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Arcane
…evoke the precise emotion of the scene and the viewer is able to feel it. To call the animation beautiful would be an understatement. It’s actually hard to describe in… |
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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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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…of the Belvision studio contracted to do the animation. (Universal Studios handled distribution upon release.) The object of the film was for it to be both a sequel to the… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…Is This Thing Loaded? I had to chuckle that the menus are practically more animated than the shows themselves. Regardless, it was nice to see some effort put into them…. |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…his animators added so much to the emotional expression of these characters, really embracing the limitations a simple design could present. We feel they maximized the tools available to convey… |
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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
…And you don’t have to leave your house to play them. In fact, with the internet, you don’t have to even leave the house to interact or play with your… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…stand-point, the two biggest stand-outs from the series would be The Ninth Jedi by Kenji Kamiyama and The Duel by Takanobu Mizuno. As the first episode, The Duel perfectly sets… |
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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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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…hope to leave the viewer with a sense of optimism. I wanted the music to help with this, but also wanted to employ a level of restraint. John Poon, 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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Raya And The Last Dragon
…Scratchy Show. Think Tom and Jerry with the violence ratcheted up 500%. When the producers of the show want to make the cartoon appeal to what they believe modern audiences… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…in taking stereotypes to the extreme, either to deconstruct them or to get away with some really crude joke writing. I suspect that they often were going for the former,… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…it will take to make the art. We will look at the adjustments an illustrator would need to take to seamlessly add this to their workflow. First TMNT Film 30th… |
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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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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…then translate them into this big, cinematic 3D universe – one that obviously had to perform and emote. And the biggest expression of these, and reflection of our theme, was… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…Dragons into a film is that there is no one plot to be based off of. It’s generally up to the players to create their stories and how they would… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…help them develop their ideas while keeping the characters consistent and satisfying the vision of the director. I don’t try to force my own ideas into their shots, but I… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…overall arc of the characters in the entire season and they told us they wanted something thematic and to punch up musically because they didn’t want it to sound like… |
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Onward
…line seems to have become the go-to for way too many animated screenwriters these days. While there’s no question it’s overused, it can still work. The trick is fourfold: first,… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…Guinevere the van. I don’t think they’re asked to do that normally. Rather, to pull the vibrato back. So, I got everyone doing over the top vibrato and that was… |
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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… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…to contact the guys from Arnold Renderer. I knew that it was very fast, and easy to learn. Fortunately, they decided to support us. This brought the project to a… |
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Inside Job
…interesting appeal to refreshing ideas. But while the visual approach to the conspiracies is fascinating, they take a backseat to the actual narrative, merely serving to highlight a specific obstacle… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…and the transitions that are used in these musicals to make them feel and look so spectacular. Working in New York has been fantastic. The cast of Chicago was super… |
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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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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…the story reels, then told them more about how I grew up in a household that was split into east and west. I told them about trying to balance two… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…to move from there? DL: I didn’t want to just do a music video for the song and felt I needed to prove to Sarah that I had something to… |
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Soul
…capture in computer animation. The land of the souls-in-waiting is plush and has a beautifully hopeful feel to it. The path to The Great Beyond is stark and eerily stunning…. |
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Warning From Space
…that enter into things, making it all somewhat impenetrable to the western viewer. Personally, though, I find these films incredibly fascinating and fun. Prior to Arrow putting out their new… |
