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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…of the casita. It’s not necessarily tied to the house, but it’s kind of the magic of the house. I varied this theme in many different ways. For example, when… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes – The Magic Earmuffs and The Wishing Bear. These two episodes are from the first season of the show. In The Magic Earmuffs… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…what they did in the first one. And the filmmakers know there isn’t much story in all this, because they resort to papering over the cracks with the barrage of… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…side, where all design work, storyboarding, editing, most of the modeling, a lot of the key shading and rigging, and about 50% of the animation was done. The other half… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…an inspired duet. The unique, interactive nature of the story allows the viewer to seamlessly follow the journey of either of the two characters from birth to adulthood. We were… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…models, the artists in this division forged a new path. In the third volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking series They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art Of… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…their home-grown characters are second to none in the popularity stakes. Asterix The Gaul and his friend the mighty Obelix, Lucky Luke the lonesome cowboy (a great throw-back to the… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…very important in the development of the film, and not only for the notes themselves. The album cover for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon was among the… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…aware of some of the major script changes regarding the ending of the movie, but in hindsight the animation in the movie makes much more sense with the original rumored… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…wrote of the Disney composers of the time are some of the most detailed ever published. Can you tell me about how you worked on them? What was the most… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…crowdfunding campaigns, that dream has come to fruition with The Legend of Vox Machina. The Legend of Vox Machina is a retelling of the adventuring party from the first campaign… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…– when the world is a true reflection of the people. AV: How do you see the differences between the world of the living and the world of the dead?… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…of the safest places in the West! That is, until the Dalton Gang of four desperate desperados mosey on into town. Scaring the townsfolk, they command the run of Daisy… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…we had to rely on color of hair or positions of the bodies. The growth of the population of the base was a way to measure that progress, and then… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…high-speed camera inside a guitar and then play? Then, they record the voice at the same time and then they slow the video imagery down to keep the sound the… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…the side, and suddenly the line that I drew turned in perfect perspective and then I could draw the dancer in profile. I realized this was the fulfilment of the… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…industry and blend it with the sensibilities of the Japanese animation industry. Understanding how we connect to the emotional core of the story drives our telling of the story including… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…with him. I would say the most challenging part of Luca’s design was finding the balance of the features and the shapes. There’s a lot of nuance with him as… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…been true of all of them: they all do embrace their own narrative. Moana or Tiana are really putting themselves out there and taking charge of their destiny. They’re not… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…the ensigns of the lower decks, the ones who actually make the ship run, the ones who do all the menial but vitally important stuff, similar to the ship they… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…was still believable, and didn’t look like a toy and a miniature stadium making the audience start to question the look, and taking them out of the emotion of the… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…the Horde and joins the rebellion alongside Adam and the rest of the rebellion. When she lifts the Sword of Protection into the air and invokes the grace of Greyskull,… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…be their He-Man, their Masters Of The Universe, that speak to their world. Our aim was to be absolutely true to the spirit and intention of the original, to the… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…it and invite you to share that incredible adventure from the most recent release of the trailer to the release of the very film (and, who knows, maybe to the… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…One gathered by Opetaia, made of family and friends. We recorded in Los Angeles at the end of the process. The other one was the Pacifika Voices. We recorded them… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…the concept of your book and how did you come to it? CR: The point is above all to decipher and analyze the making of a selected list of those… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…on the previous Disney Movie Club DVDs. The black and white cinematography is often stunning, with a nice level of detail showing off the expense of these fine productions. Everything… |
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Arcane
…League of Legends, have now engaged in their most ambitious media project to date producing the animated series Arcane. Within the world of Runeterra, upon the continent of Valoran, there… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…and the overly serious tone of the prologue, as well as its near-absence of animation, made it a weak fit for the rest of the film. The Prologue also gets… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part Two
…team-up of yesteryear between Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder, showing off all the visual tropes of the 1960s TV show. Then, we travel to the present to find robin… |