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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…is a very talented story artist and animator and was able to judge the shots from both those perspectives. AV: What was your assignment as an animator on Bolt? CA:… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…Hobbit scores ; they are a full service film scoring orchestra and they’re incredible. They are a proper orchestra, and the benefit of working with an orchestra that plays together… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…off in a much later episode. Bubble Trouble/A Gummi In A Strange Land is a mishmash of a so-so story featuring Sunni and an overly cute baby dragon, and a… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Channel’s Amphibia and The Owl House share what’s coming up and present an exclusive crossover with a table read from stars of each series. Creators/executive producers Matt Braly (Amphibia) and… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…into a new project. The Art Of Turning Red is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Rona Liu and Chris Wiggum at Pixar, and April Whitney at… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…breaks into a film studio, fails as a plumber, hunts in Africa (beware some racist caricatures in this one!), encounters Spooks, and works as a firefighter and a milkman, we… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
2024 has come and gone, and the guilds and awards shows have had their say, so it’s finally time for us to get all “nostalgic” by looking back at the… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…Angeles. For 30 years, he has worked as an Art Director and Production Designer on a number of European and American animated features like Disney’s Zootopia and Ralph Breaks The… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…instruments, too, like the tiple and the bandola, which are different types of guitars. I literally bought an arpa llanera, a marimba called marimba de chonta, which is a very… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…(including most recently the Director’s Guild of America Student Filmmaker Award and top gold prize in the Student Academy Awards animation category), since it is enthused with the passion and… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…represented Nimona and acceptance and freedom and change, could take over an entire scene. And gold and white and blue, kind of the classic hero colors, represented the opposite: non-acceptance,… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…Awards, and thirteen Grammy nominations. A keyboardist and woodwind player, Goodwin has built a larger-than-life reputation throughout the music industry for his composing, arranging and playing skills. Ray Charles, Christina… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…and visually pleasing animation, and very intriguing world-building. Along with a nice press conference and an impromptu post-screening photo op with director Toshihisa Yokoshima and Toriyama’s editor in charge Akio… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…longings and desires and hopes for their children and themselves, that all around the world, it’s really the same, right? We’re all just people and connected in that same way…. |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…the Smurfs and their imaginary world, fully computer animated, and much closer to the tone and style that creator Peyo initially envisioned. And that’s what is particularly exciting in this… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…directors and artists really cut loose. Finally, we are getting US animation that takes full advantage of the medium. DACEY: I am and always will be a Disney boy. That… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…And Peter Baynton has been directing animated shorts, music promos and commercials for 14 years, and has picked up over 30 awards at film festivals around the world along the… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…was, Disney changed Jasmine. She became feistier and more adventurous, and that moved on to characters like Pocahontas and Mulan, who are very dynamic and adventurous. And more recently, we’ve… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…Mouse cartoons to come. Backgrounds are sometimes quite simple, but at least as often they are multi-toned and relatively detailed. Continuity, drama, and comedy are just as good as the… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…to tap into was all these binders and folders and boxes which show that he’s also a teacher. He’s a teacher and an aspiring musician, and through his level of… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…sequel, Lilo And Stitch 2, subtitled Stitch Has A Glitch in its initial 2005 packaging and presented in its native 16:9 aspect ratio, is perhaps the best and most authentic… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…Classical Animation at Sheridan College, as well as 3D Animation at Seneca College, both located in Toronto, Canada. She then freelanced as a 2D character animator and character designer on… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…joy of animating.” And I said, “A long time. It’s been at least 10 or 12 years.” He answered, “Why don’t you just forget about Google and everybody else and… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…and I always loved movies and TV and soundtracks, too, so, we kinda have a sense of what we like, things added to pictures that we like, and we sort… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…attack her and try to apprehend her. Luckily for Jubilee, Storm and Rogue are also at the mall and save her from the robots. This leads to Jubilee being introduced… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…Massachusetts, is a composer and scholar on the faculty at Stonehill College and Bridgewater State University. His music has been performed internationally as well as throughout the United States and… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…about the MOTU universe and mythology is that it is so vast. So, as a composer, it was simultaneously exciting and daunting because there are so many different characters and… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…it. I’m not at all into the Star Wars and Marvel universes. And I am a die-hard defender of hand-drawn animation. AV: How did your project start out? CR: Well,… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…a brand or whatever you call it. It’s a myth – a myth that we all love and share; and like any myth, it can be universal and forever. We… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…Art Of Luca is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Dan Romer, and Adrianna Perez and Kyrie Hood at White Bear, and April Whitney at Chronicle Books…. |
