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Animated films are beloved not only for their compelling stories and characters but also for their stunning imagery. Can you identify these animated films from single screenshots?
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Yellow Submarine
Persepolis
The Incredibles
The Incredibles contains 35 explosions, 189 buttons being pressed, and approximately 640 gunshots.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Inside Out
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Brave
There are hidden images in the "B" and "E" of the Brave logo. Specifically, they are subtle images of Merida and Elinor.
Toy Story 3
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Triplets of Belleville
Frozen
James and the Giant Peach
Wall-E
The “voice†of WALL·E is legendary sound designer Ben Burtt. Burtt is best known for his work on Star Wars, though he’s worked on films like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana Jones series as well.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Tarzan
Finding Nemo
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie was Morgan Freeman’s first animated film. It is also Wonder Woman’s first theatrical appearance in a feature length film.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Pinocchio
Toy Story
WALL-E
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cody Cameron, director of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, carved and sculpted produce, then took pictures of it in his backyard to get an idea of what real fruits and vegetables looked like in a natural environment. In many cases, real food was studied to ensure authenticity.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits
The Pirates! Band of Misfits employed 525 people, including 33 animators. 41 people were part of the crew. Filming took place in four pavilions.
Zootopia
Finding Nemo
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Chico & Rita
Despicable Me
Mulan
Toy Story 3
Rather than the cowboy he is, the original Woody from Toy Story was a ventriloquist’s dummy. Disney executives requested that he be changed to something else, as ventriloquist’s dummies were usually associated with horror movies, and they didn’t want their cute kids' movie to be terrifying.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Monster House
Monster House was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 79th Academy Awards, but lost to Happy Feet.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Akira
Tokyo Godfathers
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson was so dedicated to making Mr. Fox come to life that the director lent the character his own suit material.
Ponyo
Arthur Christmas
Bambi
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Shrek
The Wind Rises
Frankenweenie
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace loved cheese so much that he flew a rocket to the moon because he thought it was made of cheese.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Princess and the Frog
The Emperor's New Groove
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo was the first Pixar movie to take place outside the U.S. The second was Ratatouille (France), followed by Cars 2 (Japan, France, Italy and the UK), and lastly, Brave (Scotland).
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Tower
The Triplets of Belleville
The Triplets of Belleville was highly regarded by audiences and critics for its unique style of animation. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards — Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for "Belleville Rendez-vous."
The Iron Giant
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Inside Out
It took about a week to produce three seconds of animation for Inside Out. 45 animators worked on the movie, which is a much larger team than most Pixar animators.
Ratatouille
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Rango
The Illusionist (L'illusionniste)
Winnie the Pooh
Christopher Robin named his bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear that lived at the London Zoo, and a swan named “Pooh†that the family met on vacation. Most of the other characters were also named after Christopher Robin’s toys.
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyû)
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Bolt
Boy and the World (O Menino e o Mundo)
Tangled
The Emperor's New Groove
The Emperor's New Groove was originally going to be called "Kingdom of the Sun." It was going to be an ancient Incan adaptation of Mark Twain’s Prince and the Pauper.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Incredibles
Chicken Run
Moana
Zootopia
The 3-D computer-animated film, Zootopia is the 55th Disney animated feature film. To depict accuracy in the film, research was done in Kenya, as well as Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
101 Dalmatians
Fantasia
The Lego Batman Movie
Kung Fu Panda
Each time an artist finished a scene of Kung Fu Panda, that artist received a fortune cookie with a personalized fortune in it.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Waltz with Bashir
Antz
Sita Sings the Blues
Sita Sings the Blues is a tribute to the power of the Ramayana, and an argument for its continuing relevance even outside the borders of the Hindu world.
Yellow Submarine
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Long Way North (Tout en haut du monde)
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin is the first animated film directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg has always shot his films traditionally, but since he saw Tintin as an animated film, he didn’t mind shooting it digitally.
April and the Extraordinary World (Avril et le monde truqué)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Kung Fu Panda
Winnie the Pooh
The Peanuts Movie
Lilo & Stitch
Stitch was not originally supposed to talk, but when the filmmakers realized the story hinged on him being able to express himself at the film’s end, they began developing his voice. Director Chris Sanders provided Stitch’s voice during test animation, and eventually everyone got so used to it they decided to keep it.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
James and the Giant Peach
Ghost in the Shell
The Little Mermaid
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is an adaptation of -- and sequel to -- a very popular 1966 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. It is a Japanese anime film.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
ParaNorman
The Secret of Kells
Tarzan
Rango
Animators for Rango extensively researched animal eyes and specific light refraction in different types to depict accuracy in the characters. A ton of time was spent on extra animating work to create the character's eyes to be accurate of their animal species.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
A Bug's Life
Ponyo
Ernest & Celestine
Ernest & Celestine is based on a series of children's books that follows the endearing friendship of a bear and a mouse. The film received widespread critical acclaim, becoming the first animated film to win the Magritte Award for Best Film. It was also nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 86th Academy Awards, but lost to Disney's Frozen.
Big Hero 6
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Mulan
Lilo & Stitch
Sausage Party
How to Train Your Dragon
Animators of How to Train Your Dragon had to attend “flight school†during production. In this program they would study flight physics and movements of different creatures for realism.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie was the first black-and-white animated feature film ever- which is ironic because the film was actually shot in color.
Ratatouille
How to Train Your Dragon
Kubo and the Two Strings
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Monsters, Inc.
In Monsters, Inc., Randall's assistant Jeff Fungus is voiced by the famed director and Muppeteer Frank Oz.
Phantom Boy
Anastasia
Puss in Boots
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)
Wolf Children
Towards the end of Wolf Children, Yuki and Ame look like they're in their early teens despite being 10 and 11 years old. This also applies for the fully human Souhei.
Bambi
Arthur Christmas
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Only Yesterday
Waltz with Bashir
Up
Pixar had real ostriches on the animation campus for inspiration when designing the character Kevin. To lift the house, calculations proved they would need 25 million balloons. There are 10,286 balloons attached to the house in the film.
Antz
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Secret of the Kells
The crows in The Secret of the Kells are a sign that the Vickings are coming. They are very associated with Odin, the god of battles, death, among other things in Norse mythology.
Mary and Max
My Neighbor Totoro
The Little Prince
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Anomalisa
The Little Mermaid
Song of the Sea
The first lines of the film Song of the Sea are from the poem "The Stolen Child" by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It talked about faes who kidnapped children.
Only Yesterday
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Ratatouille
When recording lines for a scene in which Remy hugs his father Django, Patton Oswalt (voice of Remy) actually hugged director Brad Bird to achieve a realistic sound.
WALL-E
Chicken Run
Moana
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Simpsons Movie
Mary and Max
Mary and Max is based on a true story. Max was inspired by the director's pen pal in New York who he had been writing to for over 20 years.
Miss Hokusai (Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai)
When Marnie Was There
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
101 Dalmatians
Chicken Run
It took two animators three weeks to knit Mrs. Tweedy's cardigan by hand. It took another person three weeks to complete her dress, which bears a chicken's foot motif.
Pinocchio
The Simpsons Movie
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Howl's Moving Castle
A Town Called Panic
A Town Called Panic was made over the course of 260 days in a studio on the outskirts of Brussels. 1,500 plastic toy figures were used during filming.
Kung Fu Panda 3
Wreck-it Ralph
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Boy And The Beast (Bakemono No Ko)
My Dog Tulip
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Millennium Actress
When producing Millennium Actress, the director created a unique combination of both his memories and his imagination to make the film intriguing.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Toy Story 2
Anomalisa
Anomalisa director used stop-motion because he thought it served as underpinning of the narrative of Anomalisa because it draws attention to the small details that viewers would otherwise not notice in live-action film.
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Zootopia
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Monsters, Inc.
Tower
Shaun the Sheep Movie
It takes an animator an entire day to make just two seconds of animation for the movie, and there were only 17 animators working on Shaun the Sheep Movie. Talk about patience and perseverance!
The Iron Giant
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Coraline
The "Detroit Zoo" snow globe featured in Coraline contains a model of The Horace Rackham Memorial Fountain, or the "Bear Fountain," sculpted by Corrado Parducci in 1939 as the centerpiece of the Detroit Zoo's reflecting pool.
Anastasia
Big Hero 6
Ratatouille
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Antz
Yellow Submarine
Persepolis
The title of this film is a reference to the historic city of Persepolis. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Ratatouille.
The Lion King
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Lion King
The Wind Rises
The title “The Wind Rises†comes from a novel of the same name by Tatsuo Hori, who took a line from Paul Valéry’s poem, “Le vent se lève, il faut tenter de vivre. †– The wind is rising. We must try to live.
The Secret World of Arrietty
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Coraline
The Triplets of Belleville
The Illusionist
About 5% of the work for The Illusionist was completed in South Korea. According to the director, "It's not a romance, it's more the relationship between a dad and a daughter."
Frozen
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Waltz With Bashir
Waltz With Bashir took four years to complete. It is unusual in it being a feature-length documentary made almost entirely by animation, excluding one short segment of news archive footage.
The Red Turtle
Frozen
James and the Giant Peach
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Inside Out
Toy Story 3
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
In the Heian period, proper etiquette meant that a lady could not communicate face-to-face with outsiders. Therefore, every time a suitor arrives, Kaguya-hime is sitting behind a screen or blinds, shielded from view.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Lion King
The Secret World of Arrietty
Ernest & Célestine
April and the Extraodinary World
April and the Extraodinary World is a French film directed by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci. It follows a teen girl on a quest to find her missing parents in 1941 Paris.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Tokyo Godfathers
Tokyo Godfathers was the third animated film directed by Satoshi Kon and the second which he both wrote and directed. The movie takes place beginning on Christmas Eve.
The LEGO Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Finding Dory
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Boy And The World
The Boy And The World is part fantasy, part social realism. All the animation in the film is hand-drawn.
Persepolis
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Paprika
Paprika is based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Spirited Away
Beauty and the Beast
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
Spirited Away
Beauty and the Beast
Song Of The Sea
It's Such a Beautiful Day
It's Such a Beautiful Day originally appeared as a series of animated short films. The film was released on August 24, 2012.
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Which movie does this scene belong to?
The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge)
Ponyo
The opening 12 seconds of Ponyo, involving vast schools of fish and undersea creatures, required 1613 pages of conceptual sketches to develop.
Aladdin
How to Train Your Dragon 2
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