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Ruby Gillman is not the Monstrous beast of Norweigan folklore but an awkward teen going through a big change.
Riffing on several fairy tales and littered with pop culture references, Shrek positioned itself as animation’s dirty alternative to Disney classics.
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Released in 2001, it was the first film to really give Pixar a run for its money.
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What the closure of Blue Sky studios means for the future of cartoons
Character drawings are encoded with cues to help animators understand how the character should move.
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When I first started working as an animator on the South Park (1999) feature film in California, I found it remarkable that every Tuesday evening the studio would hold life-drawing classes. It seemed odd…