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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
…fashion as the lesser Disney animated classics. Young kids probably wouldn’t mind watching it, but they also probably wouldn’t want to view it repeatedly like they might The Lion King…. |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part Two
…one, and the rest of the season is even better. I could end the review right there, but let’s look at the evidence. Disc One When the first episode is… |
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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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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…This questionable perk involved the juxtaposition of the voice actor’s lips over the drawings in order to create the illusion that the character was talking. It was originally developed by… |
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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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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
…a household name to the kids of the region. There would usually be skits with a regular cast of characters and cartoons. A big part of their appeal was the… |
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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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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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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated – Season One, Volume One
…many relationships build up the base for the show over the course of the season. Beware the Beast from Below is a great pilot episode and quickly establishes the new… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…at the heart of the series. The whole scope of the show feels bigger, thanks to the expanded cast and the peek into the lives of the gang, not to… |
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Iron Man – Armored Adventures: The Complete Season One
…an invincible suit of armor to foil the plans of an industrial megalomaniac, a would-be king of the world, and a mad scientist or two. The Sweatbox Review: Today’s popularity… |
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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Vol. 1 – Heroes Assemble & Vol. 2 – Captain America Reborn
…the Mighty, The Siege of Asgard, My Brother, My Enemy, and The Isle of Silence. Hulk Versus The World – made up of The Coming of the Hulk, Hulk Versus… |
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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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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle
…of life and death. Highlighting this component made the fights in the series thrilling and breathtaking as there was depth to the action taking place. They left fans at the… |
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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
Annually near the end of July, hundreds of thousands of fans would be flocking to San Diego, California, for the San Diego Comic-Con. As many as 170,000 would pack the… |
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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…Naare is actually an agent of the Empire, and is taking orders from Darth Vader and the Emperor. Naare joins the Freemakers at their home on The Wheel, the space… |
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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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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…Josie And The Pussycats) takes the rap for stealing the house’s TV, to keep her brother Ray Ray safe. Ray stays hidden in the walls of the house, and develops… |
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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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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…than $15 million. Instead, The Lion King 3D became the top film at the box office for two weeks, with $30.1 million and $21.9 million. Disney responded by extending the… |
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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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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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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…to join the team in 2012. At the time I was working on the first version of The Good Dinosaur, and I was really excited about both of these films,… |
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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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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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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…drawing to the artist. I also like to let them be free in their creations, but making sure the emotion I was aiming for is there. Sometimes, it is very… |
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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… |
