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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali as that could have been an opportunity to push animation by black artists along had it not been a bust. Both Baer… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…treated everyone at the studio like family. “[TRON] wouldn’t have been able to run the gauntlet if it hadn’t been for Ron Miller looking out for Donald, Harrison, Richard, [and… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…really nice updates, and it would’ve been really nice if they had gotten to Titan A.E. Maybe as number 1,946 on that list! Dan: Yeah, that’s real low, I would… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…veteran voice actress who had been playing Minnie Mouse since Who Framed Roger Rabbit; and Carol Spinney, who had been a prominent figure in the childhoods of several generations as… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…from your point of view at that time, how did you feel about Hunchback when it was first released on screen? MK: I’ve been lucky enough to have been around… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…at square one anyway, having been all around the houses and not, ultimately, been able to come up with any outstanding new concepts. I didn’t – and especially – like… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…has been put back into development. AV: How did you get a production office at Disney? BH & RM: We’ve been here off and on for 13 years. The first… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…fellows who dressed up as various characters from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They got stopped often as fans wanted pictures of or with them seemingly every ten seconds… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Results Now it’s time to find out what you said in our Readers’ Choice Poll and, for just the first time in the ten years we’ve been asking Animated Views… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…even enjoyed its weird and often forgotten sequel.) JAMES: “Studios should stop including slipcovers on Blu-rays.” DAN: “Guess who I got to meet at Comic Con this year?” RANDALL: “Superman… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…genres?” Because very, very often in those films, especially in the Renaissance of Disney animation with The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, they tended to balance a lot… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…I’ve been missing in action around Animated Views. 2022 has been my lightest year in terms of output, having posted just two reviews (both the first half of the year)… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…has been for the past decades, many books have been written on the first classics, such as Snow White, Pinocchio and Fantasia. How did you find “your” way into that… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…of The Puppetoon Movie, as well as 2002’s The Time Machine remake. Currently, he is overseeing the remastering of a large number of Puppetoon shorts that have not been seen… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…not providing me. Meeting Cinzia and coming on board to volunteer on Mila has been life changing. I have been in the entertainment industry for over 20 years as an… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
The production of the animated short Aria For A Cow is clearly off the grid, and for more than one reason. In our two previous articles, we’ve been following the… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…thing I instantly focused on was his record collection. You know, on my own time I’ve been a DJ since 1999. I’ve been collecting records and I know that painstaking… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…as the original OVA series had often been regarded as an elite title within the genre. Mixing the look of medieval culture with their tried-and-true approach in animating stylish action… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…me, have been surfacing more and more over the years. The seeds of what I’m doing now have been planted like a decade before. These are so many elements in… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…more about her experience on the latter, which was intense artistically as well as personally. Animated Views: Turning Red is so original that it’s been often commented as a fresh… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…TDATP and the Walt’s People series (which is often quoted in the book). Can you tell me how the two series complement each other? DG: I would not have been… |
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Meet Marvel’s Master of Kung Fu with the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer
Marvel has release the full trailer to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which can be viewed above. The 25th feature in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
While research on Disney animation has been particularly vivid and productive over the last decade, very little has been done on Disney music. The work of some prominent historians like… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…do with Batman that hadn’t been done before. Of course, there’s so much that has been done with Batman over his 80 years of existence that it might be hard… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…but who has been promising me discs that, some of which, I have been waiting on since April 2016 — and no, that’s not a typo! All the best for… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…me this tiny little idea and that was my responsibility to figure out what would that book be. Like you’ve said, there’s a lot of books that have been written… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…a collection of her original works featuring Italian landscapes. She pursues her artistic interest painting in oil on canvas and in acrylic on mahogany. Cinzia’s works have been shown at… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…argue. Yet even as someone who has been quite vocal in defending–and even loving–what we got (I’ve also been a champion for Solo: A Star Wars Story, so maybe I… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…Disney classics and to composer for Wish, it’s been like climbing a mountain. I still don’t realize what’s been happening to me, but becoming the composer of Disney’s latest animated… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…They had just written a musical called God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and were looking for new projects on which they could work together again. That’s how they came to… |
