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the Vivart Blog: How to Train Your Dragon
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Monday, April 12, 2010. How to Train Your Dragon. Last March, Dreamworks Animation SKG's new animated film How to Train Your Dragon. Won the hearts of both the audience and critics! Ts future animated features. As with all the recent CG films, this film gets a gold star for stunning imagery- -BUT allow me to be more specific so I don't sound redundant. Let's track back to the time when Dreamworks first started on its 3D path, in particularly with the movie Antz. E script and storyline that really impress...
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the Vivart Blog: Russian Animation
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Russian Animation is as rich as an olive. It is soaked with supernatural beauty and unspoken tragedy. One look at it and BAM! Curiosity consumed me. The moment I got a taste of it from a youtube clip, I hungered for more. What is this world, unknown to so many? To the Western World? To the Russians themselves? The first Russian Animation Clip that I saw was. Hedge Hog in the Fog. Image above), made in 1975 by Yuri Norstein. His apprentice, Aleksandr Petrov. His painted frames lo...
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the Vivart Blog: Ub Iwerks
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Friday, October 30, 2009. While it is true that Mickey Mouse's character was mostly developed by Walt Disney. Not many people know about the man who first drew out our round eared friend and made Mickey a visual reality. In this sense,. Ub Iwerks was the first draftsman of Mickey Mouse. Ub pretty much animated all the shorts. He also did most of the animating for the Alice Comedies. And Silly Symphonies,. Who conflicted with Disney earlier during the production of Steamboat Willie. Technique (which was u...
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the Vivart Blog: RIP J.D. Salinger
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Thursday, January 28, 2010. RIP JD. Salinger. On January 27th, 2010, J.D. Salinger, author of. Catcher in the Rye,. Died a peaceful death at the age of 91 in his home in Cornish, New Hampshire. Catcher in the Rye is perhaps Salinger's best known work, especially because of the main protagonist Holden Caulfield, a restless adolescent questioning the boundaries of society. The book is read by many high school students, as it is one of the "staples" on every English teacher's list. Franny and Zooey,. While ...
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the Vivart Blog: Happy Birthday Norman Rockwell!
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Happy Birthday Norman Rockwell! The Four Freedoms Series. Freedom from Fear, Freedom of Want, Freedom to Worship, and Freedom of Speech). So I went on the Google homepage and found out that today is Norman Rockwell's birthday! He's one of America's most beloved illustrators, and he's one of my favorite artists. I loved reading about him and looking at his work as a kid, and I never grow tired of checking those same biographies from the library. Norman Rockwell. So, he gorged ...
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the Vivart Blog: the Princess and the Frog
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Sunday, February 21, 2010. The Princess and the Frog. To celebrate the end of applications, I am going to FINALLY blog about. The Princess and the Frog. After three years of waiting to see it, I finally did (two months ago). I never thought this entry would be so delayed.but, better than never right? The story is sort of corny at times, but.THAT'S. WHAT MAKES IT SO CUTE! The target audience IS for little kids af. Which is loosely baesd on the fairy tale Rapunzel and will come out this November! While it ...
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the Vivart Blog: Betty Boop
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009. When I was a bumbling little kid I always saw images of her on the front of small accessories and trucks, and I wondered, who is Betty Boop? Why was she always red and surrounded by hearts? I never saw her on the saturday morning cartoons, so was she really a legitimate cartoon character in the first place? It's interesting how cartoons are typically associated with children, but with Betty Boop this was not the case, at least in the beginning of her animated career. In which...
