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The Croods: A New Age
…silhouette animation of a bedtime story told by Dawn by firelight. A Gag Reel is an unfunny couple of minutes of vocal recording session goof–offs by the cast, though a… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…Mila. AnimatedViews: How did you discover the Mila project and what made you want to join it? Alexandra Kavalova: I discovered Mila a couple of years ago. I gave an… |
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Cloudy cover art, details, and Meatballs
An advertisement in trade magazine Video Business includes the cover art and specific details for Sony’s upcoming release of their $120m box-office hit Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, landing… |
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Cloudy with a Chance of the Harlem Shake
The cast of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 joins the ever-growing throng of people doing the Harlem Shake, as a seemingly mundane day at Ms. Crumbymuffin’s Cupcakes suddenly… |
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Cloudy with a chance of…Lego!?
Heat Vision reports that Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been tapped by Warner Bros. and the Lego company to helm a feature-length… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…in animation. Many people feel like they’re missing the Golden Age of animation with Pinocchio and Snow White, or the second Golden Age with Beauty And The Beast and Little… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…from Southern California, Robert Kondo graduated with a degree in illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Robert landed his dream job as a sketch artist at… |
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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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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…realization of the world helped us to understand the kind of animation we should do with Moom. AV: Animation is often about caricature and exaggeration. Your animation style is on… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…The remaining episodes adapt an early story arc from the broadcast, establishing Percy’s haunting and tragic backstory against a thrilling gothic drama of revenge and revolution. Both stories provide a… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…and Magic (ILM) in 1986. As a visual effects art director at ILM, he earned an Academy Award® for his work on Innerspace and an Academy Award® nomination for Hook…. |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…While Masters Of The Universe: Revelation was aimed at adult fans, clearly the adventures of He-Man caught the attention of kids today. And now, Mattel proudly presents He-Man And The… |
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Up wins Best Feature Annie Award
…award. And Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder won the Home Entertainment award. The full list of winners follows: Best Animated Feature • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs —… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…third film and a wealth of new and archive documentary material from the fantastic Fantasia Anthology from almost a decade ago? Fat chance! Originally announced as the be all and… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…Beyond The Tiara, that looks at the phenomenon from an original angle. Emily is known for being the author of The Art And Making of Aladdin (2019). She’s a freelance… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…directors and artists really cut loose. Finally, we are getting US animation that takes full advantage of the medium. DACEY: I am and always will be a Disney boy. That… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…warmest thanks to Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco, Andrea Emmes and Cinzia Angelini! Visual Development art by Ruchita Jeswall, Alex Harris, Andres Amaya, Theunis Duvenhage and Guilherme Lopes. All Rights Reserved… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
It all started with a team of songwriters and a song about a cow’s need for respect.. The songwriters were no less than Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who made… |
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First look at Meatballs
Film School Rejects has posted an exclusive first look at Sony’s upcoming animated feature, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. The site features a new still from the film, which… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…like a viola. For Evil-Lyn, I teamed up with this very talented cellist and had him play most crazy textures and gestures. That’s another aspect of the orchestration of the… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Channel’s Amphibia and The Owl House share what’s coming up and present an exclusive crossover with a table read from stars of each series. Creators/executive producers Matt Braly (Amphibia) and… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…And Reddy was still playing along with a couple of other Hanna-Barbera shows (one with a slow-talking dog, as I recall), but there was not much else besides repeated airings… |
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Soul
…Soul. They took a crazy concept and an idea with a huge scope and made it relatable the same way they always do — by focusing it all down onto… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…are more confusing, such as a cameo by Willem Dafoe which serves as a teaser to 2018’s Aquaman and would’ve worked as a nice set up to that in the… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…First Avenger, Avengers,Wreck-it-Ralph and Moana to name just a few, to arrange them. A true fan of all those series, Metzger’s versatility and affinity with all kinds of styles and… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…Cara Speller is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-nominated, BAFTA-winning and triple Grammy-nominated producer, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Short Films and Feature Animation branch at The Academy of Motion… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…His articles about the Disney parks, Disney animation, and vintage international Disneyana, as well as his many interviews with Disney artists, have appeared in Animation Journal, Animation Magazine, Disney Twenty… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…animation: Asterix at The Olympic Games, Emoji, Madagascar 3. I have also done dark fantasy with both techniques: Pan’s Labyrinth, and La Noria. There are a lot of differences in… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…Animation Studios as an animator on Hercules, to become later Head of the Animated Short Films Department at Pixar Animation Studios, and now supervises all the Disney Theme Park attractions… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…was still 2D and I liked the idea of having some sort of connection between the 2D and 3D world of animation. AV: How would you describe Aria For A… |
