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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…from the comparison between the grace of a dancer and that of a deer. In a choreography that Glen created with dancer Marion Barbeau, he depicts the journey of a… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…work with on gorillas. They don’t have hats or tools or funny shirts or whatever. They basically look all the same. We had the same problems on Brother Bear. We… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…old Pixar movies, but stylized. That demanded a lot of concepts in order to keep the richness of everything. In the end, you don’t feel the characters don’t belong. It’s… |
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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…and they don’t want to deal with it, and they don’t care what the audience thinks. And there again, what I’ve said to you may be totally off base, it… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
Van Beuren (1928-1933), DVDs produced by Thunderbean, 1 disc each, approx. 135 minutes each, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $14.95 each Storyboard: Mice frolic, cats dance, and… |
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Monsters, Inc.‘s Composer Randy Newman: “I score because I care!”
…I think, if you don’t do that in an animated picture, they don’t look right. I don’t think you could score one and have it be effective if you don’t… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…model sheets for Aida and Don Quixote? BB: Aida was a design assignment in one of my character design classes. The Don Quixote designs were done at a summer program… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…you to do this film!”. I had read the script and I said: “you know, I don’t think I can do this. I don’t think I can do a sequel… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…day in my life! The difference is that in Pirates, they don’t sing the song continuously throughout the ride. You don’t hear the song until you get to the burning… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…of Disney’s bigger hits or more recent releases don’t always get the slipcover treatment, the groovy art of The AristoCats gets its sleeve replicated in a glossy, embossed finish, though… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…came from dogs to cats! RMS: That was many, many years later. AristoCats was a film that we started working on about the time that we left the Studio, which… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…still alive at the studio at the time as – and he had done some work on our new Beauty and the Beast, but he had also done some work… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…Donald tugging on his tails – nice! The disc art does what the films should have done and have Mickey for the original and Donald on the second, while the… |
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The Muppets
…for a simply triumphant return to both the silver screen and their rightful place in the status quo of showbiz! The Sweatbox Review: Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, but the famed… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…to have all of the inspiration from you before we animated on top of that sound. All the voice parts were done first.” I don’t think people realize that, today…. |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…you don’t? Well they get bored, as did I. The Fun With Language Game fares a little better, not least for the entertaining educational value. Despite the odd title, the… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Jam and Cats Don’t Dance had been previously cropped to fullscreen) – the first time anyone has seen the film in this way since 1962! The print has obviously been… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…building backstory for our heroine Tiana (seen here with a friend who seems to be related to Cats Don’t Dance’s Darla Dimples!), and very well it works too. This mix… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…and Genie dance double. Sims briefly discussed how he came on board and then brought out his dance team for the film, which included Nicky Andersen, the Aladdin dance double,… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…And then, there was the Witch whose name was Paul Godkin, who became a very well-known dancer with Agnes Mills and Jerry Robinson, the concert dancers in New York at… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…Flintstones, they were: a couple of much later live-action feature films actually fail to add anything to the concept despite whizz-bang CGI enhancements. The characters just don’t need high-tech gadgetry… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…3D as well. But yeah, I would be very happy to do another 2D picture. AV: You don’t have any planned at the moment, do you? RA: I don’t, actually…. |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…then there’s a slow decline. So to take over in Season 9, when we had done close to 200 episodes, was pretty daunting, in that regard, because you don’t want… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…film. Animated Views: Why do you feel now is the right time for a follow-up to The Fox and the Hound? Jim Kammerud: I don’t know what made Disney pick… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…Truly Moving Picture Award – 2009 Heartland Film Festival Stone Circle Pictures Red Shoes Productions WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY (Rated PG) Directed by Don Hahn Produced by Peter Schneider, Don Hahn… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…sign-off fly-by salute to the camera…it all feels more choppy than it should. But don’t get me wrong. Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is unbelievably fantastic viewing for those… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…Aristocats 2. I don’t think he or the other board artists at Disney were too excited about the deadline, but I guess Klay figured that it would be a good… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…doing busy work or anything like that, I don’t really feel like it was ever that way. I don’t think it was devious or plotting or scheming on anybody’s part…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #79: An American Tail – How Many Bands Have a Thunder Tube?
…• The Don Bluth dazzle is strong with this one. • Mail bag • Don’t forget to use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #AnimAddicts79 when talking about this episode on Twitter!… |
