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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…a class I’ve been teaching at Bridgewater State University for seven years. I was looking for a topic to write a book about, and writing a book for a course… |
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NBFF Volcom Call for Teen Film Entries Press Release
The Newport Beach Film Festival is proud to announce Call for Entries (including animated entries) for its 2008 Youth Film Showcase presented by Volcom. The full press release follows: FOR… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…recently won a Children’s BAFTA, 2 European Animation Awards, a Cristal at Annecy, and was also just nominated for the Annie Awards and the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short…. |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…Good Dinosaur. Harley Jessup began his animation career designing The Adventures Of Thelma Thumb for Sesame Street, which served as a training platform for his work as production designer on… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…show seemed like the perfect motivator for jumping further into my interest in animation and creating something with monsters for Halloween. What resulted was a 2 minute short called Midnight… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…then in the United States for Paramount. He also did a number of advertising films for clients such as Philips and Horlicks. His shorts utilized the puppet replacement technique of… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…try to keep an open mind here… Back in 1959 your viewing options for cartoons on television, especially new ones, were pretty limited. Gumby had started in 1957, and Ruff… |
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Santa Inc.
…or that the character becomes so unlikable after a certain point that it’s hard for the audience to want to root for her. Actually, that can be said for almost… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
Last January, we talked with director Dan Lund about the premises of the production of an unlikely animated short called Aria For A Cow, based on a song composed by… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…superhero epic, serving not only as a vindication for its director, but also as a fully satisfying experience for the fans who have been begging for it to be released…. |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…start for Pixar, be it story-wise or visually. Do you agree? Rona Liu: It’s definitely fresh but, maybe because I’ve been working at Pixar for so long, I feel like… |
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ASIFA-Hollywood calls for 2010 Annie entries
Despite Disney’s recent announcement that it would not be supporting the upcoming annual Annie Awards, the International Animated Film Society is progressing as normal with their call for entries for… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…heroes is besieged by the enemy forces of Shao Kahn – forcing Raiden and his group of warriors into a deal to compete in a final Mortal Kombat that will… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…team that was allowed to work for longer; we were in production for about 18 months, whereas most animation teams will wrap after 9-12 months. At the time we were… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…I just have been fortunate enough to be in the trenches for the longest guiding the wagon. AV: How would you describe the process of visual development of Mila? CAMO:… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…design. She was always intended to be that way, even if you look at the earliest conceptual art for her. But for the most part, I think we found something… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…set out to wreak serious havoc — for Ballister to clear his name once and for all, and for Nimona to… just wreak serious havoc. Directed by Nick Bruno and… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…was: we tried to sort of evolve the idea of the metaphorical use of cars and automobile forms in landscape. We call it “carification”. You can see it very much… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…me a list of Disney books that they recommended, that I looked for and looked at. For instance, there’s a book about the history of the costumes in Disney films… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…AV: How is it, to work with your girlfriend? RJ: Kim really understood the aesthetic and sensibilities. Instinctively she had the right call for the kind of performance the designs… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…rounder, softer forms, on a very abstract level. For the human world, there is that tactility of things, and the way time affects things, with wear and tear on the… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…love the stop motion feeling that we were able to achieve while we did the pilot test in the beginning. It really felt appropriate for this story, for the world… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…for them. The pig seemed a good candidate for being ‘dirty’ and it was easy to find ways for the town to pick on him, while maintaining a quiet strength…. |
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The Croods: A New Age
…is understandably expanded to fulfill the needs of a typical sequel, but any inventiveness or originality is forsaken for safe, simple storytelling and predictability, where the references can be seen… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…artists from the Story Research and Character Model departments. Their astounding work, much of which is shown here for the first time, displays the free-form thinking that blossomed during the… |
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Trolls World Tour
…played for gasps and more for giggles for its absurdity when it does happen. And just like last time, a large part of this is due to its heroine. Once… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…San Diego Convention Center for five days of preeminent celebration of comics and pop culture in all of their facets. However, the ongoing global pandemic and the need for social… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…the one that my mom told me of how she felt when the bomber attacks arrived, how she could not move, breathe, or call for help. She was Mila’s age… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…strong recognition for our radical issue and strong work during 6 years. It was an award for the impossible! AV: What do you hope for your film, now being presented… |
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Mulan
…that the live-action feature has going for it is the beautiful cinematography. Mandy Walker does a wonderful job in photographing with an eye for making each scene vibrant and colorful… |
