Stories By Michael Mallory
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Television
Hip Tunes for Toons: Top Composers on Creating Eclectic Soundtracks
June 27, 2019It practically goes without saying that children’s animated shows today don’t look like they used to....
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Features
2018’s Animated Feature Composers Strike a Universal Chord
January 18, 2019With the checkered flag about to be waved on the 2019 Academy Award race, the list...
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Features
‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’: Drawn to Reality
December 11, 2018Spanish director Salvador Simó puts an animated spin on a special chapter in Luis Buñuel’s life...
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Features
Your 2018 Animated Feature Oscar Dossier!
November 13, 2018This year’s roster of animated pictures is large and very diverse, though unlike some prior years,...
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Features
The Grinch: Illuminating Dr. Seuss’s Mean One!
October 17, 2018The new CG-animated feature The Grinch digs deeper into the world of the favorite holiday curmudgeon....
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Features
‘Hotel Transylvania’ Third Time’s a Charmer
July 12, 2018In 2015, after captaining two entries in Sony Pictures Animation’s monster franchise Hotel Transylvania, animation maestro...
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Features
Netflix Unleashes Painterly ‘White Fang’ This Friday
July 6, 2018Director Alexandre Espigares leads a noble effort to bring Jack London’s White Fang to CG- animated...
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Features
Score One for Animation
June 22, 2018***This article originally appeared in the June/July issue of Animation Magazine (No. 281)*** Probably no area...
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Features
Renegade Animation at 25: The Little Toon Train that Could
March 30, 2018How much of a challenge has it been to keep an animation studio up and running...
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Features
‘Maya’ Buzzes Off to U.K., Nordics
July 6, 2015Studio 100 Film has secured a new distribution deal for its CG-animated Maya the Bee movie...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Price Was Right, and a Farewell
January 2, 2015After 163 entries over the course of 2½ years — all culled from the thousand or...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Remembering Martha Sigall
December 17, 2014Very few people can be called irreplaceable, but Martha Goldman Sigall, who passed away this week...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Stamps of Approval
December 4, 2014A few days back I was in the post office to buy stamps. “So what?” you...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
The Problem With Predictions
November 20, 2014The critical success of this fall’s salsa-flavored The Book of Life got me thinking about an...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Remembering ‘Click’
November 6, 2014As I write this, the country is mourning the death of Tom Magliozzi, NPR radio star...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Which Witch is Which?
October 23, 2014Halloween season seems to be the perfect time to bring up one a cartoon character who...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
There is No ‘I’ in Team (If ‘I’ Means ‘Interest’)
October 9, 2014The above title may be a provocative one since motion pictures, both live action and animated,...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
When the Studios Saw Red
September 25, 2014These days, it’s difficult not to wander into a social-media argument over unions, with organized labor...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Surviving the Uncommon Cold
September 11, 2014What could be more frustrating for a voice artist than having to call in sick because...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Bicoastal Bakshi
August 28, 2014Back in the early 1970s, when feature animation was believed to be in its final days,...
Recent Posts
We recently had a chance to chat with animation composer Vivek Maddala, whose many credits ...
A group of unusual kids with mysterious spots on their bodies form a special bond ...
Indie entertainment company Stampede -- founded by former Warner Bros. Pictures President Greg Silverman -- ...
