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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…One of the songs he arranged and orchestrated for Moana, “How Far I’ll go” was recently nominated for an Oscar. For Animated Views, he kindly accepted to talk about the… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…in The Forest Of Enchantment – A Disney Musical Adventure, and with his wife, Lisa, they form a unique duet of songwriters that created together Forest Of Enchantment, the main… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…a pilot film called Fiddlesticks, using a double separation negative method called Harriscolor, a 1929 invention of one J.B. Harris, Jr. That color format never evolved past the experimental stage,… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe —the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico— to save her… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…would nevertheless be fondly regarded in representing the brand positively and for pushing the envelope for a Saturday morning cartoon. Dan’s Review: I’m of the generation that grew up on… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…for the 2020 Oscar-nominated animated short Kitbull. Here’s our conversation. Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for the film. Animated Views: From set designer to production designer for the first… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…is to dive into the making of those memorable sequences. Renaut is well-known for his first book, From Snow White To Hercules, published by Dreamland in 1997, with a foreword… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…for that. Our Tech supervisor actually grew up on a ship for several years. So, he really, really knew what he was doing. And Sony works on live action films,… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
The production of the animated short Aria For A Cow is clearly off the grid, and for more than one reason. In our two previous articles, we’ve been following the… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…Promos for each season, for a total of about seven minutes. Finally, Comedy Central Quickies offers clips for South Park and The Sarah Silverman Program (5 minutes total). Case Study:… |
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35th ANNIE AWARDS: Call for Entries
For those with recently completed or soon-to-be-completed works of animation please be notified that ASIFA-Hollywood is now accepting nominations for the 35th Annual Annie Awards. More information follows: The International… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the heart, and a wonder for the eye. With the most up-to-date medium, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi prove once more their mastery and genius, through their love for the… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…the messages to land for an adult as much as for a child. She was extremely intelligent, and very humble. And those two things make a very profound combination for… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…Production Designer for live action and for animation, how would you present it? How do both domains enrich each other, especially in the case of The Emoji Movie? CZ: I… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…for kids to call their own. We were privileged to meet Rob David (Showrunner, Executive Producer and Vice President of Creative Content for Mattel Television) & Jeff Matsuda (Co-Executive Producer)… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…family. These are just two family members in the corner of the room playing together.” For instance, we would have the Chinese moon guitar, which is call the ruan, and… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…be there for decades to come, for generations to come. The love and craftsmanship that everyone puts into it is just astounding. For the Imagineer Art Director Beth Clapperton, who… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…of the great things about Toon In With Me is the show’s obvious respect for the cartoons. This isn’t some stereotypically corporate product looking for the cheapest way to fill… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…boogie woogie show-stopper. Seven Puppetoons were nominated for Oscars, and the first was Rhythm In The Ranks (1941), which sees toy soldier Jan disciplined for dereliction of duty after being… |
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Annie Awards Call For Entries
Nominations are currently being accepted for the 34th Annual Annie Awards: Honoring excellence in the field of animation, the deadline for ASIFA-Hollywood to receive entry forms is October 6, 2006…. |
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CINEME International Animation Film Festival Call for Entries
In the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=2579#post2579 AN Forums}}, ‘tkt0820’ posts that “The CINEME International Animation Film Festival has announced its Call for Submissions. CINEME will be held September 24, 25 and 26,… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…because she’s still grieving. And as she gets the song, she realizes, like, ‘Okay, I have to do this for my mom, and for myself, for my family.’ She gets… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…Recently, she scored Kung Fu Panda Land Of Awesomeness for Universal Studios Beijing, and completed two feature films for Universal Animation, Curious George: Go West, Go Wild and Curious George:… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…illustrations would influence him and his artists for years to come. b) He became aware for the first time in a direct way how popular his creations were outside of… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…yielded a common thread: theme songs. The nature and style of the songs changed over the years—creating almost a calling card for each era. This signature element enhanced the authenticity… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…for my good friend and fellow Disney historian, Joe Campana, who hosted me during my research trips and tracked down for me the families of many of the artists who… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…maybe for the last twelve years. He played every violin and viola on Beasts Of The Southern Wild, except for the fiddle. And Tara has been playing cello for many… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…a teenagers life to really see and comprehend what he has sacrificed for her. ANIMATION: The visual style was interesting. While obviously computer generated, the animation for humans and backgrounds… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…Dugan who was the head of this group called ATAP, a research division for Google, she showed me the technology— the little phone that was more of a window into… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film, seven Annie Award nominations, and an NAACP Image Awards nod for Outstanding Short Form (Animated) film. The winners of the 2023 EE… |
