Sentences with phrase «as animation goes»

As animation goes, The Cave is excellent.

Not exact matches

After PayPal: Regarded as a very useful person to have around at a start - up, Rabois went onto hold senior positions at LinkedIn (more on that in a minute), Max Levchin's Slide (a company responsible for slideshows and animations in social networks) and electronic payment firm Square (founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey).

So is DreamWorks Animation going to be as valuable to Comcast or NBCUniversal as Lucasfilm or Marvel has been to Disney?

Stars that pass too close to black holes go through wild contortions as they are sucked inside, a sight you can now watch in a new NASA animation, The Washington Post reports.

2010 is supposed to bring both Shrek Goes Fourth and the feature - length spin - off Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer, while DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg has claimed that a fifth and final film is in the works as well.

With a solid voice cast that emphasizes their vocal work over their star power (there are recognizable actors in a few roles such as Bratt and Bernal (Blindness), but none that cast in order to sell the film commercially), a vibrant color scheme, outstanding visuals, terrific toe - tapping tunes, and an imaginative concept, this will likely go down as a favorite Pixar film for many who follow the animation company's output religiously.

The animation series goes on to reveal Om Nom's mischievous, yet endearing personality as he and Evan bond over day - to - day activities such as playing games, exploring house - hold items and celebrating holidays.

When it goes wrong — as with, say, 2004's live - action Thunderbirds reboot — it is a money - minded desecration (for those who want a faithful old - school Beatrix Potter animation, the BBC did a perfectly good series in the early 1990s).

Raven more than holds her own in a fight, and each boss battle ends with a unique finisher animation as she and Kat go full Sailor Moon.

Each chapter in the game is like an anime episode and even goes so far as to include an opening and ending animation.

«The delightful animated film from 1991 plays as classic animation, but if you want to go a level deeper into the story and into the songs and into the emotions, that's what this live - action film delivers: a greater depth of emotions,» says director Bill Condon.

KU: Now animation has gone into live - action films as well, like The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen, 2000).

It may not go down as an animation classic, but not every animated film needs to have such lofty ambitions.

One way of dealing with it would be to have the characters entering the real world, although Chris McKay — animation co-director of The LEGO Movie and director of The LEGO Batman Movie — has previously said it's going to be «this big musical and space action movie», so at this point it's anyone's guess as to what the plot might entail.

It's enough to confirm that the [adult swim] block does indeed use the benefit of the doubt arising from the multi-layered humour of «Aqua Teen Hunger Force» and «Tom Goes to the Mayor» as an excuse to lazily dole out intentionally shitty animation and indiscriminate non sequiturs.

The film's animation alternates between black - and - white flashbacks and present - day color sequences to recreate some of Van Gogh's most famous canvases, going so far as to emulate the Dutch painter's groundbreaking thick - brushstroke impasto style.

Graphically this game is extreme eye candy as far as water and character animations go, however on some occasions the colour palette looks a bit sparse and a bit washed out.

Although The Boxtrolls lead the nomination tally going into the awards, How to Train Your Dragon 2 won six awards at the 42nd ANNIE Awards this weekend, including Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated Feature.

It's a story long overdue from the Disney / Pixar animation giant, and its beautifully done, even as it detours into a bizarre fantasy of magic gone wrong and the Queen transformed into a mama bear.

Although the irony is unmistakable that Green, who in recent years has done more as a voice actor than a live actor (on «Family Guy» and his own creation «Robot Chicken»), goes unheard here and receives top billing for what amounts to not that much more than what reference actors essentially did sans credit in the olden days of animation.

Richardson became a firm part of Zeitlin and Tintori's filmmaking collective, going on to co-direct and serve as DoP on the animated short «Seed» with Daniel Bird, which went on to win the animation prize at Slamdance in 2010.

i'm gonna rent first as well (me no money) and despite lack of Eddie Murphy and common TV animation, it still looks promising

Though American moviegoers didn't take to this film and many might find it falls short of complete satisfaction, there is no doubt plenty about Howl's worth admiring, whether you are well - versed in Miyazaki or simply open to something unusual as far as modern conceptions of animation go.

Far from the consistency of other major animation studios, such as Pixar, Aardman or Laika, you never quite know which DreamWorks Animation is going toanimation studios, such as Pixar, Aardman or Laika, you never quite know which DreamWorks Animation is going toAnimation is going to turn up.

Fandango picked up Dreamworks Animation's M - GO movie - streaming service in late January, which it has since rebranded as FandangoNOW (the shouty...

For an animator who once sought to dethrone Disney atop the American animation food chain, Bluth goes to great pains to emulate Disney images here as varied as «Steamboat Willie» - era big - eyed bugs to the mice from Cinderella while also both hijacking Disney voice talent (Benson, Gottfried) and hiring voice actors capable of emulating same (Conforti).

«Big Hero 6 The Series,» based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios» Academy Award ® - winning feature film, continues the adventures and friendship of 14 - year - old tech genius Hiro, his compassionate, cutting - edge robot Baymax and their friends Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred as they form the legendary superhero team Big Hero 6 and embark on high - tech adventures as they protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.

As it stands, there's that worth - the - admission first half, wherein ex-CIA agent Snow (Pearce) is interrogated about the death of a colleague and a briefcase that goes missing before being sentenced to thirty years in suspended animation (Minority Report) on an orbiting prison station.

The DreamWorks comedy, based on Dav Pilkey's extremely popularized children's book series, marvelously boasts crisp and energizing CG animation to go along with a roguish tale of grade school pranksters as they challenge the patience of the bothersome authority figures that oversee their academic misery.

With a no - holds - barred approach and the freeing format of animation, the show tends to really go there (see: horny Hormone Monsters, singing Michael Stipe tampons, scary Garrison Keillor sex fantasies), placing it in the same taboo - busting league as Netflix's other hit mature toons.

While «Trolls» won't go down as an animated classic on the order of «Frozen,» «Toy Story,» «Fantastic Mr. Fox,» «WALL - E,» or «Inside Out,» it must be said this new offering from DreamWorks Animation is a total delight from start to finish.

Japanese animation takes some getting used to, but Miyazaki's films are well worth it, and serve as a wonderful antidote to the current stagnation going on in American animation (always excepting Pixar).

Aside from some clever 2D black - and - white sequences meant to show what goes on in Sherlock's head, the overall un-inventive animation doesn't help to pique interest or make this seem anything more original than an excuse to fill the soundtrack with a few Elton John classics, as well as a couple of new tunes written by the musical superstar and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin.

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Built as either a shot to attain a loftier reputation or as penance for afflicting four goddamned «Shrek» movies upon the populace (perhaps both), Dreamworks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon 2 finds the red - headed stepchild studio attempting to go full Pixar and widen the emotional scope of what has been, to date, probably their...

Built as either a shot to attain a loftier reputation or as penance for afflicting four goddamned «Shrek» movies upon the populace (perhaps both), Dreamworks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon 2 finds the red - headed stepchild studio attempting to go full Pixar and widen the emotional scope of what has been, to date, probably their strongest effort, but also biting off more than it can chew, turning out a finished product that implies a creative team that knows the music, but nonetheless struggles to nail the rhythm.

Ultimately, I'm gonna go with the latter because ParaNorman is a pretty good movie, and I think it would've been fine to give it the Oscar as sort of a package acknowledgment for the way its animation studio, Laika, burst onto the scene with two Oscar - worthy movies in three years (2009's Coraline was the other one).

As the sequel goes to more absurd plot lines and over-the-top spy mechanics, the animation can be downright shoddy.

There is also an avalanche of bonus extras, including: Extreme Cool View Version of Ice Age (which combines Scrat's Frozen Fun Facts with behind - the - scenes clips from the filmmakers and natural history experts), specific scene commentary by John Leguizamo as Sid, Behind the Scenes of Ice Age (an HBO special), Gone Nutty - Scrat's Missing Adventure (the animated short), Bunny (another animated short with introduction by director Chris Wedge), three multi-angle animation progressions, and six production featurettes.

If you want to create your own animation from scratch, then you want to go to sites such as Animwork.

That screen, as we saw in a previous video, will display a colorful animation when the Roadster reaches full power and «goes to plaid.»

We're going to go through creating the comic book, exporting it as a PDF to Explain Everything, recording an animation using the pan and zoom tool, and exporting the end result as a video.

Gone too are the overwrought page turning animations, as pages simply slide into view as you swipe — it's very similar to the Kindle app's page - turning experience.

Weatherbug has been optimised for Honeycomb so takes advantage of the Action Bar for the menus and the result is a slick app that will offer you more weather information than you probably need, but doesn't go as far as giving you fullscreen animations.

Now, I'm not talking about making a cartoon instead of a comic, and if you go too far down the animation path, those lines run the risk of being blurred as we've seen in those embarrassing «Motion Comics» from a couple years ago, but consider the wildly popular web comic MS Paint Adventures by «Andrew.»

That dodgy dodge which doesn't always cancel out of a current animation is a huge problem for me personally, because if you're going to chuck loads of enemies and projectiles on the screen then I need a dodge button that's going to drop everything as soon as it's pressed to get me out of trouble.

Still looks like an amazing game, but character animation deserves as much focus as other effects & features, and I feel like it is an area that goes under developed in most games these days.

As for the immersion that people can brag about in the game, the animations that character models go into for crouching, proning, and other actions, it does nothing but slow the game down and turn what tries to set out to be a tactical game and utterly fails at into an earnest and shallow experience.

Havok is going to make the PC version of their physics and animation software, Havok Complete, available as a free download for non-commercial use.

The ability to switch between characters in the heat of combat, new combo enders and visible clothing damage, as well as the possible re-introduction of intro cutscenes for free battle (along with a new animation to go with it).