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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…fellow director Byron Howard. Each of the cast members got to explain a little insight into their approach to voicing the characters. They further noted that they managed to feel… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…the unexpected directions they took in character development, further enhanced by the top notch voice acting of Plaza and the DeVitos. If the rest of the series manages to maintain… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…from his cast, Chase worked behind the scenes to put all the ingredients in place in order to pull the film together. Jeremie Noyer concludes Animated Views’ series on the… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…to the dedication of the fandom as they were able to fill Ballroom 20 for the first panel and many immediately made their way over to the other room and… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…something on their hands, because eventually the video games took motion-capture to the next level. But at the time a lot of people were just put off by the extreme… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…Digital Stereo Surround, Not Rated, Retail: $53.98 Storyboard: The Man Of Steel returns to the animated screen in Bruce Timm’s follow up to Batman: The Animated Series. The Sweatbox Review:… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…cinematic beasts in the world and have them face each other, people are going to want to view the spectacle on the biggest screen they can find (although, let’s face… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…little soldiers climbing up into the toy box. On Babes In Toyland, we did the toys. There again, we worked with T. Hee designing the toys. And then these toys… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…exact same way and making the same kinds of changes to the source novel, combining elements from both film and book to bring everything into alignment with impressive skill. Elsewhere… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…their life was about to take – or the excitement, drama and sadness they were about to experience. All they knew was that when Disney offered for them to write… |
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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… |
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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
…SC: When it comes to the town, I was trying to think of Christmastown, what would be the architecture, what’s the classic image. In Rothenberg, Germany, there’s a town there… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…on streaming-focused content. The streamers, though, are finding the road to the new world a little choppy, as competing services have returned us to the cable mindset of needing to… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…the film, showing just how challenging it was for the first-time director to handle. Solomon’s attempts to bring to life the essence of the game was heavily hampered by the… |
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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
…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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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…creatures representing the four elements, which give them their personality. You can feel it through the colors of their costumes. RootMan bring an organic dimension to the show. Lucille the… |
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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…. |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…The deal with the characters in general was not to get to the “uncanny valley”. We wanted this movie to feel more real, more immersive, but at the same time,… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…is the third film from Sony to make the list in the little over a decade we’ve been doing this. It’s just the second sequel to take the top spot,… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…was brought to Los Angeles by DreamWorks, where she worked as animator under the supervision of James Baxter on films including The Prince of Egypt, The Road to Eldorado, Spirit:… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…an air squadron that must find the energy to win an aerial battle. The astounding anthropomorphizing of the planes (as they gallop down the airfield and dodge bullets in the… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…something to prove.“, said Disney animator Dan Lund, the mastermind behind the project. So, the solution was to bring fresh blood to the “Global Barn,” by opening the team to… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…That’s also the message of the show for kids: it’s okay to be who they are. The power is already within them. They just need to find it… Michael Kramer… |
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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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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…a spinoff angle that felt forced in, and an over-the–top and embarrassing attempt to canonize the main character, there’s no denying fans of the show deserved better. Feel free to… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…to slightly towards one cheek, depending on the angle the Smurf was seen from and the expression it had. One question was whether to separate the Smurfs’ eyes or to… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…on a dual-layer disc has certainly allowed them proper room, and the mastering has them looking totally authentic to the film sources. Scratch Tracks: The mono tracks sound generally quite… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…for the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for the Tony-winning The Lion King. He also orchestrated the Broadway version of Frozen. Along with having worked on eleven of the 62… |
