Thunder And The House Of Magic
…from theme park ride to feature film. (Unfortunately, we see nothing of that original film.) Character Animation (4:40) breaks the film down into phases of production; it’s something we’ve seen… |
Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…to the film, how they would approach music for the film. And at the end of that long process, I said, “Okay, now you guys, we’ve got to sit down… |
Director Juan Antin talks about Pachamama on Netflix
…form of a vision, when I was participating in the Latino-American Film Festival in Cuba for my first film, Mercano the Martian, back in 2004. One afternoon, I was sitting… |
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…and combined in the 1947 film Fun And Fancy Free, again with Mickey’s half of the film not only being the more dominantly marketed sequence (it was still sold as… |
Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…film it was meant to be: an economically told and important film for the Studio, which proved these kinds of films were still viable entertainments and, more importantly, that there… |
Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…Dory, Cars 3 and Incredibles 2. He has also worked on Academy Award©-winning films Brave and Inside Out. Additionally, he has worked on Pixar short films The Blue Umbrella, LAVA,… |
Happy Feet Two
…market that these films appeal to – my advice: just run the first film again (really, pick any scene from both and I challenge anyone to be able to make… |
How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…the DVD of his film was released. “Keep moving forward!” Animated Views: How did you come to Disney animation? Steve Anderson: I’ve always been interested in animation, in drawing, filmmaking… |
Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…and Ron Clements jokingly responded, “It is a Disney film.” Hopefully, however, more was being “teased” than given away. The Zootopia presentation helped in sparking great interest in the film,… |
The Princess And The Frog
…or not? Well, removing all the baggage that surrounded the film’s theatrical release last November (traditionally a winning time for Disney films) and looking at the film as if it… |
Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…almost every day and brainstorm the plot of the film. It’s a highly collaborative process — and we continue to improve the story until we literally run out of time…. |
Gulliver’s Travels
…the same kinds of ingredients. Under producer Max and director Dave, the eventual film would take on more of the Disney approach – indeed the generally decent notices the film… |
Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…other “Fab Four”, the most influential film and one of the favorites for many people. People fondly remember the film, the music, the characters, and the humor that made it… |
Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…an undertow of mystery and suspense… This is the basis for Montreal-based filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s latest creation, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. In Madame… |
Planes: Fire & Rescue
…with optional filmmaker introductions don’t really expand on anything significantly, though their extended nature might have filled the final film’s running time out, stretching to 84 minutes as it does… |
The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…year as the first film to be nominated for three of the four best feature Oscars: Animated Film, Documentary Film, and International Film. It didn’t win, but it was a… |
Kubo And The Two Strings
…television, with a long run of animated holiday specials, including Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (and one feature, the very amusing Mad Monster Party),… |
A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…directing a feature film for Lupus Films Ltd, to be released in 2024. Charlie Mackesy Animated Views: Before talking about the film, can you tell me about the creation of… |
Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…the official word was on this very disappointing film. A very animated Princess Leia model represents LucasFilm’s other major Star Wars franchiseThe whole morning had been given over to LucasFilm… |
Bolt
…Feature Oscar nomination, Bolt’s front cover is more content to run with a “Best Disney film since The Incredibles” quote, someone obviously not telling Robert Butler that Brad Bird’s film… |
Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…where his mouth was in keeping traditional animation alive by financing the film himself, drawing each and every frame by hand, and completing his film in roughly the same time… |
Pom Poko
…a wonderfully unusual film that defies your expectations to provide a unique viewing experience. Unlike most of Disney’s previous Ghibli releases, the films in this wave were not directed by… |
Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…naturally, with Goscinny and Uderzo actually opening a facility with Dargaud Films, named the Idefix Studio, to carry out production themselves. The film was released in France to wide acclaim… |
The AristoCats: Special Edition
…would have been like, running eight minutes in total. Music & More does little than play through the film’s four complete songs in full with optional sing-along lyrics, and the… |
The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…Studio got into the rut of their next few films being very episodic in structure. There is no real thread that runs through The Sword In The Stone, as the… |
Valiant
…Fortunately, the execution of the film is pretty good too. The film opens over the English Channel in 1944. Three carrier pigeons are attacked and apparently killed by an enemy… |
The Great Mouse Detective
…at Disney – liked what they saw, bought the rights and gave the go-ahead – on proviso that the film was made quickly and cheaply. Watching the film now, it… |
Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…film did you work in Paris? MC: I started storyboarding on a short film called Runaway Brain, a Mickey Mouse short. And then, when it was over, I attempted to… |
Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)
…ruining my love of the film. I particularly noticed problems in portraying hands, one of the most complex parts of the body, as even the simple act of grabbing a… |
Popeye (live-action movie)
…characters back in 1980 (has it really been THAT long?), although there is no denying that the film’s look and feel is right at home in the world of creator… |