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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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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…is to dive into the making of those memorable sequences. Renaut is well-known for his first book, From Snow White To Hercules, published by Dreamland in 1997, with a foreword… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…for that. Our Tech supervisor actually grew up on a ship for several years. So, he really, really knew what he was doing. And Sony works on live action films,… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…Christmas mixed in. That’s where I came up with Alien Xmas. EC: So we developed a pitch for it, and we took it out. People loved the idea, but for… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…cartoon, Plane Crazy, all by himself in just two weeks. Other animators considered him a genius, not just for his speed, but also for his innate sense of movement and… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
The production of the animated short Aria For A Cow is clearly off the grid, and for more than one reason. In our two previous articles, we’ve been following the… |
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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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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the heart, and a wonder for the eye. With the most up-to-date medium, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi prove once more their mastery and genius, through their love for the… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…Production Designer for live action and for animation, how would you present it? How do both domains enrich each other, especially in the case of The Emoji Movie? CZ: I… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…of the great things about Toon In With Me is the show’s obvious respect for the cartoons. This isn’t some stereotypically corporate product looking for the cheapest way to fill… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…be there for decades to come, for generations to come. The love and craftsmanship that everyone puts into it is just astounding. For the Imagineer Art Director Beth Clapperton, who… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…boogie woogie show-stopper. Seven Puppetoons were nominated for Oscars, and the first was Rhythm In The Ranks (1941), which sees toy soldier Jan disciplined for dereliction of duty after being… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…because she’s still grieving. And as she gets the song, she realizes, like, ‘Okay, I have to do this for my mom, and for myself, for my family.’ She gets… |
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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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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…and then have to overcome these challenges. We’re looking for someone who starts off at zero but has great potential, great heart and reaches for infinity. So, for us, it… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…together and know that we’re aiming for this moment. For instance, at the end of the movie, Din and his mother share a very, very sweet moment and there’s some… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…sought for WandaVision, and cemented its roots in classic sitcoms. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez created unique theme songs for episodes to reflect the eras spanning from the 1950s to… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…is an idea ripe for drama and comedy, the end of the world gets thrown in as well. And it mostly works! The ending gets rushed and a bit too… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…maybe for the last twelve years. He played every violin and viola on Beasts Of The Southern Wild, except for the fiddle. And Tara has been playing cello for many… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film, seven Annie Award nominations, and an NAACP Image Awards nod for Outstanding Short Form (Animated) film. The winners of the 2023 EE… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…for my good friend and fellow Disney historian, Joe Campana, who hosted me during my research trips and tracked down for me the families of many of the artists who… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…illustrations would influence him and his artists for years to come. b) He became aware for the first time in a direct way how popular his creations were outside of… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…“What would you do with this?” I knew that it was going to be about drawing for me, because that’s where all the ideas come for me. I went away… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…a class I’ve been teaching at Bridgewater State University for seven years. I was looking for a topic to write a book about, and writing a book for a course… |
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Santa Inc.
…or that the character becomes so unlikable after a certain point that it’s hard for the audience to want to root for her. Actually, that can be said for almost… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…recently won a Children’s BAFTA, 2 European Animation Awards, a Cristal at Annecy, and was also just nominated for the Annie Awards and the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short…. |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…then in the United States for Paramount. He also did a number of advertising films for clients such as Philips and Horlicks. His shorts utilized the puppet replacement technique of… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…stop-motion at the time. I’ve always loved the art form and wanted to take a break from working for the big studios and create something of my own. The art… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…Good Dinosaur. Harley Jessup began his animation career designing The Adventures Of Thelma Thumb for Sesame Street, which served as a training platform for his work as production designer on… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…superhero epic, serving not only as a vindication for its director, but also as a fully satisfying experience for the fans who have been begging for it to be released…. |
