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Aardman’s Timmy Time to premiere on Disney Channel

…is Aardman’s first animated television project for the preschool audience, and the stop-motion series has already enjoyed great success in its first season of broadcast overseas. Timmy Time follows the

ASIFA-Hollywood calls for 2010 Annie entries

…Added The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announces its ‘Call for Entries’ for the 38th Annual Annie Awards. The Annie Award is recognized by the entertainment industry as the highest…

Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork

…Start” – The Toy Story 3 animators shave their heads to mark the start of the film. BLU-RAY COMBO PACK: Everything on the DVD plus… • Toy Story Trivia Dash…

The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series

…and the Bell 9. Panacea 10. King Niddler Disc Three 11. The Collection 12. The Little Leviathan 13. The Darkdweller 14. The Dark Disciples 15. The Ghost Pirates 16. The

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse – Apokalips (clip)

…encounter a mysterious Kryptonian with powers as great as those of the Man of Steel. The Kryptonian is soon revealed to be Kara, cousin of Superman, who takes her under…

Despicable Me despicably on Blu-ray and DVD!

…parts – the voice work, the drawing style, the pleasing, matter-of-fact use of 3D – but because the whole is as much a unified vision as anything the Great and…

He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

the story is the love between a boy and his pooch, as well as the affection that the rest of the kids have for Snoopy. Snoopy always tries to look…

The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition

…plot nor the visuals continue to outweigh the other, even if by this point I was still unsure as to some of the reasoning. As for the characters themselves, their…

Toy Story 3: Pixar writer Michael Arndt tells the story behind the story

…let anyone down, so the pressure was pretty agonizing for the entire four years of making the movie. RI: Were you given any specific restrictions for the characters or the

Bugs Bunny’s Howl-Oween Special

there’s not actually anything to take umbrage with in these specials, which can routinely match up the classic animation pretty well at times, and at others the years between the

Thundarr The Barbarian: The Complete Series

there during cable showings. The packaging also gives H-B the copyright on the show. One may note that the H-B branding of the show has been going on for a…

15 films going up for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars

The Illusionist Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Megamind My Dog Tulip Shrek Forever After Summer Wars Tangled Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Toy Story 3…

Africa enters the 3D animated market

…Bear), Phil LaMarr (Family Guy, Futurama), Jim Cummings (The Princess and the Frog, The Lion King, Winnie the Pooh), and Jennifer Lewis (The Princess and the Frog, Cars). Zambezia tells…

The Addams Family: The Complete Series

The characters retained their names from the live action show, but the designs were clearly based directly on Charles Addams’ drawings. There’s Gomez, the chubby and charismatic patriarch of the

Legends Of The Superheroes

…which comes at the end of The Roast. Case Study: The DVD-R comes in a standard keepcase. The photos on the case come out a little fuzzy, owing to the

Warner Archive: The Green Slime

the film is going (even after the hilarious “asteroid”, which basically resembles a meatball…ahh the Italian connection again!) is when the opening song (yes, there’s a theme song!) starts to…

Superman/Shazam!: The Return Of Black Adam

they could probably get away with the length of the features anyhow? And now we have our answer. Apparently, the idea all along was to re-package the shorts into their…

Tangled

Like several of the films on Disney’s slate after the Pixar merge, Tangled had some shakeups on the way to the screen. Besides the change in Glen Keane’s status, perhaps…

Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales

the Peanuts gang celebrates the Christmas season. The added special is really the meatier of the two, with the moving away of the Van Pelts setting off a chain of…

Get caught up in Tangled‘s disc details

…scenes and illuminate why they were ultimately cut. – The Jaunty Moose – Chemistry Develops – Vigor The Visionary Extended Songs – The complete versions of two great songs are…

Henry Selick to make animated horror Shademaker

Henry Selick, the director behind films such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline is pulling together talent now for Shademaker, the first film to…

David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career

the flow. The input of the director is always of major importance. It’s the person who ultimately launches you on the shot and validates it in the end. So the

Stop-Motion Marvels!

…from various places. An assortment of theatrical and television advertisements follows, and then there is what is arguably the centerpiece of the disc: films from the Kinex collection. Early Experiments…

Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set

…digital/hi-def film masters, the must-own comprehensive Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology (1978-2006) on Blu-ray includes all six versions of the films in the original Superman theatrical franchise — Superman: The

Valley Of The Dinosaurs: The Complete Series

…Phooey, Wheelie And The Chopper Bunch, Devlin, These Are The Days, and Valley Of The Dinosaurs. Hanna-Barbera and CBS likely felt that they had a hit on their hands with…

Preserving Animation’s History: S/R Animation Conservation Center

…is even better. They painstakingly restore cells that were once used in the great Disney classics. The S/R team examines each color in a damaged cell, duplicating them by using…

Thor: Tales of Asgard

they are narrating the film, rather than explaining how they developed it. They do offer behind the scenes and story tidbits that aren’t described in the film. Gary Hartle, director…

Ben 10 is coming to the big screen

…leading character that lends itself to the big screen and I am looking forward to seeing how we can take it to the next level.” The project is currently without…

The Herculoids: The Complete Series

…is also not the animation itself, though there is some nice work, which naturally gets reused throughout the show. No, the real fun of the show is gaping at the

Rockin’ With Judy Jetson

…off with the rock star. The youngest Jetson, Elroy, is also out of the house, having snuck off to see the concert with his dog Astro, and they too get…