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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…thinking about this, because it was not easy. I would love to answer that we all were on the same page from the beginning, but the truth is that making… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…will you keep from the experience? ND: First of all, I always love the first moment with the orchestra. And then, there’s this cue, right at the end of the… |
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Inside Job
Those conspiracy theories spouted by crazy, drunk old men angrily shaking their fists at the sky? They’re real. The world is controlled by the shadowy elite and shape-shifting lizard people…. |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…Studio out there, knocking the spots off of the competition of the time (and since). Everything about The Lion King, from the voice talents to the date of release, fell… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…with the help of a friend escaped with the bicycles, the kids still on their Pajamas and all that they could carry. The street they took is very steep and… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…for more than thirty years, the song has remained that way… Then, two years ago, an enthusiastic filmmaker and Disney animator came knocking on the doors of Ashman’s estate, looking… |
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Christian Renaut’s book trilogy on Walt Disney animation comes full circle
…most famous ones, even though the Nine Old Men are very often mentioned and quoted. With this book, the reader is within the team of creators, behind the scenes. There… |
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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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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…theme of the story. Lighting the candle, keeping it lit, light changes representing the transformation of the temple from something grey, dead and lifeless into something vibrant and celestial, ultimately… |
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Soul
…that made a movie with no talking for the first thirty minutes! The studio that made a movie with rats in a kitchen cooking and made it beautiful! The studio… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
Edited by Kevin Sandler and Tyler Solon Williams University Press of Mississippi April 23, 2024 292 pages Softcover/Hardcover $30.00/$110.00 As a child of the 1970s, my upbringing television-wise was focused… |
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Warning From Space
…Justice League villain Starro The Conqueror, whom they fought in their first adventure in 1960 – which was actually a few years later! Seeing the frankly lame star-shaped costumes immediately… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…poverty. Rob Minkoff’s career as a filmmaker is uniquely eclectic, including the animated masterpiece The Lion King, the blockbuster action picture The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li,… |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons By Fred M. Grandinetti BearManor Media January 28, 2022 230 pages Hardcover $35, Softcover $25 There are Popeye cartoons, and then there are… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…the look of the scene or objects in the scene based on distance to camera. The farther an object was from camera, the more impressionistic it became. This was very… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…interpret the themes however they like. Clearly there are broad messages about love, sacrifice, freedom, and inhibition. Using monsters to explore these themes provides for some fun opportunities! AV: Why… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…running out and Steppenwolf’s army threatening the very existence of mankind, the five of them might not be enough to stop them. And a certain recently deceased caped hero may… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…to shoot a lot of times from the kids’ point of view up at the dad or the dad looking down them. But always keeping a kind of kid-eye level…. |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…International Feature) and Encanto (Animated Feature, Original Score, Original Song). The other Animated Feature nominees are Luca, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and Raya and the Last Dragon. The full… |
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Mulan
…apply the genre archetypes in a way that might’ve end up looking bad. Lacking songs like in the animated feature, the live-action feature would rely a lot on the score… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…of the film. Remember the sound of Lebo M’s chant during the Lion King sunset? Or the native chant at the beginning of Brother Bear? For Frozen, the creators of… |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…them, I didn’t analyze the harmony, I just wrote them as they came and felt happy with them. And because the four chords themselves were so unusual, when it came… |
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The Lion King 1½
…on the entire Lion King Trilogy, and the graphics and audio reproduce the well-known Millionaire feeling well. Selections are chosen by the player on their remote, and on the whole… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…rendered in exquisite hand-drawn animation, celebrates the power of our shared humanity Apple Original Films Academy Award nominee The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse won the BAFTA… |
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Trolls World Tour
…ways, each taking a magical musical string with them in order to protect their culture. Now Queen Barb, leader of the Rock Trolls, is invading her neighboring kingdoms on a… |
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Knights of Guinevere
…displayed by the characters in their movements, even at their most subtle, inform of their personality and what they’re really saying and feeling in the moment. From the hesitated ticks… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…is synonymous with not accepting things as they are. So I decided to tell the history of America from the point of view of the Indians, working hard in their… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
After the great success of the crowdfunding campaign launched on Indiegogo that raised more than $60,000, the production of Mila has regained force, hope, and energy to pursue their goal…. |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…the visual as well as musical point of view. Was the orchestration different, too? JAT: The orchestra is the same for the TV sections as it is for the rest… |
