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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…their old material and they would send us photocopies of animation material when they could. So, most of the time, we would have copies of them with their model sheets… |
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Fantasia 2000
…and the jack-in-the-box. The animation of “Carnival of the Animals, Finale” was the idea of Joe Grant, who had worked on the original Fantasia. He had the idea of the… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #51: Corpse Bride – Studio Jiggling
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The fans voted and for this year’s annual Rotoscopers spook-tacular, they dive into the macabre world of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV7625478821.mp3 Highlights: • News:… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #80: Big Hero 6 – Do Not Even Compare it To Frozen
…the beginning. • Let’s talk about the Big Hero 6 gang. We need more of them! • Baymax was adorable. Much more lovable than Olaf. Great sidekick character who morphed… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #99: Minions – It is what it is, Just go with it!
…Illumination Entertainment. Minionese and their language. Is it the mother of all languages? Minions discussion at the physical therapy office. The awesome villain family and VillainCon! How do you like… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…They were great; they were some beautiful scenes. You’ll see them on the DVD. I’m sure they’ll all end up in the DVD extras. They won’t go entirely to waste…. |
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The Great Polar Bear Adventure
…to go to the shore. Their mother takes them to the sea ice to teach them how to hunt, but the ice has melted and there are few seals to… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…to do something with them once he saw Lion King. They had two different sensibilities, the two of them but I think the blend worked well together, especially on the… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…like the coach watching his or her team from the sideline,” explains Reece. “As the writer, you’re on the field, very close to the action. But the coach has a… |
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DVD reviews: Gargoyles, Treasures Mickey Mouse Club and Mickey Mouse in Black and White
…here for kids and adults.”), Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club (“Original fans of The Mickey Mouse Club are going to love this, but there’s some good stuff here… |
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M-I-C-K-E-Y…Happy Birthday, Mr Mouse!
…visitors to the Disneyland park and heading up The Mickey Mouse Club on television in the 1950s. In honor of his 50th Anniversary in 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 4
…their original theatrical exhibitions. The final three shorts are featured in the 2.37:1 CinemaScope ratio, preserving their original ratio. The quality of the shorts varies with the older shorts containing… |
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New Tom & Jerry poster advertises “a major commotion picture”
…finest hotel on the eve of “the wedding of the century,” forcing the event’s desperate planner to hire Tom to get rid of him, in director Tim Story’s Tom &… |
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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…without desecrating the memory of the original. It also maintains the tradition of great Disney animal adventures: the achievement with the dogs is remarkable, and Hughes’ script cleverly conveys all… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…of the day. Starting with the first in the series, we’re offered five such Cartunes here: $21 A Day (Once A Month), Pass The Biscuits Mirandy!, The Greatest Man In… |
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Addams Family 2 teaser trailer spooks the internet
The first teaser trailer for The Addams Family 2 is now online, and it can be watched in the player above. Unsurprisingly, it reveals absolutely nothing about the sequel’s plot…. |
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Watch the first (and very brief) teaser for Vivo
A (very short) teaser for Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo has been released, and you can check it out in the player above. The preview comes after the announcement that the… |
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Watch the exciting trailer for Star Wars: Visions anime anthology series
…some of the finest anime production studios in Japan. Each episode is developed by a different director and takes place across various timelines within the Star Wars chronology. While the… |
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The Fraggles are Back to the Rock in full trailer for reboot series
A full trailer for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock is now online, and can be checked out in the player above. Although a reboot series, most fans will probably… |
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The Mitchells vs. The Machines and Arcane lead Netflix domination of Annie Awards
The Mitchells vs. The Machines garnered 8 awards including Best Feature and Arcane swept all 9 awards it was nominated for including Best General TV Production in what was a… |
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The Bad Guys opens
DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys opens today in 4,008 theaters according to The Numbers. The film is a hit with critics, earning 85% at Rotten Tomatoes. Their consensus: “Fast-paced, funny, and… |
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The trailer for Phil Tippett’s Mad God promises a twisted nightmare (viewer discretion advised)
…Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star… |
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Watch the emotional teaser trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
…Chadwick Boseman in 2020 (even the Marvel Studios logo is presented differently here to fit the tone). The sequel to the superhero smash hit opens in theaters everywhere this November…. |
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Giselle is an evil stepmother in the full Disenchanted trailer
…(Amy Adams) and Robert (Patrick Dempsey) wed, but Giselle has grown disillusioned with life in the city, so they move their growing family to the sleepy suburban community of Monroeville… |
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New Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse poster shows off massive Spidey lineup
…The highly anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning animated movie hits theaters next summer. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he… |
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The eye-popping trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is here
…Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them…. |
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The final trailer for The Flash speeds into action
Yet another trailer for The Flash is now online, but in fairness, this film does continue to look pretty promising. The movie is currently riding a ton of positive buzz… |
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Get ducky with the new Migration trailer
…trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica. As the Mallards make their way South for the winter, their well-laid plans quickly go awry. The experience will inspire them to… |
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From the Archives: The Animated News Weekly
After some excavation deep into the embarrassingly cluttered AV archives, we discovered some long lost content: the newsletters we published in the years after our 2003 launch!… |
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Paramount+ reveals song from upcoming new Dora series, ¡Somos Familia!
…work together to overcome many obstacles while being challenged by the sneakiest fox, Swiper (Marc Weiner). Kathleen Herles, the original voice of Dora the Explorer, returns to the new series… |
