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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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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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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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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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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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“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…. |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…when you’re coming to the load area, you find yourself on the rooftops of Paris, and there are giant rooftops, and giant chimneys, and giant windows and balconies, and you… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…Disney Animated films ever produced, Dave has also worked for studios as diverse as Apple Original Films, Marvel, Sony, DreamWorks, Paramount, and Warner Brothers. As composer of Wish and arranger… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…potential. An unplumbed setting for an animated film, a deep and interesting foundational legend to build off of, a good message, amazing animation, a great cast of actors, and all… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…be practically every character from A New Age, while Famileaf Album and Stone Age Snack Attack> are other activities taking their leads from the film and its setting, while suggesting… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…countries equally. Hear the stories from Mexican voice actors Cristina Hernández (Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Padme Amidala), Sebastián Llapur (Darth Vader, Daffy Duck), and Claudia Motta (Bart Simpson, Pikachu) about the different… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…His articles about the Disney parks, Disney animation, and vintage international Disneyana, as well as his many interviews with Disney artists, have appeared in Animation Journal, Animation Magazine, Disney Twenty… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…We were there for about three days and the day after the big race, Jay and I flew up to Atlanta, Georgia, and then we rented a car. We tried… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…recently won a Children’s BAFTA, 2 European Animation Awards, a Cristal at Annecy, and was also just nominated for the Annie Awards and the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short…. |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…the decisions and feedback I was able to make about the animation as a whole. We were all pursuing the truth of the characters and the story, and I’d like… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…elements had been done at UCLA, and new work was commissioned to other helpers such as Steve Stanchfield and his crew at Thunderbean Animation, who performed an immense amount of… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…has since been employed by Pixar Animation Studios and JibJab, taught at CalArts, and worked at Disney Television Animation, where he served as a writer and creative director for the… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…started learning more and more about Disney history and noticing the questions that I asked myself without finding answers. All of my books are attempts at answering those questions. Walt’s… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…runs over an hour, and has a selection of Puppetoon films from the USA and earlier ones from Europe, as well as some Pal-produced hand-drawn shorts. There is not much… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…see animation as a technique, not a genre. The most important differences among movies are in the stories and the tone. I have worked in comedies in live action and… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…First Avenger, Avengers,Wreck-it-Ralph and Moana to name just a few, to arrange them. A true fan of all those series, Metzger’s versatility and affinity with all kinds of styles and… |
