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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…the moment Superman dons the costume and flies towards the camera for the first time! BEN: The Rescuers, at the Studio 70 cinema, opposite Elstree Studios, in 1977, while my… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…that winter is actually ending, they decide to find a Groundhog to tell them if spring is arriving. In the absence of a Groundhog, they try to convince Gopher to… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…Of The Croods is more of the same style but focuses more on the approach to the sequel and how director Crawford didn’t want to particularly go the traditional sequel… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…(Room On The Broom), co-directed by Bin Han To and produced by Magic Light Pictures’ Martin Pope and Michael Rose (The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom, Chico And Rita). The… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…was animated first, then CG, and then they used hand-drawn lines around the edges to give Paperman that look. But, to me, the ultimate goal is to have the computer… |
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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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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…the animated features. The first one helped the animators better visualize the characters in three dimensions and therefore portray them and animate them more realistically. The second one tried to… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…Silly Symphonies. How’s that? How influential were they to the features? JB: Studying Steamboat Willie through the early Mickeys, and into the Silly Symphonies, one can follow the growing importance… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…showdown when Cobra-La mounts their second offensive to obtain the BET. They want to use the BET device to shower the Earth with spores that will mutate mankind into creatures… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…was spectacular! Then we went to Oaxaca, to the cemeteries there. Then we visited a farm family near a town called Hierve el Agua. The visits with the families were… |
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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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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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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…to beg for the space ranger toy that would change the lives of Woody and the other toys of the boy’s bedroom forever! Both a sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive… |
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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
…asking me to come into their world and be me. They didn’t care to tell me what to do. They just wanted me to push myself creatively. They would benefit… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…story reel representative of the story we wanted to tell. Zach and Matteo are filmmakers themselves, their music for the film inspires the way we tell our story. Often, the… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…to draw over the shots, if needed, to bring the characters on model, to make sure that they look their best and that they are the most appealing. I strengthen… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…curious and wanting to go out into the world and find themselves, and then you go do that. That’s really important to them. The way they’re presenting the Disney Princess… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…the look of the characters to move gracefully in animation while managing to maintain much of the features fans have adored over the years. Applying the same approach to the… |
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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
…but let’s go for believability.’ It needs to feel like Toronto, it needs to feel like a human character, it needs to feel like four friends. We need to make… |
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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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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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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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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…to Warner Bros. and recorded some ethnic percussion. Mark then took some audio files from this recording session and fit them into the song. So the answer to our question… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…to turn Walt into Satan and the Studio into Hell. They resorted to laid off artists, frustrated ones, to draw quick conclusions that responded to their wishes with mountains of… |
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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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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…attempted to settle their dispute, Disney pulled the plug on new Zorro episodes at the apex of the series’ popularity. He held onto the rights, though, and did four one-hour… |
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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… |
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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,… |
