Coraline
An adventurous 11-year-old girl (Dakota Fanning) finds another world that is a strangely idealised version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
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Despicable Me 2
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Gru (Steve Carrell), the world s most super-bad turned super-dad, has been recruited by a team of officials to stop a new supervillain, so he has to fight back with new gadgetry, cars, and more minion madness.
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How To Train Your Dragon
A hapless young Viking (Jay Baruchel) who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
by Ryan McCarthy
April 07, 2021, 5:59am PDT
The large-format art book portrays early sketches, storyboards and exclusive interviews that help define the film s unique artistic style.
Producing lines that jump and shake with elusive humanity, traditional hand-drawn animation subtly reminds audiences of the artists behind the apparatus and the tedious nature of their creation.
“Hand-drawn animation is an art form that is unique in its ability to draw on the thousands of years of visual language handed down to us from the illustrators, painters and cartoonists of the past. We don’t only have to mimic live-action, but convey the emotions and inner worlds of our characters, not just with how they move, speak and act, but also with how they and their world are drawn and painted,” says Tomm Moore, co-founder of Cartoon Saloon.
Four stars
Rating: PG, for dramatic intensity, and sequences of violence and peril
Available via: Apple TV+
By Derrick Bang
The best animation houses have their own distinctive appearance, pacing and storytelling approach.
Classic 1940s and ’50s Warner Bros. cartoons looked nothing like their Disney cousins, and nobody would confuse one of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli efforts with a Pixar entry.
The same is true of Ireland’s Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, who as artists, writers or directors under the Cartoon Saloon banner have previously brought us 2009’s “The Secret of Kells” and 2014’s “Song of the Sea,” both of which earned Academy Award nominations.
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Cartoon Studios, which was co-founded by a Roscommon native, has been nominated for a total of five Academy awards in the field of animation over the past numbe.