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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…Andreas Deja, Ken Duncan, James Baxter, Chris Sanders, Tom and Tony Bancroft, Floyd Norman, Bruce Timm, Neil Adams, Bob Scott, Natasha Allegri, Genevieve Tsai, Mark Buckingham, Randy Haycock, and more!… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…band. She also developed and produced a slate of projects including Robert Valley’s Oscar-nominated and Annie-winning film Pear Cider And Cigarettes; the Emmy-nominated Marvel’s Rocket & Groot and Marvel’s Ant… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…and I always loved movies and TV and soundtracks, too, so, we kinda have a sense of what we like, things added to pictures that we like, and we sort… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…was, Disney changed Jasmine. She became feistier and more adventurous, and that moved on to characters like Pocahontas and Mulan, who are very dynamic and adventurous. And more recently, we’ve… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…have everything fall apart. So, I started from my own experience having gear around and records and things like that and infused that into the set design. And when I… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…when you’re coming to the load area, you find yourself on the rooftops of Paris, and there are giant rooftops, and giant chimneys, and giant windows and balconies, and you… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…you get it?” And I answered, “Well, we use two string players overdubbing again and again, playing the same part over and over again.” And he said, “I think it’s… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…and soul to hand-drawn characters and stories. His first creation with this group is entitled Duet. The animated short blends world-class artistry with innovative rendering and interaction technology for mobile… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…Imagineering recruited him to write and produce several tracks for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the highly anticipated new land in both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Playing in the “Oga’s… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…a brand or whatever you call it. It’s a myth – a myth that we all love and share; and like any myth, it can be universal and forever. We… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…over the world, anything hand-carved, anything textural and perfectly imperfect, as we like to say, where you feel and see the hand of the artist in the work. AV: In… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…in Europe and the USA, French author Christian Renaut could eventually come up with a list, because some sequences do stand out. They stand out for various reasons, based on… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…out and talking music. Ben was playing guitar and I was playing bass and Julia was just singing. Then, we really had a chance to get our minds together and… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…Pott, creator of and voice on Summer Camp Island; Alabaster Pizzo, storyboard artist, Summer Camp Island. His Dark Materials Virtual Panel and Q&A Session Adapting Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy of… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…Massachusetts, is a composer and scholar on the faculty at Stonehill College and Bridgewater State University. His music has been performed internationally as well as throughout the United States and… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…lead vocalist in Disney’s Raya And The Last Dragon, and a very good job she does too, being slightly more dialled down from everyone else and playing off Stone and… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
Two years before Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, and four months after the release of the first Mickey Mouse short in color, The Band Concert, Walt Disney traveled to… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…was my first time as a supervisor, and Shawn helped to mentor me and let me grow into the role. We have different sensibilities and leadership styles, and I think… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…Alberto’s misplaced confidence and secret loneliness, and Emma Berman portrays Giulia’s excitement and indignation just right. BOTTOM LINE: A lovingly well made piece of light entertainment. Vivo August 6th HEADLINE:… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…as well take a little tour. Some of the marionettes and hand-puppets in that collection, their simple shapes and their carved and painted surfaces, and – just as importantly –… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…on from 1943 until 1946; it focuses on the 1946 trip of cinematographers Albert and Elma Milotte to Alaska to film The Alaskan Eskimo and Seal Island; and it tells… |
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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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“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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Raya And The Last Dragon
…Scratchy Show. Think Tom and Jerry with the violence ratcheted up 500%. When the producers of the show want to make the cartoon appeal to what they believe modern audiences… |
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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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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… |
