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Strong opening day for Toy Story 3
…opening weekend, which would be a first for Pixar. Up until now, the studio’s strongest debut was for The Incredibles, which opened to $70 million in the November of 2004…. |
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G2: Pixar’s changing face of animation; New Wonder Woman
The Guardian online version of its G2 supplement today looks into the way Pixar and its feature debut Toy Story revitalized the animation industry, as the third film gets ready… |
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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… |
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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… |
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Toy Story 3
…the Toy Story universe. The rest of the film continues to run along re-running themes from the first two films: Woody is disassociated from the rest of the group, Jesse… |
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Pixar’s RenderMan licenses drop price
…the revolution in rendering visual effects and animation, and is today the standard for creating the outstanding levels of photorealism that audiences now demand. With RenderMan Pro Server’s new price,… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…Imax theaters for the first few months of the year, before coming to regular 35mm screens in the spring. As was the case with all of the contemporary Disney features,… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…the game changer. Signalling the animation renaissance of the 1990s that would bloom into the boom of the 2000s, the Academy couldn’t help but take notice, initiating the Best Animated… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…the ship. There is little for Nausicaa to do to prevent the crash, which is blunt in its terrible destruction. The mystery of the airship is enhanced by the discovery… |
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Tangled
…of utilising the current CG animation approach, The Princess And The Frog returned to the beautiful hand-drawn style the Studio was traditionally known for. The storytelling – feeling very much… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…as much as the theatrical receipts?). As far as those games went, they were pretty basic back in the old arcades, but the games in the movie itself predicted a… |
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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…from the original opus evolved in the second one? VN: Most of the characters from the first film remain as they were when we met them. The exception would be… |
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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
…to see this art if the films themselves weren’t any good. We shouldn’t forget that all the artwork in these books aids the creation of moving pieces of art. AV:… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…to the look of the film, the likes of the impressive Tangled proved that CGI was perhaps the best medium suited to the format. Following Blu-ray 3D releases for their… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…15 91 the wild 13 roadside romeo 13 93 valiant 12 the wild thornberrys movie 12 the sky crawlers 12 kaena the prophecy 12 97 the tale of despereaux 11… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…for the film, and looks at the real Venezuelan “table top” mountains, with plenty of footage from the crew’s trip to the jungle to draw their influences for all the… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…Playing theatrically with Cars 2, the first of these is Hawaiian Vacation (5:53, 1.78:1, 2011), which for many was the highlight of the Cars 2 experience in theaters and on… |
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Disney Infinity delayed until August
…Monsters University, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Incredibles, among other Disney titles. According to Reuters, Disney delayed the project in order to “capitalize on a more favorable retail season.”… |
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Monsters University coming home in October
…in-depth behind the scenes features, deleted scenes, the animated theatrical short “The Blue Umbrella” and much more. Directed by Dan Scanlon (“Cars,” “Mater and the Ghostlight,” “Tracy”), produced by Kori… |
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CalArts class has huge impact on animation history
…Institute of the Arts in the 1970s. “Their journey begins, and ends, with the Walt Disney Studios. As director and writer Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) observes, ‘People think it… |
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Big Hero 6
…the voice acting was top notch, the music was fitting, the action was intense. This was a very good movie! The only part of the film that came up short… |
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Big Hero 6
…the disc something of a historic release is the inclusion of the Studio’s latest animated short Feast, the Academy Award winner which gives Disney the unique distinction of being the… |
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Zootopia
…use them throughout the film as jokes. Sloths are slow so they run the DMV. Wolves can be distracted because they all like to howl. A character with the last… |
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The Iron Giant: Signature Edition finally coming to Blu-ray in September
…will be available to own on Blu-ray for $14.97 SRP and contains both the Signature Edition of the film and the original theatrical version in high definition. The disc will… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…the point as they played up how unconvincing actors looked in such films. They sure looked more creepy than the creatures. I liked the film then and as I do… |
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Coco
…in just about every way. But the one area it lacks in is pretty big. Let’s start with the good. The animation is wonderful. The living side of the divide… |
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Disney and Pixar animator/voice actor Bud Luckey passes away
…Rick Dicker in The Incredibles and Toy Story 3 as Chuckles the Clown. Luckey was also the voice of Eeyore in 2011’s Winnie the Pooh. He was 83 years old…. |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…is based on one beautiful theme. How did you create it? TC: The theme is the heart of the score and the voice of the story. It serves as a… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…had on them, the people they worked with, and the fans they’ve met over the years. All of this, of course, was leading up to the surprise reveal that the… |
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Oscar noms for 2018 movies announced
Nominations for the the 91st Academy Awards were announced today. The nominees for Best Animated Film are: Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Mirai, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Spider-Man: Into… |
