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Animation Addicts Podcast #71: The Land Before Time – Fellowship of the Tree Star
…die? • Props to Don Bluth for his stunning hand-drawn effects like bubbles, tar, egg shell fragments, lava, rain, and, of course, the classic Don Bluth sparkle. • 9 minutes… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…the Studio’s Treasure Planet, making up, along with Don Bluth’s Titan AE, an unofficial “tradigitally” animated trio of similarly themed science-fiction led films. Indeed, Atlantis is really the first time… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…return the skull to its rightful owner, the aliens don’t seem to be too grateful, and the next few minutes just don’t make any sense. Head restored, the aliens basically… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #87: The Secret of NIMH – Too Many “J” Names
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! All good things must come to a close–it’s the final film in the Rotoscopers’ Mice & Rats podcast series, Don Bluth’s debut film The Secret… |
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Gary Goldman on the American Tail DVD…
…via the {{link http://www.donbluth.com Don Bluth Website}} about Amblin’s cutting ties with the Bluth Group, why they are not involved in the disc production process, and what aspect ratio we… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Studio on its next animated film. As with Don Bluth’s later walk-out from Disney, United Productions of America was set up in the early 1940s by a group of ex-Mouse… |
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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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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…suddenly leaped into it with Surf’s Up. On Pocahontas, I was animating the Grandmother Willow character. Her face was done traditionally, but the rest of the tree was done CGI,… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…had Shrek, Puss and Donkey to help him get her attention. Puss is trying to sing some love song, in the background, and Donkey is dancing around to help Artie… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…direction. At the beginning, he has these rules. They’re really funny; they’re the “Peter rules.” He would just come down hard, saying that “Turtles don’t have fingernails! Don’t put fingernails… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…AL: He had suggested doing that; and I, well, I would have liked to have done it separately, but I don’t think it’s possible to get these things done on… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…could really do. At least, that was the original intention, before Don Bluth, frustrated at what he perceived as a lack of quality control at Disney’s during his tenure directing… |
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The Rescuers
…the picture. Certainly in production the artists were complaining that corners were being cut: it was a supervisor that advised young animator Don Bluth not to bother coloring the whites… |
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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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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…(Film & Voice), Idina Menzel (Film & Voice), Don Hahn (Animation & Film), and Chadwick Boseman (Film). In a way, the ceremony spoke of the cultural impact of characters from… |
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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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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…thrilled for its success, proving that classic Disney, done well, will always find an audience and that if the film is good, it doesn’t matter if it’s hand-drawn or not,… |
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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
…they’re doomed. It was really well done. AV: Don’t you think this curse is in a way the moral of the attraction? XA: Yes, I think so. How can you… |
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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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The Great Mouse Detective
…out as it features some stunning background layouts and detailed animation, especially in the scenes where Donald takes on the demented clock! Donald goes solo for the next cartoon, Donald’s… |
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Wizards
…(much as Don Bluth would be hailed later, and even like John Lasseter is regarded today), and looked set to capitalize on his post-Fritz career. There was a sequel, which… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…of the production and possibly dates the picture. Certainly during production the artists were complaining that corners were being cut: it was a supervisor that advised young animator Don Bluth… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…fulfilling Walt’s own dream of a Pooh Bear feature with the compilation The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, the next generation of artists – including Don Bluth, Glen Keane,… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…of then-upstarts that included Glen Keane, Andy Gaskill, John Pomeroy, Gary Goldman, and Don Bluth. Musker touched upon his being part of the first CalArts character animation program class with… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth’s An American Tail opened six months after Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective’s summer release in 1986 and made twice as much at the box-office, a… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…professional singer.” I told him what I had done, that I sang in my church and I had done these things with Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy and so forth. He… |
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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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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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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…voices? MW: Well, I guess it’s necessary for the people who don’t want to read subtitles! And I know many people in the US and abroad don’t, so it’s great… |
