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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…I have seen The Small One, of course. Ben: Awwwww, Small One! Every Christmas we run a double bill of Small One and Muppet Christmas Carol, and I blubber and… |
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Two images from The Small One
Two stills from the rare 1978 Don Bluth-directed short The Small One can be viewed by clicking on the ‘More’ link. The Small One will be released to DVD for… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…Trouble was that I wasn’t the only one. Copies set aside for each day were gone within the first hour and my one attempt on Sunday saw how chaotic it… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…fully engrossed in every story told. This was one of those pleasant presentations I could sit through for hours. The Simpsons When one thought of television, chances were one of… |
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The Small One comes to region one DVD; Muppetational releases!
Although Disney’s much requested 1978 animated featurette The Small One, directed by Don Bluth, has been available on DVD internationally for a couple of years now (most notably on the… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…could be done like playing the old-school X-Men arcade machines and checking out various photo op displays. All attendees received tickets at the entrance, one for a free drink and… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…That one director is trying to make one movie, while the other director is trying to make his own, I think that’s the recipe for disaster! AV: What kind of… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…Speaking of the deals, one can’t help mentioning playing lucrative games and getting winnings from online casinos, especially popular ones like Live Casino House. Live Casino House is an online… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…which might have been second-to-none. And how else was such a series going to end? Game Of Thrones was never going to have an ending that made everyone happy, so… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…my hat! After about a month, Walt called me one day and he said: “I want you to do the script for Pirates Of The Caribbean”. I had never done… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…sequel to the biggest movie ever, but also one that many rather inexplicably expected to bomb under the delusion that no one really cared about the original. At this point,… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…number one— I didn’t have access to a number of subjects. And then there were a number of subjects that I didn’t even know existed. As far as anyone was… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…being what they are (I’m glad I’m not one of ’em!) meant that not everyone saw the advantages of getting jabba-dabba-dood, and not all countries imposed it based on so-called… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…the only one out there really giving anyone else some real competition nowadays. DAN: Currently, SpindleHorse Toons. Vivienne Medrano and her crew have done nothing short of phenomenal work since… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…across the corresponding discs, with Discs One and Two of Volume One being the first two discs here, Disc One and Two of Volume Two being the third and fourth… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…of Milan. She attended the Centro Formazione Professionale per la Tecnica Cinetelevisiva or C.F.P, after which she began working as storyboard artist and animator for TV shorts at several Italian… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…end of the scale, the disappointingly bmud Tenet proved to have been a saved cinema trip. The One And Only Ivan was a film I absolutely detested for being one… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…to Soul? PA: The one thing I always say is that I’m one of the connective tissues between the art department and the sets department. As Sets Art Director, one… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #68: One Hundred and One Dalmatians – Do You Got Any Chloroform?
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers review Disney’s first modern animated movie, the 1961 canine classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3221331810.mp3 Highlights: • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Animated henchman… |
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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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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…big, like a wall, or a cinema screen. They’re very into composition, very subtle in the lighting and just epic. So, that was one inspiration. The other one was Remington…. |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…for James Gunn’s upcoming Superman relaunch). Switching gears from a flop to a sleeper hit, we have Godzilla Minus One [below], which seemed to take everyone by surprise with how,… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…project, how would you explain your role as a producer? AE: Producing Mila is unlike anything I’ve ever done. It’s filled with challenges, both big and small: learning and creating… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…named Flip the Frog! I was intrigued. I didn’t actually order the Flip tapes done by Bosko (sorry!), as I instead chose to go with the Cartoons That Time Forgot… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…one would be shown three times, but anyone wishing to revisit them (or catch the ones that they missed) now that they’re over might be a little disappointed. On a… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…very similar tone to the film, especially as the Gargoyles go: we still had A Guy Like You and very joking tone to keep it light. Now fast forward to… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…ensemble, which is quite unusual in the realm of film scoring. DM: Absolutely. That was one of the big challenges for sure. But also, one of the things that made… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…the resources Disney can provide. All of it squandered because somewhere along the way, someone suggested they give audiences a pop princess rather than a hero on the regular. The… |
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Warning From Space
…puts one into a “camp” frame of mind. How can anyone take a film like that seriously, right? However, I had also read Stuart Galbraith’s Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!, which… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…to slightly towards one cheek, depending on the angle the Smurf was seen from and the expression it had. One question was whether to separate the Smurfs’ eyes or to… |
