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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
…up on Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here. Four years into becoming an independent production company, DreamWorks Animation struggled to stay competitive in the industry. As… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…This year turned out to be another fantastic experience, but was more topsy-turvy than two years ago. That’s because this year’s convention was being held the weekend before the San… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…as to where to go, the San Diego Comic Con is the most fantastic event to attend. Celebrate the 10-Year Anniversary of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Ten years ago,… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…The Star Wars saga continues with The Clone Wars, the latest chapter in the Skywalker family saga. In the first four episodes of the series, Anakin continues to fight for… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…On something like Tarzan, I think, at any given time, there were four hundred artists working on your film, which makes it more difficult. If you want to maintain a… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…of the safest places in the West! That is, until the Dalton Gang of four desperate desperados mosey on into town. Scaring the townsfolk, they command the run of Daisy… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…to focus on these four artists? Would you please characterize briefly each one’s style and personality? DG: This sixth volume of the series covers three full decades, a period of… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…those fun 80s synths vibes capture that sense of technology. For him, I also appealed to a different meter. I mean, usually, for a song, you use a four/four time… |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…good shape, and I came out with these four harmonic positions, like a series of arpeggios that was a sort of a four-chords sequence. When I first came out with… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…the titles that come directly from Walt Disney Television Animation are pretty risible and barely conceal the attempts to hang three or four episodes on a bookended storyline, the recently… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…Toy Story 3 (Click to enlarge) We had about three or four weeks to do a really significant rewrite. Suddenly, we had left Mike and Sully and were thrust into… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…four more months for my final. I was left pondering, is this different? When I meant different, I was referring to those innumerable finals I went through all my life…. |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…another culture, and you want every little detail to be harmonious and speak to its history and its culture. But we had to do that four times over on this… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…objects arriving in the world of Moom with their memories attached was a fantastic idea. This story of loss between a memory and its former owner was something we found… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…Magic Light Pictures) sent us Revolting Rhymes, it was a bit like hearing a fantastic song of your favourite band for the first time – decades after that band stopped… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…eventful for Disney. DreamWorks Animation, after years of going back and fourth between various distributors, finally found a permanent residence once Comcast took them over in 2016. Many thought that… |
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Toy Story: full 10th Anniversary DVD details
…Edition press release: The Computer Animated Classic That Started It All…Celebrates An Exciting 10th Anniversary – THE TOYS ARE BACK…With Spectacular Picture & Sound Fantastic 2-Disc DVD Loaded With Fun-Filled… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…fact given the additional number of bonus shorts over the four discs, this easily makes up a total of 75 cartoons in this collection. It’s not all fantastic news, however,… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…way. Now, I could go on extolling the virtues of Walt’s seminal work all week, but you don’t really want to know about Julie Andrews’ fantastic, career breaking – and… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…a talented and fantastic animator. So, what we did was, we said to him: “why don’t you take a look at all the characters and think about which character you… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…BEGIN! And let’s begin with Nathan Greno! Bolt‘s story supervisor arrived at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1996, trading the four seasons of the Midwest for the sunny climate of… |
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Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season
…DVD set from Warner Brothers Home Video, I am pleased to say that all these years later, Jonny Quest still stands tall as a fantastic series, regardless of its place… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…for the World Premiere of Ratatouille. What was it like, to be in Remy’s city? Michael Giacchino: Being in Paris was fantastic! I had the greatest time. It was the… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…animated film is now presented in a special edition DVD celebrating its 20th anniversary. Brilliant animation, a fantastic soundtrack and the amazing voice talents of Billy Joel, Bette Midler, and… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…along the way. Now, I could go on extolling the virtues of Walt’s seminal work all week, but you don’t really want to know about Julie Andrews’ fantastic, career breaking… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…breaking the “fourth wall” to stop and talk directly to audiences. MGM had been releasing cartoons well before Avery came to them in 1942, with their regular suppliers being Hugh… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…Discounting the featurette Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree and the animated sequence from Mary Poppins, it was a full four and a half years between the release of… |
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Up wins Best Feature Annie Award
…Sony Pictures Animation • Coraline — Laika • Fantastic Mr. Fox — 20th Century Fox • The Princess and the Frog — Walt Disney Animation Studios • The Secret of… |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…secure one of our top editors, a fantastic composer in Christopher Lennertz and Academy Award winning sound designer Rob Sephton. AV: Design-wise, what was your approach (along with Andy Gaskill),… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…is the first of a four-part retrospective article. Antz Directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson Release Date: October 2, 1998 “Wow, every worker in the colony is here…. |
