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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…stop-motion at the time. I’ve always loved the art form and wanted to take a break from working for the big studios and create something of my own. The art… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…Good Dinosaur. Harley Jessup began his animation career designing The Adventures Of Thelma Thumb for Sesame Street, which served as a training platform for his work as production designer on… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…then in the United States for Paramount. He also did a number of advertising films for clients such as Philips and Horlicks. His shorts utilized the puppet replacement technique of… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…recently won a Children’s BAFTA, 2 European Animation Awards, a Cristal at Annecy, and was also just nominated for the Annie Awards and the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short…. |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…try to keep an open mind here… Back in 1959 your viewing options for cartoons on television, especially new ones, were pretty limited. Gumby had started in 1957, and Ruff… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…start for Pixar, be it story-wise or visually. Do you agree? Rona Liu: It’s definitely fresh but, maybe because I’ve been working at Pixar for so long, I feel like… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…involved in the project? What interested you in it? Amos Sussigan: Aria For A Cow has been around for a long time. The first time I had a tour at… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…superhero epic, serving not only as a vindication for its director, but also as a fully satisfying experience for the fans who have been begging for it to be released…. |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…I just have been fortunate enough to be in the trenches for the longest guiding the wagon. AV: How would you describe the process of visual development of Mila? CAMO:… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…design. She was always intended to be that way, even if you look at the earliest conceptual art for her. But for the most part, I think we found something… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…set out to wreak serious havoc — for Ballister to clear his name once and for all, and for Nimona to… just wreak serious havoc. Directed by Nick Bruno and… |
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Santa Inc.
…or that the character becomes so unlikable after a certain point that it’s hard for the audience to want to root for her. Actually, that can be said for almost… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…deep sown thread that took us out of the caves, (and had us) climb mountains, cross oceans, and reach for things just past our grasp. The pioneering quests never present… |
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Trolls World Tour
…played for gasps and more for giggles for its absurdity when it does happen. And just like last time, a large part of this is due to its heroine. Once… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…rounder, softer forms, on a very abstract level. For the human world, there is that tactility of things, and the way time affects things, with wear and tear on the… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…love the stop motion feeling that we were able to achieve while we did the pilot test in the beginning. It really felt appropriate for this story, for the world… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…team that was allowed to work for longer; we were in production for about 18 months, whereas most animation teams will wrap after 9-12 months. At the time we were… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…for them. The pig seemed a good candidate for being ‘dirty’ and it was easy to find ways for the town to pick on him, while maintaining a quiet strength…. |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…artists from the Story Research and Character Model departments. Their astounding work, much of which is shown here for the first time, displays the free-form thinking that blossomed during the… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…me a list of Disney books that they recommended, that I looked for and looked at. For instance, there’s a book about the history of the costumes in Disney films… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…heroes is besieged by the enemy forces of Shao Kahn – forcing Raiden and his group of warriors into a deal to compete in a final Mortal Kombat that will… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…San Diego Convention Center for five days of preeminent celebration of comics and pop culture in all of their facets. However, the ongoing global pandemic and the need for social… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…strong recognition for our radical issue and strong work during 6 years. It was an award for the impossible! AV: What do you hope for your film, now being presented… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…is understandably expanded to fulfill the needs of a typical sequel, but any inventiveness or originality is forsaken for safe, simple storytelling and predictability, where the references can be seen… |
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Onward
…for him by his father, who died before he was born — a magic staff that will allow him to come back for one day to see who his sons… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
Mila is a dream Cinzia Angelini has been chasing for 5 years— a dream that has led over 250 volunteers working night and day to bring to life a story… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…Cars, as well as the short films Air Mater, Time Travel Mater and La Luna. Lightning’s new adventure, in different parts of the world, was for him another occasion to… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest : Season One, Volume Two
…Jonny Quest in early 2009 doomed plans for a retail release for the second half of Season One. However, this is just what Warner Archive is for. Fans can at… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
After a weird year for movies, cinema in 2020 has finally almost reached its end with the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards being revealed. Leading the animated entries is… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…with the project very shortly – along with a request for using my existing composition «Eatnemen Vuelie» in the film. AV: From that piece, how did you create the Frozen… |
