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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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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… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…George Pal’s wonderful stop motion puppet films. Leibovit has worked with Paramount Studios and various archives in the USA and Europe to gather another twenty-one Puppetoons, plus seven hand-drawn animated… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…And Reddy was still playing along with a couple of other Hanna-Barbera shows (one with a slow-talking dog, as I recall), but there was not much else besides repeated airings… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…The remaining episodes adapt an early story arc from the broadcast, establishing Percy’s haunting and tragic backstory against a thrilling gothic drama of revenge and revolution. Both stories provide a… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…warmest thanks to Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco, Andrea Emmes and Cinzia Angelini! Visual Development art by Ruchita Jeswall, Alex Harris, Andres Amaya, Theunis Duvenhage and Guilherme Lopes. All Rights Reserved… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…their colleagues in the Story Department, much more aware of modernism and new art fashions and styles, and all this permeated their approach to story development, character design, and concept… |
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Arcane
…JB Blanc is outstanding as Vander, a street-weary former revolutionist who houses Vi and Powder as children and struggles to maintain peace all-around. But Ella Purnell really shines the most… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer • Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon • Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
…Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze • Hillbilly Elegy – Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…simple concept of a child not moving with terror, and develop it into an 11-minute short film with multiple locations and characters. Actually, a great exercise for anyone interested in… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Cow design-wise? AS: Aria will be a painterly short: colorful, layered, and with a cubistic approach. I have always loved doing visual development pieces for a production; and usually, once… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…a slip that duplicates the cover, and a small insert advertising Trek and Paramount+, the new name for CBS All Access. A Blu-ray and a Blu-ray Steelbook edition were also… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…all, and is significantly more entertaining than the many post-Beauty And The Beast knock-offs and bore-fests The Princess And The Pea, Princess And The Goblin (notice a theme here) or… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…working on a project in California and a friend of mine was doing a film at Bron and introduced me to the producer, and the producer had the book. So,… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…film was CG done using Maya. All the vfx, backgrounds, and lighting was 2D. Storyboards, design, backgrounds, and 2D animation was done in Photoshop. Compositing and vfx was in After… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…your characters so expressive and emotional? RK & DT: Chris Sasaki (character designer) and Andrea Blasich (character sculptor) did a tremendous job creating simple and appealing characters. Erick Oh and… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…been amplified and expanded upon, with horses being thrown further, bodies falling down harder, and every kick and gunshot feeling fiercer. This is all greatly enhanced by a brand new… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…all with a smile and laid back attitude. As a director you couldn’t ask for a better collaborator. The producer of SST, Nicole Grindle, did all the heavy lifting to… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…(1999) and Leif Ericson, Discoverer of North America (2000). Nibbelink recently participated in a discussion with Animated News & Views’ Josh Armstrong about his latest film, Romeo & Juliet: Sealed… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…me about your role as an Art Director and the challenge that position represents to you within the Mila project? AK: Initially I began as colour script artist and then… |
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Soul
…Soul. They took a crazy concept and an idea with a huge scope and made it relatable the same way they always do — by focusing it all down onto… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…There are about as many imperfections as one might expect, with a modest amount of marks and scratches present. Given that this movie was unlikely to receive a full digital… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…a story artist. As such, he contributed to series and films like Gravity Falls, Hotel Transylvania 2 and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, and also The Smurfs And The Lost… |
