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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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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…then there was the logo in the upper left corner: HBR – Hanna Barbera Records! What? Hanna-Barbera had their own record label?! And their records told original stories, had original… |
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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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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…studios such as the one at MGM, the future was bleak for countless writers, animators, storyboarders, inkers, and painters. The move to television was essential to the survival of the… |
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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… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…Of The Rings: The Two Towers, Stuart Little 2 and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, to mention only a few. He also supervised the Sony Pictures Imageworks team who… |
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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
…and eat it too, with the extended running time allowing him to balance the childlike enthusiasm he brings to his fisticuffs (of which there are plenty) with the more mature… |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…a DVD set of these cartoons, and I can confirm that the quality ranges from poor to good, and none of them can match the best of the theatrical output…. |
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The Best of the 2010s
…the entire industry when they exploded onto the scene with Despicable Me in 2010 and seemed to produce nothing but hits after that. Lucasfilm got into the genre (however briefly)… |
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
…underwhelming compared to everything else that came before, with the final boss being taken out all too easily. As in the previous entry, the cast has plenty of replay value…. |
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Mulan
…depth to the character beyond what was presented in the animated film. To some degree it kind of works. I found the problem to be that it affects the pacing… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…high. And they did their best to adopt all the elements that we put together and displayed them to us. So, that was clear to us. PH: Their tech sci-fi… |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…it is up to the Calde family to travel deep into strange and unknown territory to save their abode. To accompany them musically, the creators of Strange World appealed to… |
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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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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…two very different vocal elements. The deep “chant-like” yoik, combined with a more classical vocal style. The result clearly shows the difference between them, enhancing their uniqueness when heard together…. |
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Trolls World Tour
…which have chosen to delay the theatrical runs of their would-be blockbusters, Universal decided to skip that route entirely, choosing to release the follow-up straight-to-streaming as a digital rental. This… |
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Knights of Guinevere
…sturdy foundation of a journey to invest in. And then there was the Guinevere model in their possession. There was surely much to be discovered about the animatronic. And it… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…them in the name of the mother, to avoid that the man sell it and escape. Women used to work hard and grow children alone. So the film is a… |
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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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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…time period. We wanted to have a painterly feel to the final look. The designs are cartoony, even though the subject matter is serious, but we wanted to tell the… |
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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… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…all over the place, ranging from yellow to pink to even light purple, even from shot to shot. The prints are not particularly dirty, but they are a tad faded… |
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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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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…the BBC, who will premiere The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in the UK, with the film available on Apple TV+ outside of the UK, this Christmas…. |
