Is
this the best feature animation since Zootropolis?
Not exact matches
Featuring fun
animations and car comparisons from 2016 to 2017, it gives us a
good look at the new rules and what impact they could have on F1.
Interstellar Marines combines its unique
features with the highest quality in visuals and
animation to deliver an experience unlike any other: a serious,
well - researched science fiction FPS that gives a realistic vision of what «first contact» might be like.
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.
«Megamind» is a dispiriting return to the tired, star - driven, pop - culture - ridden formula that DreamWorks
Animation ran into the ground before its
best feature in years, this spring's «How to Train Your Dragon.»
The packaging makes it seem as if the scene contains mostly unfinished
animation and storyboards, but it's actually a fairly polished full - frame sequence, and it would have felt right at home in the
feature, containing
good humor and some great new footage of Jessica Rabbit and Judge Doom and Toontown.
The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back «The
Good Dinosaur,» the Pixar movie that had been set for release in 2014, making next year the
animation studio's first without a
feature film since 2005.
Collectively, they provide one of the
best representations of contemporary
feature - length
animation since the category's inception.
(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel
animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary
featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much
better Dead Mans Shoes is.
The phrase «every frame is a painting» is overused, but in the case of this Oscar - nominated work (for
Best Animation Feature), it is literally, eye - poppingly true.
They're easily one of the high points of the game,
featuring amazing visuals and brilliant music which complement natural
animations and
well written dialogues.
The nominations covered 31 separate categories of
feature film, short - form and television work, as
well as individual achievements in character
animation, design, effects, music, storyboarding, writing, voice acting and more.
Thanks in no small part to Pixar, DreamWorks & Illumination holding down the fort across the pond as
well as the utterly charming Aardman Studios on this side of the Atlantic,
animation is now no longer a playground just for kids; true, the target audience is still primarily child - like in both age & size but the
best and most successful animated
features now possess whip - smart humour that's definitely targeted to adults.
With the possible exception of Pixar, no other
animation company has a
better hit - to - miss ratio: the Oscar - winning short Creature Comforts (1989), those incredible Wallace and Gromit shorts and their 2005
feature The Curse of the Were - Rabbit, the great poultry escapism of Chicken Run (2000), the sheer (or rather, sheared) genius of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015).
Official Premise: From Walt Disney
Animation Studios comes an extraordinary new collection of award - winning and beloved short films
featuring Disney's Frozen Fever, starring Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Sven and Kristoff, and the Oscar ® - nominated Lorenzo (
Best Animated Short, 2004).
To extrapolate, if we are to have a category called
Best Animated
Feature, its nominees should only be judged on their
animation, not their story nor their music nor their editing.
In 2006, Flushed Away, Aardman's third
feature overall and first in computer
animation, got good critical marks but flopped in US theaters (though still outgrossing Were - Rabbit) and led Aardman and partner DreamWorks Animation to p
animation, got
good critical marks but flopped in US theaters (though still outgrossing Were - Rabbit) and led Aardman and partner DreamWorks
Animation to p
Animation to part ways.
Though he has just started this as a series, he has other
animations as
well featuring Zelda, Pokémon, Yoshi, Animal Crossing and many more, you should definitely check him out!
Best Animated
Feature Inside Out Pixar
Animation Studios Directing in an Animated
Feature Production Inside Out Pixar
Animation Studios Director: Pete Docter Voice Acting in an Animated
Feature Production Inside Out Pixar...
Grand Jury Award: Austin Chick, Girls Against Boys
Best Feature: Tom O'Brien, Fairhaven
Best Documentary: Matthew Heineman & Susan Fromke, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
Best Animation: Brian Lye, Callum Paterson and Nathan Gilliss, Peach Juice
Best Short Comedy: Todd Sklar, 92 ′ Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card
Best Short Drama: Paul Grellong, Tracer Gun Audience Choice — Documentary: Ramona Diaz, Don't Stop Believing: Every Man's Journey Audience Choice —
Feature: Eric Kissack, Missed Connections
Best Screenplay: Steve Lucas for La Mujer (Thriller)
Best NH Documentary: Michael Venn and Mark Dole, In Danger of Being Discovered
Best NH Performance: Jace McLean for 3 Days of Normal New Hampshire Film of the Year: Alfred Thomas Catalfo, Rocketship Van McLeod Award: Mike O'Malley
• DreamWorks
Animation's «How to Train Your Dragon» received the
Best Animated
Feature award, while Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's «Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives» — a runner - up for
Best Picture — was named
Best Foreign - Language Film.
Best Short Comedy: Kate Hudson, Cutlass
Best Short Drama: Colin Cunningham and Madison Graie, Centigrade
Best Animation: John Cernak and Danny Oakley, The Magistical
Best Student: T.J. Volgare, The Abattoir
Best Documentary: Patrick Creadon, I.O.U.S.A. Grand Jury Award: Vadim Perelman, The Life Before Her Eyes
Best Feature: Giuseppe Tornatore, The Unknown Woman
Best Screenplay: David Bertoni, The Stunning Box Audience Choice: Vanessa Gould, Between the Folds New Hampshire Documentary Film Award: Jay B Childs, Communities and Consequences New Hampshire Film of the Year: Justin Nowell, Sick Sex The Van McLeod Award: Chase Bailey
Cornish and executive producer Edgar Wright co-wrote this year's
Best Animated
Feature, «The Adventures of Tintin», directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by DreamWorks
Animation.
Grand Jury Award: Carlos Puga, All That I Am
Best Feature: Denis Henry Hennely, Goodbye World
Best Documentary: Lucy Walker, The Crash Reel
Best Animation: Eoin Duffy, The Missing Scarf
Best Short Comedy: Michael Neithard, Alive feeling like a buck seventy five
Best Short Drama: Michael Tyburski, Palimpsest Audience Choice — Documentary: Sean and Andrea Fine, Life According to Sam Audience Choice —
Feature: Brant Sersen, SANATORIUM NH
Feature of the Year: David Gordon Greene, Prince Avalanche NH Short Film of the Year: Sophia Savage, Empyrean
Best NH Documentary: Todd Kwait, Tom Rush: No Regrets
Best NH Performance: Morganna Ekkens for Only Daughter New Hampshire Film of the Year: Aaron Wiederspahn, Only Daughter Van McLeod Award: Lisa Muskat
With the first trailer for Hotel Transylvania 3 set to arrive tomorrow, a poster has been released for the upcoming third instalment in the animated monster movie franchise
featuring Adam Sandler's Dracula, who doesn't seem
best pleased to be going on a family vacation; check it out below... In Sony Pictures
Animation's Hotel Transylvania 3, -LSB-...]
And Irish
animation studio Cartoon Saloon have secured a nomination for
Best Animated
Feature for The Breadwinner, which is executive produced by Angelina Jolie.
Short Films and
Feature Animation Alê Abreu — «Boy and the World,» «Cosmic Boy» Line K. Andersen — «The Croods,» «Monsters vs Aliens» Bruce Anderson — «Rio 2,» «Rio» Graham Annable — «The Boxtrolls,» «ParaNorman» Guillaume Aretos — «Puss in Boots,» «Shrek the Third» Serena Armitage — «Stutterer,» «Scorned» Sanjay Bakshi — «The
Good Dinosaur,» «Monsters University» Maxwell Boas — «Kung Fu Panda 3,» «Rise of the Guardians» Lydia Bottegoni — «Hotel Transylvania,» «Surf's Up» Rebecca Wilson Bresee — «Zootopia,» «Frozen» Mark Burton — «Shaun the Sheep Movie,» «Gnomeo & Juliet» Chris Butler — «ParaNorman,» «Coraline» Clément Calvet — «Cafard,» «Song of the Sea» Tom Cardone — «Rio 2,» «Dr. Seuss» Horton Hears a Who!»
Wes Anderson returns to stop - motion
animation — the form that generated one of his
best features, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)-- for this fanciful tale of renegade pooches in...
John Henry, Lorenzo, and The Little Matchgirl, the 1 -2-3 punch that opens this Blu - ray, are not only the
best shorts on the disc, they rival Disney's
feature output of the last 15 years as the
best animation released from the studio.
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.
Pixar's record - breaking Mexican - based
animation Coco won the Animated
feature award, while South Korean drama The Handmaiden won
Best Foreign Film.
Teirm provides a pronunciation guide as
well as some original and lost storyboards, the Hadarac Desert
features Saphira's
Animation Guide (with commentary by director Stefen Fangmeier), and the Beor Mountains will let you Become the Dragon Rider (with a video game test drive).
Prediction: Pixar didn't make the cut for Animated
Feature this year, but «Piper,» the short Finding Dory came packaged with in theaters last summer, seems to be the consensus frontrunner here — maybe because its
animation is state - of - the - art gorgeous, maybe because it won
Best Animated Short at the Annies.
Best Animated
Feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs «Äî Sony Pictures
Animation Coraline «Äî Laika Fantastic Mr. Fox «Äî 20th Century Fox The Princess and the Frog «Äî Walt Disney
Animation Studios The Secret of Kells «Äî Cartoon Saloon * Up «Äî Pixar
Animation Studios
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
ANIMATION «Kubo and the Two Strings» — Laika's most daring, innovative film yet «My Life as a Zucchini» — About little kids but not for little kids; a bold, 70 - minute
feature from Switzerland «Sing» — Delightful and triumphant, with terrific voice performances and song renditions «Trolls» — I can't stop the positive feelings I've had about this DreamWorks musical since I saw it 3 months ago «Zootopia» — Disney's live - action crime drama / social commentary disguised in animated form has one of the year's
best screenplays
A smart screenplay (by Linda Woolverton), a gifted voice cast (that, it must be noted, is free of the marquee names that now clutter animated
feature credits), and superior
animation work would have already made for a
good film, but what makes Beauty so justly beloved is a generous helping of magic — namely the divine music by the legendary team of composer Alan Menken and the late, great lyricist Howard Ashman.
Get an up - close look at the exciting and innovative projects on the horizon from our
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Another four will be in the thick of what should be an unusually brutal race for
Best Animated
Feature: Disney's «Zootopia» and Pixar's «Finding Dory» for sure, and potentially DreamWorks
Animation / Fox's
well - received «Kung Fu Panda 3» and Sony's «The Angry Birds Movie,» though that one is more of a long shot.
The
best feature is a storyboard version of the film, definitely worth checking out for
animation fans.
Now playing in theaters everywhere is the 16th
feature film from Pixar
Animation Studios (the second this year following Inside Out) titled The
Good Dinosaur.
IF THE world of computer
feature animation were, say, a couple of characters in a sitcom, Pixar would be the smart, sensitive,
well - mannered overachiever and DreamWorks would be the loud, bumbling, insecure, media - addled doofus.
As with previous Platinum Edition releases, the treasure trove of extras can be found on the second disc's «Backstage Disney» section, which
features an hour - long documentary of the film's development, production, and reception,
featuring comments from modern
animation figures such as Pixar's John Lassiter as
well as many of the now - elderly voice actors for Bambi and the other forest creatures.
Best Animated Film — National Board of Review
Best Animated Film — New York Film Critics Circle
Best Animated Film — Boston Online Film Critics
Best Animated Film (tie)-- Boston Society of Film Critics
Best Animated Film — New York Film Critics Online
Best Animated Film — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Online Film Critics Society
Best Animated Film — Southeastern Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Phoenix Critics Circle
Best Animated Film — Las Vegas Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Chicago Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Utah Film Critics Association
Best Animated Film — Florida Film Critics Circle
Best Animated Film — Kansas City Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Austin Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Capri Hollywood Film Awards
Best Animated Film — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
Best Animated Film — Black Film Critics Circle
Best Animated Film — Central Ohio Film Critics
Best Animated Film — Golden Globe Awards
Best Animated Film — Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Best Animated Film — Critics» Choice Award
Best Animated Film — Annie Awards
Best Animated Film — BAFTA Awards
Best Directing in an Animated
Feature — Annie Awards
Best Original Screenplay — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics
Best Original Screenplay — Utah Film Critics Association
Best Original Screenplay — Austin Film Critics
Best Vocal / Motion Capture Performance for Phyllis Smith — Indiana Film Journalists
Best Family Film — Women Film Critics Circle
Feature Film (
Animation)-- Casting Society of America Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Picture — Producers Guild of America
Best Edited Animated Film — American Cinema Editors Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated
Feature for Joy — Visual Effects Society
Best Storyboarding in an Animated
Feature — Annie Awards
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Feature — Annie Awards
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Feature — Annie Awards
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Feature — Annie Awards
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Best Motion Picture (Drama)-- Golden Globe Awards
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Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio (tie)-- Boston Society of Film Critics
Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics
Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio — Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics
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Best Cinematography — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics
Best Cinematography — Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics
Best Cinematography — Las Vegas Film Critics
Best Cinematography — Central Ohio Film Critics
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Best Cinematography — American Society of Cinematographers
Best Cinematography — BAFTA Awards
Best Director — Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics
Best Director — Golden Globe Awards
Best Director — BAFTA Awards Outstanding Director (
Feature Film)-- Directors Guild of America
Best Musical Score — Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics
Best Sound — BAFTA Awards
Best Period Film — Art Directors Guild Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal
Feature for The Bear — Visual Effects Society Outstanding Composition in a Photoreal
Feature for Bear Attack — Visual Effects Society Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photocell
Feature — Visual Effects Society
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Animation in a Live Action Production — Annie Awards
,» a DreamWorks
Animation LLC Production (DreamWorks
Animation, Distributed by Paramount)(1 nomination)
Best animated
feature film
While that
Best Picture nominee, the first ever animated
feature to be so honored and the only one to do it when there were only five contenders, obviously owed a huge debt to Jean Cocteau's landmark 1946 adaptation of the classic Jeanne - Marie Leprince de Beaumont fairy tale, thanks to lush characterizations, superb
animation, brilliant set pieces and a marvelous soundtrack it instantaneously entered the pantheon of all - time great Disney classics.
«Kung Fu Panda,» a DreamWorks
Animation LLC Production (DreamWorks
Animation, Distributed by Paramount)(1 nomination)
Best animated
feature film
CULVER CITY, Calif. (March 20, 2017)-- A remarkable collaboration between Academy Award ® - winning director / animator Michael Dudok de Wit (2000,
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