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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…for Nickelodeon for some of their projects. Then Transformers popped up. It seemed like it was gonna be a good fit. Luckily for us, the creative team over there really… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…was simply titled Dungeons & Dragons. The show would tell a seemingly never-ending quest of six teens looking for a way home after being mysteriously transported to The Realm. While… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…in The Forest Of Enchantment – A Disney Musical Adventure, and with his wife, Lisa, they form a unique duet of songwriters that created together Forest Of Enchantment, the main… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…One of the songs he arranged and orchestrated for Moana, “How Far I’ll go” was recently nominated for an Oscar. For Animated Views, he kindly accepted to talk about the… |
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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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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…for that. Our Tech supervisor actually grew up on a ship for several years. So, he really, really knew what he was doing. And Sony works on live action films,… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…is to dive into the making of those memorable sequences. Renaut is well-known for his first book, From Snow White To Hercules, published by Dreamland in 1997, with a foreword… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…for the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for the Tony-winning The Lion King. He also orchestrated the Broadway version of Frozen. Along with having worked on eleven of the 62… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…Christmas mixed in. That’s where I came up with Alien Xmas. EC: So we developed a pitch for it, and we took it out. People loved the idea, but for… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…cartoon, Plane Crazy, all by himself in just two weeks. Other animators considered him a genius, not just for his speed, but also for his innate sense of movement and… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…Promos for each season, for a total of about seven minutes. Finally, Comedy Central Quickies offers clips for South Park and The Sarah Silverman Program (5 minutes total). Case Study:… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
The production of the animated short Aria For A Cow is clearly off the grid, and for more than one reason. In our two previous articles, we’ve been following the… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…the messages to land for an adult as much as for a child. She was extremely intelligent, and very humble. And those two things make a very profound combination for… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the heart, and a wonder for the eye. With the most up-to-date medium, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi prove once more their mastery and genius, through their love for the… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…Production Designer for live action and for animation, how would you present it? How do both domains enrich each other, especially in the case of The Emoji Movie? CZ: I… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…be there for decades to come, for generations to come. The love and craftsmanship that everyone puts into it is just astounding. For the Imagineer Art Director Beth Clapperton, who… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…because she’s still grieving. And as she gets the song, she realizes, like, ‘Okay, I have to do this for my mom, and for myself, for my family.’ She gets… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…boogie woogie show-stopper. Seven Puppetoons were nominated for Oscars, and the first was Rhythm In The Ranks (1941), which sees toy soldier Jan disciplined for dereliction of duty after being… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…and then have to overcome these challenges. We’re looking for someone who starts off at zero but has great potential, great heart and reaches for infinity. So, for us, it… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…biggest questions – because when you can wish for anything, you have to decide what really matters. If you see some analogy with the story of Aladdin, you got it… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…Recently, she scored Kung Fu Panda Land Of Awesomeness for Universal Studios Beijing, and completed two feature films for Universal Animation, Curious George: Go West, Go Wild and Curious George:… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…of the great things about Toon In With Me is the show’s obvious respect for the cartoons. This isn’t some stereotypically corporate product looking for the cheapest way to fill… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…sought for WandaVision, and cemented its roots in classic sitcoms. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez created unique theme songs for episodes to reflect the eras spanning from the 1950s to… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…newspaper and magazine articles released in 1935, Didier Ghez, for the first time, gives precise answers to those questions, analyzes the roots of Disney’s expansion in Europe, and lets us… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…a teenagers life to really see and comprehend what he has sacrificed for her. ANIMATION: The visual style was interesting. While obviously computer generated, the animation for humans and backgrounds… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film, seven Annie Award nominations, and an NAACP Image Awards nod for Outstanding Short Form (Animated) film. The winners of the 2023 EE… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…the ongoing discoveries, awesome surprises and moments of elation when questions I had asked myself for years were finally answered or when a piece of concept art that I had… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…maybe for the last twelve years. He played every violin and viola on Beasts Of The Southern Wild, except for the fiddle. And Tara has been playing cello for many… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…“What would you do with this?” I knew that it was going to be about drawing for me, because that’s where all the ideas come for me. I went away… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…a class I’ve been teaching at Bridgewater State University for seven years. I was looking for a topic to write a book about, and writing a book for a course… |
