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Hand-drawn or cell animation of the old school variety, as seen in classic Walt Disney films.

The Romance Will Poke Yer Eyes Out!: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is now enhanced with 3D.
Does Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST need to undergo digital conversion to the 3D format in order to lure audiences back into the theater? It shouldn’t, not really. BEAUTY is a certified classic, the first animated film to net a [...]

New preview includes glimpses of the CGI GREEN LANTERN: ANIMATED series, new season of YOUNG JUSTICE and more.

Our listeners make their voices heard in this final episode of the Ultra-Lounge (at least in this incarnation): We hear from our listener in Latvia, who gives us some insight into his life; another listener rushes to the defense of the Dino De Laurentiis KING KONG; and an e-mail addressing how DREAM HOUSE’s trailer actually [...]

Street Tougher: Adult Swim's BLACK DYNAMITE.
Come 2012, Adult Swim is going to get bad-ass. In honor of the grand and sometimes delirious world of blaxploitation, they’ve latched onto the 2009 feature satire, BLACK DYNAMITE, and are bringing it to the video screen as half-hour, animated series.
With the film’s Michael Jai White and Byron Minns continuing [...]

Cinefantastique hit the floor of New York Comic Con 2011 and discovered… people. Lots ‘n’ lots of people. NYCC sold out for the entire weekend, and the upshot was that even the isolated reaches of the show floor became navigational nightmares at certain points during the day. Woe betide the mortal wandering Artists Alley who [...]

Dean Venture succombs to the inexorable pull of the Floyd Hole in THE VENTURE BROS.
Yes, Cinefantastique Online was at the just-wrapped New York Comic Con 2011, and we’re going to be bringing you tons o’ goodies — in both audio and video form — over the coming days (and weeks!). But we figured we should [...]

BEWARE THE BATMAN in CGI, Claymation Shorts, coming to Cartoon Network.

So Real, You Can Almost Smell the Lion Breath: A beloved moment from THE LION KING 3D.
There were no new genre films in theaters this weekend, but there was one old one in a shiny new, 3D coat: THE LION KING 3D, which just so happened to top this week’s box-office. With a prescience befitting [...]

Dr. John Zoidberg, “M”D? Fry, Leela, and Hermes may regret their treatment under his claws.

Couples Night in the Cockpit: A moment from Winsor McCay's THE FLYING HOUSE.
Think of it as one spiritual brother reaching out to another over the span of almost an entire century: Bill Plympton — the innovative animator known for his edgy surrealism and distinctive, hand-drawn style — has decided to rejuvenate the [...]

Sci-Fi animated comedy returns to Comedy Central to back-to-back mid-season premiere.

Schwarzenegger plans mulit-platform media conquest.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stan Lee team up to create THE GOVERNATOR, an animated cartoon superhero.