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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…up for the shortcomings was a selection of classy supplements including Constatine Nasr’s Drawn For Glory: Animation’s Triumph At The Oscars, a 60 minute documentary on the history of the… |
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Pom Poko
Studio Ghibli (July 16, 1994), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 16, 2005), 2 discs, 119 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: A… |
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Yogi’s First Christmas
Hanna-Barbera (1980), Warner Archive Collection (November 17, 2009), 1 disc, 99 mins, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $19.95 Storyboard: Yogi escapes his winter hibernation… |
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Starz to broadcast The Pixar Story
…premiere of The Pixar Story: A Leslie Iwerks Film. Immediately following will be a presentation of Starz Inside: The Pixar Story Continues, with scenes from Ratatouille and WALL•E. Official Site… |
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Ratatouille story supervisor discusses research and challenges
Ratatouille story supervisor Mark Andrews discusses the research that went into making the animated film with Leo N. Holzer at TheReporter.com. A trip to Paris was a must. “With Google,… |
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A Christmas Carol
Walt Disney Pictures/ImageMovers Digital (November 6 2009), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (November 16 2010), Blu-ray plus DVD, 96 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 2.40:1 widescreen, DTS 5.1 Master… |
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WALL-E
…be no question that Pixar is the best at what they do. So let’s just take it as given that the animation is superb (and it is), that the story… |
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X-Men Anime
…characters in this story) take Emma’s side. By the twelfth chapter, multiple secrets are revealed, including a major one involving the story’s main threat and his origins. The battle at… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…interview with Caprino himself (2000, 10 min) and a look at what appears to be some kind of life-size theme park/walkthrough exhibition of Caprino’s animated characters (1995, 14 min). This… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
Studio Ghibli (2012), GKIDS/Cinedigm (February 10, 2013), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 91 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, Dolby Digital, Rated , Retail: $34.95 Storyboard: Two teenagers are witness to societal changes… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…past, this one rates along side Scamp’s Adventure and Simba’s Pride in terms of animation and ambition. Story wise, there is an attempt to tell one story over the length… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Studio Ponoc (2017), Universal/GKids (May 1, 2018), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 103 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (for Japanese and English), Rated PG, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: A… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…The Crocadero, Scrap Happy Daffy and Wholly Smoke). 15×4 = 60 Tuneful encounters! The Sweatbox Review: As sure as clockwork, Warner Brothers have delivered another wonderful collection of 60 classic… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…story lines were all coming together. So, we wrote a reprise of that number for Sebastian, to tie up his storyline, and for Triton as well, to tie up his… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…the European flavor of Cinderella especially. Centered much more on the original story, in which Belle’s father attempts to claim a rose for his daughter, this elaborately drawn storyboard has… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…Golden Rose at the Rose d’Or Light Entertainment Festival. Committed to her progressive vision of Peter’s story, director Suzie Templeton took over 3,000 photographs and shot over 14 hours of… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…drastic need of picking up. Walt’s sense of story prevailed, and he knew it was time to move on to the climax of the story, and final showdown with Shere… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…made with animators and their families, Ghez uncovered a trove of previously unpublished artwork, history, and anecdotes which give an unprecedented view into how the films, characters, storylines, and unique… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
Welcome to Persistence Of Vision, where the spotlight is thrown on animation history’s illustrious past, present and future! So how better than to start with a brief overview on the… |
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Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots
…right. One of the men behind the fifth highest grossing series of all time is Chris Miller. Miller joined DreamWorks SKG in 1998 and worked as a storyboard artist on… |
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The Croods: A New Age
DreamWorks Animation (November 25 2020), Universal Home Entertainment (February 23 2021), two discs, 96 mins plus supplements, 4K UHD and 1080p high-definition widescreen 2.35:1, Dolby Atmos Audio, Rated PG, Retail:… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…with Gone With the Wind, the first feature film to be totally storyboarded, the process of drawing story sketches in order to have a global view of the story and… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…$29.99 Storyboard: As this new Jungle Book begins, we find Mowgli recapping the story of the first film in an imaginative sequence using silhouetted figures. This quickly dealt with, we… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…scope (and it would be, considering that there’s a much larger story to tell), and The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story flows slightly easier (probably due to… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Milkczerk, Empty Places (2020) by Geoffroy de Crécy, Yes-People (2020) by Gísli Darri Halldórsson, Ties (2019) by Dina Velikovskaya, Aurora (2020) by Jo Meuris, and The Man Who Planted Trees… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…Unfortunately, someone made the decision to try to adapt the entirety of the over 400-page narrative into a 90-minute feature. As a result, the richly detailed story was heavily condensed… |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…and Endgame (originally titled Infinity War Parts One and Two) took one epic story, and strategically divided its story elements over two films. These two series of movies worked well… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…Storyboard: Set in both our “real world” and the magical Narnia, this animated version of CS Lewis’ evergreen story opens on a cold, wet day in a house in the… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 17 2004), single disc, 75 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Apparently set… |
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An Almost Christmas Story soars in delightful trailer
Disney has launched the trailer for An Almost Christmas Story, which can be viewed above. The third in a trilogy of holiday-themed shorts produced for Disney+ by Academy Award winning… |
