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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…major roles, their presence lends itself to showing that there’s more than just humans, elves, and dwarves. There’s the eagle-like aarakocra and the aptly named dragonborn conversing with the characters…. |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
…Steve Ingram • The One and Only Ivan – Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez • Tenet – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott… |
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Christian Renaut’s book trilogy on Walt Disney animation comes full circle
…It came up over and over, and I quickly understood that the Nine Old Men knew they were the best and completely ruled the department. Only some like Eyvind Earle,… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…high. And they did their best to adopt all the elements that we put together and displayed them to us. So, that was clear to us. PH: Their tech sci-fi… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…theme of the story. Lighting the candle, keeping it lit, light changes representing the transformation of the temple from something grey, dead and lifeless into something vibrant and celestial, ultimately… |
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Onward
…and kids visiting the land of the dead are great one-off ideas, but their worlds are inextricably tied to their specific plots. The monster world may be the next most… |
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Inside Job
Those conspiracy theories spouted by crazy, drunk old men angrily shaking their fists at the sky? They’re real. The world is controlled by the shadowy elite and shape-shifting lizard people…. |
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TV to DVD: He-Man, Voltron, Josie And The Pussycats, Superman
…making its way to DVD in the near future. The site also reveals the rear cover artwork for Voltron: Defender Of The Universe, Josie And The Pussycats and Superman: Doomsday…. |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…and how it relates to serving the story and the characters. When I was designing the animal furniture for the Red Queen’s castle in Alice In Wonderland, I had to… |
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Soul
…capture in computer animation. The land of the souls-in-waiting is plush and has a beautifully hopeful feel to it. The path to The Great Beyond is stark and eerily stunning…. |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…– – ed. The second issue that can’t be ignored is the length of the film. At two hours and twenty minutes, Across the Spider-Verse is the longest animated film in… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…running out and Steppenwolf’s army threatening the very existence of mankind, the five of them might not be enough to stop them. And a certain recently deceased caped hero may… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…Mackesy’s book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. The poignant and heartfelt journey follows the unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse… |
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Warning From Space
…of George Pal’s 1953 classic The War Of The Worlds. Lights are seen in the sky, meteorites appear to fall to earth, and eventually strange creatures emerge and terrify the… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…mythology and talking about their strong desire and pain. I studied a lot about the mythology of the Tupinambá and made the dramatic arc with this issue. The storyboard came… |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…a DVD set of these cartoons, and I can confirm that the quality ranges from poor to good, and none of them can match the best of the theatrical output…. |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…them, I didn’t analyze the harmony, I just wrote them as they came and felt happy with them. And because the four chords themselves were so unusual, when it came… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…Of The Rings: The Two Towers, Stuart Little 2 and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, to mention only a few. He also supervised the Sony Pictures Imageworks team who… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…of the film. Remember the sound of Lebo M’s chant during the Lion King sunset? Or the native chant at the beginning of Brother Bear? For Frozen, the creators of… |
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Mulan
…without being a distraction. In one instance where Mulan and Xianniang encounter each other for the first time, the texture of the landscape around them is very unique and provides… |
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Helluva Boss
…gorgeous scenes and landscapes that they can definitely be admired without characters populating them. And even with the contrasting vibrancy between Hell and Earth, they synchronize with the characters so… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…story from a child’s perspective and bring it into a happy positive light. The palette has been pivotal to establish the proper mood and communicate the emotional journey that the… |
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Santa Inc.
…“wow, look at all of the bad words they’re using in this female-driven comedy” or “wow, the political themes of this show are really forward-thinking and current” (and, yes, the… |
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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
AfroAnimation, the largest annual event featuring diverse and BIPOC animators and creators, announced today the honorees for the first AfroAnimation Summit Icon Awards, along with the films selected as finalists… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…2? Pete Nash: At the end of the day, I’m an animator at heart and I love working and collaborating with animators to make shots and the overall film better…. |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Shoe (1940), The Queen Was In The Parlour (1939), The Good Bear And The Bad Bear (1940) and A Fairy Tale About A Melancholic King (1934). The Puppetoon Movie Volume… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba. Strings: violin I & II, viola, cello and bass.] AV: There’s a huge contrast between the TV series sequence and the “real life” sequences, from… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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Trolls World Tour
…only other tentpoles to find themselves officially taken off the theatrical calendar are Disney’s big budget fantasy caper Artemis Fowl (which will now premiere as a Disney+ exclusive) and the… |
