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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…would try to save money wherever we can, but the one thing we don’t want to save money on is the music. We wanted to get the best score composer… |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…Lyndon Travers’ Mary Poppins stories, which had debuted in bookstores in 1934. Travers was more than reticent about her books being adapted by Hollywood, even despite Disney’s renown for quality…. |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…and stories of magical transformations. I really hate to say that, too, because I normally embrace diversity and really wanted to like this film; but sometimes things just don’t work… |
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Pom Poko
…the oddest scenes in animated film history. (If you don’t know what I mean by “scrotal”, consult a medical dictionary. I’m not going to describe it. You have to see… |
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Metropolis
…logic and inconsistent storytelling in respect to time. It was nevertheless a large success, although Tezuka himself was unimpressed by it in later years. Don’t worry; I did not just… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…just “fine”; don’t expect a total clean-up. Clutch’s voice, Richard Cotting, has no other notable credits, but there are a couple of interesting names among the voice actors. Margaret Kerry… |
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Coco
…— animated films aren’t required to be funny. But I don’t feel that was the goal with this story. They didn’t set out to make a laugh-out-loud movie, but I… |
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The Star
…writers sometimes assume the audience already knows the story so they don’t always fill in certain gaps in the narrative. The animal character storylines make up the bulk of the… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…frame prevented the film from feeling as epic as it could and should have done. Showing again how effortlessly it can be done right was Marvel’s other big hit, Guardians… |
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Pixar Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire reveals the “incredible” art behind I2
…useful for that. It’s very nice because it feels real, but because the scale could be bigger or smaller, or something you don’t usually see in real life, it allows… |
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Animated Views IV: A New Hope
…you may or may not know, this website is a labor of love by several animation fans just like you. Which means we don’t make money off of it and… |
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Incredibles 2
…it with a superhero overlay gave it a new fresh and fun twist. I obviously don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone, but I do want to go a… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…I don’t know if there’s a direct correlation, but as an environment designer I like that there seems to be a lot of space in this movie for the environments… |
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From one sanctuary to another: Christophe Vacher on art directing 9
…the contrary, what I liked on 9 is that the director said: “that’s my project, my story. If you don’t feel comfortable with that, that’s not my problem.” A one… |
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DreamWorks stock continues to struggle despite profit
…in an earnings conference call when asked if Allen had demanded a second offering. “We don’t believe that Paul’s request to trigger requires disclosure,” he said, “I cannot comment.” Analyst… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…to screens “around the 2012 Summer Olympics, which begins July 27 in London”. I don’t want to sound like a Blue Meanie, but it’s going to take a lot to… |
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CGI makes Snakes a thriller.
…animation that keeps people on the edge of their seats in this horror flick. Although over 400 live snakes were actually used in filming, “‘snakes on a set’ don’t move… |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…discs: the regular single-disc DVD and the Digital Copy disc, adding a premium to the cost for redundant platters that most users just don’t have a need for. If you’re… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…really intelligent stuff to say, that really gave the character its foundation. He’s really an amazing performer! AV: How did you elaborate the animation for all those creatures that don’t… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…down enough to be missed or unreadable. I’m not suggesting Disney would want obscure the fact that there’s not one fresh-faced American kid in this movie, but they don’t go… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…an interview format. Even though we don’t strictly follow the “nuts and bolts” of assembling the production from scratch to opening night, there’s still something of a linear approach that… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…do get entertained by the increasingly polished visuals, well-realized gags, and zippy music; but the cartoons just don’t quite ascend to the next step of excellence relative to what audiences… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…explosive way. As I respond well to encouragement – I don’t have much self-belief – I went on doing those drawings for a year and a half, and then exhibited… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…also fun are the Easter Eggs fans of the game can discover. They’re utilized in such a way that audiences unfamiliar with Dungeons & Dragons don’t need to feel like… |
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Elemental
…fine little film, but that’s it. It’s not really bad. It gets the job done. But I don’t have much desire to go see it again. Four times in a… |
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Indiana Jones meets underwhelming box office destiny; Ruby Gillman drowns
…weekend). Dial of Destiny was aiming specifically for an older demographic with its marketing–notice we don’t have the typical fast food promotion this time–and that may or may not be… |
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Jungle Book report
…Darleen Carr, Andreas Deja, Bruce Reitherman, Don Hahn The panel presentation began with a video playback on the big screen of Phil Harris (voice of Baloo) performing the song “The… |
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The Chestnut Tree debuts
From Picnic Pictures and executive produced by Don Hahn comes a new hand-drawn animated short, The Chestnut Tree, making its debut at the Laemmle Sunset 5 beginning today and continuing… |
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Ariel’s Song: Tony Pulham, a fortunate art director under the sea!
…work they look back to. As an art director, do you have any mentors? TP: I don’t really have mentors as such. I am influenced by many artists and directors’… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…featurette on its own, with very healthy production values that, even if they don’t quite recall the shorts of the 1950s, easily better some of Jones’ later TV work in… |
