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Animated coverage of the 78th Annual Academy Awards
…the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. In a surprise move, the traditionally animated The Moon and the Sun: An Imagined Conversation was awarded the Oscar, edging out the competition… |
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\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers
…characters from the trailer, including the hillbilly actually provide memorable moments throughout the film and the voice acting is top notch. Without going into much detail, the 2 most noticeable… |
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Become an animated judge in the Animex Student Animation Awards
The following is a press release on the Animex Student Animation Awards special public choice award, in which everyone is invited to cast a vote: The Animex Student Animation Awards… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
…and JoBlo. The panel for the company’s upcoming Open Season consisted of visual effects supervisor Doug Ikeler, co-director Jill Culton, and Steve Moore, the creator of the In the Bleachers… |
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Disney rakes it in on iTunes
When Apple announced the addition of feature films to the iTunes store last week, Disney was the only studio on board – most others signed up to Amazon’s two week… |
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Scooby-Doo celebrated in Boomerang marathon
…the world. Inspired by the film Ghostbusters. * A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988) – Viewers return to the days when the members of Mystery, Inc., were merely kids and their… |
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VES Unveils “50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Timeâ€
…Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 34. Forbidden Planet (1956) 35. Babe (1995) 36. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 36. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers… |
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Bravestarr: The Movie
…the “Best Of Bravestarr” DVD included the pilot movie Bravestarr: The Legend on the first disc, and five specially selected episodes from the series run on the second disc, this… |
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Anka receives scholarship from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera
…animation and hope this annual scholarship will allow students like Kris to broaden their education in animation and hone their artistic skills. Through their accomplishments, they will honor the legacy… |
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WALL•E gets our Animated View…
…James’ take makes it clear that he enjoyed the film. “There can be no question that Pixar is the best at what they do [but] there is still more that… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…decided to do the same for their sequel to 1967’s The Jungle Book the following year. The DisneyToon studios (Tokyo and Australia were involved in this one) had shown themselves… |
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Animated News & Views does Comic-Con 2008!
…James is pretty comfortable in the USA, but Randall’s a lot further North, in Canada, while yours truly is stuck in the sticks of the old country, England! But the… |
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Bonhams & Butterfields celebrate Carl Barks at auction
…the story-board concepts for ideas, to the pencils, to the final inks – and for a short period of time the lettering as well (until his third wife Gare Barks… |
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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…for a show the previous producers of the WPA were doing, and as they retired, they basically gave Howard and two other people the rights to use the WPA. It… |
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aniBOOM's MicroSmotion launches today
We mentioned aniBOOM yesterday here but today marks the first time their new tool, MicroSmotion, is available to any visitor for easily making their own animations to share online. Read… |
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Ariel’s Song: Jeanine Tesori and James Dooley, two fortunate composers under the sea!
…like: “Oh, we all have the same CD. This is the guy!” So, I came in. They’re really great people and I really got friendly with them. And then, right… |
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Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures
…small creature or child without prejudice and they end up having a great time. Then, in the middle of the cartoon, they typically encounter a problem, and Casper has the… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943
…on the first disc (The Clown’s Little Brother, The Cartoon Factory, and Koko Needles The Boss). Anyone who has seen these Out Of The Inkwell shorts knows that they are… |
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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…fact sheets about each show, and pictures from the event and the new series’ just look here: Batman: The Brave and the Bold Launch date: Batman: The Brave and the… |
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Frank Walsh: On set with Prince Caspian’s Final Battle – The Beruna Bridge Sequence
…the Telamarines were felling a whole forest to achieve the task. Then we see the army crossing on their way to Narnia. The troops are then seen retreating across the… |
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3-D "a revelation" for Sigourney Weaver
…to watch James Cameron work. “He’d invented these cameras. He operated them on almost every shot – and they’re huge. And he had so much to do with the design… |
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Toon producers outsource to China
…into the Chinese-language toon business, The Secret of the Magic Gourd. A tale of a vegetable with special powers, the film fared well in Asia and has been described by… |
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Behind the scenes of Wall•E
…out the whole film on the spot. “He gave me the private show,” laughs the 59-year-old, who ended up working on Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull at the same… |
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M. Night Shyamalan's take on The Last Airbender
…issues and serious larger topics–at the center, genocide–all kinds of stuff. Cultural differences at the center. It has Buddhism, Hinduism, things I’m interested in.[And] the great thing about [the action]… |
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More Pixar and Wall•E goodies
…than Ratatouille‘s. Coming Soon! offers another great interview with writer/director Andrew Stanton. And last but not least, the Disney Blog reveals that preview screenings of Wall•E will begin this week… |
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Polar Bears, WALL-E's BAFTA win, plus the return of our Oscar Contest!
…these three titles: the Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition, Space Buddies, and the recently released The Secret Of The Magic Gourd! All three giveaways end at the stroke of… |
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You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…is the sole featurette on the disc. It examines the role of sports in the Peanuts comic strip, and nicely showcases Craig Schulz and his love of motocross. The best… |
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3-D movies: The answer to filling theaters?
NPR.org has posted an article featuring Jeffrey katzenberg seeing 3-D as the third great revolution in the history of film. He predicts that in less than a handful of years… |
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The Art Of Pixar Shorts, plus last chance for the Oscar Contest!
…of the CG studio’s output. Covering thirteen of Pixar’s short films from The Adventures Of Wally B. to Lifted, the book very neatly separates them up into sections: the Early… |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…to Disney in 1987, working on The Rescuers Down Under (visual development and story), Beauty and the Beast (he storyboarded the death and resurrection of the Beast), The Lion King… |
