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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…production storyboards and pencil test animation), and the film’s scope has been opened up in both story and its look. The artwork and effects animation is much more intricate than… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…land and looked to a lot of different buildings. We ended up in North Carolina and we went to some contemporary technical places like wind tunnels for cars and a… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…Linda, quirky little brother Aaron, their squishy pug, Monchi, and two friendly, but simple-minded robots to save humanity. Produced by Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and Kurt Albrecht,… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…Tom and Jerry, the Super Friends, Fat Albert, He-man, the Care Bears, Popeye, G.I. Joe, the Smurfs, Scooby-Doo, and so many more cemented their places in pop culture one bowl… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…director on a number of Pixar films, including Academy Award®-winning Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, WALL•E, Brave, and Soul, as well as the short films One Man Band, Lifted, and the Academy… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…like Daws Butler and Don Messick rose to the occasion, in stark contrast to the frantic but largely non-vocal Tom And Jerry cartoons. Meanwhile, hundreds of writers, artists, and support… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…Batman – The Brave And The Bold panel. What the heck, right? Producer James Tucker and voice director Andrea Romano would be there, and I had admired what hey had… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…sought for WandaVision, and cemented its roots in classic sitcoms. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez created unique theme songs for episodes to reflect the eras spanning from the 1950s to… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…otherwise cavorting… not to mention fighting, celebrating, and falling in love. Like the best stop-motion masters, Pal and his technicians also utilized music, color, lighting, and special visual effects in… |
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Sir Tim Rice, Bob Iger, Family and Colleagues Remember Roger Allers, director of The Lion King, writer of the Tony award-winning musical and key player in Disney’s animation renaissance
…two children, Leah Allers, an actress and filmmaker, and son Aidan Allers. Allers played a major role in defining the Disney Animation renaissance of the 80s and 90s with his… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…appearances from Tom Baker and Richard O’Brien, the film was just bad. And time had made it worse, looking at the poorly aged animation and cringing with embarrassment. I’ve seen… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…twenty-six cartoons over two years (Foster was then fired, and Tom and Jerry were replaced by the Felix/Mickey rip-off Cubby Bear), and the Tom and Jerry cartoons were later marketed… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…started on… my beautiful record collection!! I now have piles of vintage children’s LPs, 45s, and book and record sets – maybe one of the better collections around. And so,… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…imagery and notions. For this reason, we’ll likely never see Jasper And The Watermelons and its like on Blu-ray. Details about the Puppetoons and their creator have been mentioned in… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…Powell, Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri, Christophe Beck, Henry Jackman, and others. In 2013 Dave was matched up with Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez to arrange and orchestrate the songs for… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is just bad motion picture making, period. Mummies and aliens do not Indiana Jones make, and the father/son dynamic has been… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
…Steve Ingram • The One and Only Ivan – Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez • Tenet – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…is an old gothic revival style building, made from bricks and stone; grass and trees are everywhere. It is richer in texture and small details, it looks more organic, imperfect,… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…in architecture and it was a real treat getting to study Mexican architecture. It’s a wonderful combination of different influences, European alongside indigenous, Mayans and Aztec. And the Land of… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers • Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers • Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…much less Merrie Melody and more Silly Symphony, in an obvious but very sweet attempt by Chuck Jones to capture Disney’s cuteness. Tweety And The Beanstalk, and Avery’s A Gander… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…features including Beauty And The Beast,and Aladdin, as well as Pocahontas, Lion King, Tarzan, Mulan and Princess And The Frog to name just a few. Recently he served as Effects… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…South), Cinderella, Jack And The Beanstalk (“Mickey And The Beanstalk” in Fun And Fancy Free), Peter Pan, Wind In The Willows (in The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad) were… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…Ezra Miller providing trivia and jokes about the character alongside interviews with filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti and screenwriter Christina Hodson. Days before FanDome went live, it had been revealed… |
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Arcane
…are two neighboring cities: Piltover and Zaun. Once before, the cities were united. Over time, Piltover would prosper and thrive from progressive technological advances. Zaun, on the other hand, descended… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…and the depth and quality in the animation is leaps and bounds ahead of what was achieved in the first Asterix movie. This time around the Daltons find that their… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…film, with Genki and Tomohiko producing. AV: What did you like in his book and his treatment of memories? RK & DT: The world Genki created of lost and forgotten… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…left out there. And there is magic in Onward indeed! In every bit of it. And in every note of the score composed by Mychael and Jeff Danna. The two… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…three films, which include the first narrative Unity real-time rendered short, Sonder, the Emmy award-winning Love, Death, And Robots episode “The Witness”, and Emmy award-winning Google Spotlight Stories film and… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…voiced both Spinner and Paddlefoot, and also modeled for Tinkerbell and was the uncredited vice of a mermaid in Disney’s Peter Pan. Hal Smith, who provided various voices on the… |
