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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…Recently, she scored Kung Fu Panda Land Of Awesomeness for Universal Studios Beijing, and completed two feature films for Universal Animation, Curious George: Go West, Go Wild and Curious George:… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
In 2020, the San Diego Comic Con provided their delightful panels and presentations online for fans to watch and enjoy at their leisure. Comic-Con@Home offered a sample of the Comic… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…represented Nimona and acceptance and freedom and change, could take over an entire scene. And gold and white and blue, kind of the classic hero colors, represented the opposite: non-acceptance,… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…longings and desires and hopes for their children and themselves, that all around the world, it’s really the same, right? We’re all just people and connected in that same way…. |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…put some of that look into a potential project, and going to Chinatown on the weekends studying, like, dumplings, and getting ideas for how maybe dumplings could be animated and… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…its unbeaten virtuosity; later Peter Pan for its heart and entertainment value, One Hundred And One Dalmatians (not 101!) for its jump to modernism, and Aladdin from the Renaissance era…. |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…Earthspark marks Crush Effect’s first foray into composing, and the creative team gave them the freedom to compose a cinematic, synth-heavy score for the series pulling sounds from modern cyberpunk,… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…the messages to land for an adult as much as for a child. She was extremely intelligent, and very humble. And those two things make a very profound combination for… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…in Europe and the USA, French author Christian Renaut could eventually come up with a list, because some sequences do stand out. They stand out for various reasons, based on… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…Disney classics and to composer for Wish, it’s been like climbing a mountain. I still don’t realize what’s been happening to me, but becoming the composer of Disney’s latest animated… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…when you’re coming to the load area, you find yourself on the rooftops of Paris, and there are giant rooftops, and giant chimneys, and giant windows and balconies, and you… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…the music of Disney in my mind. After looking at what was readily available in published sources about these composers, I combed through familysearch.org and ancestry.com to find and confirm… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…Ramy (Hulu). He is also the music producer and co-composer for the film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen. In 2018, Romer composed the music for Ubisoft’s flagship video game Far… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…and soul to hand-drawn characters and stories. His first creation with this group is entitled Duet. The animated short blends world-class artistry with innovative rendering and interaction technology for mobile… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…through the film and we had these really low shots, so we needed some sort of visual interest from that point of view, for the sidewalks for example, that have… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…everything here was going to have more bells and whistles than the recent “Comic-Con@Home”, complete with sophisticated special effects being used to create the “dome” of the event’s namesake, and… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…a brand or whatever you call it. It’s a myth – a myth that we all love and share; and like any myth, it can be universal and forever. We… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…(voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid and author of the book’s foreword), Lea Salonga (the singing voice behind two Princesses, Jasmine and Mulan), and composer Alan Menken. The book… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…back to them. Really, it’s a back-and–forth collaboration and communication. And I did this on all the characters, for all the characters, with all the modelers. I must have done… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…Powell, Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri, Christophe Beck, Henry Jackman, and others. In 2013 Dave was matched up with Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez to arrange and orchestrate the songs for… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…celebrities with whom he would stay in touch for years to come and who would introduce him to many more people which opened new business and creative doors for him…. |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…write some songs intended for Sesame Street. One of them was called Aria For A Cow. But Sesame Street wasn’t interested and Aria For A Cow was packed away. And… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…began an ambitious project to document the history of Disney animation by focusing on concept art and concept artists. Through extensive research through the Disney Archives, and personal connections he… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…a teenagers life to really see and comprehend what he has sacrificed for her. ANIMATION: The visual style was interesting. While obviously computer generated, the animation for humans and backgrounds… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…lead vocalist in Disney’s Raya And The Last Dragon, and a very good job she does too, being slightly more dialled down from everyone else and playing off Stone and… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…would nevertheless be fondly regarded in representing the brand positively and for pushing the envelope for a Saturday morning cartoon. Dan’s Review: I’m of the generation that grew up on… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…emotional and intellectual changes my girls go through as they age, and I was honored to participate in telling a story that might help them to better understand and express… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…as the series progresses.” And music plays a huge part in setting all the moods of the series. The WandaVision filmmakers’ research and detailed examinations of sitcoms throughout television history… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…uses miniatures and puppet animation to convincingly make the case for how important oil is to our lives, and teaches us where oil comes from. This film appears here in… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…and then I wanted to try to combine that neuron forest verticality with strings and see if we can keep these wave forms rather than pulsing lights coming through, which… |
