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Gore Verbinski On Animation's “Secret Society” And Why He's Watching The Super ...
Hollywood Reporter
The director talked with The Hollywood Reporter after his "Rango" won the Annie Award for best animated feature. “It feels like I'm being let into a secret society,” Rango director Gore Verbinski told The Hollywood Reporter at his first Annie ...
Top animation Annie goes to 'Rango'DigitalJournal.com
'Rango' wins the Annie Award for animated featureLos Angeles Times (blog)
'Rango' Receives Best Animated Feature Award at 39th Annual Annie AwardsSacramento Bee
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Oscar nod for animated 'Morris Lessmore' could be just the start for ...
NOLA.com
One history-making hurricane later -- not to mention the founding of a shiny, new animation studio in Shreveport -- and the 15-minute animated charmer "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" was born, "inspired in equal measures by ...
Numberlys and The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore for iOSMacworld (blog)

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Indian Express

Al Pacino to make animation debut
Indian Express
'Godfather' star Al Pacino is set to make his animated film debut in 'Despicable Me 2' as he has been cast to voice a supervillain. The 71-year-old actor, who is famous for playing a mobster in several iconic movies, will replace Javier Bardem in the ...
Al Pacino to Make Animation Debut by Voicing the Villain in 'Despicable Me 2'AceShowbiz
Al Pacino Will Voice the Villain in 'Despicable Me 2'Hollywood.com
Al Pacino Lends Voice To 'Despicable Me 2'Get The Big Picture (blog)

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ANIMATED: Madonna Says She's 'Inspired' By Victor Cruz
SB Nation
Maybe I'm revealing my nerd roots perhaps a bit too much here, but this display of hers looks a bit too much like the animation in World of Warcraft when you tell a lady zombie to dance. Which is not to say that Madonna looks like a zombie. Ahem.

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The ESPN Super Bowl's Whiteboard Animation Commercial Confirms the Popularity ...
Missouri Sports Magazine
“Numbers Never Lie” had a great commercial using whiteboard animation that is so new, many people have never heard of it before. It can also be named as video scribing, fast hand drawing, sketch cartoon video, and by many other combinations of names, ...

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Bizarre Animated Taiwanese Super Bowl Preview Shows Patriots Kicking Indian
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
This bizarre animated video from the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation is a 'preview' of today's Super Bowl match between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants that takes creative license with, well, everything.



SBIFF 2012 Director's Panel
Santa Barbara Independent
By DJ Palladino After all, three of the directors, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Chris Miller, and Gore Verbinski were repping animated films, which might be moneymakers but are frequently not invited to the adult's table even at the Oscars.
2012 Director's Panel at the SBIFFSanta Barbara Edhat

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DreamWorks Animation Sets Voice Cast for 'Me & My Shadow' (Exclusive)
Hollywood Reporter
Kate Hudson, "Book of Mormon" star Josh Gad and "SNL" comic Bill Hader will star in the animated fantasy. The Book of Mormon star Josh Gad, Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader and Kate Hudson have signed to star as the voice cast of Me & My Shadow, ...
DreamWorks Animation's 'Me & My Shadow' Adds Bill Hader, Josh Gad, and Kate HudsonFused Film
Gad, Hudson to star in 'Me & My Shadow'UPI.com
Kate Hudson to Star in 'Everly,' 'Me & My Shadow'Shalom Life

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OregonLive.com

'Portlandia' episode 5, 'Cops Redesign': You can't go wrong with animated rats
OregonLive.com
In a delightfully random change of course, we meet three rats, done in stop-motion animation (this is Portland, after all, a stop-motion animation haven). They discuss their strategy for getting into this zero-packaging paradise, the Fred-voiced rat ...

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SPOTLIGHT ON LOCAL SCHOOLS: CLUB GETS ANIMATED
The Keene Sentinel
Jaffrey Grade School 4th-grade twins Abigail, left, and Haylie Drew produce a sequence of photos of a wedding proposal, using characters and props made from clay for an animation project. Posted: Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:00 am | Updated: 8:17 am, ...


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