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Home On The Range
…$29.99 Storyboard: The last (for now) traditionally produced animated feature from the Mouse House, Home On The Range’s wild-west spoof story is as basic as can be, with lady Pearl’s… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
Filmation Associates (December 5 1974), BCI/Eclipse (October 24 2006), single disc, 88 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Kansas girl… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…Studios – as a designer, storyboard artist, story writer and art director. He also worked on Don Bluth’s Titan A.E. special effects. Yet, meanwhile, he was self-teaching animation, up to… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…Pixar who had worked on Toy Story. I ‘re-met’ Clay Croker, who did Zorak and Moltar (animated and voiced-over) for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. I was delighted that he… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…on the menu, where the entire tagline takes up much room instead of a simple title), Toy Storys 1, 2 and 3, plus a Disney combo pack spot. From the… |
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Book excerpt from The CG Story
…exclusive excerpt this week at Deadline. The extended sample details “the near-disaster that almost was when the upstarts at Pixar pacted with Disney to make their first feature: Toy Story“…. |
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The Pixar Story
For those in the Los Angeles/Hollywood region please make note of a special one-week engagement of The Pixar Story which began last Friday and plays through to Thursday, August 30,… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears Productions (1980-1988), Warner Home Video (May 4, 2010), two discs, 265 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original aspect ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: Eleven Saturday Morning… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents Annette
Walt Disney Productions (1958), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 11, 2008), 2 disc set, 240 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail:… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…and the reasons behind the choices the production went for. The one and a half minute 70/30 Rule highlights the unique decision by the directors to bring a 70 percent… |
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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
Melendez/Mendelson Productions (1975), Warner Home Video (January 15, 2008), 1 disc, 25 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
…a nice featurette entitled The Origin Of The Extraordinary World (28:00). This look at the making of the film begins with Jacques Tardi himself describing how he came up with… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…of new ones, with almost no overhead cost (then running up to $60,000 per cartoon). So, the animation studio was targeted for closure. It was the studio’s business manager who… |
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Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition
…Digital 2.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0), Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Disney’s Robin Hood follows the traditional story of the famed English hero, but with all of the main characters… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…with a surprising amount of those conventions in place. Like Wizards, Rings opens with a storybook-like recap of the events that lead up to where the story proper begins, though… |
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Update on American Dog, Frog, Rapunzel story reels
The Animation Guild Blog indicates that the American Dog story reels recently received a warm reception. “The whole picture was up on reels, and the notes were pretty positive,” said… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…history of The Simpsons Movie? MS: We started coming up for a story for it in November 2003. So it’s been about – I guess thats like three years and… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…get across the origin of these tales. A storybook opens to a familiar rendering of the Hundred Acre Wood, populated by the characters from the stories. The storybook trappings charmingly… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
Rankin/Bass Productions (1976), Warner Home Video (October 4 2011), single disc, 25 minutes, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Rated G, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Frosty returns in the animated sequel… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…the biggest opening weekend gross with $135.6 million, becoming the first film to make $100 million in two days. Ultimately, Dead Man’s Chest grossed $1.07 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…Bradley Cooper, Producers • The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers • West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…Spider-Man tales with strong storytelling and pure heart, such that every issue was a treat — so much so that all twelve issues were among the top 50 selling books… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…tried to do on any part of the story that deals with Din and Li Na, which is kind of a friendship-romance-present-day-story, we balanced that kind of thematic identity and… |
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The Tale of Despereaux
…that this is the story of a brave mouse and then follow a rat around for the first 10 minutes, after being warned that he is not that mouse. Things… |
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Justice League: Doom
…two-part Wild Cards story from Justice League Unlimited, a story featuring The Joker. And, the cartoons are actually presented in HD, a rarity for these bonus picks. The DC Digital… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…great. I learned a lot from him about story, how to compose a story and draw storyboards. And then, my animation teacher was Chris Buck who directed Tarzan, a great… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Four
…but the Rebellion as well. Though the newer story elements introduced in the latter half of the season threatened to dampen my enthusiasm for the storyline, I still found this… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…in context, and would have helped those not familiar with the production’s history. The first seems to be not much more than the “transformation” scene told in storyboard form, while… |
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Blade Anime
…put off by the other Marvel Anime shows should still give this one a shot. Is This Thing Loaded? The Marvel Anime Universe: Blade Reawakened (10:20) has Marvel creative execs… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
Brainstorm Media/Epix/Virgil Films/Trinity (October 16 2012), Brainstorm/Virgil (February 12 2013), single disc, 85 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated R, Retail: $24.99 Storyboard: The life, some… |
