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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… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…of the Bride, the latter picked out by the directors as their favorite. There was time after the screenings for audience questions. I liked that a good portion of the… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…obviously be the mobile suits. The presentation included a brief video tour of the Gundam Facotry in Yokohama where the toys (which were nicknamed Gunpla) are manufactured. They then showed… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Hopefully in 2022, we can put most of the dystopia behind us. But until then, dystopia was the theme of some of the best animated films released in 2021. The… |
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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… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…have been able to tell this story, in depth and the way I wanted to tell it from the start: through the testimonies of the artists themselves and of the… |
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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… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…in animation terms, The Black Cauldron showed what the new generation of Disney artists wanted to attempt, and the then-limits of their ambitions. It pushed the boundaries of animation, with… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…month for them to hear all of the 30 or more pitches, but eventually they called us back. Andrew told us that they knew we were the guys for the… |
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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… |
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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… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…holds the secret of the past and the future in his special powers, a power that the dreaded Horned King needs to activate the Black Cauldron. Within the Cauldron is… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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Watch the full trailer for Pacific Rim: The Black
The full trailer for Pacific Rim: The Black is now online, and can be viewed in the player above. The action-packed anime series is inspired by the hit movie from… |
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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,… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…football cartoon follows, then the rather amorous old maid returns for the fun western spoof The Pony Express. Flip reverts to boyhood in The Music Lesson, then becomes a babysitter… |
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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… |
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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… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…the Digital Copy disc. There is an insert concerning the Digital Copy, and one advertising the Watchmen collected editions and the video game base on the movie. Ink And Paint:… |
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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… |
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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,… |
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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… |
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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… |
