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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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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 Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…something that isn’t going to bring in box office receipts? So the upgrade from home screens to big screens shouldn’t be condemned so much as it should be evaluated. And… |
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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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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…time is had by all, until a lion escapes from and terrorizes everyone. The animation here is surprisingly sophisticated, although still not up to the technical expertise of the Mickey… |
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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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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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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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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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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…documentary, we are treated to interviews from many of the original writers, directors, and artists from the show talking about their experiences making She-Ra. We get to hear from Tom… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…was clear from the production designs and the pop jazz soundtrack that they were planning to give us an inspired amalgamation of the Dick Sprang era Batman from the 1950s,… |
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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… |
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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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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 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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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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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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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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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…G.I. Joe meet up in the ultimate showdown when Cobra and their new allies from Cobra-La join forces to steal the Broadcast Energy Transmitter and conquer the Earth. The Sweatbox… |
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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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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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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
Warner Brothers Vitaphone/Warner Home Video (1930-32 / 2010), 2 discs, 192 mins, 1.33:1, Dolby Mono, Not Rated, $24.95 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: Though the… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…$26.99 Storyboard: The Disney Channel’s Phineas And Ferb become the latest characters to jump from the small screen to a movie-length format, for an adventure through alternate dimensions! The Sweatbox… |
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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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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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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Vol. 1 – Heroes Assemble & Vol. 2 – Captain America Reborn
…not just one but two animated series featuring characters from the upcoming Avengers movie. The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes premiered last fall on Disney XD with a series of mini-episodes… |