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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…cg production in Japan, and Genki garnering interest from outside parties in a film adaptation of his children’s book, Moom, the discussion shifted from a children’s book to directing a… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…Luca swims into a cave and hides in shadow from a boat that he sees. Really, the idea of texture came from staying true to the sea monsters’ decorative origin…. |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…It keeps you from getting bored and stimulates creativity more. I find myself drawing from and combining the experience and tricks I learned from both worlds. Perhaps just knowing one… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…a mile away and may provide a groan from some for just being so obvious and rehashed, even from previous DreamWorks films: often I kept being reminded of Madagascar: Escape… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…their SRO annual #SDCC panels. Will your favorites make the final cut like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Escape From New York, Outland, The Howling, Stripes, Heavy Metal, For Your… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
Everyone knows the Disney Princess characters, but how did they become the cultural icons we know today? From the Princesses Walt Disney and his artists brought to the screen in… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…world and we had done something before on Polynesian music. We also rented a few percussion instruments from Emil Richards, who has an amazing collection of instruments from all over… |
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Schoolhouse Rock! Earth
…much of the water we taken from the Earth. After the disc was over, this was the one song I remembered vividly from the disc, which is a mark of… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…the rest to come up with a totally new take on those ingredients. The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition is available to purchase from Amazon.com now… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…ever in competition again. Covering baby Kal-El’s lucky escape from Krypton, the cartoon swerves from the usual accepted history by having Clark grow up at an orphanage, presumably for reasons… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…that aspect of the production? DL: A few years ago I started mentoring a couple of kids. This story can be told from two angles, from them and then from… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…the stage for how different from the rest of Star Wars the series would be. It is set in an alternate timeline that borrows more heavily from samurai and Japanese… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…got this sound, with his button accordion, which is very different from the keyboard accordion, very different from the Mexican, or French or even Italian accordion. Every country has its… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…contemporary art, science, literature. I tend to get inspiration from the real world, and extrapolate from that. For example: towards the end of the movie, our heroes arrive to The… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…manuscripts? What did you learn from them? JB: When I set out to work on this book, I accepted the fact that I may get zero cooperation from the Disney… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…were taking influences from the orchestration of things and also the mood of that stuff. We never directly lifted thematic material from that. It was more just to inform me… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…and King Louie (The Jungle Book), Tarzan, Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, not forgetting Merida (from Brave), will appear on stage to give a live performance of the legendary songs from… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…the robot uprising! Everything from smart phones, to Roombas, to evil Furbys are employed to capture every human on the planet. Now it’s up to the Mitchells, including upbeat mom… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
2021 was another weird year on planet Earth! But I don’t need to tell you! Unfortunately for me that meant taking a bit of a break from reviewing movies here… |
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Challenge Of The Gobots: The Original Miniseries
Hanna-Barbera (1984), Warner Archive (May 17, 2011), 1 disc, 110 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated , Retail: $14.95 Storyboard: Renegades from the planet Gobotron come to Earth… |
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Arcane
League of Legends is one of the most popular video games of this generation. For over a decade, an estimated 22 million people from across 145 countries can be found… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…115 episodes. This provides hundreds of hours of content from which to use in adapting the stories told into a thirty-minute episodic series, not counting the hundreds more from the… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…Tsutsumi, originally from Japan, is a filmmaker, painter, and philanthropist. A graduate from The School of Visual Arts in New York, Dice has worked as a visual development/color key artist… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…AV: From your perspective, what are the most important discoveries you made? DG: From a historical standpoint, the most important discovery was being able to prove once and for all… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…score has so much instrumentation from around the world. Pretty much every season, I buy a new instrument from around the world for the show. In my studio, there are… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…Animated Views crew. They range from insightful retrospectives to first-look previews of what’s to come, and from informative seminars to fandom celebrations. They are available to view at any time…. |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…show. Lots of parodies are in this one, ranging from Star Wars to Veggie Tales. Even a terminator from the future comes back to eliminate Wooldoor to prevent the world… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…City, where Fire-, Water-, Earth– and Air-residents live together, Elemental introduces Ember – a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman – whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…friends from the Forest of Feelings, the Care Bears will return to Earth to bring back caring and save Nicholas from the evil spirit who is making a new more… |
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Go planet! Sony negotiates for Captain Planet film rights
…Planet and the Planeteers with the intention to release a feature film adaptation produced by Mark Gordon, Don Murphy and Susan Montford.” There have been talks about an animated movie… |
