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Of Rabbits and Ducks: a chat with composer Dominic Lewis
…composing for the 2011 Oscar-nominated film, How To Train Your Dragon. He has since worked with some of Hollywood’s most renowned composers, including Henry Jackman and Hans Zimmer. In their… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…Chinese American film composer, with dual citizenship in the United States and Croatia. Over the last 20 years, he has composed music for over 50 films and television programs including… |
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Transformers, My Little Pony, and more to be featured at “Hascon” in 2017
…a global play and entertainment company, announced it is creating the first-ever HASCON fan and family convention in September 2017. The massive event, which will be held in Providence at… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…mental leap I usually have to make is between environment design and character paint. Making characters look real and alive is always a challenge, especially if I am just coming… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…an entirely new and exciting venture for the company. The story that is lesser known is the challenge for Walt Disney and his studio’s young artists to delight traditional Disney… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…between a beautiful 2D icon into a 3D image and trying to get the computer to feel like art. I come from hand-drawn animation, so we really worked hard on… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: Dragonvine
…York Comic Con, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation had entered into an agreement for Dark Horse Comics to publish three graphic novels set in the How to Train Your… |
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Longtime Pixar/DreamWorks animator Adam Burke passes away
…from cancer. We’ll miss you, Adam. pic.twitter.com/LRUV7cgzGm — Brad Bird (@BradBirdA113) October 8, 2018 Burke had quite an impressive resume, doing animation on Bluth’s Thumbelina and A Troll in Central… |
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AV is fifteen!
…kick off today’s festivities! First up, those of you who have been with us the longest may remember the site we were descended from: Animated-Movies.com, run by Olivier Mouroux. Besides… |
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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
…• Crow: The Legend Baobab Studios • Mind Palace Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH • Moss Polyarc Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial • Goldfish at the Fair Stoopid Buddy Stoodios… |
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Spider-Verse big winner at Annie Awards
…Moss Polyarc Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial • Goldfish at the Fair Stoopid Buddy Stoodios ✓ Greenpeace ‘There’s a Rang-Tan In My Bedroom’ Passion Animation Studios • Grinch / 40 /… |
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Composer Ryan Shore on Star Wars: Galaxy Of Adventures
…to bring my own musical voice to the series per se, although I’m certain by the very nature of composing that my own voice must come through. Instead, I’m fully… |
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Director Juan Antin talks about Pachamama on Netflix
…native communities. There, I had the chance to meet the shamans and chiefs of the communities and started interviewing them. I wanted to have their point of view for this… |
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Pixar Graphics Art Director Craig Foster on Toy Story 4
…it’s also important in Toy Story 4 as the toys come from different eras. The packaging just adds that level of history. I’ve done a lot of research on the… |
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Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World getting a makeover
…work will begin in the coming weeks and continue through the summer, but shows based at the Castle won’t be effected. Use the slider below to check out the before… |
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Didier Ghez uncovers the hidden art of Disney’s early renaissance
…drawings Marc Davis created while at WED (now known as Walt Disney Imagineering): the composition is so strong and the characters so expressive that they seem to be alive on… |
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New look for Sonic apparently revealed on movie theater standee
…February 2020. Breaking: A #SonicMovie standee featuring a newly redesigned Sonic was spotted at a undetermined location. This story is developing. #SonicNews pic.twitter.com/ymcgSYjg4a — Tails’ Channel – Celebrating 11 Years!… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…It focuses on the 1990s through 2010, when Walt Disney Animation Studios experienced a dramatic creative shift as advancements in digital technology gave rise to computer-generated animation and produced blockbuster… |
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Trolls Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
…month before the actual film comes out. The original songs are not enough and the covered songs come off more like a mix of favorites. Timberlake tries to piece together… |
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Is Shrek 5 on the way?
…The Shrek movies have made more than $2.9 billion worldwide to date. “We like to let them have a little bit of time to rest. Read more at http://collider.com/shrek-5-sequel-attraction-far-far-away-adventure/#DsceJ74LL7MULZ6X.99 … |
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Warning From Space
…aforementioned Stuart Galbraith IV provides a prepared, informative commentary that runs for a little over an hour, stopping just short of the complete film. No one knows Japanese cinema (especially… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #61: The Last Unicorn – Give Us More Pirate Cat!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Morgan, Chelsea, Mason and special guest host Whitney Grace come together to discuss Rankin-Bass’s 1982 film The Last Unicorn. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV8712441203.mp3 Highlights • Email from Zora,… |
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Lava – Pixar’s newest short revealed?
…Lava. Scheduled for 2015, the short is listed among Pixar’s upcoming projects in the LinkedIn.com profile of animator Shaun Seong-Young Kim. Time will tell whether Lava will precede Inside Out… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…1850. In English speaking countries the same folk tune is known as “Fairest Lord Jesus”. So I worked together with film composer Christophe Beck to compose a new version for… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
Last January, we talked with director Dan Lund about the premises of the production of an unlikely animated short called Aria For A Cow, based on a song composed by… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…Digital Compositing artist during his grad studies. After a year of being a Digital Compositor he shifted his focus more towards production. Siddhartha was the Production Manager at Studio 400A,… |
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The Legend of Korra: Book III to premiere June 27th
…airing after that at 8:00PM/7:00PM CT. For a limited time only, those wanting to catch up with the show can catch the first two seasons for free over at Nick.com… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…kitchen look like because we wanted to go there. So he designed this completely new set that we got to build three-dimensionally on the computer and populate with dozens and… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…the things that I feel is, in some ways with computer animation, because everything is built in the computer as a dimension, the idea of the fun of illusion is… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…amount of literature? CR: I can’t compare myself with such historians as J.B Kaufman (who helped me). Such books are top-notch and beyond compare. We also have to know that… |
