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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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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…of Power. Adam and Adora later learn that they are in fact twins separated in their youth when the Horde attempted to invade Eternia. After a brief family reunion, Adora… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…of shame. After a year and half of story rewrite and trying to find a design that’s appealing for our antagonist, we fell on a design Deanna Marsigliese did, and… |
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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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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…of amusing music numbers that do not really slow the story as much as they might, Asterix And Cleopatra is another fun adventure with the little Gaul and a good… |
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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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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…coolness. Evil Under The Sea! – Batman helps a jaunty Aquaman against Black Manta and Aquaman’s own brother, Orm. Invasion Of The Secret Santas! – Batman and the android Red… |
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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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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…collections as the Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz And Swing Short Subject Collection already available, as well as again putting out my own aforementioned hopes for the very funny RKO… |
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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…. |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…has since been employed by Pixar Animation Studios and JibJab, taught at CalArts, and worked at Disney Television Animation, where he served as a writer and creative director for the… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…see animation as a technique, not a genre. The most important differences among movies are in the stories and the tone. I have worked in comedies in live action and… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…We were there for about three days and the day after the big race, Jay and I flew up to Atlanta, Georgia, and then we rented a car. We tried… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…features including Beauty And The Beast,and Aladdin, as well as Pocahontas, Lion King, Tarzan, Mulan and Princess And The Frog to name just a few. Recently he served as Effects… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…with, including Marza Animation Planet and his own company, Crafter. AV: What did the Japanese studio and artists bring to Moom, practically and artistically? RK & DT: They brought an… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…so powerful. The Dam Keeper, Books 1 through 3 are available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Dice, Robert and Sara, and to Fumi Kitahara and Michael Rizzo…. |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…its vivid and colourful graphics, with symbols representing different fruits such as pears, strawberries, apples and lemons, all drawn in a lively and pleasing style. This slot is not only… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…re-appearance in a poorly conceived Hanna-Barbera version in 1983, and again as an American live-action TV series with Terrence Hill in the early 1990s. It is, however, these animated films… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…has arranged and orchestrated all of Mancina’s projects ever since. Through his work with Mark and Disney studios, among others, he has had the pleasure of arranging music for artists… |