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Structure: Toy Story 2

The second movie in the Toy Story trilogy resonates with me the most. Toy Story 3 builds on it thematically, far more...

posted on: Jul 21, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

In his book Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, Paul Gulino offers an excellent analysis of Toy Story 1, based upon...

posted on: Jul 13, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

Toy Story 3 is my favorite movie of the year and it will be hard to beat this. Usually when my expectations are high,...

posted on: Jul 6, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

Our short film season reached an unexpected climax with the nomination of ‘Tin Can Heart’ for an Inside...

posted on: Oct 15, 2009 | author: cherie lee

A structural overview of UP (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy 2009 I’ve been a big Pixar fan since...

posted on: Sep 22, 2009 | author: Karel Segers

A structural overview of The Incredibles (Brad Bird 2004) “Animation is not a genre but an art form” says...

posted on: Jun 23, 2009 | author: Karel Segers

Another year with less-than-memorable oscars. Of the movies I have seen, I fail to find any truly great. I won’t...

posted on: Feb 23, 2009 | author: Karel Segers

“Most writers work alone. They send in the script and it gets rejected. And they never find out why. The fact...

posted on: Feb 10, 2007 | author: Karel Segers