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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…of the Bride, the latter picked out by the directors as their favorite. There was time after the screenings for audience questions. I liked that a good portion of the… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…to make the show as faithful as they could and still make it the best show possible. Houston, in particular, was clearly proud of how the show turned out and… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…twist, and that twist mostly comes in the lyric content of the songs. So, the songs are pretty traditional in their context but a lot of the time, the lyrics… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…in any of the group signings for The Owl House panelists [right]. And what massive lines these had, to the point that they went outside the convention center with the… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…to impart all this important stuff. There’s definitely the Bluth style in there not just in how they look, but how they act as well, the way he directs them… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…show and, in the Toys program especially, tie up the loose ends from the Superman Season Three show Obsession, thus truly making this The Complete Animated Series but, alas, they’re… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…might mean the end of the studio, but after the triumphant release of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World [above right] last February, they appear to be in… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…streaming services became the dominating the force in how people chose to consume their entertainment. Some films skipped being shown at the multiplex entirely. Others had “theatrical windows” which sometimes… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…explain the fact that you got down to the bottom of the ride and you find the skeleton pirates? How did they get there? And why? They went down there… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…month for them to hear all of the 30 or more pitches, but eventually they called us back. Andrew told us that they knew we were the guys for the… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…it on LaserDisc, and then they did a DVD of it. They did The Puppetoon Movie. They had a Laser then they had a DVD. So, he was wanting to… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…on these more positive aspects toward the end of this article: my job here is seemingly to provide the dystopian opening! My own industry, the business of show, took the… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…to contrast against the grey aliens. But then the green became a centerpiece for later in the show when the ships turned into Christmas ornaments. So, it’s really funny how… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…the evil five-headed dragon goddess Tiamat, there was always something dangerous and exciting that made the show visually unique and impressive. The Dungeons & Dragons animated series was a big… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…offered fascinating insight into the development of their respective subjects. Arcane: Bridging The Rift provided a comprehensive deep dive into how the groundbreaking series was carefully crafted. Mickey: The Story… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…Snyder proclaiming him “the heart of the movie”). There was also the announcement that the final runtime for the Snyder cut is four hours(!), and that it will be split… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…their films. New scenery appears over the course of the stories, brought by the spirits of the forest, inviting the audience in to discover new worlds as though they themselves… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…songs, the styles, the models he had in mind when he was writing the songs. Then, the counterpoints are something I added to the material. AV: In the animated film,… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…whereas the other ones have secondary colors: you have the green beast at the beginning, and then the more “let’s be friends” beast are blue and red, and then the… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…from the Thunderbean crew. These shorts were never lost, as they appeared on home video all the way back to the Super 8 days of home film collecting. However, they… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
Each animator is an artist in his or her own right, with a unique personality and background that they bring to the character they’re working on. The richer the experience,… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…releases of The Son Of The Stars, The Pied Piper, Heroic Times, Cat City [below], and they also put out Denmark’s Benny’s Bathtub. Also consider Warner Archive, the boutique label… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…The same with the bad guys, the bad goons as they are referred to. They kind of chase Din throughout the movie, and they’re very modern, they look like they’re… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…Amos in CTN last November. They showed an animatic and told me how everything works in the team. The most interesting part to me is the idea to use the… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…would eventually produce or direct such film classics as The Time Machine, The War Of The Words, Destination Moon, and The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm; but the first… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…the series, the melodies not only represent the characters, but they can also represent a concept. For instance, Adam’s theme is the melody for Adam, the melody for He-Man, but… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…It’s been a pleasure to have them share their labor of love for the film, and their own journey through the Forbidden Forest… AnimatedViews: Noëlle and Patrick, can you tell… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Once again, Mark Evanier (The Garfield Show) gathers together four of the most-heard actors in the animation business to talk about their craft, to demonstrate the voices they do on… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…I reintroduce it. There are other examples throughout the film. And as far as my own themes for the score, there’s The Kingdom Of Rosas, which is the theme at… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…was. The scores are on a scale of to 10, with being the worst of the worst, and 10 the best of the best. Those scores are saved for the… |
