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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

2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…period and beyond, the two directed some of the most popular and beloved titles in the Disney catalog: The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, 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

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…

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…

…placing a priority on creating “exclusive content” for Disney+. And Warner Bros. made the controversial decision to have their entire theatrical catalog for the year available on HBO Max the

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…

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…

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

The Midnight Sky were well crafted but never gripping, although Netflix proved itself again in the series arena with the superlative The Queen’s Gambit. Top of the heap, of course,…

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…

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….

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

top-notch cast. The future continues to shine brightly for the pop culture phenomenon. For me, the live-action front would not so much be on the screen as they would take…

An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations

On the horizon would be the theatrical release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The film would seek to take advantage of a resurging popularity in the pioneering tabletop

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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?

…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…

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,…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…