The Best of Animation: The Winners' list is up!

After more than 2 months of voting, animation fans have chosen their favourites of 2014
With more than 3,000 votes, here's the final list of winners of 'The Best of Animation 2014' (organised by Monde Animation)

Best animated movies of 2014:

1- How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DreamWorks Animation) - Winner
2- Big Hero 6 (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
3- The Book of Life (Reel FX)
4- The Lego Movie (Warner Bros Pictures)
5- Mr. Peabody & Sherman (DreamWorks Animation)

Best animated short of the year:

1- Feast (Walt Disney Animation Studios) - Winner
2- Party Central (Pixar Animation Studios)
3- Duet
 (Glen Keane Productions/ATAP)
4- The Dam Keeper (Tonko House)
5- Other

Best song in an animated movie:

1- "IMMORTALS" - Fall out boy - Winner
2- "WHERE NO ONE GOES" (How to Train Your Dragon 2)
3- "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME" - Tegan and Sara feat. The Lonely Island
4- "For the dancing and dreaming" - (How to train your dragon 2)
5- "NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE" - Us The Duo

Best animated character of the year:

1- Toothless from 'HTTYD 2' - Winner
2- Hiro Hamada from 'Big Hero 6'
3- Baymax from 'Big Hero 6'
4- Hiccup from 'HTTYD2'
5- Valka from 'HTTYD2'

Best voice acting in an animated movie (female):

1- Cate Blanchett (How to Train Your Dragon 2) - Winner
2- Jamie Chung (Big Hero 6)
3- Génesis Rodríguez (Big Hero 6)
4- Zoe Saldana (The Book of Life)
5- Elizabeth Banks (The Lego Movie)

Best voice acting in an animated movie (male):

1- Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) - Winner
2- Chris Pratt (The LEGO Movie)
3- Jay Baruchel (HTTYD2)
4- Scott Adsit (Big Hero 6)
5- Benedict Cumberbatch (Penguins of Madagascar)

Best Score in an animated movie:

1- How to Train Your Dragon 2 (John Powell) - Winner
2- Big Hero 6 (Henry Jackman)
3- The Book of Life (Gustavo Santaolalla)
4- Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Danny Elfman)
5- The Boxtrolls (Dario Marianelli)

Best Screenplay:

1- How To Train Your Dragon 2 - Winner
2- Big Hero 6
3- The Book of Life
4- The Lego Movie
5- Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Best ending in an animated movie:

1- How To Train Your Dragon 2 - Winner
2- Big Hero 6
3- The Book of Life
4- The Lego Movie
5- The Boxtrolls

The Movie To Watch Out For Next Year is...

1- Inside Out (Pixar Animation Studios) - Winner
2- Home (DreamWorks Animation)
3- Minions (Illumination Entertainment)
4- Hotel Transylvania 2 (Sony Pictures Animation Studios)
5- The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Paramount Animation)

What do you think of the winners' list? Do you agree or not? 

This Week on Monde Animation (3 - 9 March, 2014)

Check out what happened this week on Monde Animation :

• 'Frozen' win the Oscar for best animated feature

• Angelina Jolie is ‘Maleficent’ in the new EW's cover

• Take an exclusive look at the new 'Maleficent' movie

 

• Tinker Bell’s ‘The Pirate Fairy’ Clip: ‘Switched Talents’

• Check out "The Pirate Fairy" extended sneak peek

 

• [Review] Dreamworks Mr. Peabody and Sherman is fast, funny and smart

• Some great new posters for HTTYD 2

• New poster for Monsters University short "Party Central" with a new clip released

• Mondo Disney Poster Gallery for “Nothing’s Impossible!”

• Laika Release Third Trailer for ‘The Boxtrolls’

Golden Globes 2014 Animation Nominees Announced

This morning the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for its Golden Globes award. The 71st edition of the Golden Globes will be presented on Sunday, January 12.
The following three films were selected for the Best Animated Feature Film category:

• The Croods
• Despicable Me 2
• Frozen

Studio Ghibli’s The Wind Rises also earned a nomination, however, its nod came in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

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Book Review: The Art of Frozen

Our first Book review is now UP ! It's "The Art of Frozen" !
In this post, you can find a lot of EXCLUSIVE pictures taken from the book !

The Design of all the characters is just perfect and there is a lot of details in this 3D Animation : The Costumes, The hairstyles, The kingdom of Arendelle, The Elsa's Icy palace...I can say Disney did a great and brillant work !

 Anna
(voice of Kristen Bell) is  the most optimistic and caring person you'll ever meet. She longs to reconnect with her sister, Elsa, as they were close during their childhood. When Elsa accidentally unleashes a magical secret that locks the kingdom of Arendelle in an eternal winter, Anna embarks on a dangerous adventure to make things right.

Elsa
From the outside, Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel) looks poised and reserved, but in reality, she lives in fear as she wrestles with a mighty secret—she was born with the power to create ice and snow.  Haunted by the moment her magic nearly killed her younger sister Anna, Elsa has isolated herself. Her mounting emotions trigger the magic, accidentally setting off an eternal  winter that she can't stop. She fears she's becoming a monster and that no one, not even her sister, can help her.

Hans
When he appears during the coronation sequence, Hans embodies courtly charm. His polished looks and manners immediately win Anna’s attention. “Hans is this handsome, dashing character: You want the audience to fall in love with him and the relationship he could have with Anna,” says supervising animator Hyrum Osmond. “Then we’ve got to turn him around toward the end and make it a huge surprise. The crew is having fun with the contrasts between the character’s two personalities.” 
After they screened the film, a lot of the animators said, “I want to animate Hans,” Di Salvo chuckles, “He beings as the knight in shining armor, and the audience thinks, ‘Anna’s going to end up with this guy. He’s perfect.’ But he’s a chameleon who adapts to any environment to make the other characters comfortable. Then you have that awesome emotional turn at the end.”
 

Kristoff
Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) is a true outdoorsman. He lives high up in the mountains where he harvests ice and sells it to the kingdom of Arendelle. Rough around the edges, Kristoff's the strong, no-nonsense type, who follows his own set of rules. He may seem like a loner, but he always has his best friend by his side—a loyal and extremely mangy reindeer named Sven.
 

 Sven
A reindeer with the heart of a Labrador, Sven is Kristoff's loyal friend, sleigh-puller and conscience. He makes sure his mountain-man companion is the stand-up guy Sven knows and loves, and does so without saying a word. 
 

Olaf 
He is Olaf and he likes warm hugs. Sprung from Elsa's magical powers, Olaf is by far the friendliest snowman to walk the mountains above Arendelle. His  outgoing personality and uncanny ability to disassemble himself at good and not-so-good times lead to some awkward, albeit laughable moments. He may also have the world's most impossible dream: 'Summer'...

Trolls
These ancient creatures might be found in the Valley of the Living Rock, but only if they want to be found. Trolls are masters of minerals and yielders of the night sky. They are also overbearing, loud, meddlesome, innappropriate and heavy—really heavy. But they mean well and love well.

 Marshmallow
is an enormous icy snowman born from Elsa's powers. He serves as a brute bodyguard charged with keeping intruders away from her ice palace. The menacing white beast doesn't say much, but he packs a powerful punch.

 This is a nice artbook . The concept art consist of storyboards, environment designs, character designs...

 The Art of Disney’s Frozen by Charles Solomon
Chronicle Books 
Hardback 168 pages

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