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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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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…and this is our first real collaboration together. He handled the character designs and the digital sculpting for the replacement faces. The rest of the art department was comprised of… |
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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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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…the look of the scene or objects in the scene based on distance to camera. The farther an object was from camera, the more impressionistic it became. This was very… |
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Mulan
The original Mulan animated feature from 1998 was a great film. One of the better stand-outs at the time the Disney Renaissance was coming to a close by that point,… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…to shoot a lot of times from the kids’ point of view up at the dad or the dad looking down them. But always keeping a kind of kid-eye level…. |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
As legend has it, the destiny of the people of Avalonia is to reconnect with the world beyond the impassable mountains that surround their home. When Avalonia is in danger,… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…rendered in exquisite hand-drawn animation, celebrates the power of our shared humanity Apple Original Films Academy Award nominee The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse won the BAFTA… |
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Trolls World Tour
…was probably counting on all movie theaters (well, with the exception of a couple of drive-ins) being closed at the time of its intended release date. Though unlike other studios,… |
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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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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…list of nominees follows… The Animated Short nominees are Affairs of the Art, Bestia, Boxballet, Robin Robin, and The Windshield Wiper. The Visual Effects nominees are Dune, Free Guy, No… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…is synonymous with not accepting things as they are. So I decided to tell the history of America from the point of view of the Indians, working hard in their… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…AV: How would you describe the art direction of Mila? AK: Mila takes place in the 1940’s. The art direction has a tame palette that reflects the colours of the… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…any of their movies… until now. Having scored the music of some of the popular animated films of our times, from Ice Age: The Meltdown, Happy Feet, Horton Hears a… |
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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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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…the BBC, who will premiere The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in the UK, with the film available on Apple TV+ outside of the UK, this Christmas…. |
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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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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Time Machine (1960) and The War Of The Worlds (1953), he made Puppetoons! These brilliantly conceived animated subjects astounded the world. Now these marvels, not seen in decades, are back… |
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Lightyear
…of this film was the replacement of Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear. I thought this was an understandable decision since technically these are two… |
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Helluva Boss
…the whole show is. The casting of Pinkham further illustrates Medrano’s love for musical theater. What’s more, the series has given her the opportunity to cast Broadway talents in guest… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…to being heavy-handed, and while there are gentle themes of prejudice here, they never in any way feel like a lecture. Contrasting the borderline grotesque appearance of most of the… |
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Santa Inc.
…that, a reference is made to the size of Prancer the reindeer’s junk. Then there’s more profanity. Lots more profanity. Then there are “jokes” about women being sexually assaulted at… |
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The Bad Guys
…reformed. The story centers around a heist, and the filmmakers have gone out of their way to get the various tropes of the genre right. Adult fans of films like… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
…and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt • Mank – Erik Messerschmidt • News of the World – Dariusz Wolski • Nomadland – Joshua James Richards • The Trial of… |
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Disney’s Encanto digital soundtrack release now available!
…bambuco, mapalé, cumbia, and joropo. The score weaves in and out of the beautiful songs of Lin-Manuel Miranda. I hope that the musical imagery of the score evokes the resonant… |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…of the book is to discover who did what and how they came to such achievements. Thanks to hundreds of interviews, the reader will be within the studio in the… |
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ZooPhobia: Bad Luck Jack
…nature. There are other characters with defined personalities, but little time is spent on them due to the nature of the story’s focus on Jack and the short runtime. Speaking… |
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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
…for the FWRD Awards. The fourth annual AfroAnimation Summit will be held April 10 – 12, 2024 in Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, with Kemp Powers, Camille Eden,… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…to made them menacing to offset their silly design. When it came to the rigs they were always need-driven. If, say, the script called for one of the characters to… |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer teases epic scope
…the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long… |
