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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…re-appearance in a poorly conceived Hanna-Barbera version in 1983, and again as an American live-action TV series with Terrence Hill in the early 1990s. It is, however, these animated films… |
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Arcane
…JB Blanc is outstanding as Vander, a street-weary former revolutionist who houses Vi and Powder as children and struggles to maintain peace all-around. But Ella Purnell really shines the most… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…on animation history in general, and a few books on Hanna-Barbera specifically. I read the autobiographies of both Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. And when their shows began to hit… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
By Greg Ehrbar University Press of Mississippi August 27, 2024 344 pages Softcover/Hardcover $30.00/$110.00 Greg Ehrbar has a wonderful blog over at the Cartoon Research website, called Animation Spin. For… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…with, including Marza Animation Planet and his own company, Crafter. AV: What did the Japanese studio and artists bring to Moom, practically and artistically? RK & DT: They brought an… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…his position to Anakin and Ahsoka and requests their assistance. Unfortunately, they have orders to defend a different area. Ahsoka, sensing that Plo is in danger suggests that they go… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…VR experience, Age Of Sail. Sara recently produced the Emmy-nominated Glen Keane Productions and Netflix Original Series Trash Truck, as well as the Academy Award-nominated short Opera, and she’s now… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…Shaft, Hot Fuzz, Avatar, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, Paul and Wrath Of The Titans. Furthermore, alongside composer David Arnold, Nicholas has orchestrated and conducted… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…their colleagues in the Story Department, much more aware of modernism and new art fashions and styles, and all this permeated their approach to story development, character design, and concept… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…a slip that duplicates the cover, and a small insert advertising Trek and Paramount+, the new name for CBS All Access. A Blu-ray and a Blu-ray Steelbook edition were also… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…warmest thanks to Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco, Andrea Emmes and Cinzia Angelini! Visual Development art by Ruchita Jeswall, Alex Harris, Andres Amaya, Theunis Duvenhage and Guilherme Lopes. All Rights Reserved… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…odysseys, as Toot becomes worshipped as a talking cow in India, and Foxxy confronts Phat Allen and some very Cosby-like kids about whether they took advantage of her years earlier…. |
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Iron Man – Armored Adventures: The Complete Season One
…an interesting production history, with Marvel Animation and French animation company Method Animation being listed as co-producers along with India-based multinational powerhouse DQ Entertainment, public television network France 2, and… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…the evil Hordak and his minions. The Sweatbox Review: There’s something fascinating about She-Ra as an animated heroine. After 25 years of entertaining children and adults, she has endured as… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Cow design-wise? AS: Aria will be a painterly short: colorful, layered, and with a cubistic approach. I have always loved doing visual development pieces for a production; and usually, once… |
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated – Season One, Volume One
…sensitivity to suspense and mystery. After the light and gadget-friendliness of Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue, the gang returns to basics of mystery-solving – research, searching for clues, and,… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…American audiences at the time. When G.I. Joe came out the following year as a miniseries, it was Hasbro’s first attempt at re-launching an established all-American brand complete with a… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…The remaining episodes adapt an early story arc from the broadcast, establishing Percy’s haunting and tragic backstory against a thrilling gothic drama of revenge and revolution. Both stories provide a… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
Mila is a dream Cinzia Angelini has been chasing for 5 years— a dream that has led over 250 volunteers working night and day to bring to life a story… |
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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Vol. 1 – Heroes Assemble & Vol. 2 – Captain America Reborn
…WB and Disney. Marvel in particular has seen a great surge in animated properties in the past few years with <Wolverine and the X-Men, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, and The… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…Patrick Warburton has a recurring role of a sheriff, Gary Cole is Fred’s dad the mayor, and Vivica A. Fox is Angel Dynamite. Special appearances are also made by Jeffrey… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…skills has grown, I decided to add a little dialogue to the new shorts. I wanted to keep pushing my skills as an animator and as a filmmaker. AV: Why… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…through. Don Diego’s romance with Anna Maria is also challenged by rivals— chiefly Zorro! Suffice it to say that Diego, his alter ego, Bernardo, and Garcia all find themselves back… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…video and has recently been repackaged in a tenth anniversary edition along with a collectible Christmas stocking. The show features a full-length adventure made up of three individual stories strung… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…Lion, and Gigantor. At about the same time that he was involved in those efforts, however, he was also co-writing (as “Fred Laderman”) and producing a somewhat bizarre feature called… |
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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…pretty front-heavy, but the front surrounds get good use. There are also Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtracks for French and Spanish. Subtitles are available in English, French, and Spanish; and English… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…a story artist. As such, he contributed to series and films like Gravity Falls, Hotel Transylvania 2 and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, and also The Smurfs And The Lost… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
On December 4th, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that, among the 63 movies already qualified in the category, 10 animated short films had advanced in the… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…your characters so expressive and emotional? RK & DT: Chris Sasaki (character designer) and Andrea Blasich (character sculptor) did a tremendous job creating simple and appealing characters. Erick Oh and… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…of authority and approval authority to other people within the Florida studio. So, the head of background and the art director made many of the decisions about the backgrounds, and… |
