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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
As a child, director Chris Williams (Big Hero 6, Moana, Bolt) was obsessed with drawing and writing and working on stop-motion films. He loved movies, and particularly enjoyed adventure stories… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…hand and feeling so much warmer and alive than anything computer graphics can provide. And kudos to Ben Whitehead for the unenviable task of filling in for the late Peter… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…and the people were so warm and friendly. And what was, I guess, the most inspiring to me, was how everything happens around food and the dinner table. And it… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…and crews I had the privilege to work alongside. Disneyland came later for me. GG: And, by the way, Lisa and I met in the employee’s cafeteria at Disneyland! So… |
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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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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…the Smurfs and their imaginary world, fully computer animated, and much closer to the tone and style that creator Peyo initially envisioned. And that’s what is particularly exciting in this… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,… |
