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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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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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The Croods: A New Age
…be practically every character from A New Age, while Famileaf Album and Stone Age Snack Attack> are other activities taking their leads from the film and its setting, while suggesting… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…when you’re coming to the load area, you find yourself on the rooftops of Paris, and there are giant rooftops, and giant chimneys, and giant windows and balconies, and you… |
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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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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…Classical Animation at Sheridan College, as well as 3D Animation at Seneca College, both located in Toronto, Canada. She then freelanced as a 2D character animator and character designer on… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…elements had been done at UCLA, and new work was commissioned to other helpers such as Steve Stanchfield and his crew at Thunderbean Animation, who performed an immense amount of… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…His articles about the Disney parks, Disney animation, and vintage international Disneyana, as well as his many interviews with Disney artists, have appeared in Animation Journal, Animation Magazine, Disney Twenty… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…as the original OVA series had often been regarded as an elite title within the genre. Mixing the look of medieval culture with their tried-and-true approach in animating stylish action… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…Art Of Luca is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Dan Romer, and Adrianna Perez and Kyrie Hood at White Bear, and April Whitney at Chronicle Books…. |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…Leff: I’m a pop culture aficionado and I grew up loving television and cartoons. When I was in college, one of my teachers worked at Second City, and I always… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…Ezra Miller providing trivia and jokes about the character alongside interviews with filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti and screenwriter Christina Hodson. Days before FanDome went live, it had been revealed… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…the decisions and feedback I was able to make about the animation as a whole. We were all pursuing the truth of the characters and the story, and I’d like… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…guys made a superb score! AV: You’ve been working with them both as an orchestrator and a conductor. As an orchestrator, how do you work with them? ND: In every… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…started learning more and more about Disney history and noticing the questions that I asked myself without finding answers. All of my books are attempts at answering those questions. Walt’s… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…First Avenger, Avengers,Wreck-it-Ralph and Moana to name just a few, to arrange them. A true fan of all those series, Metzger’s versatility and affinity with all kinds of styles and… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…countries equally. Hear the stories from Mexican voice actors Cristina Hernández (Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Padme Amidala), Sebastián Llapur (Darth Vader, Daffy Duck), and Claudia Motta (Bart Simpson, Pikachu) about the different… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…and Magic (ILM) in 1986. As a visual effects art director at ILM, he earned an Academy Award® for his work on Innerspace and an Academy Award® nomination for Hook…. |
