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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…the “Disney style” which makes it absolutely fascinating, from my standpoint. Character designs by Ecuadorian artist Eduardo Solá Franco for the abandoned project Don Quixote AV: How different and complementary… |
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Trolls Holiday TV special airing on NBC in November; TV series coming to Netflix in 2018
…be coming to Netflix in 2018. A full press release along with promotional images follows. DreamWorks Trolls Holiday, a half-hour animated musical special that features the A-list talent involved in… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…After serving as creative director of the art department at ILM, Harley next worked as production designer for Disney’s animated feature James And The Giant Peach before coming to Pixar…. |
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Pixar Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire reveals the “incredible” art behind I2
…to prove ideas outside of the computer. As I said, there’s something infinite about the computer, and by making a practical model, I’m actually making it be not infinite. It’s… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…between a beautiful 2D icon into a 3D image and trying to get the computer to feel like art. I come from hand-drawn animation, so we really worked hard on… |
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Composer Ryan Shore on Star Wars: Galaxy Of Adventures
…to bring my own musical voice to the series per se, although I’m certain by the very nature of composing that my own voice must come through. Instead, I’m fully… |
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Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World getting a makeover
…work will begin in the coming weeks and continue through the summer, but shows based at the Castle won’t be effected. Use the slider below to check out the before… |
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Sony Pictures Animation announces Spider-Verse sequel
…a tweet on the studio’s official Twitter page. We’ll add more information as it becomes available. April 8, 2022 🕷 #SpiderVerse pic.twitter.com/3vG2PJF3L2 — Sony Pictures Animation (@SonyAnimation) November 1, 2019… |
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New look for Sonic apparently revealed on movie theater standee
…February 2020. Breaking: A #SonicMovie standee featuring a newly redesigned Sonic was spotted at a undetermined location. This story is developing. #SonicNews pic.twitter.com/ymcgSYjg4a — Tails’ Channel – Celebrating 11 Years!… |
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Didier Ghez uncovers the hidden art of Disney’s early renaissance
…drawings Marc Davis created while at WED (now known as Walt Disney Imagineering): the composition is so strong and the characters so expressive that they seem to be alive on… |
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Pixar Graphics Art Director Craig Foster on Toy Story 4
…it’s also important in Toy Story 4 as the toys come from different eras. The packaging just adds that level of history. I’ve done a lot of research on the… |
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Director Juan Antin talks about Pachamama on Netflix
…native communities. There, I had the chance to meet the shamans and chiefs of the communities and started interviewing them. I wanted to have their point of view for this… |
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Spider-Verse big winner at Annie Awards
…Moss Polyarc Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial • Goldfish at the Fair Stoopid Buddy Stoodios ✓ Greenpeace ‘There’s a Rang-Tan In My Bedroom’ Passion Animation Studios • Grinch / 40 /… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…Chinese American film composer, with dual citizenship in the United States and Croatia. Over the last 20 years, he has composed music for over 50 films and television programs including… |
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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
…• Crow: The Legend Baobab Studios • Mind Palace Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH • Moss Polyarc Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial • Goldfish at the Fair Stoopid Buddy Stoodios… |
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AV is fifteen!
…kick off today’s festivities! First up, those of you who have been with us the longest may remember the site we were descended from: Animated-Movies.com, run by Olivier Mouroux. Besides… |
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Longtime Pixar/DreamWorks animator Adam Burke passes away
…from cancer. We’ll miss you, Adam. pic.twitter.com/LRUV7cgzGm — Brad Bird (@BradBirdA113) October 8, 2018 Burke had quite an impressive resume, doing animation on Bluth’s Thumbelina and A Troll in Central… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: Dragonvine
…York Comic Con, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation had entered into an agreement for Dark Horse Comics to publish three graphic novels set in the How to Train Your… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…an entirely new and exciting venture for the company. The story that is lesser known is the challenge for Walt Disney and his studio’s young artists to delight traditional Disney… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…mental leap I usually have to make is between environment design and character paint. Making characters look real and alive is always a challenge, especially if I am just coming… |
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Win Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie on Blu-ray – Winner announced!
…from their ground breaking Grammy Award-winning albums come to life, including the original Ode recordings of Dave’s Not Here, Let’s Make a Dope Deal and more. With help from a… |
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Atlantis, New Groove and Stitch all going Blu
…11th, Blu-Ray.Com is reporting. The Emperor’s New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Lilo & Stitch will all come out for the first time in the high definition format on… |
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The Thirteen Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo: No Laughing Matter (clip)
The Thirteen Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo is available to order from Amazon.com now: [AMZ]B003DU50U4[/AMZ]… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…and illustrator of several published children’s books, as well as having written and compiled the offbeat, non-fiction book Dummy Days: America’s Favorite Ventriloquists from Radio and Early TV (Angel City… |
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Animated Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart
…the same software as Pixar. It’s quite evident the difference a budget can make, but the short is still a wonderful homage to the long dead poet. More at Starkinsider.com… |
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Get caught up in Tangled‘s disc details
…a 4-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray 3D + Blu- ray + DVD + Digital Copy) for the suggested price of $49.99 US/$56.99 Canada, a 2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray +… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet opens
…is often too self-referential for its own good”, says the consensus at RottenTomatoes, where the movie has been rated 56% fresh at their Tomatometer. BoxOffice.com predicts a $16 million opening…. |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…combat wounded twice while leading patrols and commanding units in Vietnam. Dunagan received a Masters degree in Engineering Management, with honors, from the University of Vermont at Burlington, after which… |
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The Looney Tunes Treasury
…comes with the realization that many of these items are just hokey things made especially for this book, and not neat reproductions. The comics are vintage, sure, and Bugs Bunny’s… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…computer become almost endless. AV: Who are your masters in terms of animation? DC: Some artists that come to mind, just to name a few, because there is a long… |
