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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…the Star Wars saga. At the beginning of the season, the Galactic Republic is in the middle of the war with the Separatists (the Confederation of Independent Systems) which is… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…belong here. The rest of the show isn’t as unique: many of the situations aren’t too original, mostly stemming from the family character dynamics, but once the other dimension opens… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…they sang in their demo. For the recording, we appealed to other singers, but as they’re used to singing in most of their movies, they blended in with these singers… |
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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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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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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…the French Disney subsidiary in the tremendously bureaucratic Archives Of Paris, I was able for the first time to establish the date of the foundation of the Disney office in… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…CZ: The stories of the main characters, Gene (the emoji) and Alex (the human), run in parallel. They are influencing each other and at the same time they belong to… |
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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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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…resource-wise, Fire Town got most of our time because most of the film would take place there. These are the type of things I just love. I grew up watching… |
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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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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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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes – The Magic Earmuffs and The Wishing Bear. These two episodes are from the first season of the show. In The Magic Earmuffs… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…side, where all design work, storyboarding, editing, most of the modeling, a lot of the key shading and rigging, and about 50% of the animation was done. The other half… |
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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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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…aware of some of the major script changes regarding the ending of the movie, but in hindsight the animation in the movie makes much more sense with the original rumored… |
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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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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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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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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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Jon M. Chu gives Masters of the Universe update
Long in development hell, Sony Pictures has been trying to get a live-action Masters of the Universe movie off the ground for years. The project finally found a director in… |
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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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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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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… |
