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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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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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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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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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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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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…. |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…convention scene got very interesting in 2017 with Disney moving their D23 Expo to the weekend before San Diego Comic Con. Both had fantastic moments, but I think D23 slightly… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…panel received one of four colorful Troll wigs, but because it wasn’t a full house my uncle was able to ask for all four with no issues. Someone even gave… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…these four notes, the famous WandaVision motif that you can find in every song since the beginning. The lyrics are so clever, too. So, there wasn’t really much I could… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…Four of those lines were spoken by Raya herself. While watching the film and taking notes, I came up with two perfect encapsulations of what I was seeing and how… |
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Arcane
…director Christian Linke and creative designer Alex Yee. They are also among four people who shape the overall story. The other two consisting of senior narrative writer Connor Sheehy and… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…Snyder proclaiming him “the heart of the movie”). There was also the announcement that the final runtime for the Snyder cut is four hours(!), and that it will be split… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Volume 2, which received wide acclaim. Many were thrilled to learn that yet a third volume was in the works. Now, after nearly four years of meticulous restoration, The Puppetoon… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Once again, Mark Evanier (The Garfield Show) gathers together four of the most-heard actors in the animation business to talk about their craft, to demonstrate the voices they do on… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…close. And then there was a dumb thing called the war. I had to go to the army for four years. Woolie went to war, too, as a pilot. I… |
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Elemental
…speculated on feelings having feelings. And now in the 2020s, we get the latest entry, Elemental, which is about the four classical elements of earth, air, fire, and water. Those… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…to get into film and TV about four or five years ago and we got to it in a backwards way. Aside from our records, Jesse and I do a… |
