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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…when I was 12. Coming from a family of doctors and businessmen, I found myself as the first artist in the family and unique from everyone else. After graduating from… |
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Planet Earth shatters Weinstein Co. record
Cartoon Brew reports that Escape from Planet Earth is the highest-grossing computer animated movie distributed by the Weinstein Co. Thus far, Earth has collected more than $52 million during its… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…that was, with our staff’s favorites from what pop culture had to give us, along with your picks for what you chose as the best animated movies of 2022 from… |
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The Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th Anniversary Edition)
Transformers divided into Autobots and Decepticons battle for the planet Cybertron but wake up millions of years later on the planet Earth. There, the Decepticons vow to deplete the planet… |
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Boomerang readies Captain Planet unseen episodes
…environmental concern that resonates to this day – will play in order from 7:30-11:30 a.m., and from 3:30-7:30 p.m. (ET). “Captain Planet and the Planeteers represents Ted’s first foray into… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…mouth a bit on the side, as he always drew his characters from 3/4 or profile, never straight on. For the movie, the mouth placement would change from being centered… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…a kid. Anything sci-fi from the 80s, we studied it, we looked at it, we got inspired by it, from artefacts to lenses, from compositing to matte painting, it has… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…The Heights, and Nobody came from the writer of John Wick, who should sue himself for plagiarism. Bigger and more bombast came from the (second!) almighty showdown between Godzilla Vs… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…all of the actors standing in front of similar backdrops to provide a feeling of more visual unity between everyone despite them all ultimately speaking from their houses. From there,… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…cartoon shows. This allowed for experimentation with darker graphical designs one might expect from its title. From the presence of a cursed skeleton warrior to the varying magical attacks from… |
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Warning From Space
…Pal, from 1951)! Mankind will undoubtedly perish, unless the aliens can work with an Earth scientist, who has a secret formula which can potentially destroy the hurtling planet. If it… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…Meanwhile, the independently-produced compilation The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3, from producer Arnold Leibovit, thrilled fans with more spectacular restorations of over twenty animated films from film legend George Pal. I… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…credits to anybody, even the janitor! AV: What memories do you have from Ward Kimball? XA: Ward was a very creative man, and very clever. He was completely different from… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…when we bring on a new volunteer from a country that isn’t represented yet. My ultimate bucket list would be to have at least one person volunteering on Mila from… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
With awards season now in full swing, it’s time once again for our site’s annual look back at the year that was, with our staff’s favorites from what the world… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…from Moana, You’ll Be In My Heart from Tarzan, the Tarzan and Frozen soundtracks, and the cast album from The Lion King. In the world of theatre, Dave was nominated… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…season. AnimatedViews: In every way, from the animated feature to the New York musical, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame seems to have taken a prominent place in music history, don’t… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One
…her true roots in the follow-up serial). The first episode of Defenders Of The Earth, named Escape From Mongo, sees Flash returning to Earth in order to ask Mandrake The… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…sequences for each feature. So, I launched a poll in 2009, with the help of Didier Ghez, and I received answers from various countries. They came from historians, Disney artists,… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…and could be recognized from far away. So, I found this technique of tinting the sails to protect them from sun damage, and I turned them red. And that works… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…Earthspark marks Crush Effect’s first foray into composing, and the creative team gave them the freedom to compose a cinematic, synth-heavy score for the series pulling sounds from modern cyberpunk,… |
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Disneynature: Oceans / The Crimson Wing: Mystery Of The Flamingos
…of observers pick up the baton and run with it, producing such recent wonders as The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. The enormous success of Warner Brothers’ feature film documentary… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…Forces are charged with protecting the planet from any hostile alien attacks. A new alien race calling themselves the Robotech Masters invade Earth for the sole reason of capturing the… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…standard definition only. I have viewed Trailers From Hell: Arnold Leibovit On The Puppetoon Movie (4:48) and Trailers From Hell: Arnold Leibovit On The Fantasy Film Worlds Of George Pal… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…have it. Some of the films we’ll be getting from Paramount. There’s six of them that have been restored from the three-strip successive negative; they’re already done. I’m going to… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…book written by the Chiodos themselves, Alien Xmas finds a race of kleptomaniac aliens attempting to steal Earth’s gravity in order to more easily take everything on the planet. Only… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…fills us in on where he came from and how he winds up boxed in a crate bound for the New York Public Zoo, where we met him from the… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…from less than stellar special effects), and when producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind acquired the Superman rights from a DC Comics that couldn’t see the value in a big screen… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…Duck, Batman. My first cartoon crush was likely Jayna from Super Friends, though as I got older I favored Ariel from Thundarr The Barberian. Now I just love my wife,… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
Soul is an extraordinary journey from the bustling streets of New York City to the mysteries of the cosmic planes, following middle-school band teacher and talented jazz musician Joe Gardner… |
