I wanted to make a big, epic adventure movie." "It was an opportunity to go to a place, do an Avatar, and find a world you didn't expect. Epic isn't cute, it's not about humans bulldozing over the forest and chasing out little critters," he says. "There will always be comparisons to other movies but that is not one I care for.
If the premise sounds similar to an earlier eco-themed animated fantasy, 1992's Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, you might refrain from mentioning it to Epic director Chris Wedge. The latest animated 3D offering from Blue Sky Studios, Epic, is based on the 1996 William Joyce novel, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, about a magical world in which tiny inhabitants of the forest are threatened by an evil force. cartoons.Ī marvelous website dedicated to early Hanna-Barbera cartoons.The animated feature Epic lets the guys behind Ice Age branch out into a forest fable, writes Michele Manelis
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With Pixar’s ‘Geri’s Game’ (1997), ‘Bunny’ is one of the first computer animated shorts that make you forget you’re watching a computer animated film. At this point the film takes a remarkable turn… An elderly bunny tries to bake a cake, when she’s being disturbed by a giant moth.Īfter a wild chase the moth falls into the cake mix and she angrily bakes the insect with it.
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