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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…and a dazzling extended preview clip ahead of the film’s release later in the year. Closing the presentation would be the official announcement of the feature to be released the… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…talk about animation so fondly. Legends Talk Animation One of the great pleasures of Comic Con would be some of the programs that honored creators of the past. It’s a… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…is also a combination of the principles of classical animation, the principles of romantic comedy and the principles of action-adventure films. How did you manage to mix and, most of… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…minutes before the actual start time and filled the rest of the time playing some of the film’s soundtrack. The pre-screening panel consisted of director Toshihisa Yokoshima, Toriyama’s editor in… |
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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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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…the extended toy commercials of the 1980s had all but put me off television animation, though the launch of Batman: The Animated Series, which fed off the hype surrounding Burton’s… |
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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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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
…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… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…throughout the company were addressed and reassured their jobs were safe – but, no mention of the fate of the Circle 7 employees. Then a lone voice from the back… |
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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
…the headlines, and the political landscape felt more split apart than ever before. Through it all, there were some bright spots, the least of which being the communal sense of… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…Red-Nosed Reindeer (and) Frosty The Snowman,(plus) The Grinch, Charlie Brown, all of them. But the stop-motion specials that Rankin & Bass produced were always the ones we loved the most…. |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…of their rolls, turning the mechanics of the game into the foundations upon which to develop compelling story moments. The Legend of Vox Machina carefully enhanced these for even greater… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…my shelf, along with the superlative restoration of George Pal’s The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm to the always enticing Warner Archive, the bonkers Return Of Captain Invincible in… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…later). The conversation then shifted to the spin-off TV series which is already in early development for HBO Max. Told from the perspective of “the city,” it will chronicle the… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…then hearing this, the depth of the score, just starting with Bells Of Notre Dame and going in to the Latin music, and something like Out There which is I… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…football cartoon follows, then the rather amorous old maid returns for the fun western spoof The Pony Express. Flip reverts to boyhood in The Music Lesson, then becomes a babysitter… |
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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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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…the design of the beasts themselves? ML: We had Shiyoon Kim as Designer of the beasts. All the beasts coming out of one person’s imagination gives them a certain DNA… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…make mention of Critical Role. For 2023, the animated series The Legend of Vox Machina released its second season, further exposing audiences to the Matthew Mercer’s incredible world-building and the… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…of the pitfalls of the visual effect world is that the animator is not regarded as highly as one working for the feature animation studios. Disney of course was once… |
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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
…processed it. But the other side of the tribe theme is the idea of family. The fun part of that theme was finding a way to marry the idea of… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…all the other members of the crew, they give their full enthusiasm and talent for the project in order for it to become an unheard-of reality. AnimatedViews: What led you… |
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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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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… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…a “brave little tailor” scene with a Smurf for the study of the animation style. AV: Do the characteristics of the “School of Marcinelle” (Peyo’s style, part of one of… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…it one of the most beautiful of the Puppetoons, replete with crystalline imagery, a castle in the clouds, and other fairy tale wonder, set to the music of Tchaikovsky’s The… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…“This Wish”. You can hear them with the Steamboat Willie logo. I used a ghostly imaging of the first five notes of the chorus of the song. Also, one of… |
