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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive

…of how Walt Disney had a hand in launching the careers of the Osmonds, explaining that his elder brothers were visiting Disneyland when they met the Dapper Dans. The two…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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

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…

Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition

…like a regurgitation of all the influences. You have the original sources, and then you’ve got the Disney castle from ’55, the DisneyWorld one from 1971, and then the Sleeping…

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…

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…

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

Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt

…helped tremendously. One of them is the autobiography of the Disney concept artist, Mel Shaw, who was active at the Studio in the 1930s and then again in the 1970s…

Flip The Frog: The Complete Series

…in Walt’s name. That card read, “A Walt Disney Comic by Ub Iwerks.” Ub was a colleague of Walt’s from Kansas City, and he was Disney’s main animator on the

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,…

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

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

…go beyond 6 volumes). When Chronicle Books approached Disney about the project, both the Walt Disney Archives and The Animation Research Library were immediately enthusiastic. The series would not be…

Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!

…I accepted and looked forward to following Anthony LaMolinara (Spider-Man 2) who was to be the animation director for that project. Then Disney announced the Disney-Pixar merger the same day…

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…

“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn

The Studios built on the expertise they gained with the Mickeys and Silly Symphonies when they started work on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. When you consider the importance…

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…

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…

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…

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…