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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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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…will you keep from the experience? ND: First of all, I always love the first moment with the orchestra. And then, there’s this cue, right at the end of the… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…work of Pascal Campion has been a great source of inspiration for the use of light and color. Most of the inspiration came from the use of lights, the staging,… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…with the help of a friend escaped with the bicycles, the kids still on their Pajamas and all that they could carry. The street they took is very steep and… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…of the studio, examining the warts and celebrating the victories. Scholars will appreciate the many viewpoints offered, and fans will enjoy learning the secrets behind their favorite cartoons. I heartily… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…one called Nutty Numbers – a compilation of silly novelty songs. Then there were the amazing Power Records, including their exciting book & record sets; these told stories of comic… |
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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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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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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…shame they they’re not greater Looney Tunes stars. Maybe the public just didn’t warm to them given the sometimes offbeat approach, but they still do turn up in Looney Tunes… |
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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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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…animation vehicle. Sarah met up with them, took them to a day of theater and gave them her stamp of approval. AV: Where are you now in the production? DL:… |
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Soul
…all knew if any studio had the guts to actually kill some of their characters off it would be Pixar! So I applaud them for even taking the risk on… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…DVD. Sadly, their decade compilations stalled out at the end of the 1970s, and we are left with a new line of bargain-priced DVDs offering less than an hour of… |
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
…so many fanboys on the internet accusing them of being used for the sake of shying away from being a video game flick, which was ironic considering The Super Mario… |
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Warning From Space
…populous. Rather than the superbly intimidating aliens in The War Of The Worlds, however, we get the rather silly star-shaped creatures previously mentioned. That’s okay, though, because the serious tone… |
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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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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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The Best of the 2010s
…theaters in 2018. Other smaller productions, like The Book Of Life and Klaus, galvanized groups of devoted fans. And international releases such as The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, Song… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Knights of Guinevere
…different angles. Much of the focus was on Frankie and Andi, trying to keep the hopeful spirit of their dreams intact against the disappointment of the reality they lived in…. |
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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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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…the public eye, they had become homogenised, watered down versions of their old Avery-Clampett-Jones heyday selves. Realising the obligation they owed to their most popular characters, another Looney movie was… |
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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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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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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… |

