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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…not be what she was, but to break them all, in fact, and be the nanny that we see in the book. Actually, the nanny in the book is not… |
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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
…2022 as over 125,000 from around the world flocked to what has over the decades become the mecca of pop culture. From comic books to films to animation to television… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…into the trees to play with their jungle pals. This ending, like the film on the whole, is indicative of what The Jungle Book 2’s main problem is: the lack… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…and the week before was the 90th anniversary of the original Popeye the Sailor cartoon. Alvarado noted that they had restored around 10-20 cartoons, about 50 were in progress, and… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…way. You know, all the eyes look the same, all the mouths look the same. Even the way some of them move, you know. The dad at the beginning of… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…decided to do the same for their sequel to 1967’s The Jungle Book the following year. The DisneyToon studios (Tokyo and Australia were involved in this one) had shown themselves… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…had seen in the promo pitch book began to move, they did so without the kind of fluidity that would have lent the same awesome grace to the movement that… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Hopefully in 2022, we can put most of the dystopia behind us. But until then, dystopia was the theme of some of the best animated films released in 2021. The… |
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The Sword In The Stone and The Jungle Book 2 Contest – Winners Announced!
…Special and The Jungle Book 2 Special Edition are available to buy from Amazon.com. About The Jungle Book 2: It’s 2 times the laughs, 2 times the thrills and 2… |
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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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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…was in a completely different state, with their last film, The Princess And The Frog, struggling to even make it past the $100 million mark, causing then-creative executive John Lasseter… |
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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
…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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…used in French, German, and Dutch releases; and Reissue Titles (5:41) shows those from the Pat Powers/Celebrity Productions versions. The Flip the Frog Coloring Book introduces the book, then provides… |
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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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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…similarities. Discussing the final film, The Lure Of The Jungle Book speaks to the animators of today, who further express their admiration for the personalities, music and overall accomplishment. Deja,… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…Shortly after the final episode aired, the animation staff released an art book in limited print that fans went to great lengths to get their hands on. The beautiful illustrations… |
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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 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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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
