Sentences with phrase «time as animation»

I just found out yesterday that episode 126 will be my last time as animation director.

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CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — who co-founded the DreamWorks movie studio with Steven Spielberg and then spun the animation unit off as a separate company in 2004 — has tried to sell the company several times.

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.

But when you show time as graphic movement, as animation, people suddenly understand.

For the first time, digital animation has been used as a research tool to examine how the effectiveness of a lizard's territorial display varies across ecological environments and conditions.

As more would - be artists participate in the project, the rendering time decreases and the animations become increasingly visually pleasing.

This animation depicts movements of the robotic arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity as commanded for Aug. 20, 2012, the first time the arm was used on Mars.

As the animation below shows, the last time the world experienced a record - coldest year was in 1909, more than 100 years ago.

The animation zooms in on the graph of temperatures, often times referred to as the Hockey Stick for its distinctive shape, and shows the granular changes over time.

The FunGenES database provides such a template with a number of tools including Animation of KEGG Pathways, Expression Waves, Time Series, Specific Gene Classes, such as ESTs and transcription factors, and searches for the expression pattern of any gene or transcript during ES cell differentiation using standard gene names and IDs.

You can either do these for reps as I do in the animation or just hold them for time, like regular planks.

Sure the animation was a standard for Disney between the 1940's and 1970's, where you can see certain characters move in the same way as other characters from earlier or later films, but that was solely due to the limitations in the animation room at the time.

Nelson, who has done major time in the animation trenches, including as head of story for «Kung Fu Panda,» seems like an old pro despite «P2» being her first time in the director's chair.

Director Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars) continues to grow as an animator, and this film will only add credence to the argument that Hosoda is poised to replace Hayao Miyazaki as the new grandmaster of Japanese animation.

Another bonus for the film is its voice acting, with these big budget animations usually carrying some huge names; they have a good cast but no stand out big guns this time around (although Damon Wayans, Jr. is fairly well known as coach from New Girl, and Scott Adsit of 30 Rock fame as Baymax).

Getting from animation to live action is a journey in and of itself, one that Director Bill Condon, and stars Emma Watson (Belle), Dan Stevens (Beast), Luke Evans (Gaston), Josh Gad (Le Fou), Audra McDonald (Garderobe), Ewan McGregor (Lumiere), Sir Ian McKellen (Cogsworth) and Gugu Mbatha - Raw (Plumette) took and created a gorgeous, fresh new look for a tale as old as time.

Flashback footage shows the director starting Studio Ghibli, and part of what is happening as «The Wind Rises» wraps up is him paying back his animation mentor, Isao Takahata, whose Ghibli - released «The Tale of the Princess Kaguya» was to come out at the same time as «Wind Rises.»

Also, to Ms. Taymor's credit, she intelligently provides at times inspired touches such as — stop motion action shots, color tinting in brightly exotic desert shades, finely textured black - and - white sequences, shots of Diego in New York to do the Rockefeller commissioned mural against a lively Dadaist collage of the New York setting, Frida's dream of her hubby as King Kong, a puppet show in the hospital (with the help of the gifted Quay brothers animations of skeletons in the post-accident emergency room — the skeletons were copied from one of Frida's paintings).

The cute animation for pulling stickers off anything (walls, bushes, trees, etc) is nice at first, but quickly grows tiresome as you need hundreds of the damn things and just multiply the two seconds it takes to pull each one off and you'll realise how much time is wasted.

The animation here is great, and the film looks wonderful, however I felt that the story just was a clichéd affair, one that we've seen many times before, and done better as well.

As a result, the movie feels cinematic at times and downright cartoonish at others but of course the dazzling 1950s animation is never even challenged, let alone rivaled.

• Shaun the Sheep - It shall remain a mystery why this hilarious & sweet Aardman animation effort didn't get US families into theaters to see it (it earned three times as much abroad) considering the absolute garbage parents will take their kids to.

Made at a time when the idea of animation changed radically, Allen starred as an ant with big ideas to change his own station.

Rare was experimenting with 3D animation at the time as they found the then - popular digitization technique too restrictive [8].

There may be a day when computer graphics completely supersede the need to have celebrities in the middle of films, but given the costs of production today for animation, as well as the lack of the movie star draw to fill in the seats, Final Fantasy is a reminder that the day of the human actor will be with us for a long time to come.

However the level design is quite decent, including the areas that you visit, the lighting effects and character design but the animation is a mixed bag and at times it was like my character was floating as she attempted to climb large rocks.

Live action and animation have been mixed multiple times, but never quite as brilliantly as in Robert Zemeckis's blockbuster film noir parody.

Fielding in the game is really hit or miss, as there are still times that the game has random animations and clunky.

With colorful animation and catchy tunes (just like last time), this film is sure to delight just as much as the first.

The animation is as stunning as you expect from Pixar, being both realistic and stylized at the same time.

There is a sophisticated subtly at play in the a perfectly timed thud of his head finding a wall as he deflates in disappointment, or the way he gently humors his father's unaccustomed animation upon discovering his son has finally shown an interest in the opposite sex.

However, if none of the above is your jam, you could always just watch the awesome and awe - inspiringly colourful opening animation trailer that truly catches the essence of Sonic Mania, or grab a friend and do some versus battles, which features a split - screen as the two of you race across a given stage, in a bid to finish in the fastest time and yes, power - ups can also be used.

It's that feeling that Pixar has already noticed, as an insider at the animation studio tipped off the NY Times that they're changing the ending of the 2015 sequel Finding Dory because of the response the doc is nurturing with the public.

We are blessed to exist at the same time as Pixar animation studios.

The animation itself isn't as flashy as the usual big - time anime that makes it to the big screen here in Australia, but like all good animation, it hits the right expressions at all the critical moments.

The effects and animation are outstanding and the Be our Guest and Tale As Old As Time numbers did not disappoint and who can forget that gorgeous memorable waltz dancing scene.

The passage of time certainly hasn't diminished the indignity: A joyless jumble, this box office dud is almost as wretched as the Michael Bay live - action sequels Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon, with cheap - jack animation and a waste of such talents as Leonard Nimoy, Eric Idle and, most of all, Welles.

Well, this tale of a boy and his dog — rethought as a dinosaur and his boy — turns out to be a mixed bag, with some dazzlingly near - photo - real landscapes, sight gags that inspire waves of kiddie guffaws, and some impressive character animation sharing time with an overly familiar plot and character types.

Once again, Disney stands as the animation studio to beat come Oscar time, and it's well - earned.»

Phil Lord and Chris Miller do a great directing transition from animation to live - action, as they bring their zany and goofy timing and pace to this action comedy.

Three years ago Dreamworks Animation decided to assert itself for the first time since Shrek in 2001 as a fantastic animation studio with the release of Kung Animation decided to assert itself for the first time since Shrek in 2001 as a fantastic animation studio with the release of Kung animation studio with the release of Kung Fu Panda.

As digital animation grows more advanced each year, big - time filmmakers like James Cameron and JJ Abrams are embracing the (relatively) new form of acting known as motion capture performancAs digital animation grows more advanced each year, big - time filmmakers like James Cameron and JJ Abrams are embracing the (relatively) new form of acting known as motion capture performancas motion capture performance.

The fielding animations in particular have received attention this time around making the transition between the various poses much smoother than before and less jarring as a result.

For a long time, the two heavyweight fighters were Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, because Disney Animation was churning out titles such as Brother Bear and Chicken Little, not remotely close to representing serious competition.

Characteristically, the Academy's track record with animation has as much to do with timing and politics as it does the movies themselves, but there's undeniably something especially Oscar-esque about Beauty and the Beast.

The questions and answers are all included as part of the animated slide - read the instructions on the notes pages of part 2 when you try this out (try it out a few times before the lesson to get the hand of the animations!)

Parental control regimes such as playing games only for the stipulated amount of time or switching off the device altogether are aligned with characters; what better way to make them do these then have friendly animation characters such as Shrek perform a skit to make the kids develop a habit of proper tablet usage?

I truly believe it is time to challenge the status quo and do away with overly grand idle animations, and make sure the movements of a character standing still are every bit as subtle as the ones you employ or him during the rest of the game.

The gesture is the same here as those devices, just hold down the volume down button and power button at the same time, and you'll see the screen flash followed by a quick saving animation.

This is an amazing feat of prognostication, considering that the first recognizable Windows web browser (Mosaic) had been invented only a year prior to the video's release, and there was really no such thing as Internet video or animation at that time.