of Ray Harryhausen – usually the skeleton sword fight in Jason And The Argonauts – that inspired them to break into the business, but… |
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Osbournes get animated
Ozzy Osbourne and the rest of his clan will be voicing themselves in a new stop motion animated series called The F’n Osbournes in development, according to Screen Rant. Cuppa… |
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Oscar’s song shortlist includes 11 animated tunes
Seventy-five songs from 2013 films have been shortlisted for nominations in the Original Song category at the Oscars, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Those from… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…highest grossing animated feature of the time, The Lion King, not to mention experimentation in stop–motion (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and computer graphics (Toy Story) that took Disney even further… |
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ParaNorman opens in third place
…Office Mojo. “Even with a unique concept and lukewarm competition, the movie still couldn’t break out of the standard stop–motion animation opening range, which reinforces how tricky this sub-genre is”…. |
