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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…several months following Marriner’s suicide. Meanwhile, Sullivan developed an interest in animation, finding a stint as a worker in Raoul Barre’s studio before getting fired and opening up his own… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…finding some sort of a visual interstitial rather than an announcer or celebrity figure introducing. But that might be a good question for Roy, since that was kind of his… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…storytelling. Whether or not you’re drawing comic books, or even animating little scenes or whatever, it’s always about finding a way to tell stories. I’m a big fan of modeling,… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…Mary Hidalgo – she was really helpful, especially finding Shia. At the time, he didn’t have Indiana Jones 4 or Transformers. We were lucky to get him at the time…. |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…guys are the real experts at Flash Animation!’ But of course, their schedules are even tighter than mine. AV: Was it difficult finding a publisher for Creative Cartooning? MS: No,… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…of isolated some spots in my mind pretty early on where I could potentially have some songs. We had those moments there and then it was about finding the right… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!
…because he gave us a direction that helped get the movie back on track. Then, we were having troubles with Enchanted finding a director. We had a script that we… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…very straightforward to me. They have been working on this movie for six years before I was involved. I think they were having troubles finding the proper tone of the… |
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Frank Walsh: On set with Prince Caspian’s Final Battle
…wanted them to be rapid multiple firing mechanisms. AV: It sounds like it was a huge collaborative effort! FW: To digress very briefly, back to the problems faced by finding… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…treating film music with some seriousness and finding that it’s providing some kind of nourishment to them soulfully. That’s something I’m just thrilled by. It’s not like this music is… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…and when no better casting could be found, she provided the dulcet but cold tones of the Queen as well. Finding a voice for Snow White herself was a much… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…role, often providing the funniest lines (including an at-the-time very topical “Cowabunga!”) and finding himself the butt of a couple of situations. Although he’s a secondary character, Candy makes sure… |
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LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format
…finding that they may be missing out, especially with some of the recent releases on DVD, which don’t always carry over some of the “secondary” content (The Lion King, Alice… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…after the events from the 1955 classic, Scamp’s Adventure picks up as Lady and Tramp’s puppies are still growing up and finding their place. Scamp, like his father before him,… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…to the world… The Sweatbox Review: DreamWorks’ last attempt at finding an audience for their 2D animated films, Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas, opened to mediocre reviews and poor… |
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The Lion King 1½
…his own rather than face the scorn of the rest of the colony. Soon finding himself lost, Timon literally bumps into Pumbaa, the rather confused warthog, and the pair quickly… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…he finds they have to baby-sit Bill’s little brother, Rupert heads off to the trees on his own, finding adventure himself when he follows some frogs into a forbidden cave,… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…traditional 3D models behind and stick with 2D drawn animation from The Last Unicorn onwards, finally finding great success with their original animated show ThunderCats (itself spawning a phenomenally successful… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…turned into stone. Finding Edmund, the children learn about the prophecy that can vanquish the White Witch forever, and she knows that if the humans reach her castle and sit… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…at the developmental process. In The Artists’ Journey, we find several more clips looking at the animated filmmaking process. Firstly, Finding Mulan is a lengthy seven-minute piece on how the… |
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Mulan II
…of him and he has trouble finding anywhere to insert a set piece or major action sequence. Cost cutting techniques, particularly animation cycles and “crowd control” (why have hundreds when… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Indian folk. When adventurer John Smith and the greedy Governor Ratcliffe come to shore with hopes of finding riches and gold, the young Indian princess is drawn to the handsome… |
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Cars
…Route 66, much more of which I have no doubt we’ll see in an upcoming edition. Highlights and nice touches include finding out that Lasseter’s own Dad was in car… |
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The Animated Views Looney Launch Winners!
…Kingdom • Kyle Boyd, New York. Our one extra-lucky reader, finding themselves with a bunch of classic Tunes to watch over Christmas with their copy of the LOONEY TUNES: SPOTLIGHT… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…be warned: there’s no “home” button for easy escape and I had to re-launch the InterActual player to get back to the main menu. No luck finding the Princess Jukebox… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…a major hindrance, with expectations impossibly high to meet (even the third Shrek is finding it hard to shake off the “been there, done that” feel that audiences are already… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…was finding myself to be quite a fan of these cartoons and found I could continue through them all in one sitting, something that reviewing collections like these can be… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…stolen – Monty Python’s Eric Idle, who complained (wrongly) against a gag used in Shrek The Third would be much better off finding the many sub-Python rip-offs here instead. Everything… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…Comedies found Walt finding his feet in Hollywood. The Laugh-O-Grams had served a purpose: to train young Walt and his eager crew in the basic terms of making animated cartoons,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…topped by a hilarious sequence of two little mice finding many distinctive ways to blow up a balloon! In All Wet, Oswald is hot-dog vendor turned lifeguard hero when a… |

