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02.09.08 by Widge @ 5:57 pm  The annual Annie Awards, presented by the International Animated Film Society, were given out last night. And Pixar rocked the house, taking Best Animated Feature for Ratatouille, Best Animated Short Subject, and THQ even won for their Ratatouille video game. Futurama also took home the Best Home Entertainment Production award for Bender's Big Score and Aardman won Best Animated Television Production for Creature Comforts America. You can get all the details at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive but some other highpoints of note are here... Categorized as: Animation
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02.02.08 by Widge @ 5:56 am This. Is actually pretty terrifying. Funny. But terrifying. And coming next week: a mashup of The Herculoids and Coupling. Categorized as: Animation
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01.24.08 by Widge @ 6:23 pm  Disney is reworking both Toy Story and Toy Story 2 into 3-D. You can expect the 3-D Toy Story to hit Octobe 2, 2009, the 3-D Toy Story 2 to hit February 12, 2010 and then the brand spanking new inherently 3-D Toy Story 3. Now, the first thing you might recall is that back when Disney was going to do Toy Story 3 without Pixar (before their Vulcan mind meld--or, if not a Vulcan mind meld, then some strange version of this--right down to the opening line, "It seemed like a good idea at the time") they were going to do it 3-D then too. The obvious question you might ask me is, "Widge, am I pleased or frightened?" And my answer is: hellifiknow. First up, Disney has this hideous track record of recent years and we're all extremely gun shy thanks to amount of crap they've released. I was afraid they would overpower Pixar with their suck factor. Categorized as: Animation
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01.16.08 by Widge @ 5:16 am The Neil points out that somebody shot the Coraline trailer, apparently from the audience. This is a 3-D trailer and naturally shooting from what I guess was a phone camera isn't going to give you the same effect, but as he also points out--when people are oohing that probably means "3-D shot." Bear in mind this trailer, even in 3-D, is nowhere near as creepy as the movie itself should be. So. Categorized as: Animation
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01.12.08 by Widge @ 6:01 pm  After our previous post, Bailey and I were marveling over the ability of people to find time to do things on the internet, when we barely have time to, you know, live. Case in point: somebody's created a listing of all the ACME products featured in various Warner Brothers cartoons. We don't know where you found the time, but bless you regardless. Categorized as: Animation
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