Pencils Vs Pixels
7.8
2023
1 hr 12 min
Documentary
A documentary told from the voices of the "second golden age" of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were trained by animation masters that created the principles of animation, they took animation to heights no one dreamed of - and then came the computer.
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- Cast：
- Ming-Na Wen , Pete Docter , John Musker , Tony Bancroft , Jorge R. Gutierrez , Seth MacFarlane , Glen Keane
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Best movie of this year hands down!
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
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