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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…executives and asked them if there would be any chance that I could direct something, and they said that there was very little chance of that. They were releasing one… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…they could in there, leaving very little room for Graeme Revell’s music score. There’s only like five or ten minutes’ worth of his music score in there in comparison. Ben:… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…tidbits about Milt Kahl. When asked about the Nine Old Men, Norman said they were mean. Baer responded specifically about Kahl, saying he was mean to the men but nice… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…end was the question of which design was each panelist’s favorite and they all chose Fred Moore’s. “There’s just something so charming about his interpretation of Mickey Mouse,” Norman explained…. |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…so we’re involved in another project, and it looks like it’s a go at Warner Bros. I know there’s a lot of years there. I know. (Laughs.) AV: What is… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…England, I heard stories about Pooh and how famous he was there, but we didn’t know a thing about him in the States. So, it was interesting to work on… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…So any presence of The Owl House would see its legion of fans flock in overwhelming numbers in support. And there’s no greater stage for such a gathering than Comic… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…“Maybe God has you there for a purpose, and you should really stay there, where He planted you.” And I did. And then throughout my career, there’s been opportunities to… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…is scheduled for September 20, 2022, and we were lucky to be able to chat with Emily in advance about it. Animated Views: There’s plenty of books on Disney Princesses,… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…lost and your imagination becomes lazy. Whereas with hand-drawn, there’s something that’s constantly asking something of the viewer. On Paperman, the three-dimensional form was king and the line was serving… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…to the set design, especially with the different buildings you see throughout the film. There’s also something about jazz that is very improvisational. You know, CG is very good at… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…that it might be slightly darker, so there’s probably no reason for viewers to prepare themselves from something completely different from the fun they had last time (no word, however,… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…specials are all about saving Christmas. I wanted something that would hearken back to what Christmas is really about, the secular Christmas story. And I thought, it’s just about the… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…So, there’s really an immediate connection between us, but that first assignment was almost easier because I didn’t feel the pressure of solving anything. When you’re designing something, you’re really… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…There’s one song in particular and it’s the end credit song, believe it or not, A Wish Worth Making. There are so many production elements in there that you can’t… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…on the other side, there’s this massive urban growth of the city. So, there’s that sequence at the beginning of the film when we kind of timelapse over Shanghai being… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…were allowed inside and I have to say the most memorable thing about that is the chaos. The internet has been growing there since the 80s, so there were several… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…their life was about to take – or the excitement, drama and sadness they were about to experience. All they knew was that when Disney offered for them to write… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…hit the festival circuit. AV: Thanks a lot, Andrea! AE: Thank you so much for allowing me to share about Mila. It’s such a labor of love and something that… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…show return to something that at least feels familiar and authentic as opposed to trying to come up with something so different it fails. A problem in the Timmverse projects… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…there’s the scope, and there’s also the tone, which is medieval. How did you treat this? MS: The setting was medieval, and some of the writing that Alan was doing… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…my determination to be honest. There was a time in the 1970s when the very few books written about either Walt or the Studio were so polished you could hardly… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…highly unsatisfactory. We had never seen a photo of Bill Levy, there was little that we knew about George Kamen’s career, and the overall picture simply was not there. Then,… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…of the old Mousetro himself. Well, more fool him, because there’s certainly something about this Mary! Though Walt Disney’s personal touch is said to be all over The Jungle Book,… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…something wonderful about telling a story from the point of discovery where you are learning something new. There is an energy – like you cannot wait to tell somebody about… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…making this behind-the-scenes something so relatable. This is really inspiring, you know – there was that segment when I talk about my divorced parents and how that had an influence… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…short, the animation in Aria, I believe, has its ups and downs. You can tell when there’s an animator with more time and when there’s an animator who just wants… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…color, and however good the intentions behind them may be, it does seem like a solution to something which isn’t actually the problem. As always, there were too many passings… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…since the first movie did it so stealthily while here there were no secrets. Just goes to prove that like there’s no one right way to play with Legos, there’s… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…Storyboard: Wind’s in the East, Mist’s comin’ in… Like something is brewin’, About to begin… The Sweatbox Review: There’s certainly something about this Mary! Though Walt Disney’s personal touch is… |
