Recommended DVD's
★★★ Buy it
★★ Not bad
★ Only use if you have nothing else
Title |
Location |
Use in classroom |
Duration |
Rating |
| The Lost Thing – Madman - 2010 |
Extras Go to Page 2 Interview |
Where animators find inspiration. Interview with Shaun Tan about his creative thought process and his experience as an illustrator, working with animators. Includes him talking about his visual diaries. Disk includes a study guide. Film is 15 min. So together with interview it’s great for one class. |
24.27 min | ★★★ |
| Fantasia – Disney – Special Edition |
Main Menu Special Features Audio Commentary On |
The animation of Music. If you are short on time, just watch the The Sorcerer's Apprentice 28min – 38min Dance of the hours 132.15 min – 145min Includes charactures, anthropomorphism, layouts, camera shots, staging, blocking, lighting, and perspective. |
119 min | ★★★/★★ |
| Finding Nemo |
Disk 2 Bonus Behind the scenes Making Nemo |
The making of a 3d animation. Fantastic look at the process of making an animation. Includes script writing, character design, character modeling, color design, storyboard, anamatics and animation. |
25 min | ★★★ |
| 9 |
Chapter forward through trailers Bonus |
9 – the long and the short of it. The process of taking a short film from a uni project to a full-length feature. Not a lot on the animation, more on the story, character development and actors. The look of 9 Exploration of the design on the world and character design, lighting, including commentary and still of design documents. |
15 min
13 mins |
★★ ★★★ |
| Aladdin Disney |
Disk 2 Backstage Disney The making of Aladdin Index |
The Animators Interviews with 4 of the animators Pencil to Computer Animating the carpet Designing Jafar Designing Jafar Rough Stuff Acting out the movement, live action. |
13.30 min
3 min
2 min 2.30 min |
★★ |
| Howles moving castle – 2 disk special edition. |
Disk two |
Explanation of CG. Interesting use of 2d animation and 3d combined. Need to explain “Toon Boom Harmony” computer program before watching. Very technical and more use to 3D animation. Commentated in Japanese with subtitles in english. |
20 mins | ★ 1/2 |
| Little mermaid |
Disk two Backstage Disney |
Storm warning – special effects Great look at referencing old animation. How environmental animation is important. Treasures untold Setting sail Character design |
8.40 Mins
13.30 Mins |
★★★
★★ |
| Forrest Gump | 2 disk Making of Sound editing and mixing Through the years of Forrest |
Introducing the Audio elective Unit |
45-50min | ★★★ |
| Nightmare before Christmas |
Disk 2 English Bonus Features
Disk 1 English Bonus Features |
Storyboard to film comparison. Whole movie showing both storyboard and animation. Great to show how detailed storyboards are and the beauty of TB’s style.
Backstage Disney > The making of the nightmare before Christmas. Fantastic run through the process of making a stop motion animation. Also covers style, storyboard, music, colour design, texture, scale, and lighting. |
73 mins
25 min |
★★★ ★★★ |
| New Moon (Twilight) |
Disk 2 Green screen effects and video editing |
Good examples of green screen |
★★★ | |
| Harvie Krumpet | Movie Extras |
Use in Classroom – excellent for Animation particularly Stop Motion Animation and character development. Extras include the Trilogy (Uncle, Brother, Cousin) that started when Adam Elliott was a student and shows the development of his concepts and ideas into the Academy Award winner Harvie Krumpet. Includes Storyboard Samples/Making Of and Directors commentary | Movie 22 mins, Trilogy 20 mins, Making of/Storyboard - 5 Mins |
★★★ |
| Mary and Max | Main Feature Extras |
For animation studies. Interesting to show the development of Adam Elliott’s Claymation from the “Triology” pieces (4-10 mins) to Harvie Krumpet (20 mins) to this full blown movie. Extras include Timelapse Shots and Animatics. There’s also an audio commentary by director Adam Elliot, in the "Setup" menu. See http://www.acmi.net.au/global/docs/mary_and_max_kit_reduced.pdf for their exhibit education kit that could be easily adapted for useful tasks while watching the movie. ACMI resource includes links to interviews and clips. There’s also an online documentary called the Making of Mary and Max | Duration 92 mins (suggest you not show the whole movie - too long! Also, although innocent, the movie does explore some adult themes.) | ★★ |
| Lilo & Stitch | Bonus material | Nothing there | - | - |
| Kung Fu Panda |
Special Features Pushing the boundaries |
3D Animation. Brief run through of the issues encounter during the 3d production |
7.05 min | ★ |