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Azur And Asmar
''Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest'' (french: Azur et Asmar) is a 2006 French-Spanish-Belgian-Italian computer-animated fairytale fantasy film written and directed by Michel Ocelot and animated at the Paris animation and visual effects studio Mac Guff Ligne. It was released in theaters in North America as just ''Azur & Asmar''. It is Ocelot's fourth feature, though his first wholly original creation since ''Kirikou and the Sorceress'', and his first use of 3D computer graphics, albeit an atypical employment of this medium with two-dimensional, painted backgrounds and non-photorealistic rendering. Like most of his films it is an original fairy tale, in this case inspired by the folklore (such as the '' One Thousand and One Nights'') and decorative art of Morocco and with an increased degree of characterisation relative to his previous works which pushes it into the genre of fairytale fantasy. The original-language version of the film has significant amounts of dialogue in bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Ocelot
Michel Ocelot (born 27 October 1943) is a French Screenwriter, writer, Production designer, designer, storyboard artist and Film director, director of animation, animated films and television programs (formerly also animator, background artist, narrator and other roles in earlier works) and a former president (corporate title), president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 debut feature ''Kirikou and the Sorceress'', his earlier films and television work had already won César Award, Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to ''commandeur'' earlier the same year. In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb. Biography He was born in 1943 to a Catholic family then in Villefranche-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, who relocated to Guinea, West Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Thousand And One Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian Nights'', from the first English-language edition (), which rendered the title as ''The Arabian Nights' Entertainment''. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central and South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic literature, Arabic, Egyptian literature, Egyptian, Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit, Persian literature, Persian, and Mesopotamian myths, Mesopotamian literature. Many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid and Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Middle Persian literature#"Pahlavi" literature, Pahlavi Persian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limbourg Brothers
The Limbourg brothers ( nl, Gebroeders van Limburg or Gebroeders Van Lymborch; fl. 1385 – 1416) were famous Dutch miniature painters (Herman, Paul, and Johan) from the city of Nijmegen. They were active in the early 15th century in France and Burgundy, working in the style known as International Gothic. They created what is certainly the best-known late medieval illuminated manuscript, the ''Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry''. Uncle Malouel Around 1398, after their father's death, the brothers were sent for by their uncle Jean Malouel (or Johan Maelwael, ''Jehan Maleuel'' in original French sources), the most important painter for the French and Burgundian courts of the time. Herman and Johan learned the craft of goldsmithing in Paris. At the end of 1399 they were travelling to visit Nijmegen but, owing to a war, they were captured in Brussels. Since their mother could not pay the ransom of 55 gold '' escuz'', the local goldsmiths' guild started to collect the mone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance. Little is known of Fouquet's early life and education. Though long assumed to have been an apprentice of the so-called Bedford Master of Paris it is now suggested that he may have studied under the Jouvenal Master in Nantes, whose works were formerly assumed to be early works by Fouquet. Sometime between 1445 and 1447 he travelled to Italy where he came under the influence of Roman Quattrocento artists such as Fra Angelico and Filarete. During the 1450s he began working at the French court, where he counted kings Charles VII and his successor Louis XI among his many patrons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Netherlandish Painting
Early Netherlandish painting, traditionally known as the Flemish Primitives, refers to the work of artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period. It flourished especially in the cities of Bruges, Ghent, Mechelen, Leuven, Tournai and Brussels, all in present-day Belgium. The period begins approximately with Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck in the 1420s and lasts at least until the death of Gerard David in 1523,Spronk (1996), 7 although many scholars extend it to the start of the Dutch Revolt in 1566 or 1568–Max J. Friedländer's acclaimed surveys run through Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Early Netherlandish painting coincides with the Early and High Italian Renaissance, but the early period (until about 1500) is seen as an independent artistic evolution, separate from the Renaissance humanism that characterised developments in Italy. Beginning in the 1490s, as increasing numbers of Netherlandish and other Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Wickham
Keith Wickham is a British voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is known for providing the voices of various characters in the children's television series ''Thomas & Friends'', and Polluto in '' Tommy Zoom''. Career Wickham voiced Changed Daily in ''The Secret Show'', Mr. Small, and Mr. Tall in ''The Mr. Men Show'' (UK version), Corneil in ''Watch My Chops'', Mr. Mouseling and most of the male voices in ''Angelina Ballerina'', Nelson the Elephant, Reginald the Lion, Victor the Crocodile and the others in ''64 Zoo Lane'', Frank the Koala, Archie the Crocodile and Sammy the Shopkeeper in ''The Koala Brothers'' and Ol' Graham the Galleon, H.P. the Speedboat, Ken Toyn the Shipwright and Bryan the Ferry in ''Toot the Tiny Tugboat''. He voiced Polluto in '' Tommy Zoom'', the first in-house BBC animation production, The Professor, Pipsquawk, Trevor and Mr. Crumble in ''Frankenstein's Cat'' and in 2009, participated on voice in Disney Channel's ''Jungle Junction'', for then Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Tate (actress)
Emma Tate is a British voice actress. She is known for many roles including the voice of Perfect Peter in ''Horrid Henry (TV series), Horrid Henry'', Harry in ''Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs'', Raggles and Bluebird in ''Everything's Rosie (TV series), Everything's Rosie'', Katsuma and Luvli in ''Moshi Monsters: The Movie'' , Kipper in ''The Magic Key'' and Gran in ''Kazoops!, Kazoops''. Career Tate's acting debut came in a 1991 episode of ''The Bill'' and from 1999, she commenced work in voice acting, mainly in children's programmes, starting with the U.S. version of ''Bob the Builder'' and also on ''Dream Street (UK TV series), Dream Street'', voicing Half-Pint the milk float. In 2006, Emma began to voice Perfect Peter in the Horrid Henry (TV series), TV adaptation of Francesca Simon's book ''Horrid Henry''. In 2010, she began to appear with ''Horrid Henry'' co-star Joanna Ruiz in ''Everything's Rosie (TV series), Everything's Rosie'', voicing the main characters. Rui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Pilkington
Nigel Pilkington is a British actor, singer, and screenwriter. Career Pilkington has appeared in various television programs such as "Grandpa in My Pocket", ''Cutting It'', ''Trial & Retribution'', '' Roman Mysteries'' and '' Richard Hammond's Secret Service''. As a voice actor Pilkington has provided many voices for animated films like '' Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' and '' Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest'', television shows like ''The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky'', ''The Jungle Book'' and ''Peter Rabbit'' and also the video games ''Inazuma Eleven'' and '' Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch''. From Series 19 onwards, he became the UK voice of Percy and Trevor in ''Thomas & Friends ''Thomas & Friends'' (originally known as ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' and later ''Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!'') is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021. Based on ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Lambert
Nigel Lambert (born 11 May 1944) is an English voice actor. He is best known for his role as the narrator of the first series of the BBC comedy series ''Look Around You'', as well as Merle Ambrose in the MMORPG ''Wizard101''. Acting since the age of 12, Lambert began his stage education at Arts Educational Trust School, Piccadilly. After a brief spell at the Italia Conti Stage School, he joined a repertory company in Cork before completing his training at RADA. This was following by working in repertory theatre in Ireland and Northampton, as well as the Royal National Theatre. Since then, he has been working in radio and television as well as being a member of Hatch End Players."Radio serial", ''Harrow Observer'', 21 July 1972 (pg.3) He played the role of athlete Ken Sparten in the 1969 SF/horror film ''Scream and Scream Again'', and in more recent years provides the voice of Mr Curry in ''The Adventures of Paddington Bear'' television series and also Papa in the Dolmio pasta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Barrett (actor)
Sean Barrett may refer to: *Seán Barrett (actor) (born 1940), British actor whose credits include Z-Cars *Sean Barrett (economist) (born 1944), Irish transport economist and Senator *Seán Barrett (politician) Seán Barrett (born 9 August 1944) is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2011 to 2016, Minister for Defence and Minister for the Marine from 1995 to 1997, Government Chief Whip from 1982 ... (born 1944), Irish Fine Gael TD * Sean Barrett (writer) (born 1959), American writer, nucleonicist, member of the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrett, Sean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imogen Bailey
Imogen Bailey (born 7 July 1977, Canberra) is an Australian model, actress and singer. As a model she has been featured on the cover of men's magazines, including ''Ralph'', ''FHM Australia'', '' Black+White''. On TV Bailey has appeared in various reality shows, ''Celebrity Big Brother'' (July–August 2002), '' Skating on Thin Ice'' (2005), and '' Celebrity Survivor'' (2006), which was set in Vanuatu. In 2008 she portrayed Nicola West on Australian TV soap opera, ''Neighbours'' for six months. As a singer her vocals were featured on the 2003 single "If U Want Me" by United Kingdom dance musician, Michael Woods. It peaked at No. 46 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 on the component, UK dance chart; No. 62 on the ARIA Singles Chart and No. 5 on its Dance Charts. In August 2012 Bailey participated in the second season of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) TV documentary series, ''Go Back to Where You Came From''. She is an advocate for animal rights and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hichem Rostom
Hichem Rostom (26 May 1947 – 28 June 2022) was a Tunisian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1987. He starred in '' Golden Horseshoes'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the Carthage Theatre Festival for two sessions. Early life Hichem Rostom was born in La Marsa, Tunisia, to a family of Circassian descent. In his youth, he studied at Sadiki College, Tunis, where he earned his Baccalaureate degree. He later moved to France to further his studies where he lived for years and graduated from Sorbonne University’s Institute of Theatre Studies and the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies. He also worked as an animator at Radio France and then at the National Popular Theater before be returned to Tunisia in 1988 to pursue a professional career as an actor after being offered a role in the Tunisian drama film '' Golden Horseshoes'' ( aeb, صفايح ذهب, french: Les S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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