Tag: Stop Motion Animation

Tim Burton’s “Frankenweenie” Gets Its First Poster

Posted: February 21, 2012 at 10:31 pm   /   Film, Local, Movie News

I am a big fan of Tim Burton, but he is far from perfect in my eyes.  I am much more a fan of his earlier work (“Batman”, “Beetlejuice”, “Edward Scissorhands”).  But he has some ground to make up after seriously disappointing me with “Alice in Wonderland”.  This might be the year.  Burton has two […]

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Henry Selick Signs Deal With Disney

Posted: April 2, 2010 at 2:13 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Coraline director Henry Selick has signed a long term deal that will see him to return to Disney. The deal will allow Selick to work from his own studio in the Bay Area on both original and literary properties. The director will be making stop motion features for the animation giant. Selick got his start […]

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Awesome Stop Motion Animated “Star Wars” Lego Short Film

Posted: March 3, 2010 at 3:12 pm   /   Local, Viral Videos

The ingenuity of people across the internet never ceases to amaze me.  Earlier today I posted an epic Rube Goldberg machine done for a video by the band OK Go. (Watch the video here.) Now we have Fancy Pants Productions, doing their own version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The whole video is done […]

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More Fantastic Mr. Fox Pictures, from USA Today

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 2:20 pm   /   Local, Movie News

I love Wes Anderson, easily one of my top 5 favorite directors, and I can’t wait to see what he does with his first feature length foray into stop motion animation. The images we have seen so far are gorgeous and everything we are hearing is that we should expect a Wes Anderson film, and […]

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Posted: August 3, 2009 at 1:59 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

This latest stop motion animated drama is an odd, lonely, and somewhat interesting tale that doesn’t do anything special and leaves you a bit bewildered with everything. The film focuses on a set of individuals living in an apartment building as they all deal with issues in their lives while also coming rather loosely connected […]

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