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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…I’m so proud of. Our Mila family is amazing and Cinzia and I are so grateful to everyone involved from our volunteers, our sponsors, our family and our fans! For… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…with our work, that they wanted to lock us up for Toy Story 4. AV: Do you know if Lasseter read your screenplays? There are some striking similarities between your… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…developing our film. It helped us discover the responsibility of our Pig, to save the town everyday by maintaining the dam. When developing our world, we wanted to create an… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…ourselves about our own stories of loss, in particular, the first time we really remembered experiencing loss in our lives. Out of that session of sharing came a story about… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…itself, but didn’t get overly complex. It drove our approach to lighting. We simplified all of our lights down to their most fundamental expression. And then we really wanted to… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…around us, we realized we were right in the middle of a beautiful forest. At the same time, knowing that our show was intended for our “Swing Into Spring” season,… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…Disney’s huge cast of villains, and more about things that go bump in the night, with a fair few told with music, mock-Fantasia style. Mickey’s House Of Villains is a… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…On something like Tarzan, I think, at any given time, there were four hundred artists working on your film, which makes it more difficult. If you want to maintain a… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…did all the building, design and test shooting at our studios in San Fernando; but when it came to actual production, our facility just wasn’t big enough, so we went… |
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Anniversary Features
…themselves. Best Animated Year Poll, 20th Anniversary Edition On our 10th anniversary we asked you to pick the best year for animation during our existence to date. Now it’s time… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…your picks for what you chose as the best animated movies of 2020 from our Reader’s Choice poll! This year, modern entertainment naturally found itself unable to catch up with… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…a Superman vs. Lex Luthor fight every week (although that episode does exists). Speaking of villains, villains get their fair share in the spotlight with Lex Luthor even attempting to… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…with our viewers on a different level. We have our movie, and it connects with kids in a fun storytelling level. But this is on a more human level. In… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
Our annual recap of the year that was is finally up, with us giving you our favorites in film, television, and anything else we might’ve liked! Plus we reveal your… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…he wanted to Tweet something about the event and our post just happened to catch his eye. A really nice guy to meet from our very brief chat and one… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…for our site’s annual look back at the year that was, with our staff favorites along with your picks of what 2019 had to offer in our Reader’s Choice poll!… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…to get into film and TV about four or five years ago and we got to it in a backwards way. Aside from our records, Jesse and I do a… |
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Twenty Years of AV
…is because of you, our readers. So thank you all for giving us this opportunity! To celebrate our 20th, we have a few fun features for you, with a new… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…was, for me, to look at the concept of the hero and how we react to it nowadays. If you look at our cultural history, our mythologies and our super-heroes,… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…that was, with our staff’s favorites from what pop culture had to give us, along with your picks for what you chose as the best animated movies of 2022 from… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…of my main responsibilities is making sure that the ideas and the vision of our Production Designer and our Director are translated into our sets, supporting the characters. With that,… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…was your first move? DM: My first assignment, if you will, because our Production Designer Daniela Strijleva was the conductor of this orchestra, was to explore the sea monster characters…. |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…Netflix free with our mobile phone service, get Apple+ in a bundle with our other Apple subscriptions, and get the discounted Disney+/Hulu/ESPN bundle. DACEY: Does password sharing count as a… |
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2025 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Fantastic Four: First Steps) “The Legend of Vox Machina, amazing show, it’s like an action-comedy. This show, I think, is more we treated it like a one-hour drama, like a… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…the past twelve months to nominate our own picks of the year and make our comments on other notable efforts. In many ways, the past year demonstrated more than anything… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…designed after Danny. And when Tim thinks Nanny is evil, he uses Danny’s “redrum” finger. We’re a bunch of middle-aged men in their 40s with our own culture, our own… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…never seen before pictures of the original, animated Princesses. How did you make your research and your choices, in that regard? EZ: Actually, we hired a photo researcher, so it… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…actually? HJ: Right. Our first trip was in 2011. That was with Lee, Darla Anderson our Producer, our Head of Story Jason Katz, and I. We went to Mexico City,… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…of our main story. We took a boatload of photos and videos that day and that file remained our main reference for the modeling and texturing of both characters and… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…relationship between man and nature. What is your take on those topics in Oni? DT: It’s one important thing we always love to talk about in our films. The origin… |
