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Soul
…all knew if any studio had the guts to actually kill some of their characters off it would be Pixar! So I applaud them for even taking the risk on… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…one called Nutty Numbers – a compilation of silly novelty songs. Then there were the amazing Power Records, including their exciting book & record sets; these told stories of comic… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…theme of the story. Lighting the candle, keeping it lit, light changes representing the transformation of the temple from something grey, dead and lifeless into something vibrant and celestial, ultimately… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…of the studio, examining the warts and celebrating the victories. Scholars will appreciate the many viewpoints offered, and fans will enjoy learning the secrets behind their favorite cartoons. I heartily… |
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Christian Renaut’s book trilogy on Walt Disney animation comes full circle
…most famous ones, even though the Nine Old Men are very often mentioned and quoted. With this book, the reader is within the team of creators, behind the scenes. There… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…animation vehicle. Sarah met up with them, took them to a day of theater and gave them her stamp of approval. AV: Where are you now in the production? DL:… |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…a DVD set of these cartoons, and I can confirm that the quality ranges from poor to good, and none of them can match the best of the theatrical output…. |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…the look of the scene or objects in the scene based on distance to camera. The farther an object was from camera, the more impressionistic it became. This was very… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…and this is our first real collaboration together. He handled the character designs and the digital sculpting for the replacement faces. The rest of the art department was comprised of… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…running out and Steppenwolf’s army threatening the very existence of mankind, the five of them might not be enough to stop them. And a certain recently deceased caped hero may… |
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Mulan
The original Mulan animated feature from 1998 was a great film. One of the better stand-outs at the time the Disney Renaissance was coming to a close by that point,… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…to shoot a lot of times from the kids’ point of view up at the dad or the dad looking down them. But always keeping a kind of kid-eye level…. |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
As legend has it, the destiny of the people of Avalonia is to reconnect with the world beyond the impassable mountains that surround their home. When Avalonia is in danger,… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…of the film. Remember the sound of Lebo M’s chant during the Lion King sunset? Or the native chant at the beginning of Brother Bear? For Frozen, the creators of… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…rendered in exquisite hand-drawn animation, celebrates the power of our shared humanity Apple Original Films Academy Award nominee The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse won the BAFTA… |
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Trolls World Tour
…was probably counting on all movie theaters (well, with the exception of a couple of drive-ins) being closed at the time of its intended release date. Though unlike other studios,… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…is synonymous with not accepting things as they are. So I decided to tell the history of America from the point of view of the Indians, working hard in their… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…list of nominees follows… The Animated Short nominees are Affairs of the Art, Bestia, Boxballet, Robin Robin, and The Windshield Wiper. The Visual Effects nominees are Dune, Free Guy, No… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…AV: How would you describe the art direction of Mila? AK: Mila takes place in the 1940’s. The art direction has a tame palette that reflects the colours of the… |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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Helluva Boss
…been warned. The series follows the misadventures of the Immediate Murder Professionals (or I.M.P.), hellspawn imp assassains who specialize in killing living souls on Earth. The boss is fast-talking, self-absorbed… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…DVD. Sadly, their decade compilations stalled out at the end of the 1970s, and we are left with a new line of bargain-priced DVDs offering less than an hour of… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…any of their movies… until now. Having scored the music of some of the popular animated films of our times, from Ice Age: The Meltdown, Happy Feet, Horton Hears a… |
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The Wild Robot
…website, you’ve probably become aware of the hype surrounding The Wild Robot. Ever since its teaser was first released in the spring, the internet has been excited for it, eager… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…the BBC, who will premiere The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in the UK, with the film available on Apple TV+ outside of the UK, this Christmas…. |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Time Machine (1960) and The War Of The Worlds (1953), he made Puppetoons! These brilliantly conceived animated subjects astounded the world. Now these marvels, not seen in decades, are back… |
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Lightyear
…of this film was the replacement of Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear. I thought this was an understandable decision since technically these are two… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…to being heavy-handed, and while there are gentle themes of prejudice here, they never in any way feel like a lecture. Contrasting the borderline grotesque appearance of most of the… |
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Santa Inc.
…that, a reference is made to the size of Prancer the reindeer’s junk. Then there’s more profanity. Lots more profanity. Then there are “jokes” about women being sexually assaulted at… |
