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At both the Baftas on Sunday night and the Oscars next month, there’s a strong chance that the award for best animated feature will go to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, an astonishing stop-motion animation that uses a beloved fairytale as a springboard for a deep dive into themes of death, fascism and Catholic guilt. Yet there’s another contender that has also been dazzling audiences with its ability to blend philosophical profundity with stop-motion whimsicality – a gently absurdist mockumentary about the inner life of…

Screenshot: NetflixImagine, if you will, someone remade a classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Elmer Fudd tries to hunt Bugs Bunny. But instead of just updating the animation, that someone used the cartoon as the basis for a sprawling epic that turned Elmer and Bugs’ face-off into a sprawling, tense game of cat-and-mouse, extrapolating depth, social commentary, and more—and imagine that reimagining absolutely ruled. That’s not quite Pluto, but it’s close.Based on a storyline in the original Astro Boy, the beyond beloved and…

The first episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is now online.Screenshot: DisneyWith the huge, global popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s sometimes easy to forget Marvel is much more than that. It’s comic books, obviously, but also video games, toys, TV shows, and excellent animation. Case in point, this week marked the debut of a brand new Marvel show on Disney Channel and it’s getting the kind of reception most MCU movies can only dream of. That show, which is currently sitting at 100% on Rotten…

Here is a genuine oddity: a weird little hothouse flower of a film that looks as if it might crumple at the slightest breath of wind – but is actually very resilient. It’s a quirky stop-motion animation, developed from a series of online short films, whose comedy frequency takes a little time to tune into. You have to wait a bit to hear its batsqueak, and before this happens there is a real and understandable danger that you will simply find it insufferably annoying. The film appears to exist in the Venn diagram-overlap…

In ancient Greece, an enthusiastic mouse named Pattie (voiced by Kaycie Chase) dreams of adventures and glory to match those of her hero, Jason. In his youth, Jason brought peace and prosperity home to his town along with the Golden Fleece. But now Jason is old, the gods are fractious and the fate of the community rests on Pattie, a stagestruck cat and a tone-deaf amputee seagull. The decent quality of the animation of this English-language French production is rather let down by some shockingly poor voice performances…

In this article, we will see how we can embed Lottie Animation in our Streamlit WebApp using Python.What is Lottie Animation?An animation file format called a Lottie, which is based on JSON, makes it simple to ship animations across all platforms. They are compact files that may be scaled up or down without pixelation and are compatible with all devices. The simplest method imaginable to create, edit, test, collaborate on, and ship a Lottie is with LottieFiles.Since its inception in 2017, LottieFiles has provided a…

This Shrek spin-off is a breezily entertaining DreamWorks animation that harnesses the familiar appeal of the self-aggrandising feline (Antonio Banderas), while also adopting a distinctive and original graphic visual style. Directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado both worked on the Kung Fu Panda films, and it’s perhaps this, plus the striking stylised action sequences of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, that informs the bold, peppy approach to Puss’s gravity-defying derring-do.The plot is basic: down to his final…

Photo: Nicola Dove/NetflixShinichiro Watanabe is responsible for making the coolest anime of all time—so cool, in fact, it’s been regularly airing on Adult Swim for the last two decades, and is still being watched. It’s a testament to how great Cowboy Bebop is that it still enraptures audiences all these years later—something Netflix’s live-action adaptation decidedly did not achieve. And Watanabe was definitely not enraptured by it either.In an excellent interview spanning the director’s lengthy career, Forbes asked…

This anime movie spin-off is the latest instalment of a popular existing property: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime started life as a novel series, then a manga, before being adapted into an anime television series. Familiarity with at least some of the previous incarnations will be essential for viewers hoping to understand this energetically baffling fantasy adventure. It’s visually striking, and at times somewhat overwhelming. Expect numerous sword-based battles, ogres, dragons, ancient curses, distractingly…

Image: Disney AnimationThere’ve been so many revivals of old (and older) shows or films these days that it’s not a matter of if, but when something from your childhood gets dragged out of the attic to become part of a streaming service’s new banner. (Assuming it doesn’t get canned mid-production, anyways). And the next show to get a revival is none other Disney Channel’s Phineas Ferb.Revealed during the Television Critics Association winter tour earlier in the week, Disney gave a 40-episode order for a sequel series split…