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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…for his art and his true love for what Disney stands for. In fact, Kevin’s vocation goes back to his fifth year, when he discovered a book on animation by… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…your vocal cords, it doesn’t come from your diaphragm. It comes from your soul.” Iwan noted that he had seemingly formed a symbiotic relationship with Mickey and would be influenced… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…cartoons for the network and, along with Batman: The Animated Series, laid the groundwork for superhero animated programs to follow. It was widely acclaimed for its faithfulness to the comic… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…— Rebecca Rose🍁🍂 (@HeyRebeccaRose) July 22, 2023 I am floored by you all! Thank you thank you for being here, and for your patience so that we got to speak… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…of any attempt to consult with Pixar employees, even if secretly? (For instance, the Circle 7 animator for Woody trying to contact the Pixar animator for Woody. Or, in your… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…for Florida and for sponsors. For example, I did a show for Eastern Airlines with Claude Coats for that, called “If We Had Wings.” It was another challenge and another… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…her we really needed to do something for George. And in your life, things like this don’t just happen by accident. There are things you can do in life –… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…— our readers — for sticking with us for as long as you have. Our site is continuing to go through exciting changes, and we look forward to giving you… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…good. Ben: Yeah. Did you just say Blu-ray!? Rand: Before I had Blu-ray… Ben: Oh, before you had Blu-ray! Okay. I was about to seriously get on your back for… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…of myself for, and for the most part, the media I did find time for I largely ended up enjoying. Sometimes, a show comes along that just feels “special” for… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…the program through Shirley Walker’s arrangement of the theme she had originally orchestrated for Burton’s Batman composer Danny Elfman. But the stumbling block for me was in the budget animation,… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…pass up the offer of a vaccine (or that all-important second dose!) to do your part in moving forward out of this whole situation. In the meantime, we’ll hope for… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…Well, that’s all, folks! As always, we thank our wonderful and loyal readers for sticking with us for as long as you all have, and look forward to bringing you… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…He won an Emmy Award for outstanding music direction for his work on A Christmas Carol for NBC-TV – for which he also provided the underscore – and did music… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…explain your fascination for the guitar? CA: Music and instruments have always been a part of my life. At the time, I was studying guitar and one day just started… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…credits include Need For Speed: The Run, Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, and Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Obviously no stranger to composing for animated series with sweeping mythologies and larger than life… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…For better or for worse, this resulted in Whedon more or less taking over the movie that ended up in theaters, despite Snyder still maintaining top billing. Now, for what… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…that’s enough of us being melancholy for now. “Stay Tooned” for our thoughts on the year that was, along with your picks for the best animated movies it gave us,… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…write some songs intended for Sesame Street. One of them was called Aria For A Cow. But Sesame Street wasn’t interested and Aria For A Cow was packed away. And… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…begins with “As the deer pants for streams of water, /so my soul pants for you, my God.” So, for the first movement, I was looking for a word for… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…in theater, she began her career as a singer/dancer at Walt Disney World, Universal Studios Hollywood, Trinity Arts Center, as a choreographer for Little Kids Dance Party, casting/production assistant for… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…was the first title you reviewed for AV? DACEY: Toy Story That Time Forgot, which still gets repeat viewings at my household every holiday. It’s a fun time. “Batttlesaurs! Battlesaurs!… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…be there for decades to come, for generations to come. The love and craftsmanship that everyone puts into it is just astounding. For the Imagineer Art Director Beth Clapperton, who… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…your European background into your art? ML: I grew up with a lot of Belgian comic books and I really loved the world that Franquin built, for example. I grew… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…is to dive into the making of those memorable sequences. Renaut is well-known for his first book, From Snow White To Hercules, published by Dreamland in 1997, with a foreword… |
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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… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…any human. Human is human, no matter what your culture is. If you have a kitchen, a bedroom, and a bathroom, it works for any human. But early ideas for… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…in LA. AV: Can you tell me about the collaborative aspect of your work – notably your collaboration with Aurora Jimenez, your “tale twin”. CZ: Making movies require a great… |
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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… |
