Dr. Toon: The Avengers Dis-assembled

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Dr. Toon looks at the megahit "Avengers" movie and offers a few thoughts.

Snow White Gets Grimm

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Snow White gets a gritty makeover for her adventure with the Huntsman.

Inside Disney’s New Animated Short Paperman

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Director John Kahrs and Producer Kristina Reed take us inside Disney’s new 2D-CG hybrid animated short.

Barry Howell Talks Battleship Previs

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The Third Floor’s previs supervisor talks about Thugs, the Beast and working with Peter Berg on his naval-science fiction slugfest.

Doing the Time Warp for Men in Black 3

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Go behind the scenes of the VFX and 3-D for MIB 3.

New Hardware, Water and Aliens for Battleship

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Read about the latest advancements at ILM for Peter Berg's naval/sci-fi mash-up.

Getting Animated Over The Avengers

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ILM's Jeff White and Weta's Guy Williams discuss a new Hulk and Iron Man tune-up for Joss Whedon's superhero epic. Steve Viola of Method Design also talks about the title sequences.

The Wacom 24HD Drawing Tablet Review

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Evan Goncalo tests the new Wacom 24HD to see if it may indeed be the end-all-be-all of graphic tablets.

Stereoscopic Supervisor Robert Neuman Talks Disney 3-D

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The man behind conversions of The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast discusses the stereoscopic 3-D renaissance at Disney.

Pixar Previews Brave

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Pixar screened the first half-hour of Brave last week and Bill Desowitz reports his impressions and speaks with director Mark Andrews.