I had the good fortune of getting Chris Wedge’s attention long enough to chat with him a little about ICE AGE, his work, and his views about technology, the animation industry, and the lost art of 8mm backyard filmmaking. There are multiple commentaries, trailers, documentaries, deleted scenes, television spots, Blue Sky Studio's Oscar-winning animated film "Bunny,” and a new animated short called “Scrat’s Missing Adventure.” It kind of reminds me of the EPISODE II DVD (which I’ve been watching insistently since I got it last month), it’s so packed. The 2 disc DVD set that’s coming out is loaded with extras. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.” “Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. Fox and Blue Sky Studios collaborated on this one, as co-director Chris Wedge explains. It was refreshing to see a confident looking 3D animated film that wasn’t from one of the usual suspects. I need to hurry up and finish that so that I can start checking out the new 2 disc DVD of ICE AGE, which hits stores November 26.įrom my first viewing of that famous teaser trailer, they had me. I just picked up the special edition BEAUTY & THE BEAST on DVD and currently am wading my way through the contents of that. I’ve got a ton of classic Disney as well as a handful of DreamWorks, Pixar, and PDI stuff. I’ve got a shelf of DVDs that are just family animated movies. I don’t know about you, but I love animation. HARRY LIME INTERVIEWS ICE AGE DIRECTOR, CHRIS WEDGE He’ll return with a review of the DVD itself soon. It’s a darn good interview, though, and I hope you get a kick out of it. I took forever in publishing this, even though he turned it in to me last week, mainly because I’m a big doof. I love that Harry Lime’s been stepping up to do more DVD coverage here on the site lately. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
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