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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…their films. New scenery appears over the course of the stories, brought by the spirits of the forest, inviting the audience in to discover new worlds as though they themselves… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…songs, the styles, the models he had in mind when he was writing the songs. Then, the counterpoints are something I added to the material. AV: In the animated film,… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…whereas the other ones have secondary colors: you have the green beast at the beginning, and then the more “let’s be friends” beast are blue and red, and then the… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…from the Thunderbean crew. These shorts were never lost, as they appeared on home video all the way back to the Super 8 days of home film collecting. However, they… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…watching the show in the 90s. The popular show premiered on Fox on October 31st, 1992 as part of their Saturday Morning Fox Kids block. The first season, reviewed here,… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
Each animator is an artist in his or her own right, with a unique personality and background that they bring to the character they’re working on. The richer the experience,… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…releases of The Son Of The Stars, The Pied Piper, Heroic Times, Cat City [below], and they also put out Denmark’s Benny’s Bathtub. Also consider Warner Archive, the boutique label… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…The same with the bad guys, the bad goons as they are referred to. They kind of chase Din throughout the movie, and they’re very modern, they look like they’re… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…Amos in CTN last November. They showed an animatic and told me how everything works in the team. The most interesting part to me is the idea to use the… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…would eventually produce or direct such film classics as The Time Machine, The War Of The Words, Destination Moon, and The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm; but the first… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…the series, the melodies not only represent the characters, but they can also represent a concept. For instance, Adam’s theme is the melody for Adam, the melody for He-Man, but… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…It’s been a pleasure to have them share their labor of love for the film, and their own journey through the Forbidden Forest… AnimatedViews: Noëlle and Patrick, can you tell… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…done for previous DC Universe shows. When the panel came onto the stage, I also saw… Diedrich Bader? The goofy Oswald guy from The Drew Carey Show? Oh, man, they’ve… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Once again, Mark Evanier (The Garfield Show) gathers together four of the most-heard actors in the animation business to talk about their craft, to demonstrate the voices they do on… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…I reintroduce it. There are other examples throughout the film. And as far as my own themes for the score, there’s The Kingdom Of Rosas, which is the theme at… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…United States. Another interesting highlight I got from the tracks was the fact that they had brought in consultants before they designed the show to find out how they should… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…was. The scores are on a scale of to 10, with being the worst of the worst, and 10 the best of the best. Those scores are saved for the… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…helped tremendously. One of them is the autobiography of the Disney concept artist, Mel Shaw, who was active at the Studio in the 1930s and then again in the 1970s… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…And then there’s “We Got Something Cooking”, the theme song for the third episode. DM: To me, it was always The Partridge Family, and also The Brady Bunch. It’s a… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…but we wanted them to be appealing and relatable to the audience. AV: The film takes places in two worlds: the “real” one and the one within the Smartphone. They’re… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…time I wanted to honor and carry through on the vision that the Director and the Production Designer had. Because they are the ones that are leading the visual language… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…the lead of the menus, oddly listing all films as “Puppetoons”, even the hand-drawn ones. A glance near the bottom of the back cover shows numerous logos, showing how many… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…private collections, galleries, and public spaces around the world. His internationally bestselling book, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse, was published in October 2019 and holds the… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…have been able to tell this story, in depth and the way I wanted to tell it from the start: through the testimonies of the artists themselves and of the… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…Fire characters. The rest of the city has dedicated districts for Water, Air and Earth—though since those elements have been there for generations, the areas are more diversified. Since the… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…the interior but also on the exterior of the attraction as we were trying to capture the caricatured feeling of Paris that they had created for the film that Harley… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…creators of the show. One, however, cannot deny the quality of the action sequences in the show. These are some of the best on television and there is very little… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…the mid-1980s, it was off to a flying start, creating the original – and overlooked – concept show The Wuzzles (two animals in one, two times the fun!), the fondly… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…reminding us of the strange, the unique and the downright bizarre by way of occasional new TV shows and the ongoing success of the Odditorium museum attractions. The Disc: The… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…to her. It’s very simple, in 3/4. And then, when the brothers and sisters are getting their magic, it starts to expand and becomes the Encanto theme, the overall theme… |
