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Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels
…required to conceive, produce, direct, animate, assemble, publish, and distribute an animated film. The tips and techniques in this book are timeless, applicable whether you want to make a traditionally… |
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\\Dungeons & Dragons\\ coming to DVD
…full stats, magic items and a brand new adventure. The adventure is a prelude to the episode “The Dragon’s Graveyard” and is designed to bridge the gap between the game… |
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Ten Commandments in CGI
According to Animation World Network American Cinema Int’l will be releasing an animated version of The Ten Commandments, the story of Moses leading his people out of Egyptian bondage and… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…pop classic Yellow Submarine is about to be touched…by Robert Zemeckis and his infernal motion capture of all things. Industry bible Variety has announced that Disney has been hard at… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…Barbera was a great cartoonist and gag man, as well as a natural with character design and body language; and Hanna was an excellent director who had a true gift… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. Aside from Scooby and Dynomutt segments, there were 2 Laff-A-Lympics segments that featured a large assortment of Hanna-Barbera characters engaged in a track and field competition (Scooby Doo… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One
…I could see) has an adopted son named Kshin, a younger boy he assumedly met somewhere in Asia during his globetrotting adventures. No show like this can survive without an… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…Thief. Because his design is so simple.’ The other thing I remember about the Richard Williams class was what a great performer this guy is. An animator is supposedly an… |
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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…on this set are pretty impressive and a great step up from the first Hanna-Barbera Golden Collection wave. Case Study: One thing you have got to enjoy about these Hanna-Barbera… |
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Didier Ghez uncovers the hidden art of Disney’s early renaissance
…why Walt called him a “jack-of-all-trades”. He was an animator, then a layout artist and a character designer. He also worked on the theme parks (from Disneyland to EPCOT!), and… |
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Kellyann Lamb, Scott Gagner on A World of Barriers
…the Adobe brand is, what their brand promise is, what their expectations are, and how to live the Adobe brand. So we created an educational piece that was an animation… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…and really started investigating and learning what the job was about and making animated feature films. So, I’ve always had an interest in animation. But as far as working in… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Four
…Accident at Home (1956) and How to Have an Accident at Work (1959). These shorts feature Donald making very poor and unsafe decisions at home and at work and blaming… |
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Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume One
…canine everyman is joined by a smooth-talking bear and a cat-and-mouse act to form Hanna-Barbera’s very first half-hour cartoon show. The Sweatbox Review: As much as I have enjoyed all… |
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Star Trekkin' across the universe! Plus Venture Bros. and Tiny Toons!
…thing, and Rand has good words to say about these “cartoons for grown-ups” and the discs’ packaging. Also added to our site is a full run-down of Tiny Toons Adventures:… |
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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Special Edition
…has since had several animated series, a live action series, and a major live action feature, which has all led into the newest version— a version which is at once… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…appearance in interviews and recording footage. Alan Burnett and casting director Andrea Romano also appear. I always love seeing the recording sessions, and the actors each seem to show genuine… |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…Put your preconceived ideas aside. This is not a mere follow-up to Mary Poppins, or a vain attempt to recapture past glory. This is a genuinely nice, slick family film… |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…own, Pete Docter is at the same time a man of tremendous culture and respect for animation history under all its forms, and an animation historian. And that’s precisely what… |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
…a such a rate that making the switch from DVD to HD is a no-brainer if you have the right equipment. And, as I predicted in a previous article, some… |
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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…is again as before (and with Bruce Willis dropping in for his moments), and also retained is the audio track featuring the Austin premiere audience which recreates their enthusiastic live… |
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DreamWorks announces upcoming slate
…Adamson, and will star Antonio Banderas as Puss In Boots and Salma Hayek as Kitty, Puss’ love interest. Swords will cross and hearts will be broken in this adventure starring… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…his first animated feature as a director last year, the futuristic time-traveling adventure Meet the Robinsons. Cal Arts alumnus, former Disney storyboard artist and then story supervisor, he knew about… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…to, and participating in, this interview and fielding many questions afterwards. His love and in-depth knowledge of the art, science, and history of animation is readily apparent in any conversation…. |
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The Lion King 1½
…the game is a fair amount of fun…and not as easy as it may seem at first! Be aware that the questions are picked at random (which is a good… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…were an assistant. I should explain that back in those days the animation crew were fairly large. There was an animator and the animator would have assistant animators, and those… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…any, coming across with just the right amount of frustration and triumph). Scamp’s love interest, Angel, is played here by Alyssa Milano (yes boys, THAT Alyssa Milano). She’s how one… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…this was animation, and he again took the bold step of planning and overseeing the film as if he would a live-action feature. Rosen had started out as an independent… |
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Chicken Little
…as a live-action music video and twice as the same animated karaoke and sing-along clips with included lyrics on screen. Lastly in this section, there’s a Disney Channel Cheetah Girls… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…any old Hanna-Barbera show, or reminiscent of any cut-out animation shorts…movement is all fluidly achieved and the cost-cutting (some shots perhaps hold still for a beat too long) never gets… |