Tag: animation

Netflix’s Orion and the Dark brought back obsolete animation techniques

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Netflix’s Orion and the Dark brought back obsolete animation techniques

Like many animated movies in the last couple of years, Netflix and DreamWorks’ Orion and the Dark steps outside the design conventions that had come to define American CG movies. The stylistic revolution has really […]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Sea Snake Spinoff Series Shifts From Live-Action to Animation

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Corlys Velaryon at the tourney in House of the Dragon's premiere

Iron Islanders sure do understand how television works. “What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger.” A report released in 2021 shared that HBO was developing three additional spinoff possibilities for […]

The Prince of Egypt at 25: American animation could’ve grown up here

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The Prince of Egypt - Moses and his people

Twenty-five years ago, DreamWorks’ movie The Prince of Egypt hit theaters. Its release could have changed American animation — and maybe should have. But it didn’t. Instead, out of the DreamWorks projects released at the […]

‘Migration’ Filmmakers On Facing Animation & Musical Challenges For Toon Pic – Deadline

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‘Migration’ Filmmakers On Facing Animation & Musical Challenges For Toon Pic – Deadline

Illumination’s upcoming film Migration is a comedy about a family of ducks trying to fly from New York to Jamaica. Writer-director Benjamin Renner makes his 3D animation debut, and John Powell wrote the score for […]

Warner Bros Animation And Locksmith Animation Ink First-Look Deal – Deadline

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Ron's Gone Wrong

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group has signed a first-look deal with London- and Los Angeles-based Locksmith Animation to develop and produce animated features for worldwide distribution. Locksmith is an independent producer of animated features […]

Into the Spider-Verse’s legacy in American animation

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Puss in Boots, an animated orange tabby in boots and a swashbuckler hat, charges at the camera in a blur of motion lines against a stylized blue-and-purple background in the trailer for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

When Polygon asked Januel Mercado, co-director of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, about animation that inspired the visual look of his DreamWorks movie, he had an easy answer: “Obviously Spider-Verse.” The movie’s evocative oil-painted […]

Fantasia nearly sunk Disney animation, but Dumbo helped rescue it

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A 1940 half-sheet poster for Disney’s animated movie Fantasia, featuring Mickey Mouse and other, unnamed characters from the movie’s various segments frolicking around the title

As the Walt Disney Company enters its centenary, marking 100 years as a film studio whose humble Midwestern beginnings didn’t hint at its coming transformation into a pop culture bulwark, it’s important to recall a […]