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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Wild Robot
…exhilarating, making the audience feel as though they are soaring through the sky too. Sanders, of course, is no stranger to this, having been a co-director on the first How… |
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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…. |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Shine Jasper (1947) Cel Animated The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe (1940) The Queen Was In The Parlour (1939) The Good Bear And The Bad Bear (1940) A… |
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Lightyear
…the references to Buzz Lightyear from the previous films. The writers have done their homework! Catching all the little things that explain or at least call-back to what toy Buzz… |
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Helluva Boss
…Hotel, there are just enough differences between them for Helluva Boss to stand out on its own. This is probably due in large part to the characters venturing through Hell… |
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Santa Inc.
…that, a reference is made to the size of Prancer the reindeer’s junk. Then there’s more profanity. Lots more profanity. Then there are “jokes” about women being sexually assaulted at… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…to being heavy-handed, and while there are gentle themes of prejudice here, they never in any way feel like a lecture. Contrasting the borderline grotesque appearance of most of the… |
