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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…shmimelime! And lastly, rather than using time travel as a mechanism to move characters in a story, time travel becomes the story itself. In this film, the writers don’t seem… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…Chinese American film composer, with dual citizenship in the United States and Croatia. Over the last 20 years, he has composed music for over 50 films and television programs including… |
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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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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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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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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…connection as it was just the physical design. Emotionally, Jasmine grew out of the story made by the story artists and the directors. But I needed something fresh to help… |
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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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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
Walt Disney Productions (February 17 1940), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 10 2009), 2 Blu-ray Discs plus 1 DVD, 88 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition and 1.33:1 original full frame… |
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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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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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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…every culture has some version of this fairy tale. Glen Keane: Yes. Well, it’s a story that really touches the heart of everybody who sees it. Though when we were… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
Warner Home Video/DC Comics (November 9 2010), single disc, 90 mins, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, Retail: $24.98 Storyboard: The (not-so, as it turns out) secret origins… |
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Tangled
…Tangled turns out to be a pretty good one after all. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board? Tangled Walt Disney Animation Studios November 24, 2010 100 minutes Rated… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…rights to Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories, in exchange for a $1,000 advance and 66% of Slesinger’s income. By November 1931, Pooh merchandise was collecting close to $50 million each… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording
…story. The film nevertheless managed to receive positive critical praise and was a decent box office hit. In 1999, Disney took another chance and adapted their version of the story… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…and includes the subtitle “The Historical Musical Animated Classics.” Disney has released a limited amount of cases for this collection with a total of only 150,000 copies to make this… |
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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… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…production storyboards and pencil test animation), and the film’s scope has been opened up in both story and its look. The artwork and effects animation is much more intricate than… |
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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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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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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…interesting storyboard ideas and strong points of view for some specific moments of a sequence. I call this first approach an “art story board”. AV: Can you share with us… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
Walt Disney Feature Animation (1991/2002), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (September 20 2016), Blu-ray Disc plus DVD and Digital HD code, 84/92 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 1.78:1 widescreen, 7.1… |
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Zootopia
…of the art. Any moral to be found in them is in service to the story they wanted to tell — unlike here where the story is in service to… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…was vocalized by Sebastian Cabot, also doubling as the narrator, another future Pooh performer (again as the story-teller) and as Bagheera in The Jungle Book. The story lends itself well… |
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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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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…really you are just seeing snippets of a larger story— a story that was already told years ago. It does serve as a decent primer for the next movie, at… |
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Shrek The Third
…across here. Running 10:40, this is a very welcome peek behind the microphones – something I always like to see in an animated movie’s extras and that only DreamWorks seems… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…(he also wrote the screenplay for the nightmarish but brilliant The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr T, starring Hans Conried, who provides voices here alongside Jones and June Foray) with Jones’… |
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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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Animation Addicts Podcast #74: We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Get ready, we’re warping back in time to review the 1993 animated film We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV8749073244.mp3 Highlights • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Two… |
