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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…part of the point, and this helps the animation tremendously – the fact that these are animated characters only strives to help the reality of their lives and situations sink… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…characters – Fiver, Hazel, Big Wig among them – all of which have their importance to the group and to the plot. As they face their foes along the way,… |
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Flushed Away
…their major competitors. The twist is, of course, that Aardman converted to CG themselves in order to put Flushed Away on the screen, though much of the film was actually… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…the late 70s. Paramount, who had held on to the character rights if not the films themselves over the years, thought that the time was ripe for a big live-action… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…and changing the overall branding line from the Animation Classics Collection to The Golden Age Of Cartoons banner on the front. Great is the four-page color liner notes insert (possibly… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…the sheer amount of knowledge and care the two have for their craft and their movie is evident throughout. It was nice to hear them evoke the ethos of Walt… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…on the princesses to follow, how did Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influence the animators and the creators of The Princess and the Frog? LS: Well, they always come… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…The second disc holds the rest of the bonus material, a mix of content from the 2002 disc (a 25 minute Making Of Sunset Boulevard retrospective, the film’s Theatrical Trailer,… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…also fixed their stardom through frequent television appearances including “The Red Skelton Show,” “General Electric Theater,” “The United States Steel Hour” “The Dinah Shore Chevy Show” and “Toast of the… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…gone into them than meets the eye, and Rodney notes the “complex storylines” and “plenty of entertainment value. I would rate this season among the best of the show”. Also… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…of Superman we wanted. We had several different models – the crying/feeling Superman, the lecturing/do-gooder/save-the-day Superman, then there was the hip Superman and even the long-haired Superman. And, of course,… |
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A Christmas Carol: director Robert Zemeckis’ season’s greetings!
…from her head. The great thrill for me was having the tools to do justice to what Dickens wrote and put all these surreal and fantastic images up there on… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…their clothing ruffled around by the animators’ hands, though giving the foxes the constant appearance of wind blowing through their fur. This brings a stylized but highly naturalistic look to… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…give their feedback to help the reels. Then we also have a test audience watch it and we ask them what they thought of the movie. It’s a long, long… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…program out as something different. The titles of these moments pretty much say it all: The Adoption, The Supermarket, At The Babysitter’s (though not as destructive as Jack-Jack Attack!), The… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…in common is the fact that they were all leading characters. Predominantly, they were the leading character or one of the leading characters of the movie. The second element is… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…This is due to the unique storytelling talents of the writers, the memorable songs used on the shows, and the unique stop-motion animation techniques that nearly defined the style for… |
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Castle In The Sky
…origins and the secrets of a fabled castle in the sky. The Sweatbox Review: Following the success of the film Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, the publisher of… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 5
…after the fourth season and they had to create new episodes for the final season. The new character designs made the characters look more adult-like in their designs, and less… |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…all the great stories out there, why do they choose from Loeb and Winick? It’s frustrating. Winick actually pitched the story over the phone to producer Bruce Timm, and managed… |
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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
These tales of the Green Lantern Corps should serve as a great primer for anyone looking forward to the theatrical film. The origins of the Corps are revealed, and we… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…the United States National Archives. The cartoons have undergone restoration, and surely we now have the best possible set of these cartoons. Compared to the older DVD, the cartoons now… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…Because The Lion King was considered an original story there was always the need to anchor it with something familiar. When we first pitched the revised outline of the movie… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…but then also came the “mid-quels”, films that took place between scenes in the original movies. Well, fine, if they wanted to screw with the likes of Tarzan then that… |
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Cars 2
…is a good one, he’s really just there to open the doors to the other vehicles ready to join the Cars team on store shelves, including the characters of the… |
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Lady and the Tramp’s Peggy Lee on the right side of the (sound)tracks!
…on the occasion of Lady and the Tramp’s Blu-ray debut. Animated Views: I’ve read Peggy Lee began working on Lady and the Tramp as the voice of some characters. How… |
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Real Steel
…continuing Winston’s great work. They’ve certainly achieved that here, designing and creating the real world models that perform alongside the augmented digital effects and continue the traditions set by the… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…to Julie and to Jim Sutherland, who produced the songs overseas, through the Disney folks. They recorded everything in Scotland using these great traditional instruments. Then, they sent it back…. |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
For many individuals, the best part of Thanksgiving is the holiday feast – except, of course, for those on the menu. Therein is the dilemma of being a turkey at… |
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Son Of Batman
…ground (other than the no-killing code) or seem like a particularly great role model. And then there are the missteps previously mentioned: the misogynous nature of Talia’s treatment in the… |
