https://shotonwhat.com/animation/traditional-animation The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:47:29 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/mary-and-max-2009 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:38:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mary-and-max-2009
Director: Adam Elliot
Cinematographer: Gerald Thompson
In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-2-1997 Sat, 25 May 2024 20:39:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-2-1997
Director: Joss Whedon, James A. Contner, David Solomon, David Grossman, Michael Gershman, Bruce Seth Green, Nick Marck, James Whitmore Jr., David Greenwalt, David Semel, Michael Lange, Douglas Petrie, John T. Kretchmer, Ellen S. Pressman, Daniel Attias, Marti Noxon, David Fury, Rick Rosenthal, Marita Grabiak, Reza Badiyi, Scott Brazil, Stephen Cragg, Stephen L. Posey, Charles Martin Smith, Deran Sarafian, Tucker Gates, Regis Kimble, Christopher Hibler, Turi Meyer, Alan J. Levi, Bill Norton, Michael Grossman
Cinematographer: Michael Gershman, Raymond Stella, Kenneth Zunder, Michael D. O'Shea, Donald M. Morgan
A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:47:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-2022
Director: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Cinematographer: Frank Passingham
A father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/big-miracle-2012 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:16:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/big-miracle-2012
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cinematographer: John Bailey
In small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pokemon-1997 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:48:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pokemon-1997
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama, Norihiko Sutô, Masamitsu Hidaka, Joop Pieëte, Lotte Horlings, Fred Butter, Beatrijs Sluyter, Tetsuo Yajima, Daiki Tomiyasu, Maki Kodaira, Yûji Asada, Hirokazu Hanai, Kazuomi Koga, Ken Koyama, Yoshitaka Makino, Shigeru Ueda, Tomomasa Yamazaki, Toshiaki Suzuki, Armen Mazlumian, Toshiaki Suzuki, Michael Haigney, Darren Dunstan, Jun'ya Koshiba
Cinematographer: Hisao Shirai, Motoaki Ikegami, Yuki Orikasa
Ash Ketchum, his yellow pet Pikachu, and his human friends explore a world of powerful creatures. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/isle-of-dogs-2018 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:03:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/isle-of-dogs-2018
Director: Wes Anderson
Cinematographer: Tristan Oliver
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skinjob-2017 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 10:54:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skinjob-2017
Director: Steve Simmons
A group of Android slave workers steal a space shuttle Off - World and journey back to Earth to find answers to the question why do they exist? Its a dangerous journey which they have to take in a bid for freedom. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/enchanted-2007 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 02:13:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/enchanted-2007
Director: Kevin Lima
Cinematographer: Don Burgess
A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bambi-1942 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:41:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bambi-1942
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pinocchio-2-1940 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:12:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pinocchio-2-1940
Director: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:00:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fantasia-1940 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:30:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fantasia-1940
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:05:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Mitchell Amundsen
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/prologue-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:57:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/prologue-2015
Director: Richard Williams
Taking place 2,400 years in the past, Prologue depicts a brutal battle between two teams of Spartan and Athenian warriors. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/last-day-of-freedom-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:55:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/last-day-of-freedom-2015
Director: Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman
Cinematographer: Nomi Talisman
When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision to call the police. Living Condition: Bill's Story is an animated account of his decision to... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/omoide-no-mani-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:52:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/omoide-no-mani-2014
Director: James Simone, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cinematographer: Atsushi Okui
A 12-year-old girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with long, flowing blonde hair. As the friendship ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shaun-the-sheep-movie-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:52:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shaun-the-sheep-movie-2015
Director: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
Cinematographer: Charles Copping, Dave Alex Riddett
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/anomalisa-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:52:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/anomalisa-2015
Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
Cinematographer: Joe Passarelli
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/destino-2003 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:28:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/destino-2003
Director: Dominique Monfery
To a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/harvie-krumpet-2003 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:27:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/harvie-krumpet-2003
Director: Adam Elliot
Cinematographer: Adam Elliot
The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/brother-bear-2003 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:03:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/brother-bear-2003
Director: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker
When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/das-rad-2003 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:01:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/das-rad-2003
Director: Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, Heidi Wittlinger
Cinematographer: Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, Heidi Wittlinger
Apparently, rocks are having conversations all around us, but they talk very, very slowly... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/treasure-planet-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:58:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/treasure-planet-2002
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Cinematographer: Rasoul Azadani
A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spirit-stallion-of-the-cimarron-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:57:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spirit-stallion-of-the-cimarron-2002
Director: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook
A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training, yet, throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spirited-away-2001 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:57:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spirited-away-2001
Director: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise
Cinematographer: Atsushi Okui
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/head-over-heels-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:17:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/head-over-heels-2012
Director: Timothy Reckart
Cinematographer: Chloë Thomson
Walter and Madge have grown apart: he lives on the floor and she lives on the ceiling. When Walter tries to reignite their old romance, the couple must face their equilibrium. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/feral-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:00:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/feral-2012
Director: Daniel Sousa
Cinematographer: Daniel Sousa
A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/room-on-the-broom-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:00:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/room-on-the-broom-2012
Director: Jan Lachauer, Max Lang
To the annoyance of her cat a kindly witch allows a dog, a bird and a frog who have helped her retrieve things she has lost to ride on her broomstick, making it top heavy. The broom is ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tsukumo-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:00:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tsukumo-2012
Director: Shûhei Morita
One night of the eighteenth century, in the depths of the mountain, a human being is lost and finds a small temple. In the moment when he enters the room space is transformed into a completely different world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/get-a-horse-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:59:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/get-a-horse-2013
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/feast-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:57:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/feast-2014
Director: Patrick Osborne
The love life of a man as told through the meals he gives his adopted dog, Winston. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-the-sea-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:57:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-the-sea-2014
Director: Tomm Moore
Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:22:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cinematographer: Gayne Rescher
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oz-the-great-and-powerful-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:26:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oz-the-great-and-powerful-2013
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Peter Deming
A frustrated circus magician from Kansas is transported to a magical land called Oz, where he will have to fulfill a prophecy to become the king, and release the land from the Wicked Witches using his great (but fake) powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/paperman-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:22:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/paperman-2012
Director: John Kahrs
An office worker meets the girl of his dreams and uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fresh-guacamole-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:21:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fresh-guacamole-2012
Director: PES
Cinematographer: PES
Transforming familiar objects into fresh guacamole. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/robocop-1987 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:53:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/robocop-1987
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano, Sol Negrin
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/angel-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:16:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/angel-2004
Director: James A. Contner, Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt, Tim Minear, Bill Norton, Terrence O'Hara, Skip Schoolnik, Marita Grabiak, Vern Gillum, David Grossman, Michael Grossman, Frederick King Keller, Jefferson Kibbee, David Straiton, Bruce Seth Green, Turi Meyer, Jeffrey Bell, Steven S. DeKnight, Scott McGinnis, R.D. Price, Thomas J. Wright, Michael Lange, David Semel, Tucker Gates, Regis Kimble, Winrich Kolbe, Nick Marck, Krishna Rao, James Whitmore Jr., Sean Astin, David Boreanaz, Ben Edlund, David Fury, John Blush
Cinematographer: Ross Berryman, Herbert Davis
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tequila-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:02:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tequila-2011
Director: Sergio Sánchez Suárez
Cinematographer: Andronico Gonzalez
A man falls in love with the wife of his uncle in Tequila during the year 1942. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:52:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:41:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-2009
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Ben Seresin
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:28:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011
Director: Joe Johnston
Cinematographer: Shelly Johnson
Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a "Super-Soldier serum". But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a war monger and a terrorist organization. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/atom-the-amazing-zombie-killer-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:46:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/atom-the-amazing-zombie-killer-2012
Director: Zack Beins, Richard Taylor
Cinematographer: Richard Taylor
Atom is an amazing zombie killer, has a horny girlfriend...and is the best bowler in the league! But don't tell that to Dario and the Slashers, the evil bowling rivals who will stop at ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:06:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1-2011
Director: Bill Condon
Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro
The Quileutes close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses a threat to the Wolf Pack and the towns people of Forks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/paranorman-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:29:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/paranorman-2012
Director: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Cinematographer: Tristan Oliver
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/drag-me-to-hell-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:16:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/drag-me-to-hell-2009
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Peter Deming
A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/where-the-wild-things-are-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:19:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/where-the-wild-things-are-2009
Director: Spike Jonze
Cinematographer: Lance Acord
Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-spiderwick-chronicles-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:14:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-spiderwick-chronicles-2008
Director: Mark Waters
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fantastic-mr-fox-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 21:59:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fantastic-mr-fox-2009
Director: Wes Anderson
Cinematographer: Tristan Oliver
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. ]]>