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Ralph Zondag is a Director, Scriptwriter, Storyboard Artist and Animation American
Ralph Zondag is an animation director and storyboard artist of Dutch origin.
Zondag studied animation at Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada from 1983 to 1984.
He started his career at the Toronto-based Nelvana studio in working on projects like Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins, The Care Bears Movie and the Ewoks and Droids cartoons.
He later joined Sullivan Bluth Studios in Ireland and worked as animation director on The Land Before Time, in which he animated the characters Petrie and the Sharptooth, and All Dogs Go To Heaven. He also directed television commercials while working at Sullivan Bluth.
In 1993 he made his directorial debut on the animated adaptation of We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story alongside his brother Dick.
Zondag joined Walt Disney Feature Animation during the early 90s; he served as head of storyboards on Pocahontas in 1995.
In 2000, he and Eric Leighton directed Dinosaur as a part of the Disney Computer Graphics Unit. Zondag was nominated for Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production.
He has worked on projects like Rugrats Go Wild, Home on the Range, Balto 3: Wings of Change, Valiant and Curious George.
Zondag worked as storyboard artist on Ultimate Avengers 2, Flushed Away, The Golden Compass, Kung Fu Panda and King of the Elves. He recently worked on 3-D animated features like Meet the Robinsons and Bolt, he also made concept art during the pre-production of Tangled.
His most recent credit is on the FX TV series Archer.
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Zondag studied animation at Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada from 1983 to 1984.
He started his career at the Toronto-based Nelvana studio in working on projects like Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins, The Care Bears Movie and the Ewoks and Droids cartoons.
He later joined Sullivan Bluth Studios in Ireland and worked as animation director on The Land Before Time, in which he animated the characters Petrie and the Sharptooth, and All Dogs Go To Heaven. He also directed television commercials while working at Sullivan Bluth.
In 1993 he made his directorial debut on the animated adaptation of We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story alongside his brother Dick.
Zondag joined Walt Disney Feature Animation during the early 90s; he served as head of storyboards on Pocahontas in 1995.
In 2000, he and Eric Leighton directed Dinosaur as a part of the Disney Computer Graphics Unit. Zondag was nominated for Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production.
He has worked on projects like Rugrats Go Wild, Home on the Range, Balto 3: Wings of Change, Valiant and Curious George.
Zondag worked as storyboard artist on Ultimate Avengers 2, Flushed Away, The Golden Compass, Kung Fu Panda and King of the Elves. He recently worked on 3-D animated features like Meet the Robinsons and Bolt, he also made concept art during the pre-production of Tangled.
His most recent credit is on the FX TV series Archer.
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Dinosaur (2000)
, 1h19Directed by Ralph Zondag
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Musical films, Children's films
Actors D. B. Sweeney, Ossie Davis, Alfre Woodard, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright
Rating64%
During the end of the Cretaceous era, an Iguanodon mother is forced to abandon her nest during a Carnotaurus attack. The one surviving egg journeys through several predicaments, before ending up on lemur island, where Plio names the hatched baby Aladar and raises him. Years later, Aladar and the lemurs take part in a mating season, where Zini goes without a mate. After the season ends, a meteor strikes and destroys the island, leaving Aladar, Plio, Yar, Zini and Suri, as the only survivors when they swim to the mainland. The family mourns for the loss of all lemurs before moving on.
, 1h12Directed by Don Bluth, Phil Nibbelink, Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Simon Wells
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Circus films, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Time travel films, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman, Felicity Ann Kendal, Charles Fleischer, Walter Cronkite
Rating60%
The film opens with a trio of young bluebirds harassing their youngest sibling, Buster (Blaze Berdahl). As Buster leaves his family, he meets an intelligent orange T. rex named Rex (John Goodman) playing golf. He explains to Buster that he was once a ravaging dinosaur, and proceeds to tell the story of how he came to become what he is today.
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The Little Matchgirl (2006)
, 7minutesDirected by Roger Allers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Christmas films, Children's films
Rating77%
During Christmas in Russia, an impoverished girl tries to sell matchsticks on the streets but everyone is completely indifferent towards her. Later that night, the girl huddles up in a snowy alley trying to warm herself against the cold. Eventually she decides to strike some of her remaining matches for warmth. As the matches burn, she dreams about bring in a warm home, well fed, and her grandmother the only person who was ever kind to her. Soon her grandmother finds the girl in the alley, all of her matches burnt, and carries the girl of to heaven. A comet passes through the sky, her grandmother says every time there is a shooting star someone dies, revealing that the girl's body had succumbed to hypothermia and died.
Dinosaur (2000)
, 1h19Directed by Ralph Zondag
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Musical films, Children's films
Actors D. B. Sweeney, Ossie Davis, Alfre Woodard, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright
Roles Story
Rating64%
During the end of the Cretaceous era, an Iguanodon mother is forced to abandon her nest during a Carnotaurus attack. The one surviving egg journeys through several predicaments, before ending up on lemur island, where Plio names the hatched baby Aladar and raises him. Years later, Aladar and the lemurs take part in a mating season, where Zini goes without a mate. After the season ends, a meteor strikes and destroys the island, leaving Aladar, Plio, Yar, Zini and Suri, as the only survivors when they swim to the mainland. The family mourns for the loss of all lemurs before moving on.
Pocahontas (1995)
, 1h21Directed by Eric Goldberg, Mike Gabriel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Films about birds, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Mise en scène d'une plante
Actors Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers, John Kassir, Russell Means, Billy Connolly
Roles Story
Rating67%
In 1607, the Susan Constant sails to the New World from England, carrying British settlers of the Virginia Company. On board are Captain John Smith and the voyage's leader Governor Ratcliffe, who seeks large amounts of gold in the New World to assure a strong position at the British court. Along the way, the Susan Constant is caught in a North Atlantic storm, and Smith saves a young, inexperienced crewmate named Thomas from drowning. In the Powhatan tribe in the New World, Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, dreads being possibly wed to Kocoum, a brave warrior whom she sees as too "serious" for her free-spirited personality. Chief Powhatan gives Pocahontas her deceased mother's necklace as a present. Pocahontas, along with her friends, the gluttonous raccoon Meeko and hot-tempered hummingbird Flit, visit Grandmother Willow, a spiritual talking willow tree, and speaks of a possibly prophetic dream involving a spinning arrow, and her confusion regarding what her "path" in life should be. Grandmother Willow then alerts Pocahontas to the arriving British.
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Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006)
, 1h15Directed by Steven E. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Hulk (comics) films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Grey DeLisle, Michael Massee, Jeffrey D. Sams, Marc Worden, Olivia D'Abo, Nolan North
Roles Storyboard Artist
Rating66%
T'Challa, the Prince of Wakanda, returns home to find his kingdom is being attacked by the alien Chitauri. Herr Kleiser, the alien shape-shifter who battled Captain America during World War II, kills T' Challa's father and seeks Wakanda's store of vibranium, the metal the Chitauri use to manufacture their ships and weapons. After becoming king and assuming the alias of the Black Panther, T' Challa seeks out Captain America. General Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. orders the Avengers to assemble, with the exception of Thor (who foresees a future in which the Avengers die in battle, which his father Odin confirms) and the Hulk who, as Bruce Banner, is interrogated and bullied in a cell.
Visual effects
Bolt (2008)
, 1h35Directed by Byron Howard, Chris Williams
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors John Travolta, Mark Walton, Susie Essman, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Nick Swardson
Roles Animation
Rating67%
A dog named Bolt (John Travolta) and a girl named Penny (Miley Cyrus) star on a hit television series called Bolt in which the titular character has various superpowers and must constantly thwart the evil plans of the nefarious Doctor Calico (Malcolm McDowell). To gain a more realistic performance, the TV show's producers have deceived Bolt his entire life, arranging the filming in such a way that Bolt believes the television show is real and he really has superpowers, including a powerful sonic scream-like "superbark". Mistakenly believing Penny has been kidnapped by the villain, Bolt escapes from his on-set trailer in Hollywood but falls into a box of foam peanuts and unknown to the film company is accidentally shipped to New York City. In New York, Bolt starts to notice that his "superpowers" aren't working, and rationalizes this is the effect that styrofoam has on his body. He then meets Mittens (Susie Essman), a female alley cat who bullies pigeons out of their food. Bolt forces Mittens to help him get back to Hollywood, and after Bolt knocks Mittens unconscious the two start their journey westward on a truck. In Hollywood, Penny is deeply saddened over Bolt's disappearance but is convinced by the studio to continue filming with a Bolt lookalike.