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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
…compression artifacts. The less-good news is that the film does show its age. The DVD may give an accurate view of the film elements, but the elements were not perfect…. |
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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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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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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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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…of each week ended in a cliffhanger to be resolved the following day. Friday’s show provided the finale for that week’s adventure. By the end of the show’s run, enough… |
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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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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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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…(unless it actually happens in the episode!) since all the shorts seem to be shown in their full aspect ratio. Another sign that the show’s creators are fans themselves? Remember… |
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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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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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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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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…was therefore curious to see where the show headed afterwards, and though I missed the Season Two episodes, I was happy that Paramount recently put out the third and final… |
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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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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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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…the film how different they are in their energy and attitudes, and by the end they have converged a little bit; Joy becomes mellower and more empathetic, Sadness becomes more… |
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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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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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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…realized that the real question was not how the pixels looked, but how they felt to the audience. We initially worked with a watercolor effect, but it proved too flat… |
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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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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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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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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…interpret the themes however they like. Clearly there are broad messages about love, sacrifice, freedom, and inhibition. Using monsters to explore these themes provides for some fun opportunities! AV: Why… |
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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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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…the story reels, then told them more about how I grew up in a household that was split into east and west. I told them about trying to balance two… |
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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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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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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… |
