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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive

…anniversary celebration of the film would be one of the most anticipated presentations at the D23 Expo on the Premiere Stage. The presentation began with Gonzo introducing the host Nina…

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…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase

…sense, than the traditional Disney films at that moment, and tried to find different voices for the characters. The voice for Max, who is the young adolescent coming of age,…

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 near future. Though the animation can’t hold a candle to the fluidity if a full theatrical cartoon from the golden age of animation, there is enough visual interest in…

The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…

…twice, whether it was their flagship Ice Age series, the wildly creative toy box world of Robots, or the spectacularly colorful Horton Hears A Who! What a shame that their…

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

…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…

Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2

…of Acquisitions for image Entertainment. They released my films prior to this. They did the box set, they did the Fantasy Film Worlds re-release on DVD… they already had done…

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…

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…

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…

DC FanDome Online Event Recap

The Flash will accidentally enter other dimensions via “The Multiverse” (a concept already explored on the current television series), and going by the montage of clips shown during the panel,…

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

…from Flip completes the package. Ink And Paint: Years in the making, and worth the wait! The shorts here look the best they have in decades, thanks to meticulous work…

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?

…Looney Tunes Collectors Choice. Additionally, they put out a lovely Blu-ray of the first Hanna-Barbera feature, Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear (even arranging to restore the Columbia logo at the

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

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

In 2015, historian Didier Ghez authored They Drew As They Pleased Volume 1: The Hidden Art Of Disney’s Golden Age, focusing on the studio’s first decade in the 1930s. It…

For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!

…of this movie. Veronique and the Lafig Studio also were instrumental in the choice and approval of the hair color for the Smurf girls which I believe was the best…

The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3

…distracted by an lovely ice skater, before redeeming himself fighting the Screwball Army. The next Oscar nominated Puppetoon was also the stronger of the two Dr. Suess shorts, the quite…