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Warning From Space
…of George Pal’s 1953 classic The War Of The Worlds. Lights are seen in the sky, meteorites appear to fall to earth, and eventually strange creatures emerge and terrify the… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…mythology and talking about their strong desire and pain. I studied a lot about the mythology of the Tupinambá and made the dramatic arc with this issue. The storyboard came… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Mulan
…without being a distraction. In one instance where Mulan and Xianniang encounter each other for the first time, the texture of the landscape around them is very unique and provides… |
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Helluva Boss
…gorgeous scenes and landscapes that they can definitely be admired without characters populating them. And even with the contrasting vibrancy between Hell and Earth, they synchronize with the characters so… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…story from a child’s perspective and bring it into a happy positive light. The palette has been pivotal to establish the proper mood and communicate the emotional journey that the… |
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Santa Inc.
…“wow, look at all of the bad words they’re using in this female-driven comedy” or “wow, the political themes of this show are really forward-thinking and current” (and, yes, the… |
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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
AfroAnimation, the largest annual event featuring diverse and BIPOC animators and creators, announced today the honorees for the first AfroAnimation Summit Icon Awards, along with the films selected as finalists… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…2? Pete Nash: At the end of the day, I’m an animator at heart and I love working and collaborating with animators to make shots and the overall film better…. |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Shoe (1940), The Queen Was In The Parlour (1939), The Good Bear And The Bad Bear (1940) and A Fairy Tale About A Melancholic King (1934). The Puppetoon Movie Volume… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba. Strings: violin I & II, viola, cello and bass.] AV: There’s a huge contrast between the TV series sequence and the “real life” sequences, from… |
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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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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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Trolls World Tour
…only other tentpoles to find themselves officially taken off the theatrical calendar are Disney’s big budget fantasy caper Artemis Fowl (which will now premiere as a Disney+ exclusive) and the… |
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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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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…episode of The Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show provides three short tales that vaguely fit the “snow” theme, and Peppermint Patty becomes an unlikely ice princess in She’s A Good… |
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Lightyear
…considerable talents on display here, and it works well. Themes stand out, but occasionally things do get lost in the background. One of the biggest fan reactions at the announcement… |
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ZooPhobia: Bad Luck Jack
…nature. There are other characters with defined personalities, but little time is spent on them due to the nature of the story’s focus on Jack and the short runtime. Speaking… |
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Elio
…very personal project for original helmer Adrian Molina, and while new co-directors Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi do the best they can, it ultimately feels like they’re finishing someone else’s… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…far less polished and more rough around the edges, making it appear hand-crafted. In fact, the Turtles themselves feel like they were made out of clay. Fire seems like it… |
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Dog Man
…are about to fight, the more they squint their eyes, the wider the aspect ratio of the screen gets. All of these jokes come so quickly that none of them… |
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The Wild Robot
…described as spiritual. From the snowflakes which float around until they land on an animal’s fur, to the fire which dominates the story’s climax, The Wild Robot feels like a… |
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Smallfoot
…laughs are few and far between, the designs bland, and most of the songs trite, it’s no small feat that the plotting will have you thinking after the credits roll…. |
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The Bad Guys
…The Usual Suspects or Reservoir Dogs will be smiling at all the nods while they watch with their children. And while the tone is definitely kid-friendly, the plot itself has… |
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Inside Out 2
…the two Inside Out films, the writers had too many conveniently easy solutions for the characters since they could just make up whatever they wanted since they were creating the… |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…Besides the many anecdotes by the artists themselves, I could get in touch with the sons and daughters of the wizards who made them: Testimonies by Bill Peet’s son will… |
