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Arcane
…not a lot of restrictions upon the series towards the storytelling and the world-building. While the game’s champions have pre-established backstories, they were less about being definitive than they were… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…that predominated in the middle part of the century on both sides of the Atlantic. There is true personality animation here, although the effect is more gentle than wacky. The… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…craft. On every film, we get to try out ideas and see them to their birth. Then they go into the film, and then the film is done. Each time,… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…make payments directly from their bank accounts, eliminating the need for credit card use and reducing the risk of fraud and identity theft. The popularity of BPAY among Australian online… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…nods at movies by Hayao Miyazaki: the pig (Porco Rosso), the windmill blowing the dirt (Nausicaä), the miner in your first story development (Castle In The Sky), the medieval influence… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
From the humans who brought you the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…to studying the battle of wills between The Light Side and The Dark Side of The Force. The theme is more prominent in The Twins by Hiroyuki Imaishi and Lop… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…a household name to the kids of the region. There would usually be skits with a regular cast of characters and cartoons. A big part of their appeal was the… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…of covid, we weren’t able to record the whole orchestra at once. We recorded the strings, and then the brass, then the woodwinds, and then we did the percussion. Then… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…each section of the world – the lush forest world, the dreamscape, and the journey beyond. Each of these sections also had a color progression, a buildup. Once I got… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…deeper level. AV: The light is also very unique. For the scenes taking place during the day, we can almost feel the warmth of the sun on the leaves, the… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…story with quipping. The second comes from the eighth season of The Simpsons. There is an animated show within the show that the Simpson children watch called The Itchy &… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…Josie And The Pussycats) takes the rap for stealing the house’s TV, to keep her brother Ray Ray safe. Ray stays hidden in the walls of the house, and develops… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…a pandemic and all the challenges they’ve faced with staying productive in the ever changing world that is the year 2020. The Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel Every year, former… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…novel narrating the story of a dysfunctional family where selfish parents totally ignore their children. Convinced they’d be better off raising themselves, the kids hatch a sneaky plan to send… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…each expression. Goldenloin, on the other hand, is the sword. He’s supposed to be the classic hero, that white knight, the golden savior, the one that has the privilege and… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…major roles, their presence lends itself to showing that there’s more than just humans, elves, and dwarves. There’s the eagle-like aarakocra and the aptly named dragonborn conversing with the characters…. |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…help them develop their ideas while keeping the characters consistent and satisfying the vision of the director. I don’t try to force my own ideas into their shots, but I… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…was your first move? The sound? The themes? DV: It was kind of all of the above. When we got the job, they called us and we were hoping to… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
Our journey accompanying the creation of Mila continues. After the story and the character design are set, it is time to create the definite look of the overall film. That’s… |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…once the animators got the permission to not worry about runtime, they used that leeway to stop editing the story they had, rather than to fill the extended time with… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…will you keep from the experience? ND: First of all, I always love the first moment with the orchestra. And then, there’s this cue, right at the end of the… |
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Inside Job
Those conspiracy theories spouted by crazy, drunk old men angrily shaking their fists at the sky? They’re real. The world is controlled by the shadowy elite and shape-shifting lizard people…. |
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Onward
…and kids visiting the land of the dead are great one-off ideas, but their worlds are inextricably tied to their specific plots. The monster world may be the next most… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Student, won the First Prize of the Tom Baron Business Competition (for the first time won from a non-business student), and graduated with Magna Cum Laude and the Departmental Award… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…with the help of a friend escaped with the bicycles, the kids still on their Pajamas and all that they could carry. The street they took is very steep and… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…the theater community is a lot like the animation community in that people get involved first as a fan, but then as almost a keeper of the torch. Both always… |
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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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Soul
…as they truly were. And that connects us with what he is going through. The yet-to-be-born soul, named 22, may be on the opposite side of the divide, but she’s… |
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Warning From Space
…populous. Rather than the superbly intimidating aliens in The War Of The Worlds, however, we get the rather silly star-shaped creatures previously mentioned. That’s okay, though, because the serious tone… |
