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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…freedom and also agreed on a series of volumes instead of one book. He also asked that I prolonged beyond The Jungle Book. AV: What aspects of the classics do… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…small town, and a lot of Hollywood people, actors and actresses would move to this town to kind of get away from the city and have a nice and quiet… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…and visually pleasing animation, and very intriguing world-building. Along with a nice press conference and an impromptu post-screening photo op with director Toshihisa Yokoshima and Toriyama’s editor in charge Akio… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…idea of The Forest Of Enchantment – A Disney Musical Adventure ? Christophe Leclercq: At the time of the Frozen Sing-Along show, we went to Chaparral Theater and, looking all… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…these all were! And, at the beginning of those tapes played an advertisement for more Bosko tapes, featuring a cartoon “star” that I had never heard of, a piano-playing amphibian… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…Angeles. For 30 years, he has worked as an Art Director and Production Designer on a number of European and American animated features like Disney’s Zootopia and Ralph Breaks The… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…Ezra Miller providing trivia and jokes about the character alongside interviews with filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti and screenwriter Christina Hodson. Days before FanDome went live, it had been revealed… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…studios. Among them were Mixfilm, Animandus, La Lanterna Magica and Animation Studio. Cinzia created a series of individually painted guitars that won critical acclaim, and were then featured in various… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…Disney Animated films ever produced, Dave has also worked for studios as diverse as Apple Original Films, Marvel, Sony, DreamWorks, Paramount, and Warner Brothers. As composer of Wish and arranger… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…guys made a superb score! AV: You’ve been working with them both as an orchestrator and a conductor. As an orchestrator, how do you work with them? ND: In every… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…Hobbit scores ; they are a full service film scoring orchestra and they’re incredible. They are a proper orchestra, and the benefit of working with an orchestra that plays together… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…as a character or as a director. I see them as an audience, but in a much more intimate way. Much more like sitting around a campfire telling a story… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…potential. An unplumbed setting for an animated film, a deep and interesting foundational legend to build off of, a good message, amazing animation, a great cast of actors, and all… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…in that magnificent Entr’Acte. MK:Thank you! At some point when we were working at La Jolla, I was given the assignment of writing an entr’actebased on all of Alan’s themes,… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…as the original OVA series had often been regarded as an elite title within the genre. Mixing the look of medieval culture with their tried-and-true approach in animating stylish action… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…friends anymore at all! While I’m sure these kids are not complaining, those of us of a certain age fondly remember a different childhood. Without nearly the same entertainment options,… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…elements had been done at UCLA, and new work was commissioned to other helpers such as Steve Stanchfield and his crew at Thunderbean Animation, who performed an immense amount of… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
Don Shank is a versatile artist. He attended the animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He went on to work at a variety of animation studios on… |
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2009 Annie Nominees announced
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 37th Annual Annie Awards, which recognize the year’s best achievements in the field of animation. The Best Animated Feature nominees are Cloudy With… |
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Cloudy with a chance of box office success
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 easily lead the box office this weekend, with a take of $35 million, Box Office Mojo is reporting. Although it made less than… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…instruments, too, like the tiple and the bandola, which are different types of guitars. I literally bought an arpa llanera, a marimba called marimba de chonta, which is a very… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…into a new project. The Art Of Turning Red is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Rona Liu and Chris Wiggum at Pixar, and April Whitney at… |
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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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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…odysseys, as Toot becomes worshipped as a talking cow in India, and Foxxy confronts Phat Allen and some very Cosby-like kids about whether they took advantage of her years earlier…. |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…fun! The Art Of Lightyear is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Tim Evatt, Andrea Lirio and Chris Wiggum at Pixar, and April Whitney at Chronicle Books…. |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…The Art Of Soul is available to order from Amazon.com! All artwork and Paul’s headshot courtesy of Pixar Animation Studios. With all our thanks to Paul Abadilla and Chris Wiggum!… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…a sufficient amount of aesthetic assumptions and cultural baggage, which I feel can inhibit an open-minded approach to investigating music, so I’ve tried to apply Schenkerian analysis very loosely, using… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…with a Chance of Meatball. Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver vital… |
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Lord and Miller forecast Chance of Meatballs
…a Chance of Meatballs. The team will co-write and co-direct the project for Sony Pictures Animation, serving Meatballs as a spoof of such disaster films as Independence Day and Armageddon…. |
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Cloudy With a Chance of… sequels?
Sony Pictures Animation is apparently moving forward with a sequel to their 2009 animated hit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, ComingSoon.net is reporting. Although the project has yet to… |
