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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…cute and enthusiastic song, the kind of thing people would sing at an organizational get-together. It’s also very short. AV: Although very modern in its making, The Rescuers Down Under… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…this year’s Academy Award winner for best animated short, Paperman, which builds on the hand-drawn feel Glen Keane brought to his Rapunzel project Tangled to mesh CG techniques with hand-drawn… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…on the song was her old touring show composer, a singer-songwriter you may have heard of named Barry Manilow, the pair working together to provide a knowingly old-school show-stopper that,… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…Old Mill, while another cartoon, The Goddess Of Spring, was basically an experiment to see if a human figure could be drawn convincingly. The answer was: “more training”! Soon, there… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
…discussing how the film came together. We also get to see how the artists delivered the film hand-drawn yet digitally. As all the participants are speaking French, there are removable… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…wonderful narrative that was carefully crafted and emotionally tear-jerking, awe-inspiring animation that beautifully mixed computer generated imagery with hand-drawn illustrations, and a fascinating ensemble of characters voiced by a delightful… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…Romans. However the style does hold it together and the voiced-over Narrator is used to bridge scenes like the captions in a comic book would. The English dub overall is… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…In the 1990s, a friend of mine who worked in merchandising showed me a peek at the pitch bible Warner Bros. had put together to get the toy manufacturers excited… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…tells the story of how Cobra-La was responsible for the creation of Serpentor (via Doctor Mindbender) and that he is now ready to take over the Earth. Together, they will… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #61: The Last Unicorn – Give Us More Pirate Cat!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Morgan, Chelsea, Mason and special guest host Whitney Grace come together to discuss Rankin-Bass’s 1982 film The Last Unicorn. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV8712441203.mp3 Highlights • Email from Zora,… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…Dam Keeper was really a result of digital paintings we were creating for film work we had been doing for the last decade. The two of us worked together in… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #101: Shaun the Sheep Movie
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers are together for their very first live video show with a discussion and their reviews of the critically acclaimed Aardman Animations stop-motion film… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…in stop motion. Because everything in stop motion is real, you have to consider designing a real space. The sets, the props, the lighting all have to come together and… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #105: Hotel Transylvania 2 – “I Love Your Chocolate Cereal!”
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers get together for episode 105 of the Animation Addicts Podcast, where they review Sony’s 2015 animated film Hotel Transylvania 2. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV2749569777.mp3 Highlights General… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…In exchange, I ask that anything you get that’s not me, that has a potential conflict, we discuss together” – and we have done so over the years. That was… |
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The Willoughbys
…The problem with the plot is it’s a bit scattershot. There’s no single through-line, it’s a lot of story pieces thrown together in an almost haphazard way. Normally that’s a… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…the cartoons is also a team effort. We have a group of curators who watch the cartoons, and we try and put clever themes and groups together. It’s the ultimate… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…to rehash one of the most well known episodes from its small screen counterpart. Putting that aside, the story itself is sloppily put together. Instead of one coherent through line,… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…Wanda and Vision are flying together and are drawing a heart in the sky. Bobby and Kristen hadn’t addressed that in their song, but for me, I immediately remembered when… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…star ship USS Cerritos bond together as they assist the crew on their many missions. The Sweatbox Review: I have always loved Star Trek, ever since watching reruns of it… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…felt funny, in tune with his personality. In terms of blending many different tones together, that one was maybe the most complex character to treat, but it was great fun…. |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…hoping to finally get some quality time together. Little do they know Dad’s been keeping a secret from them — he’s actually the toughest bounty hunter in the galaxy! Launched… |
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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
…Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner honored at an awards luncheon on April 10th. AfroAnimation brings together the largest coalition of industry leaders, pioneers, and animation studio executives, artists, and creative… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…has been achieved overall. CG objects easily meld in with the hand-drawn design style, which often resembles animated shorts of the film’s time setting. Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher is a… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…not only their look but their method: some article are drawn rigidly perfect while others are free and loose, or totally filtered through their rendering process; Perry has to be… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…show, The Mandalorian [above, top right], the rare event in which fans of the franchise collectively enjoyed something together instead of arguing about it non-stop. Granted, the 2010s weren’t only… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…it. I’m not at all into the Star Wars and Marvel universes. And I am a die-hard defender of hand-drawn animation. AV: How did your project start out? CR: Well,… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…like Raiders Of The Lost Ark and King Kong. He was drawn to films where characters ventured out into the unknown. And he found old maps to be fascinating, “specifically… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…author Charlie Mackesy, will be coming to Apple TV+ on Christmas Day. The film, featuring Mackesy’s distinctive illustrations brought to life in full color with beautiful hand-drawn animation, stars BAFTA… |
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Disney releases magical trailer for new short Once Upon a Studio
…characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios come together in “Once Upon a Studio” for a joyful, entertaining and emotional reunion as they assemble for a spectacular group photo to mark… |
