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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
Read how a “lost” Howard Ashman song is getting the opportunity to get the audience it deserves – by being made into an animated film. |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
We have a chat with director Luiz Bolognesi of the intriguing Rio 2096, the Annecy winning animated film from Brazil. |
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Author Charles Solomon puts the chill to us with The Art Of Frozen
The well-known animation historian shares his insight on the making of Disney’s latest hit, from its accelerated production to its ultimate triumphs. |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
The director of the Sony Pictures Imageworks sequel speaks to AV exclusively about the film’s design and its breakout original characters. |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
The director takes Animated Views’ Jérémie Noyer behind the scenes of the Smurfs’ latest “mini-movie” adaptation of a literary classic, set to hit stores next week. |
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Senior Technical Director Michael Muir mixes art and science in Smurfs 2
Muir explains the role of a technical director and reveals the challenges of working on CG characters versus live-action ones, for the Smurfs’ latest theatrical outing. |
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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
Véronique Culliford recalls how her father, Peyo, created the original “blue man group” and examines how his legacy continues in The Smurfs 2. |
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Open the door to The Art Of Monsters University!
Author Karen Paik explains the creativity and technological advances Pixar used to make the blockbuster prequel and how Monsters, Inc. influenced that development process. |
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Great and Powerful concept artist Dawn Brown journeys to Oz!
Concept artist Dawn Brown leaves Kansas to speak with Animated Views about the the visuals of Oz The Great and Powerful and how this trip to the “merry ol’ land” is unlike anything audiences have seen before! |
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Dig in to the Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 trailer!
The trailer of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is now available on Yahoo! Movies. In this brand-new story, Flint discovers that his most infamous machine – which turns water into food – is still operating and is now creating mutant food beasts. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Flint and his […] |
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Unique Props from ParaNorman auctioned
Variety – The Children’s Charity of Southern California is hosting the online auction of two props used in LAIKA and Focus Features’ comedy thriller ParaNorman, which is Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature Film. The internet auction is coordinated through Profiles in History, from Friday, February 22nd to Monday, March 4th. All proceeds will help to […] |
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The Boxtrolls : LAIKA and Focus Features’ next project on the way!
Marking their third project together, LAIKA and Focus Features, the two companies behind the current Academy Award-nominated animated feature ParaNorman, announced today that LAIKA has begun production on The Boxtrolls, a 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid animated feature based on Alan Snow’s bestselling fantasy adventure novel Here Be Monsters. The new movie will be released […] |
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An author named Charles Solomon about a boy named Charlie Brown…
Fifty years of television specials are celebrated in Charles Solomon’s new book The Art And Making Of Peanuts Animation, and Jeremie delves into its pages to speak with its author! |
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Disney Historian J.B. Kaufman on the greatest Snow White books of all!
Jeremie speaks to Disney historian JB Kaufman about his two new books on Walt Disney’s Snow White, each of which present rare, never before seen artwork and stories from the film’s production! |
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Combustible wins Grand Prize
Akira and Steamboy director Katsuhiro Otomo’s film Combustible was just honored with the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival’s Grand Prize for Animation. “The fictional story, inspired by incidents such as the Great Fire of Meireiki (also known as the Furisode or Long-Sleeved Kimono Fire) and the Great Fire of Greengrocer Oshichi, is depicted in an […] |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
As SpongeBob prepares to make his stop-motion debut on television this Christmas, Jeremie goes behind the scenes to speak with his new animators! |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
As DreamWorks’ fantasy epic rolls out on screens across the country, Jeremie speaks with Rise Of The Guardians animation supervisor Pierre Perifel about his craft. |
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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Maggie Malone speaks to Jeremie Noyer about the unique approach the visual artists took to the Studio’s latest animated feature. |
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Tyrus Wong: Brushstrokes in Hollywood Kickstarter campaign launched
Yesterday, Nov. 16, saw the launch by Don Hahn, Disney historian Charles Solomon and other artists of the Kickstarter campaign in support of Tyrus Wong: Brushstrokes in Hollywood , a documentary film about legendary concept designer Tyrus Wong who just turned 102, and was a key contributor to Bambi and many other Disney films. “This […] |
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Big Halloween treat from Hotel Transylvania director
Beginning October 26, all digital showings of Hotel Transylvania in Regal Entertainment Group Cinemas around the U.S. will be preceded with a new traditionally animated short directed by the film’s director, who also animated every key frame of the new short. Entitled Goodnight, Mr. Foot, the short stars legendary monster Bigfoot and follows his adventure […] |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
Sparky returns to screens in Tim Burton’s stop-motion update of his own 1984 live-action featurette and here Jeremie speaks with cinematographer Peter Sorg to see how they brought the visuals to life! |
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Secret Of The Wings Composer Joel McNeely gives wings to Tinkerbell’s latest adventure!
As Tinkerbell returns to screens in the fourth entry in the Disney Fairies series, composer Joel McNeely reveals his inspiration for the films’ musical scores! |
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Hotel Transylvania Art Director Noëlle Triaureau sheds light on the monsters’ domain
As Hotel Transylvania continues its monstrous box-office run, the film’s art director talks vampires, monsters and things that go bump in the light… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
With The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under recently debuting on Blu-ray high-definition for the first time, composer Bruce Broughton revisits the sequel’s adventurous music! |
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Platform welcomes manga and anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo in L.A.
Platform, the internationally acclaimed animation festival, will present renowned Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira and Steamboy, with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, October 27th at 9:30pm. The evening will begin with an exclusive screening of Otomo’s new short film, Combustible, followed by a conversation with animation historian Jerry Beck and then the […] |
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Hotel Transylvania Production Designer Marcelo Vignali’s “Suite” Time!
Check in as Marcelo Vignali speaks with Jeremie about how his Imagineering career was a plus in bringing Dracula’s guest house to…er…life! |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
As Hotel Transylvania arrives on screens and breaks box-office records, the man behind the film’s music speaks about his approach to Sony’s Animation projects! |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
The ParaNorman directors talk stop-motion zombies and other aspects of their new production, including their involvement with The Art and Making of ParaNorman book! |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
From Emeryville to Ancient Scotland, Pixar’s Alex Mandel speaks to Jeremie Noyer about his songwriting journey for the Studio’s latest animated adventure, Brave! |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
Jeremie Noyer speaks with Pixar story artist – and author of the Studio’s latest Art Of… tome – Jenny Lerew about the wonderfully atmospheric images of Brave! |
