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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…helped tremendously. One of them is the autobiography of the Disney concept artist, Mel Shaw, who was active at the Studio in the 1930s and then again in the 1970s… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…have been able to tell this story, in depth and the way I wanted to tell it from the start: through the testimonies of the artists themselves and of the… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…And then there’s “We Got Something Cooking”, the theme song for the third episode. DM: To me, it was always The Partridge Family, and also The Brady Bunch. It’s a… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…and then Patrick used the rig and model that we had designed and stretched it and pushed it so it’d fit the drawing. Then I went back in on top… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…reminding us of the strange, the unique and the downright bizarre by way of occasional new TV shows and the ongoing success of the Odditorium museum attractions. The Disc: The… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…was still believable, and didn’t look like a toy and a miniature stadium making the audience start to question the look, and taking them out of the emotion of the… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…with just the Puppetoons in chronological order, and kept the hand-drawn ones to the bonus features; but as each film is individually selectable, the viewer can watch them in whatever… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…but we wanted them to be appealing and relatable to the audience. AV: The film takes places in two worlds: the “real” one and the one within the Smartphone. They’re… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…what they did in the first one. And the filmmakers know there isn’t much story in all this, because they resort to papering over the cracks with the barrage of… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…The Studios built on the expertise they gained with the Mickeys and Silly Symphonies when they started work on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. When you consider the importance… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…curious and wanting to go out into the world and find themselves, and then you go do that. That’s really important to them. The way they’re presenting the Disney Princess… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…the modeler massaging the character, me with my drawings, then with the computer. And you’re building the character together. And then, the animators come in. AV: Indeed, on Luca, you… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…as well take a little tour. Some of the marionettes and hand-puppets in that collection, their simple shapes and their carved and painted surfaces, and – just as importantly –… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…and save him. The story focuses on Plo and his band of clone soldiers and their battle for survival against General Grievous and his ion cannon. The theme of the… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…their home-grown characters are second to none in the popularity stakes. Asterix The Gaul and his friend the mighty Obelix, Lucky Luke the lonesome cowboy (a great throw-back to the… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…toys and having them play with them, but also about giving them their toys – and hopefully they’ll let us play with them, too! Rob David and Melanie Shannon’s He-Man… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…Ollie, Glen Keane, and this time Andreas Deja for my books. My expectations are that readers feel they are inside the Studio and realize the amount of work that was… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…high-speed camera inside a guitar and then play? Then, they record the voice at the same time and then they slow the video imagery down to keep the sound the… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…the Land of the Dead. The Land of the Living is very flat and based in realism, but always with a touch of caricature, while the world of the dead… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…the animated features. The first one helped the animators better visualize the characters in three dimensions and therefore portray them and animate them more realistically. The second one tried to… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…of covid, we weren’t able to record the whole orchestra at once. We recorded the strings, and then the brass, then the woodwinds, and then we did the percussion. Then… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…and the depth and quality in the animation is leaps and bounds ahead of what was achieved in the first Asterix movie. This time around the Daltons find that their… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…then translate them into this big, cinematic 3D universe – one that obviously had to perform and emote. And the biggest expression of these, and reflection of our theme, was… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…the Pooh and his friends featured in the main story. Piglet, Tigger, and Rabbit all have prominent roles in these stories and they are fun to watch. The way the… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the heart, and a wonder for the eye. With the most up-to-date medium, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi prove once more their mastery and genius, through their love for the… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…craft. On every film, we get to try out ideas and see them to their birth. Then they go into the film, and then the film is done. Each time,… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…of the complexity then comes from the fact that he lives in New Zealand and then Lin-Manuel lives in New York and of course Mark lives down in California. So,… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…G.I. Joe meet up in the ultimate showdown when Cobra and their new allies from Cobra-La join forces to steal the Broadcast Energy Transmitter and conquer the Earth. The Sweatbox… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
From the humans who brought you the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family… |
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Arcane
…and they often come out worse for wear spiritually. The increasing intensity of Jinx’s schizophrenia does not help. The majority of the episodes end on cliffhangers and they’re quite the… |
