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Watch: Two New Sweet & Old-School Featurettes for 'Wreck-it Ralph,' Featuring Jane Lynch and Animator Rich Moore
wreCheck out these two new featurette's for Disney's box office hit "Wreck-It Ralph." Like the film, the videos have a childlike awe for the history and evolving aesthetic of video games. The first stars Jane Lynch running us through a brief visual history of game characters and ic...
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Saturday Box Office Preview: 'Wreck-It-Ralph' Leads Top Ten, 'Flight' Takes Off
"Wreck-It Ralph" started off with a non-holiday Friday gross of over $13 million--huge for an animated film--which is likely to be quadrupled for the weekend. After "Hotel Transylvania" owned October, "Ralph," from Disney Studios, is in position to dominate early November. With Thanksgiving ahead,...
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Immersed in Movies: Previewing 'Rise of the Guardians'
DreamWorks' "Rise of the Guardians" (November 21) is an exquisite and enchanting adaptation of William Joyce's magnificent and epic "Guardian" book series, which reinvents some of our favorite fairy tale icons. First-time director Peter Ramsey, who cut his teeth doing storyboards for David Fincher a...
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Animating Without a Narrative: On the Work of Adam Beckett and Lillian Schwartz
The first time I saw an Adam Beckett film I was repulsed. What started as a structured sketch, in which quadrilaterals were progressively birthing more quadrilaterals, erupted into blobs of pastels and indiscreetly organic colors stretching and consuming each other in an orgy of what looked like sex...
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Animating Real Life
“… but I’m getting off the subject here, I’m afraid. This story is about Ryan.” The subject of "Ryan" (2004) is real: animator Ryan Larkin (1943-2007). The story is drawn from real life, as pieced together from recorded interviews. The visual approach is . . . director Chris Landreth’s interpret...
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Classic Animation In Prime Time
When I was growing up, TV was a living museum of animation. Every day I was exposed to everything from silent Terrytoons to Looney Tunes from Warner Bros. I learned the name Ub Iwerks from the main titles of Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper shorts I saw every morning, and became familiar with such n...
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VIDEO: 100 Masters of Animated Short Films
From Winsor McCay to the Brothers Quay and 98 other outstanding artists - how many can you name?
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Animating the Folktale: The Puppet Animation of Ivo Caprino
The classical fairy tales and fables have served as fodder for many film animators, from the pioneer days of Lotte Reiniger and Walt Disney onward. One filmmaker almost exclusively associated with this type of material is Ivo Caprino (1920-2001), Norway’s most famous practitioner of the art of anima...
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Frankenweenie—movie review
Tim Burton has returned to familiar turf in 'Frankenweenie'. That will come as good news to some fans and bad news to others, who may feel that he’s gone to the same well once too often. I enjoyed this feature-length remake of his 1984 short, even though the seams show.
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