Michael Mallory

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2018’s Animated Feature Composers Strike a Universal Chord

With the checkered flag about to be waved on the 2019 Academy Award race, the list of likelies for the Best Animated Feature category...

‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’: Drawn to Reality

Spanish director Salvador Simó puts an animated spin on a special chapter in Luis Buñuel’s life and career. Imagine a movie that proposes to explore,...

Your 2018 Animated Feature Oscar Dossier!

This year’s roster of animated pictures is large and very diverse, though unlike some prior years, there is not that single slam-dunk juggernaut representing...

The Grinch: Illuminating Dr. Seuss’s Mean One!

The new CG-animated feature The Grinch digs deeper into the world of the favorite holiday curmudgeon. Anyone who has shared Thanksgiving dinner with extended family...

‘Hotel Transylvania’ Third Time’s a Charmer

In 2015, after captaining two entries in Sony Pictures Animation’s monster franchise Hotel Transylvania, animation maestro Genndy Tartakovsky was ready to abandon ship when...

Netflix Unleashes Painterly ‘White Fang’ This Friday

Director Alexandre Espigares leads a noble effort to bring Jack London’s White Fang to CG- animated life. Few would argue that animation is the best...

Score One for Animation

***This article originally appeared in the June/July issue of Animation Magazine (No. 281)*** Probably no area of filmmaking has changed so much over time as...

Renegade Animation at 25: The Little Toon Train that Could

How much of a challenge has it been to keep an animation studio up and running throughout the industry’s vast technological and artistic upheaval...

‘Maya’ Buzzes Off to U.K., Nordics

Studio 100 Film has secured a new distribution deal for its CG-animated Maya the Bee movie with London-based entertainment company Primal Screen. The agreement...

Price Was Right, and a Farewell

After 163 entries over the course of 2½ years — all culled from the thousand or so interviews stowed inside my garage — I...

Remembering Martha Sigall

Very few people can be called irreplaceable, but Martha Goldman Sigall, who passed away this week at the age of 97, was one. Martha...

Stamps of Approval

A few days back I was in the post office to buy stamps. "So what?" you may be asking, so, so this: when the...

The Problem With Predictions

The critical success of this fall's salsa-flavored The Book of Life got me thinking about an effort a decade ago by the Canadian company...

Remembering ‘Click’

As I write this, the country is mourning the death of Tom Magliozzi, NPR radio star and possessor of the most infectious cackle since...

Which Witch is Which?

Halloween season seems to be the perfect time to bring up one a cartoon character who had one of the most remarkable careers of...

There is No ‘I’ in Team (If ‘I’ Means ‘Interest’)

The above title may be a provocative one since motion pictures, both live action and animated, based on comic book teams – X-Men, Guardians...

When the Studios Saw Red

These days, it's difficult not to wander into a social-media argument over unions, with organized labor having become just one more political wedge issue....

Surviving the Uncommon Cold

What could be more frustrating for a voice artist than having to call in sick because of a cold or sore throat? Back in 1999...

Bicoastal Bakshi

Back in the early 1970s, when feature animation was believed to be in its final days, a new feature operation with dreams of challenging...

Working with a Genius Genie

As these words are being written, the world is still reeling from the shocking news of Robin Williams' death. Virtually every tribute to the...
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