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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…The Mandarin, Winter Soldier and Red Guardian teaming up, and Captain Carter winding up in 1602. Season two was scheduled for 2023 with season three also in development. Andrews moved… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…And that’s really my introduction to most children’s work, including some of the great classics like Alice in Wonderland. And I think you can see my love for illustrations in… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…for all. She introduced other Muppets to join Gonzo in Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Robin. Gonzo stayed in character in that he presented himself as Charles Dickens. Each of the… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…then the only prominent human characters in a computer animated movie had been Andy and Sid in Toy Story. So I don’t think the studio was confident in being able… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…and producers Glen Murakami and Alan Burnett about the inspiration, sources and intentions for this final 18 episode run, including those shows they didn’t think turned out so well and… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…and Marvel Zombies did Invincible start to garner interest. It was enough that an animated series was developed and began streaming on Amazon Prime on March 25, 2021. The first… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…Teacher’s Pet husband–and-wife screenwriters Bill and Cheri Steinkellner presented a draft in which Woody, Buzz and the gang had to solve a whodunnit mystery of toys disappearing in the attic… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…of visual styles was standout: freeze any of this CGI pic’s frames and it looks hand painted, and extraordinary. Elsewhere, Marvel came along again with a trio of feature offerings,… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…lot of fun for fans of the DC comics and superhero movies in general. Again, major thanks to my fellow AV staffers, and also to you our readers too, for… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…this incredible human being, who happens to be this incredible innovator and pioneer in special effects, stop-motion animation, and literally the father of science fiction and fantasy in modern film…. |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…an inspiration and the kindest person. Here are our interviews as published in 2008 in Walt’s People – Volume 7, as both an homage and a testimony of his incredible… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…natural thing with stop-motion is that they are little toys on miniature sets, and it goes hand–in-hand with Christmas. And Christmas and stop-motion always go together in our minds, that’s… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…Mike and Sully, and Marlin and Dory. In fact, outside the parent-willing-to-do-anything-for-their-child dynamic in Finding Nemo, Ian and Barley may be two of the most easy characters to empathize with… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…a testament to how good and how beloved Marvel Studios has become. The stand-out of the year for me was the independently produced animated television pilot Hazbin Hotel [right]. Funded… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…Page (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as Dom Claude Frollo, Ciara Renée (Pippin) as Esmeralda, Andrew Samonsky (The Mystery Of Edwin Drood) as Captain Phoebus de Martin, and Erik Liberman… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…from the process and introduced us to some members of this unlikely team to better understand the specificities and advantages of the process. Production Manager Siddhartha Maganti was born and… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News Paramount+ is bringing cast and producers from its highly anticipated upcoming animated original series to ComicCon@Home. Programming includes exclusive conversations with the casts and… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…the production of Mila. Now, let’s start with Producer Andrea Emmes. Andrea has been in the entertainment industry for over twenty years as both a performer and in production. Starting… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…(not always exactly upgrades) to earlier titles, including The Emerald Forest and impressive amounts of 4Ks (The Italian Job), and debuts for The Big Bus, Rin Tin Tin‘s initial adventures,… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…Millepied, the new Director of Dance for the Paris Opera. Following that meeting, Glen was personally invited by Benjamin Millepied to join a distinguished list of artists and filmmakers to… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…many projects, including Ren & Stimpy, Dexter’s Lab and Samurai Jack. He has done design and art direction for feature and shorts animation, including The Incredibles, Up, Inside Out, Finding… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…been involved in the production of a handful of animated Pixar shorts including: Toy Story Toons: Small Fry and Toy Story That Time Forgot, and he was the production designer… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…place in the awakening German animation industry. Later, he studied classical animation in Dublin, Ireland and moved as an “animation nomad” to Hamburg, Seoul, Copenhagen, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Los… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…Animated Movies site. I knew Rand from another reviews site and we melded things to become Animated News & Views first, then shortening to the Animated Views now celebrating 20… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…and the new in this movie in a lot of ways. Din and his mother still live in an old “shikumen,” which is very old Shanghai traditional housings; and then… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…and Disney. What would be the differences between those different studios? CA: With the introduction of CG animation, and a host of other enormous shifts and changes in the industry,… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…He designed a new character, Flip the Frog. The initial design was indeed frog-like, with gangly limbs and webbed toes, and a head that melted into his chest. Iwerks made… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…I feel like that came into play in kind of different moments in the film. So, I think the baseline of our interest is very much in line, and then… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…melodies and themes and motives and harmonies. And then, as I was continuing to write, I was buying those instruments and was inspired by their sound. So, I found the… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…the Smurfs and their imaginary world, fully computer animated, and much closer to the tone and style that creator Peyo initially envisioned. And that’s what is particularly exciting in this… |
