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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…room is designed. AV: Your story evolved from a story about a human miner to a city peopled by animals. How did you come to that choice? RK & DT:… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #85: Cinderella – Mason Dubs
…old. • The Mary Blair influence really starts coming to life during the ball. • Gotta love the King and Duke’s interactions. • Love Cinderella because she’s never bitter, angry… |
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Frozen: The Poster Collection
…Cinderella – comes along and nothing less than a full blown theatrical sequel – only the Studio’s third officially (counting The Rescuers Down Under and Fantasia 2000, though of course… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…then comes back out, goes back into the song and then comes back out again, it’s so entwined; it doesn’t feel like a song to me, it just feels part… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…web series! AV: How did you come from designer to the idea of creating your own movies? DB: A designer always has to consider the context of any given assignment… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…Library, which in itself was a dream come true. But above and beyond this, I also got access to the collections of the artists themselves: I unearthed a complete set… |
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Storks opens
…of the chaotic plot”, while RogerEbert.com counters, “Zippy and zany, cute and cuddly, Storks manages to balance wild humor with winning heart — for the most part”. BOM projects a… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…At the core of our company, we were always a story generating company. A character company, designing characters. We would design characters that were then stop-motion or CG, or puppets,… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…help launch 3rd Stage. As Stéphane Lissner, Director of the Paris Opera, describes it, the 3rd Stage is “an autonomous venue for digital creation to complement the Palais Garnier and… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…to have the opportunity to work on this film. The Inside Out Blu-ray combo pack is available to order from Amazon.com! Our warmest thanks to Victor Navone and Chris Wiggum!… |
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Frozen II wins Top Soundtrack Album at Billboard Music Awards
…Billboard 200 chart. The song Into the Unknown, meanwhile, was nominated for an Academy Award. Frozen II is also the biggest animated movie ever worldwide, surpassing the 2013 original. https://twitter.com/DisneyAnimation/status/1316593538432299015… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…tones. Justin is a wizard with sound. AV: How did you come to composer Mychael Danna for the score? What did you expect from his unique musical personality? SP: Since… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording
…and having a carefree brother named Jehan, Quasimodo being deaf as a result of being the bell ringer, and restoring the somber ending. Furthermore, the comedic sidekick characters were eliminated,… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…companies of Beauty And The Beast. I think I mounted 17 international companies for that show, so I was on the road pretty much 100% of the time! AV: So,… |
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Two new Ratchet & Clank movie scenes online
They’re fighting evil with brains, brawn, and really cool weapons. #RatchetAndClank hits theaters on April 29th! ⚙ pic.twitter.com/LNrE52qeCQ — Ratchet and Clank (@RatchetMovie) March 31, 2016… |
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X-Men ’92 Vol. 0: Warzones!
Written by Chad Bowers and Chris Sims, Illustrated by Scott Koblish, Marvel Comics, March 22, 2016, Softcover,128 pages, $16.99 On Halloween night 1992, Fox premiered the X-Men animated series. The… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…script. AV: How did you come to appeal to Alex Mandel to compose the Moom swing? RK & DT: Alex is someone we had known from our time at Pixar…. |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…between 1929 and 1939, with orchestral scores performed live by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by six-time Emmy award-winning composer Mark Watters. From symphonic to jazz, and featuring the… |
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Legendary Imagineer Rolly Crump documentary website now live
…general public comes news that an exclusive website has just gone live in order to promote the film and tell Rolly’s story: visit RollyCrump.com for updates on The Whimsical Imagineer!… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote (twice) as he pleased…
…work on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a project that was already morphing into what became Fantasia. “[In February 1938, Walt Disney] and Studio composer Leigh Harline met with Russian composer Sergei… |
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The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot To Remember
…to come across the same art two, three or more times across various titles, this is a fascinatingly unique angle to take, and one that promises a completely fresh approach… |
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Planet Earth producers and Weinstein Co. settle lawsuit
…claiming they “sabotaged what should have been a highly profitable movie through a potent combination of hubris, incompetence, profligate spending and contempt for contractual obligations.” Deadline.com has the full story…. |
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Wreck-It Ralph wins Golden Reel Award
…film beat competitors Brave, Rise of the Guardians, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, A Cat in Paris, Frankenweenie, ParaNorman and The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Deadline.com has the full list of… |
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The Thirteen Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo: No Laughing Matter (clip)
The Thirteen Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo is available to order from Amazon.com now: [AMZ]B003DU50U4[/AMZ]… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…beloved Popeye cartoons, including Honeymoon In Vegas, and an Archie comic book. He also summarizes a couple of the Popeye comic books. And, just to make sure that I finish… |
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Africa enters the 3D animated market
…seen so far on Khumba has just been amazing.” CMG is a full service international sales company with over 100 titles in its catalogue. For more information, please consult cinemamanagementgroup.com…. |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…began just a few short years after Popeye first appeared in the Thimble Theatre newspaper comic strip. The subsequent color shorts from Famous Studios (essentially what became of the Fleischer… |
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Sherlock: Season One
…reason to return. Looking for lodgings, he and a presumptuous new companion, Sherlock Holmes, meet to check out an apartment at 221B Baker Street and, after Sherlock “convinces” Watson that… |
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Tron Legacy director on the movie’s score written by Daft Punk
io9.com posted a video interview with Joseph Kosinski, the director of Tron Legacy. Kosinski discusses the movie’s score composed by the French techno duo Daft Punk, how the music enhances… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…art, with Chouinard teachers. The same, present-day Disney research showed all the influences coming from Europe (Robin Allan and others). Now Disney artists seem to rather stress the fact that… |
