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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…of CG, from the cartooniness of the Cloudy films to the quasi-tradigital look of Mitchells and the Spider-Verses. The films haven’t always been the strongest, but I suppose Sony is… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…with the exception of a few of them, like the Aloof Pavilion. We made it feel like a nose pointing up in the air, because that shape language kind of… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…Animation Director for C4’s Emmy award-winning The Tiger Who Came For Tea. After directing The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse, he’s now in the early stages of… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…original creators of the film? RG: Brad Bird, the director of the film, and John Lasseter came and we brainstormed the storyboard with them because of course Brad created this… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…of the casita. It’s not necessarily tied to the house, but it’s kind of the magic of the house. I varied this theme in many different ways. For example, when… |
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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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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…the ensigns of the lower decks, the ones who actually make the ship run, the ones who do all the menial but vitally important stuff, similar to the ship they… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…an inspired duet. The unique, interactive nature of the story allows the viewer to seamlessly follow the journey of either of the two characters from birth to adulthood. We were… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…majority of the action takes place in the more stylized fairytale world. That’s also the place shown in all of Blake’s original illustrations. For our first meeting about the project,… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…we had to rely on color of hair or positions of the bodies. The growth of the population of the base was a way to measure that progress, and then… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…of the safest places in the West! That is, until the Dalton Gang of four desperate desperados mosey on into town. Scaring the townsfolk, they command the run of Daisy… |
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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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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…models, the artists in this division forged a new path. In the third volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking series They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art Of… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…wrote of the Disney composers of the time are some of the most detailed ever published. Can you tell me about how you worked on them? What was the most… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…– when the world is a true reflection of the people. AV: How do you see the differences between the world of the living and the world of the dead?… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…of each week ended in a cliffhanger to be resolved the following day. Friday’s show provided the finale for that week’s adventure. By the end of the show’s run, enough… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…very important in the development of the film, and not only for the notes themselves. The album cover for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon was among the… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…the Horde and joins the rebellion alongside Adam and the rest of the rebellion. When she lifts the Sword of Protection into the air and invokes the grace of Greyskull,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…on the previous Disney Movie Club DVDs. The black and white cinematography is often stunning, with a nice level of detail showing off the expense of these fine productions. Everything… |
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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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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…the side, and suddenly the line that I drew turned in perfect perspective and then I could draw the dancer in profile. I realized this was the fulfilment of the… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…industry and blend it with the sensibilities of the Japanese animation industry. Understanding how we connect to the emotional core of the story drives our telling of the story including… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…with him. I would say the most challenging part of Luca’s design was finding the balance of the features and the shapes. There’s a lot of nuance with him as… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…heartbreaking backstory plays through the majority of the first season, though some of the others manage to receive enough of the spotlight for them to flourish with their own personal… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…been true of all of them: they all do embrace their own narrative. Moana or Tiana are really putting themselves out there and taking charge of their destiny. They’re not… |
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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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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part Two
…team-up of yesteryear between Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder, showing off all the visual tropes of the 1960s TV show. Then, we travel to the present to find robin… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…Most of the shows available were for grown-ups, but there were two times of the week that became sacrosanct to generations of kids with limited entertainment options. The first and… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…at the heart of the series. The whole scope of the show feels bigger, thanks to the expanded cast and the peek into the lives of the gang, not to… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…be their He-Man, their Masters Of The Universe, that speak to their world. Our aim was to be absolutely true to the spirit and intention of the original, to the… |
