Are you excited for Shaun and his flock's next big adventure?<\/strong> Edited by: Kelly Conley<\/p>\n","post_title":"'A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon' Teaser Trailer Has Arrived!","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-shaun-the-sheep-movie-farmageddon-teaser-trailer-has-arrived","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-22 04:24:24","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-22 11:24:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/rotoscopers.com\/?p=51234","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":51208,"post_author":"51","post_date":"2018-12-07 03:23:39","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-07 10:23:39","post_content":"
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[Disney\/Pixar, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Toho\/Studio Chizu, Disney, Sony Pictures, Hollywood Foreign Press Association][\/caption]Award season is kicking into gear, so it's the perfect time for the\u00a0Hollywood Foreign Press Association to announce the nominations for the 76th Golden Globe Awards<\/strong>. This award ceremony honours the best in both\u00a0film and television, local and foreign.\n\nVia The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, the HFPA revealed their motion picture nominations for their 2019 session.\u00a0Vice<\/em> gained the most nominations with six, while\u00a0The Favourite<\/em>, Green Book<\/em>, and A Star Is Born<\/em> weren't too far being with five. Disney fans will also be pleased to know that four nominations were assigned to Mary Poppins Returns<\/em> including\u00a0Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. But for now, let's focus on our bread and butter, the animation nominations.\n\nThe five Best Animated Feature Film<\/strong> nominees are quite fascinating choices, each with their unique style and qualities. For starters, Disney's two animated sequels each gained a spot with Pixar's Incredibles 2<\/strong><\/em> and Disney Animation's Ralph Breaks the Internet<\/strong><\/em>. This is the first time that Disney-branded sequels have been nominated for the award since Cars 2<\/em> back in 2011.\n\nWes Anderson's gained his second nomination of this award with his dystopian stop-motion flick Isle of Dogs<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Japanese: \u72ac\u30f6\u5cf6<\/strong><\/em>), his first time being 2009's Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/em>. Additionally,\u00a0Alexandre Desplat's music for Isle of Dogs<\/em> has been nominated for\u00a0Best Original Score<\/strong> alongside\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/em> (Marco Beltrami),\u00a0Black Panther<\/em> (Ludwig G\u00f6ransson), First Man<\/em> (Justin Hurwitz), and Mary Poppins Returns<\/em> (Marc Shaiman).\n\nContinuing the tradition of nominating at least one independent\/foreign animated feature, the one that got the spot this time was Studio Chizu's Mirai<\/em><\/strong> (Japanese: \u672a\u6765\u306e\u30df\u30e9\u30a4<\/strong><\/em>). Released in North America via GKIDS, this is the first time that a Japanese anime feature has been nominated for a Golden Globe.\n\nFinally, Sony Pictures Animation's ambitious risk-taking Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em><\/strong> has been wowed by critics everywhere prior to release, so it seems fitting for the Globes to assign that movie in the final spot of the category.\n\nIn alphabetical order, a reminder of the Best Animated Feature Film nominations are:\n\n \t
What do you think of these animated movies being nominated? Which one do you think will be the winner?<\/h1>","post_title":"Animation Nominations at the 76th Golden Globes","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"animation-nominations-at-the-76th-golden-globes","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-12 23:09:08","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-13 06:09:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/rotoscopers.com\/?p=51208","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":51011,"post_author":"51","post_date":"2018-11-28 04:28:53","post_date_gmt":"2018-11-28 11:28:53","post_content":"It is with the sad grievance that we say goodbye to Stephen Hillenburg<\/strong>, the man who created Nickelodeon's most legendary television series SpongeBob SquarePants<\/em><\/strong>. Hillenburg tragically passed away at the age of 57 after battling with\u00a0amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable muscle-deteriorating\u00a0disease which he got diagnosed with in March of last year<\/a>.\n\nIn a\u00a0statement\u00a0regarding Hillenburg's passing via Variety<\/a>,\u00a0Nickelodeon said:\n
\u201cWe are incredibly saddened by the news that Steve Hillenburg has passed away following a battle with ALS. He was a beloved friend and long-time creative partner to everyone at Nickelodeon, and our hearts go out to his entire family. Steve imbued \u2018SpongeBob SquarePants\u2019 with a unique sense of humor and innocence that has brought joy to generations of kids and families everywhere. His utterly original characters and the world of Bikini Bottom will long stand as a reminder of the value of optimism, friendship and the limitless power of imagination.\u201d<\/blockquote>\nBorn in Lawton, Oklahoma on August 21, 1961,\u00a0Stephen McDannell Hillenburg grew up with a passion for drawing and a fascination on marine life. His love towards the latter convinced him to study\u00a0marine biology at the\u00a0Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, graduating in 1984 with a natural-resource planning\u00a0bachelor. From there,\u00a0Hillenburg went through various jobs such as\u00a0a park service attendant, before landing his dream job as a\u00a0marine science teacher at\u00a0Orange County Marine (now called\u00a0Ocean Institute).\n\nCombining his teaching knowledge and artistic abilities,\u00a0Hillenburg created an educational comic titled\u00a0The Intertidal Zone<\/em> to teach his young students, which featured anthropomorphic\u00a0sea creatures including the comic's co-host \"Bob the Sponge\". Later on, he began to attend numerous\u00a0animation festivals which sparked his fascination with\u00a0the artistic film medium and convinced him to become an animator himself. He quit his teaching job in 1987 to study animation and signed up for the Experimental Animation Program at CalArts two years later.\n\n
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Wormholes<\/em>
[Stephen Hillenburg][\/caption]Regarding this career change, Hillenburg said in Biography Today: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers<\/a>\u00a0that \"Changing careers like that is scary, but the irony is that animation is a pretty healthy career right now and science education is more of a struggle.\"<\/em> Nevertheless, he successfully graduated from CalArts with a Master of Fine Arts in experimental animation. That same final study year, he created two animated shorts titled\u00a0The Green Beret<\/em> and Wormholes<\/em>, the latter of which was screened at many animation festivals including Annecy,\u00a0Hiroshima International, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and more.\n\nHillenburg later landed his first professional animation job at Nickelodeon as a director on the show Rocko's Modern Life<\/em>. He and the show's creator Joe Murray met at\u00a0Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1992 where\u00a0Hillenburg's\u00a0Wormholes<\/em> and Murray's\u00a0My Dog Zero<\/em> were screening. After being impressed with\u00a0Hillenburg's work, Murray offered him the directing\u00a0gig. Hillenburg worked closely with Murray throughout the show's four seasons, serving for directing, writing, and producing some episodes.\n\n![\"Rocko's](\"https:\/\/www.rotoscopers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Rockos_Modern_Life.jpg\")
Rocko's Modern Life<\/em>
[Nickelodeon][\/caption]During production, Rocko<\/em> writer\u00a0Martin Olson encouraged Hillenburg to create a show based around The Intertidal Zone<\/em>. Though he had no intentions in doing so after seeing the stress Murray went through as a showrunner, he did have an idea of what to do in this situation. He expressed this in the April 2003 issue of Current Biography<\/a> by saying:\n\"For all those years it seemed like I was doing these two totally separate things. I wondered what it all meant. I didn't see a synthesis. It was great when [my two interests] all came together in [a show]. I felt relieved that I hadn't wasted a lot of time doing something that I then abandoned to do something else. It has been pretty rewarding,\"<\/blockquote>\nHowever, his commitment to creating a show sparked up during a beach visit along the\u00a0Santa Monica Freeway. He began to build his ideas based on his past teachings of marine biology and memorized how his students were fascinated with tide-pool creatures. Combining this, along with elements of\u00a0The Intertidal Zone<\/em>, and his past job experience as a fry cook, the final component was to choose the weirdest sea creature to use as the main character. Via The New York Times<\/a>, he decided: \"I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.\"<\/em> And thus, SpongeBob SquarePants<\/em> was born.\n\n
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Hillenburg's concept sketches for the show's characters.
[Stephen Hillenburg][\/caption]Hillenburg pitched the show to Nickelodeon executives in 1997, completely themed with Hawaiian music and his Hawaiian t-shirt. This greatly impressed the higher-ups, and the green light on SpongeBob<\/em> was granted. The series officially began airing on July 17, 1999, and became a smash hit, overtaking Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> as the highest-rated Saturday morning children's show, and pulling in millions of viewers young and old, including college students.\n\nOn the show's surprising success, Hillenburg remarked via Biography Today<\/a>:\n\"I never imagined that it would get to this point. When you set out to do a show about a sponge, you can't anticipate this kind of craze. We just try to make ourselves laugh, then ask if it's appropriate for children. I can tell you that we hoped it would be liked by adults. But we really thought the best we could hope for was a college audience.\"<\/blockquote>\nAfter three seasons, the show's production was suspended to make room for\u00a0Hillenburg's magnum opus: a theatrical animated movie starring the loveable yellow sponge. This came in the form of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie<\/em>, in which he served as director, co-producer, and one of the writers. SpongeBob and Patrick's epic quest to retrieve King Neptune's crown was released in North America via Paramount Pictures on\u00a0November 19, 2004, to positive reviews and a worldwide gross of $140 million.\n\n
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie<\/em>
[Paramount Pictures][\/caption]Hillenburg intended the movie to be the series finale, but considering how lucrative the franchise was for Nickelodeon, this was not going to happen. After the movie, he stepped down from the show, passed the showrunner torch to his trusted crew member Paul Tibbitt, and downgraded his role to an executive producer. From there, the show's quality would diminish to inconsistency\u00a0due to seasonal rot.\n\nHowever, Hillenburg was reported to be fully returning to the show in 2014. He would then serve as a story writer and executive producer for the franchise's second film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water<\/em>, which\u00a0Tibbitt directed, and the 2015 entry became another critical and commercial success. Sadly, Hillenburg was diagnosed with ALS two years later<\/a>, though he remained committed to helping out with the show despite his disease.\n\nIn his final year of living in 2018, he received the Winsor McCay Award at the 45th Annie Awards, the top award that honours an individual's lifetime achievements and accomplishments in the field of animation. Later that year during the\u00a045th Daytime Emmy Awards, he was given special recognition for \"his contribution and impact made in the animation field and within the broadcast industry.\"<\/em> Both of these were presented to him by SpongeBob's voice actor Tom Kenny.\n