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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…ever done, with the biggest sets and the most pieces. So, the challenge was to get it done while keeping control of this giant cruise ship. I couldn’t feel more… |
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Don Bluth claims “movie pitch presentation” for Dragon’s Lair film is finished
…out Bluth’s tweet below. Dragon’s Lair: The Movie Pitch Presentation is finished and a BIG Happy 80th Birthday to Don Bluth!! https://t.co/79cqds9mid pic.twitter.com/wMCNg95pig — Don Bluth (@DonBluth) September 13, 2017… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…done in the past. But it was different again, because rather than memorizing lines and then going through your scenes, the recording was already done. So, when you did your… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…that role. And that happened with Don Hall doing the voice of Uncle Gaston and Coach, and with several other voices in the film that were done by crew member…. |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Titan AE screenwriter Joss Whedon) and Upendi feels like a way too obvious filler for Hakuna Matata, being a very laid back Jamaican tune that… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…the author was reportedly unconcerned. After all, it’s two different mediums, it’s Miyazaki’s film, and all that. We don’t have to go into the details from the book here, but… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…at the Disney logo (it’s a wonder they don’t sue!) and ethos, one isn’t just reminded of much better films that show how it should be done, but of Hoodwinked… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…someday make an animated feature? Peter Ramsey: As a child, I don’t know if I knew what a director did in animated features or any feature, for that matter. But… |
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Finding Dory
…“Wait! You don’t understand!”, Dory keeps insisting over and over, irritatingly, and it’s true: we don’t. Plot points come and go (how does a fish know where California is?) without… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #58: Cats Don’t Dance – It’s Big & Loud!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! It’s big and LOUD! The Rotoscopers look into the one and only film from Turner Feature Animation, Cats Don’t Dance. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV7363565788.mp3 Highlights: • The animation… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…be a hint of “this is how it should be done” in Brave’s creation? It certainly seems there’s a clear intention to tread both where Disney has before, in the… |
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The Ten Commandments
…to action-oriented CG movies whose looks don’t come off much better than the kind of inter-level story sequences many high-end game titles enjoy (think the Final Fantasies in particular). I… |
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RIP, Don Adams
Yahoo! News and the Sydney Morning Herald report that veteran TV actor Don Adams (born Donald James Yarmy) has passed away at the young age of 82. Don Adams provided… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…together again, I just don’t feel Disney should be making. Name one other non-originated or owned property that the Studio has attempted in the past (George Of The Jungle? Mr… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…(a Looney Tunes direct-to-video title). BEN: Having converted many previous reviews for our launch so that we had an instant stack, I don’t recall the exact first review I did… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…out. “Kiefer, would you please sign? I got Jon’s this morning and I’ve come all the way from London”, I added in for good measure. “From London?” Kiefer asked. I… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…Duck, with a reproduced Donald repeated mechanically across its canvas. Anniversary Donald Duck, Andy Warhol, 1985 Likewise with Joyce Pensato’s Untitled 1993 distortions of Donald, and David Mach’s 1994 Mickey… |
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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…unfortunate traits: raccoons and skunks – those ever so popular and characteristic creatures of the English countryside, I don’t think – not only show up but don’t do themselves any… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…digital work on it, but hopefully, it looks like it’s all done by hand, which it is. It’s just done with computer, but it’s still people with their hands doing… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…The Sweatbox Review: For reasons that I won’t bother going into here, there’s practically not a day goes by when I don’t break out into a variation of the Scooby-Doo:… |
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Don Knotts dies at 81
Don Knotts, most famous for his role as Deputy Barney Fife on \\The Andy Griffith Show\\, died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly… |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…of course, just his really great storytelling. I don’t think anyone else does that as well as he does. It may be just a cultural thing, I don’t know, but… |
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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…the time I was in High School, I wanted to work in animation. I actually thought I’d be working at Don Bluth’s. Disney wasn’t as important at the time as… |
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Cars 2
…Spy Training: London clip was intended for, but it’s quite fun, while there are more Set Explorations for Big Bentley, Tower Bridge, the London Eye and Buckingham Palace (:43 total)… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…more sincerity than most of the films to emerge from that Studio. I don’t think it’s a Pixar film either, even though the production design and really neat little technical… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…Don Chaffey), but had designs on production and, when Danger Man had proven to be a big hit in syndication and Grade offered him the chance to make new episodes,… |
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Don Waller on King-sized animation
Post-Gazette.com profiles animator Don Waller, whose credits include Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Jurassic Park, and Dinosaur. Many of Waller’s thoughts regarding his experience of working on Kong are likewise included… |
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Don’t forget AV’s Oscar contest and live chat!
…sure to submit your entry here. If you entered before Friday, please check here to ensure your ballot was received and validated. Also, don’t forget to join us on Oscar… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…the regeneration of a planet, Genesis II, using computer graphics. Over at Disney, young animator John Lasseter had been wowed by the work that was being done on the Studio’s… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…love Disney for the pure entertainment value and the characters, most don’t have the world experience to judge a story’s content based on pure originality yet since everything is still… |
