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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…of the Big Ben clock: this was the first time computer animation had been combined with full-quality drawn character animation, and much was made at the time in the press… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…not repeated here, and so the film that opens this set is something of a Pixar anomaly in that it isn’t a computer animated short at all, being the hand-drawn… |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
…Animation and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, making its debut nationwide on DVD on September 10th. Combining computer animation with hand drawn animation, the 22-minute short was directed by animation veteran… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…products than her actually being “royalty”, even in a loose sense of the word). This is a step she isn’t yet ready to take, having been drawn to the wider… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…of the ostensibly hand-drawn stuff has gotten more fluid thanks to compositing technology. Some will argue that a show need not look great because the storytelling is the main thing,… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…handed in to the MPAA for certification – only to have an NC-17 slapped on the film for its graphic sex scene. Team America: World Police was withdrawn and re-cut… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…the first place families could visit together safely to enjoy a day (or two!) out in the company of his stable of well-loved characters. In fact, Disneyland as the place… |
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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Vol. 1 – Heroes Assemble & Vol. 2 – Captain America Reborn
…that aired throughout the channel’s programming lineup. Together, they gave fans an introduction to the world of the Avengers and the heroes and villains that inhabit it. In this new… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…sketches together to writing some TV specs. Comedy sketch shows don’t pay anything; they’re used more for showcasing talent. But, writing professionally does pay, obviously, so we figured why not… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…1850. In English speaking countries the same folk tune is known as “Fairest Lord Jesus”. So I worked together with film composer Christophe Beck to compose a new version for… |
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Animation Addicts 100th Episode Spectacular
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Morgan, Mason, and Chelsea are celebrating the 100th episode of the Animation Addicts Podcast by coming together for the first time ever! Join them as… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…because the physical nature of having the three composers living so far apart around the world, it just became difficult to get everybody together at the same time. And of… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…and it was in those early days that he met composer David Arnold, a fateful encounter. They first worked together on the British movie The Young Americans (1993), followed immediately… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…everyone experiencing something together (even if it was socially distanced). We all got better at Skype and Teams (or used them for the very first time), and found out a… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…was like, “Hey, we’re working together. I’m gonna to rely on you. What strengths can you bring to this problem, to this design?” I really encouraged that collaboration from the… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…hope one day we have a film we can work on together.” You know, I’m a huge Pixar fan and I said that would be amazing. Some years later, he… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…born on Earth – and together with the human family who welcomes them in and cares for them, they’ll redefine what it means to be a family. It’s a fresh… |
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Elio
…strangely disjointed, like a broken vase someone tried to glue back together while missing some of the pieces that held it together in the first place. This was clearly a… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…was merely the first few episodes of the spin-off television show strung together and slapped out as a “movie” (with all the inherent sub-standard TV animation to boot). In fact,… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…We worked hard together and we played together. It was a difficult movie to make, but we all believed in it and there was a shared sense of purpose and… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…of hand-drawn fantasy animation. And two artists emerged. It was Eyvind Earle who gave us Sleeping Beauty; and Charley Harper, who was behind a lot of the kinda classic Golden… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…the most influential things in my life, ever. DAN: The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Everything just came together so beautifully and it remains a magnificent achievement in cinema that… |
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Official Word On My Peoples And Disney's Florida Unit
…more concrete plan for the [Orlando] studio,” said Stainton, elaborating no further. The decision to ax Ghosts – which is half computer generated, half traditionally drawn – also reflects management’s… |
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It's the story, fool!
…gained a few pounds. You simply can’t make a blanket statement that hand-drawn animation is dead and that computerized renderings are the way of the future.” “Would Finding Nemo have… |
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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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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…less to clean up and without anything other than token extras. Better than nuttin’, right? However, WB’s searching the archives has pulled together this one last outing, and it’s a… |
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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…was really conscious about having all the characters look like they were drawn from the same hand, basically, like they belong to the same universe. So, I got to work… |
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WALL•E: Angus MacLane’s burning love for BURN•E!
…know what happened to him. I wanted to answer that question with this short. I was drawn to BURN•E because his story was not fully explored in the feature. I… |
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Heavy Metal: Collector’s Edition
…a way of linking the stories together into a somewhat cohesive narrative. The linking device they decided on was only partially successful, but it was enough. The moviemakers created the… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
…rendering looks a little flat, but that’s largely a by-product of trying to add an extra dimension to characters meant to be drawn and colored in two. The same problem… |
