Mike Brent is an amateur independent animator from Stop Motion Animation.com known as Strider. This information portal is a web community administrated by Anthony Scott. Within this community, Brent focuses mainly on the Eastern European style of stopmotion known as Puppetfilm.
After viewing Street of Crocodiles, [Timothy & Stephen Quay, 1986] Brent says he realized that [...]
In actuality the film was, most likely, the right length for a feature. Perhaps the filmmakers didn’t go far enough with the plot.
You see, this is the way that I feel with most animated films of today. Not enough potential is being milked out of a meaty subject. It’s almost as if the filmmakers decided [...]
Ratatouille cleaned up at this year’s Annie awards, taking 10 statues including the coveted Best Animated Feature award.
This means the Brad Bird movie has a better-than-average chance of taking home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film on February 14th. The Annies have successfully predicted the Oscar winner for five out of the six years [...]
McCracken is the lone success story in an industry full of sad stories. Everyone likes to hear a success story, but few like to hear what I would re-term as “Failure Tales”. Yet these tales are very necessary to hear, since they don’t encourage the listeners to see the entertainment industry as a “you-can-do-it-too” enterprise. [...]