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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
Thunderbean Animation, 1.33:1 original full frame ratios, Not Rated, Average Retail: $15 Storyboard: Steve Stanchfield’s independent Thunderbean Animation label collects more entertaining rarities and curios in five vintage and brand… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…animation, we talked about and looked at animation drawings of the classic films, a lot of Chuck Jones drawings from Looney Tunes, saying “that type of animation would fit with… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…the master of animation, and he managed to do animation as high art, so it’s really amazing. AV: I guess it worked out for him! 1930/40s – LITERARY SOURCES AND… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…uncanny valley when you’re watching that film. And here we have Titan A.E. trying to combine traditional animation and CG animation together, and the rushed production time forces them to… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…Character Animation Crash Course, which has been gestating in production for some two-and-a-half decades. A contemporary animation legend, Eric has animated on films including Raggedy Ann and Andy, Ziggy’s Gift… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…never have the opportunity to pitch the idea. In April 2006, the Walt Disney Company purchased Pixar Animation Studios for approximately $7.4 billion. Wanting to revitalize the company’s animation divisions,… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…& Walt Disney Animation Studios booth. The Big “A” from the previous Animation Building signage signed by a who’s who of animation greats was displayed at the Pixar & Wat… |
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\\Wallace & Gromit\\ leads 2005 Annie Award nominations
…Walt Disney Feature Animation Jason Wen – “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” – Aardman Features Martin Usiak – “Madagascar” – DreamWorks Animation Character Animation Claire Billett –… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…growing presence of foreign films in the American market, as well as the rising number of foreign studios investing in animation. Many of the major animation studios from around the… |
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Were-Rabbit hops away with ten Annies
…– “Madagascar” – DreamWorks Animation Rick Glumac – “Madagascar” – DreamWorks Animation Dale Mayeda – “Chicken Little” – Walt Disney Feature Animation Jason Wen – “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse… |
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2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive
…greater community that would support and spotlight one another. In 2009, they launched their first animation expo to further promote the talent and the industry. Since then the CTN Animation… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…the unit. A big name in the animation industry, the award-winning Director of Animation and Story Artist began his 15-year career in film and animation as a graduate of the… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…finished animation scenes to tighten the movie, and quickly moves the unit out of the Animation building to a warehouse in Glendale, which leads to thoughts of “the horror, the… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
…and animation was refined just enough to still appear wonderful while adding elements here and there that were unique. If the physics animation on Po was incredible in the first… |
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Disney releases animation app
Disney Animated, a new app for iPad, is now available in the App Store. Fans can explore the story of Disney animation through interactive illustrations and animation workshops derived from… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…Pixar Animation, The Muppets, Steven Spielberg’s new DreamWorks, Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers and perhaps most excitingly of all, the return of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit to the Studio and the ending… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…documentary is a great recap of animation’s Golden Age in general, wrapping itself up around the birth of UPA’s changing the face of animation, the end of the original Studio… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…of new animated features includes six new films from Pixar Animation Studios, four from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and the first four in a series of direct-to-DVD films featuring Disney… |
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Annie’s award best of 2013 animation
…Pacific Rim – Industrial Light & Magic Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Kureha Yokoo – Toy Story OF TERROR! – Pixar Animation Studios Character Animation in an Animated… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
…differenciates stop frame animation from the other forms of animation like, say, hand drawn animation? SM: I think stop-frame animation still has that hand-made tactile quality to it. People can… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…and so their first offering in feature animation was the live-action combo Space Jam, in 1996, which had a good third of its animation completed at Warners’ UK Studio in… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…and the animation outsourced to Starz Animation based in Toronto, Canada; previously the Film Roman outfit that produces so much animation for television and had successfully handled the sometimes stunning… |
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Focal Press educates on animation with recent projects
…Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, 2e; Animating with Flash 8; Animation: The Mechanics of Motion and Designing Sound for Animation. For info on these publications, please click: Force: Dynamic Life… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…going to the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts then to an animation school in Luxembourg, the Technical School of Crafts and Arts where I got my animation degree. AV:… |
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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
…Animation Festival (Canada), Elektra: International Digital Arts Festival (Canada), Anima Mundi (Brazil), Fredrikstad Animation Festival (Norway), Projector Festival (Scotland), Platform International Animation Festival (Portland), Los Angeles Times Festival of Books,… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…you’re planning to continue with computer animation or are you considering a return to traditional animation? CB: It’s probably going to be computer animation, as far as I know. That’s… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…limited animation, but that isn’t fair. True, their cartoons had to be done cheaply, but without their contribution it is very difficult to imagine what form television animation would have… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…what I want to do! I want to work in animation!’” The robot Peace in Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards Disa completed the film-and-animation program at NIU and moved to Los Angeles… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…Past, Making Woody’s Roundup marionette animation, and a Production Tour that again covers the stages of animation as produced by Pixar. Some Early Animation Tests, and the tricks used for… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…on Meet the Robinsons (2007), Bolt (2008) and Tangled (2010). In September 2008, Millstein became the general manager of Walt Disney Animation Studios, reporting to Disney and Pixar animation Chief… |
