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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.

…recall, the only other animation competition would’ve been The Emperor’s New Groove, but that didn’t come out until December. Whereas films that came out over the summer, the only ones…

D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive

…was then showed off with the feature coming out the following year. Bailey moved into the films that would have theatrical releases beginning with a new version of The Haunted…

2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…releasing a new main series title in the franchise that will certainly be different from all the others, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury. The panel for Gundam: The

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…

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

Superman: The Complete Animated Series

The look of Krypton isn’t as original as the producers were striving for: they mention in the supplements that they wanted to go in a new direction, but the retro-30s…

The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…

…logic for the decision presumably revolving around the perceived need for budget cuts in the aftermath of Covid-19. Yet regardless of the reasoning behind it, the news was sad for…

The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over

…King. Towards the end of the 2010s, the merger with 20th Century Fox was met with a mixed reception, as some of the properties they acquired through the massive move…

A tribute to X. Atencio

there. Each time people will go through, they’ll find something new.” AV: Both the first Pirates Of The Caribbean film and the attraction mention the fact that the treasure is…

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

The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still

…light-hearted way. While the plot is a bit scattershot, the frenzied feel actually works well with the tone of the film. What really pulls together the disparate pieces is the

Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2

…get the clearances to do some of those Puppetoons. I think they knew they were eventually selling the library, and they didn’t want to break them up. So, that was…

Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas

…doing the lighting, the DP with the camera, all this technical stuff that really takes the majority of the time. And then when it’s all set, then we animate. And…

The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?

…and, my favorite, the ultra-hilarious X-Terminators. Randall’s Picks Like the real world, the entertainment industry is feeling the effects of huge change. The worst of the Covid pandemic seems to…

An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations

the likes of Critical Role and The Adventure Zone showcasing the thrill and excitement in playing the game, managing to become sudden cultural sensations over the past several years. The

DC FanDome Online Event Recap

…panels done at “Comic-Con@Home”, which showed their previews right away, DC made the wise decision to use them as a way to whet the appetites of viewers for the new

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,…

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…

Flip The Frog: The Complete Series

…moving on to the second disc. Here, the cartoons grow up, perhaps reflecting more the personalities and concerns of the crew that had moved to the studio from New York….

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

The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?

…best news came from Thunderbean, the little outfit out of Michigan run by Steve Stanchfield. Thunderbean finally finished its largest project to date, the two-disc set Flip The Frog: The

Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!

…Dog. The story was new, new designs, new models, and new rigs. I think the only thing that was carried over was the amazing art direction of Paul Felix. AV:…

Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage

The hosts of The 4:30 Movie podcast return to Comic-Con (virtually, at least) as they curate an all-new theme week of the greatest movies of 1981 in the tradition of…

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…

Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow

…project is Lead Animator. The film is divided into four acts; I manage two acts (the first and the last one) on the project. As the lead on these acts…

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…

For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!

…create the new characters and the new environments ? PM:To keep Peyo’s style in the Forbidden Forest and Smurfy Grove with the animals and the Smurf girls, I first looked…

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…

Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle

…have been able to tell this story, in depth and the way I wanted to tell it from the start: through the testimonies of the artists themselves and of the

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