animated films

Presents a guide to creating stop-motion animation. Features step-by-step tutorials ranging from drawing a storyboard to post-production editing, full-color photographs and screenshots, case studies, and online resources.

To help support his father, who has sacrificed much to send him to school, Ewenn pretends that he is illiterate so that he can be hired as a stable boy for a magician. While working, he meets a princess who is trapped by the magician's wicked spell. Find out how Ewenn saves the princess and then takes on the evil magician.

Tiny creatures known as Manairons and a clever young girl save a small family from losing its fields and livelihood.

On a Caribbean island during the colonial period, a governor seeks to find a feat for which he will be remembered. He enlists the help of a carpenter to cut down all of the island's trees and build a tower tall enough to reach the moon.

Contains more than three thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on anime titles--providing reviews, titles in English and Japanese, parental advisories, and other information--as well as anime studios, creators, and history.

Features two animated tales starring Robbie the reindeer. In "Hooves of Fire," Robbie fears he will never be able to join Santa's sleigh team and embarks on an adventure that may allow him to discover how talented he really is. In "The Legend of the Lost Tribe," Robbie searches for a lost tribe of Viking warriors who may be able to save his friends from an evil plan being carried out by Blitzen.

Text and color photographs explore sound effect artists who work on movies and television shows.