Sentences with phrase «by filming animation»

The structure of Craycroft's installation borrows from early stop - motion animation techniques like the 20th century setback camera, which gave the illusion of forms moving through real space by filming animation cells on a horizontal glass plane placed in front of a miniature forced perspective set.

Not exact matches

Pharrell Williams» «Happy» — the theme song to animation film «Despicable Me 2» — was crowned America's best - selling song of 2014, after selling more than 6.4 million copies, followed by John Legend's «All of Me» and Katy Perry's «Dark Horse.»

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind beloved family movies like «Shrek» and «Kung - Fu Panda» that is headed by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, will become part of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, specifically the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes Universal Pictures, Fandango, and NBCUniversal Brand Development.

As important as the cast, of course, is the look of the film - although, given the quantum - leaping developments in computer animation, it's far too tempting to let yourself be distracted by attention to detail or by worrying about how realistic it is when you should just be sitting back and enjoying the ride.

Of the myriad joys to be had watching a film made by the clay - animation geniuses at Aardman Animations, one of the most satisfying is seeing the physical evidence of art that, in an era of virtual this and computer - generated that, is still adamantly handmade.

One moment will have smart phone animations barraging the screen, the next scene will have some random act of bullying, and then the movie remembers it's supposed to be a horror film and for two seconds, you see the girls being filmed by someone.

The film, which is based on a television series (which was itself a spinoff from the Wallace & Gromit franchise), boasts a tremendously appealing stop - motion animation style that's heightened by an assortment of affable characters, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie's total absence of dialogue in no way hinders one's ability to get caught up in the briskly - paced narrative.

While on whole the movie is certainly not up to the standards of the Oscar - winning «Wallace and Gromit» films — which were also produced by England's Aardman Animation — it does have a few modestly amusing moments.

Randy Newman may have written some songs that aren't that impressive but these songs are some of his best songs, and they are all sung fantastically by the characters, they're either emotional songs, or energetic and fun songs, and combine that with the great animation and you have one heck of an awesome animated film.

Even if you allow for the the fact that the film is geared towards the 5 - year - old set, it's still a pretty dreary experience, made even more so by screamingly vivid colors, uninspiring animation and grating songs.

The series betrays the film's DYI legacy by using a great deal of digital animation for the fight scenes and gore.

It's an animated film, created by an Irish animation studio (Cartoon Saloon) and based on a novel by a Canadian author (Deborah Ellis), but despite these seeming obstacles to authenticity, this is a deeply felt and unsparingly realistic depiction of Afghanistan at a time of tyrannical rule by religious fundamentalists.

«Mary and the Witch's Flower,» the first film from Studio Ponoc, an animation outfit founded by Studio Ghibli veterans Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura after Ghibli closed its doors in 2015, starts in medias res, with a violent firestorm engulfing the screen.

Some lovely animation, superb integration of archival photographs and film footage, plus impeccable editing by Peter S. Lynch II keep Chasing Trane informative and engaging.

The first feature production of the new Japanese animation house Studio Ponoc — founded by veterans of Hayao Miyazaki's celebrated Studio Ghibli in the wake of Miyazaki's supposed retirement — Mary and the Witch's Flower is a film modest in temperament but ambitious in effect.

That said, it remains a colourful and entertaining film, boosted by the humour provided by Robin Williams's character (which has been imitated in virtually every Disney animation since, with ever - decreasing levels of success).

There's so much pleasure in the ambitious production design too, from the exquisite puppets and sequences influenced by traditional shadow play to animation inspired by Japanese woodblocks and Alexandre Desplat's striking, non-orchestral score, which is fully in tune with the film's setting.

dick clark productions announced today that the Disney • Pixar film Coco, directed by Lee Unkrich, co-directed by Adrian Molina and starring Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal and Benjamin Bratt, will receive the «Hollywood Animation Award,» while Dee Rees directed Netflix film, Mudbound, starring Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Mary J. Blige, -LSB-...]

Other titles announced out of competition include: the closing night film, Therese D, by Claude Miller, the French director who died earlier this month; Me and You, a new drama from Bernardo Bertolucci; and Madagascar 3, which looks to fill the regulation animation spot (previous cartoons to do the honours include Up and Kung Fu Panda).

Directed by Chris Sanders (the filmmaker behind «How to Train Your Dragon» and the illustrator who created «Lilo & Stitch «-RRB- and Kirk DeMicco (writer of «Space Chimps» and the upcoming «Hong Kong Phooey» adaptation), one can only assume that if the film takes off like they hope, franchise is in the cards (and when isn't it for the lucrative field of animation?).

The latest animation by Studio Laika, the film blends stop - motion puppetry with computer graphics, and...

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

(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.

It's no secret that a lot of the film is going to be assisted by computer designed animation.»

DreamWorks Animation's toon film Home and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Animation, are outside players, while the unrelated Brazilian movie The Boy and the World, The Boy and the Beast from Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu, The Laws of the Universe Part 0 (based on the teachings of a new Japanese religion called Happy Science), the Finnish film Moomins on the Riviera and Regular Show: The Movie, an animated film based on the Cartoon Network original series — are unknown quantities at this point.

To give credit where it's due the CG animation is alright by theatrical film standards, and they do have a talented cast where the voice acting isn't terrible given what they had to work with.

This was the first European animation ever funded by Japan's Studio Ghibli and shares with that studio's films a sense of nature's mysterious power.

● ABU (Father), by Arshad Khan, explores Khan's upbringing in a modern yet traditional Muslim family in Pakistan where he couldn't confide his attraction to boys, and his moving journey to self - acceptance, told through home movies, animation, film clips, and pop songs, that began after the family immigrated to Canada.

«Passion Project: Martin Rosen on Watership Down» (16:21) lets the film's screenwriter - director - producer talk about making the film with no prior experience in animation and with no participation by author Richard Adams.

A great film also, it is the only animation scored by the composer, following the story of a giant alien robot who falls to earth, gets woefully misunderstood by all those in authority, but is befriended by a young boy.

I didn't stop laughing - big belly laughs that are rarely inspired by any film, let alone an animation.

What lifts the film is not just its high - kicking fight sequences, but the sharpness of the writing (by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger), the vibrant animation and the sheer, good - natured relish and gusto with which the film - makers attack their material.

After much acclaim for The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, Cartoon Saloon, Ireland's increasingly high profile animation house founded by Paul Young and Tomm Moore, are working on their fourth feature film, Wolfwalkers.

«Test Shot Comparisons» (2:15) show us a handful of animation and effects tests, each followed by the corresponding clip from the final film.

We've previously only seen the first trailer for the film, but thanks to a presentation by the animation studio today, we now have a better idea of the cast, their characters, and just how they'll look in the finished film.

The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Brad Bird's feature debut was traditional 2 - D animation when computer animation was the craze, released by studio folk who didn't realize just how special a film they had on their hands.

I hate to think that When Marnie Was There (Universal, Blu - ray, DVD) may be the last film to come out of Japan's Studio Ghibli, the great animation studio created by filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away).

Walt Disney Animation Studios released this brand new movie poster for the upcoming animated film «Tangled» aka Rapunzel by directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard (Bolt) and starring Mandy Moore (Brother Bear 2, American Dreamz), Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy (Spider - Man 2) and Ron Perlman (Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She - Vampires, Conan, Hellboy II: The Golden Army).

If affection for the original film endures, at least among Gen - Xers, it's largely because of Ray Harryhausen's memorable stop - motion animation, which evoked the mythology of the Greeks by way of Harry O. Hoyt's The Lost World.

If not: The Good Dinosaur Lowdown: Going out on a slight limb with «The Prophet,» but something tells me the animation branch is more impressed by the good in that film than the disappointing «Dinosaur.»

The stop - motion animation drama played to a clunky, awkward Q&A when I saw its North American premiere at Telluride, but now that people will have seen the film in droves by Sundance 2016, one can imagine this will be an indeed special event, the first big meeting of the cult following Johnson and Kaufman's film so richly deserves.

«The Boxtrolls» is the latest stop - motion animation film distributed by Focus Features and brought to life by Laika, the makers of «Coraline» and «ParaNorman».

Although the animation film on everyone's lips at Berlinale is undoubtedly Isle of Dogs, for those who like their plucky heroes a little more amphibian, a charming Swedish crime caper by the name of Gordon & Paddy is here to satisfy that niche.

Certainly the special effects, designed by the wizards at Rhythm and Hues, reach a new plateau of believability for talking - animal CGI, and, computer - animation aside, the 2001 film has a distinctive, endearing Eighties flavour that's unique to this era.

The Red Turtle is animated film from director Michael Dudok de Wit, produced by the legendary Studio Ghibli with Isao Takahata involved as an artistic consultant, even though the animation was finished in France.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.»

There's a supposed love story among the explosions and the dead spots somewhere, but acting in a film as effects - heavy as this one is akin to doing voice work for animation: long hours of sitting by yourself in a fake cockpit as you scream your lines at nothing while gyros toss you around tends to hinder human tenderness and connection.

The award finishes what was a very successful festival for Irish films with The Summit being snapped up by a major US distributor Sundance Selects after its premiere at the festival and the Irish short animation Irish Folk Furniture directed by Tony Donoghue scooping the Best Animation prize at the animation Irish Folk Furniture directed by Tony Donoghue scooping the Best Animation prize at the Animation prize at the festival.

Ferdinand is a 2017 American 3D computer - animated comedy - drama adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios, Davis Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Animation.