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Pencils vs Pixels
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Pencils vs Pixels

Jun 15, 2023
1h 12m
★ 8.6

Animating dreams, shifting reality.

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Minutehand Pictures
Hideout Pictures
Pencilish Animation Studios

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Self - Narrator (voice)

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John Musker

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Seth MacFarlane

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Glen Keane

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Glen Keane

Tina Price

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Lorna Cook

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Kevin Smith

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Alex Hirsch

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Floyd Norman

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