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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…a great color. RI: Do you base your characters on people you know or do they come from your imagination? BM: When we’re animating, we try to create them from… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…that’s enough of us being melancholy for now. “Stay Tooned” for our thoughts on the year that was, along with your picks for the best animated movies it gave us,… |
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AV to celebrate 10th anniversary all week!
…our archive of themed logos that ran at the top of the site during holidays and film openings. WEDNESDAY UPDATE: What year of our existence had the best slate of… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…challenge has been to create a look that is different, beautiful, yet relatively cost effective and fast to implement by our constantly rotating artists. Francesco Giroldini, our lighting supervisor, has… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…well. He was a savior on this film, and really helped us push the quality of our animation further than ever. He brought a hand-drawn aesthetic to our animation that… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…in LA. AV: Can you tell me about the collaborative aspect of your work – notably your collaboration with Aurora Jimenez, your “tale twin”. CZ: Making movies require a great… |
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D23 Expo 2024 Exclusive
…hour, but we finally got our first preview of an upcoming experience. D’Amaro announced an Avatar Experience would be coming to California Adventure. Ali Rubinstein from Imagineering explained that the… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…dance, our cultural heritage, the architecture of our two theatres and the skilled professionals working at the Paris Opera”. Nephtali, which refers to Jacob’s blessings and Psalm 42, was born… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…for the 2020 Oscar-nominated animated short Kitbull. Here’s our conversation. Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for the film. Animated Views: From set designer to production designer for the first… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…back four years later… AV: Did your participation in the strike affect your relation with Walt Disney? XA: At that time, no, because I was just an inbetweener. I had… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…solutions to your custom problem, and push your boundaries. A lot of creativity comes from this problem solving. I think it is a really great time for independent creators. AV:… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…our pleasure to follow you in your upcoming and promising ventures! The Art of Bolt is available to buy now from Amazon.com With all our appreciation to Cinzia for her… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…Fei Fei’s journey tends to the universal: “I think that there is a drive in every one of us to see ourselves accomplish something that maybe we look at ourselves… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…and sound in general. AV: How did your collaboration go with Dwarf Studio, which is based in France? ED: It was really a great experience. When we got our okay… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
The new Pixar film had the challenge of presenting a livable world that could accommodate four different types of beings. Read how this was approached, in our exclusive interview…. |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…And you don’t have to leave your house to play them. In fact, with the internet, you don’t have to even leave the house to interact or play with your… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…your European background into your art? ML: I grew up with a lot of Belgian comic books and I really loved the world that Franquin built, for example. I grew… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…hinted at Season Four would have dealt with Superman regaining our planet’s trust, later developed in the following Justice League), even if it raises some interesting points, such as how… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…when the three super villains are released from their Phantom Zone confines and discover our planet. In these moments, Donner really pushes the aggression and violence, at least as much… |
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Oscar Night 2023
Thanks to all who joined us in the chat tonight. And congrats to our two Oscar contest winners, lisa and marlomanners, who each got a score of 90.5%! (Head to… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…their SRO annual #SDCC panels. Will your favorites make the final cut like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Escape From New York, Outland, The Howling, Stripes, Heavy Metal, For Your… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…single thing there. I think we really can be. It really brings a smile to your face just to walk into this place and feel transported. AV: Considering your experience… |
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Oscar Night 2022
…the contest online in real time as each award is announced. And soon we’ll be revealing our selections for the Best of 2022 and your picks in the Readers’ Choice… |
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Oscar Night 2024
…live with readers like you in our chat room. Join us as we talk the people, the story-lines, and the awards… and keep track of who’s winning our Oscar Contest…. |
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Oscar Night 2025
…live with readers like you in our chat room. Join us as we talk the people, the story-lines, and the awards… and keep track of who’s winning our Oscar Contest…. |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…your vocal cords, it doesn’t come from your diaphragm. It comes from your soul.” Iwan noted that he had seemingly formed a symbiotic relationship with Mickey and would be influenced… |
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The cell phone is in charge in independent animated short film Like and Follow
…have been wanting more. “The popularity of the phone character surprised us and we found ourselves being asked about our plans for a series/feature. To say that Tobi and I… |
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Daffy and Porky are our only hope in new The Day the Earth Blew Up trailer
A new (and short) trailer for The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. The… |
