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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…– most notably Italy – were quick to jump in on the act, and the American studios did not let these successes pass them by completely. Shipping out entire stock… |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…in London. There, I had the opportunity to work on American Tail II. It was a great experience to be a young artist in an animation studio. I learned a… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…cartoons, and told a full-length story. Ranger Smith is phoned by the sponsor, who wants to give Yogi a birthday party at a studio in the city. Ranger Smith doesn’t… |
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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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Stronger Than Spinach
…Fleischer Studio, when their distributor, Paramount, decided to muscle the Fleischers out and simply run a cartoon studio themselves. Many of the same folks stayed on to direct, draw, and… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…Wray appearing! The Kinex Studios Collection The following films make up the bulk of the DVD, going beyond simple curios and actually adding to our understanding of film and animation… |
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Are the Madagascar penguins getting their own movie?
The popular superspy penguins from DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar films have already inspired their own hit TV series, but the Hollywood Reporter reports that the studio has even bigger plans for… |
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Starz Animation Gets A New Name
The visual effects and animation studio based in Toronto Starz Animation sees new ownership and a new name: Arc Productions. The newly named studio will continue to do work on… |
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Kevin Lima heading back to animation
After helming Disney’s Tarzan and the studio’s live-action fantasies 102 Dalmatians and Enchanted, director Kevin Lima is returning to the animated musical, though this time he’ll be overseeing a movie… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
Enrico Casarosa joined Pixar Animation Studios in January 2002. He began working as a story artist on Cars and the Academy Award-winning feature Ratatouille. Casarosa’s next project was as story… |
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John Lasseter gets starred on Hollywood Boulevard
…Newman and Cheech Marin. Key Disney and Pixar executives in attendance included Studio Chairman Rich Ross, Studio President Alan Bergman, Production President Sean Bailey, Disney and Pixar Animation Studios President… |
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The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi
…UPA Animation Studios. In March 2004, he partnered with Jerry Beck and launched the Cartoon Brew website and in March 2007, they debuted the animation-on-demand download site Cartoon Brew Films…. |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
…says that the animation studio’s unique expertise made it a perfect match for Aardman. “It was extremely important to all of us that every nuance and character trait that is… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…Spielberg expressed interest in doing a computer animated Tintin film. The following year, he regained the rights through his studio, DreamWorks. Unlike last time, however, Spielberg planned to serve only… |
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Live-action Akira put on hold…again
…reason for this is unknown, but apparently it has to do with the studio wanting to cut the $90 million budget nearly in half, moving it down to $60 million…. |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…pint-size tenant. The movie was well-received enough for the studio to put Verbinski in charge of its Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts vehicle The Mexican (2001) and horror remake The… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…at Reel FX since 1995, where he worked with clients such as Troublemaker Studios, Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks and Blue Sky Studios. Oldenburg acted as the visual effects supervisor for Spy… |
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Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots
…a big proponent of him getting his own film, and the studio was even into way it way back then. It just took a while to get the right story…. |
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A look at Laika
The New York Times has a look at Laika, the company behind the upcoming animated film ParaNorman. The in-depth piece includes: a history of the studio, a look at some… |
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DreamWorks Gives Paramount the Boot, Makes New Deal with Fox
In a move that will go down in animation history, Jeffrey Katzenberg and his DreamWorks studio have ended their distrubution contract with Paramount after six years. The animation studio responsible… |
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Beyond Beyond From Copenhagen Bombay Gets Financed
…to go searching for her and bring her home. The studio and Jacobsen have teamed up before for the 2011 movie The Great Bear. The film will be animated in… |
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Hotel Transylvania Production Designer Marcelo Vignali’s “Suite” Time!
…the studios were going under. Disney was still in business but they were talking about breaking the studio up, right after they did The Black Cauldron. So, it seemed like… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
We all remember the majesty and lyricism of Cody’s flight with Marahute: released in 1990, The Rescuers Down Under was the first sequel in the Disney Studio’s history and the… |
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The Halloween Tree
…a screenplay penned by Bradbury himself, this was finally a chance for the writer to work with the Studio founded by his old friend Walt Disney, but the shoot was… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…both studios have sometimes felt. What helps Europe’s Most Wanted break from the norm, too, is a wildly abandoned sense of the absurd. The first film’s most memorable moments were… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…years the Disney Studio has been producing entertainment, the animation division had never created any kind of specific Christmas special for television before Prep & Landing arrived on our screens… |
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Jim Henson Company Moves to China
The Jim Henson Company will not relocate to China, instead the studio behind such shows as Sid the Science Kid and The Hoobs might set up an animation studio in… |
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Wreck-It Ralph wins PGA award
…ago during difficult times and always wondered when I should leave. But I always believed in the studio. There is a renaissance going on at the studio – and that… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…been playing the (very) long game in waiting for their favorite shows to get wrapped up. Who knows how the Studios decide on what gets released? In previous insights it… |
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UPDATED: Cancelled, Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been
…7 into theaters, the show has been put to an end. Unfinished story arcs from the series are expected to be distributed as “bonus content” somewhere, but the studio wouldn’t… |
