Book Review: The Art of Blue Sky Studios
Fred Patten looks inside the impressive new coffee table art book chronicling the studios’ theatrical releases from ‘Ice Age’ to the upcoming ‘Peanuts.’
Fred Patten looks inside the impressive new coffee table art book chronicling the studios’ theatrical releases from ‘Ice Age’ to the upcoming ‘Peanuts.’
Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, 'Big Hero 6' is a superhero origin story centered around a boy and his robot.
Co-directors of Disney's most technologically advanced film to date discuss production challenges, creating a robot that learns, and Hyperion, the studio's new global-illumination rendering system.
Films submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 87th Academy Awards range from CG studio ‘toons to independent, hand-drawn features.
Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star teams with Canadian director Ann Marie Fleming to back an animated drama about a Chinese-Canadian poet in Iran.
Depression and suicide are at the heart of Signe Baumane’s very personal, poignant and darkly funny new animated feature.
Disney Feature Animation’s first Marvel collaboration pins high hopes and big expectations on a little-known comic book.
Call for entries comprises 36 categories, including a new category, Best Character Animation in a Video Game.
According to figures released at the tenth China International Cartoon and Game Expo in Shanghai, China's animation industry generated $14 billion (87 billion yuan) in revenue last year.
Fred Patten reviews the fantastic new collection of concept and production art from every DreamWorks animated film.
Carlos Saldanha is again at the helm in the sequel to Blue Sky Studio's 2011 hit, Rio. Check out our set of production stills. All images TM and © 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Time-traveling mutants, rare blue macaws, a webbed crusader, morphing metal robots and the Mistress of All Evil are just a few of the animated characters coming to theatres this Spring.
The co-directors of DreamWorks’ Oscar-nominated feature discuss the family dynamic at the heart of their story.
Gravity, Frozen, and Mr. Hublot were the big winners for VFX and animation at Sunday night's 86th Academy Awards. Here's a snapshot of the backstage comments.
“My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.’” That line was immortalized by Tom Hanks in the award-winning movie “Forest Gump” in 1994. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today selected that film and 24 others to be preserved as cultural, artistic and historical treasures in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
When I’m not writing important blog posts I’m writing frivolous stuff like feature films. Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working with Chris Moujaes, the Director of Original Entertainment at FUNimation Entertainment, and producer April Bennett on Electronic Arts/Bioware’s animated feature film, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker...
The 2004 edition of the 3D Awards names 'Finding Nemo' the best 3D animated feature film; 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' is crowned with the prize for best feature film visual effects.