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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…off in a much later episode. Bubble Trouble/A Gummi In A Strange Land is a mishmash of a so-so story featuring Sunni and an overly cute baby dragon, and a… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…breaks into a film studio, fails as a plumber, hunts in Africa (beware some racist caricatures in this one!), encounters Spooks, and works as a firefighter and a milkman, we… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…and visually pleasing animation, and very intriguing world-building. Along with a nice press conference and an impromptu post-screening photo op with director Toshihisa Yokoshima and Toriyama’s editor in charge Akio… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…Angeles. For 30 years, he has worked as an Art Director and Production Designer on a number of European and American animated features like Disney’s Zootopia and Ralph Breaks The… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…is a very talented story artist and animator and was able to judge the shots from both those perspectives. AV: What was your assignment as an animator on Bolt? CA:… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…this is where you’re gonna look and this is an area where we can put all our richness and detail and focus on it, and as we move away from… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…in animation. Many people feel like they’re missing the Golden Age of animation with Pinocchio and Snow White, or the second Golden Age with Beauty And The Beast and Little… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…and it was interacting with the music, the presentations and the performers that inspired me to return again and again. AV: Would you have any anecdote to share about that… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…(including most recently the Director’s Guild of America Student Filmmaker Award and top gold prize in the Student Academy Awards animation category), since it is enthused with the passion and… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Channel’s Amphibia and The Owl House share what’s coming up and present an exclusive crossover with a table read from stars of each series. Creators/executive producers Matt Braly (Amphibia) and… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…harp and the bandola and did a lot of sound effects like tickling the strings a little and having fast and slow tremolos, and then I would layer them with… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…fun! The Art Of Lightyear is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Tim Evatt, Andrea Lirio and Chris Wiggum at Pixar, and April Whitney at Chronicle Books…. |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…effects for Gargamel and Azrael. NT: For due diligence and with budgetary concerns in mind, we also tried to adapt models and sets from the two previous films but we… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…into a new project. The Art Of Turning Red is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Rona Liu and Chris Wiggum at Pixar, and April Whitney at… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…it. I’m not at all into the Star Wars and Marvel universes. And I am a die-hard defender of hand-drawn animation. AV: How did your project start out? CR: Well,… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…together and just learn about love and giving love and sharing love in our own way, within our culture, and to be able to present that to the world was… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…supervising the animation along with myself, and both he and I had talked quite a bit about this synthesis between hand-drawn and CG. For us, it would be wonderful if… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…Mouse cartoons to come. Backgrounds are sometimes quite simple, but at least as often they are multi-toned and relatively detailed. Continuity, drama, and comedy are just as good as the… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…to tap into was all these binders and folders and boxes which show that he’s also a teacher. He’s a teacher and an aspiring musician, and through his level of… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…represented Nimona and acceptance and freedom and change, could take over an entire scene. And gold and white and blue, kind of the classic hero colors, represented the opposite: non-acceptance,… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…and I always loved movies and TV and soundtracks, too, so, we kinda have a sense of what we like, things added to pictures that we like, and we sort… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…directors and artists really cut loose. Finally, we are getting US animation that takes full advantage of the medium. DACEY: I am and always will be a Disney boy. That… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…was, Disney changed Jasmine. She became feistier and more adventurous, and that moved on to characters like Pocahontas and Mulan, who are very dynamic and adventurous. And more recently, we’ve… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…band. She also developed and produced a slate of projects including Robert Valley’s Oscar-nominated and Annie-winning film Pear Cider And Cigarettes; the Emmy-nominated Marvel’s Rocket & Groot and Marvel’s Ant… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…a brand or whatever you call it. It’s a myth – a myth that we all love and share; and like any myth, it can be universal and forever. We… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…about the MOTU universe and mythology is that it is so vast. So, as a composer, it was simultaneously exciting and daunting because there are so many different characters and… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…potential. An unplumbed setting for an animated film, a deep and interesting foundational legend to build off of, a good message, amazing animation, a great cast of actors, and all… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…primary documents. There is the Animation Research Library (which I never accessed, and did not ask to access), the Disney Archives, and the Disney Music Legacy Library (as well as… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…and Ben, I realized it was real and I was on a once-in-a-lifetime journey. AV: You’ve worked with so many great songwriters. What made your collaboration with Julia Michaels and… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…player or are accessible in M4A and WMA format on the disc’s Audio folder. With a commercial soundtrack CD release also on sale, I’m not sure what the differences are… |
