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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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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…his position to Anakin and Ahsoka and requests their assistance. Unfortunately, they have orders to defend a different area. Ahsoka, sensing that Plo is in danger suggests that they go… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…look at Bill Hanna overseeing the formation of Hanna-Barbera Australia, Animation Blast’s interview with Iwao Takamoto, an appearance of Joe Ruby and Ken Spears on Stu’s Show, and John Canemaker’s… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…the evil Hordak and his minions. The Sweatbox Review: There’s something fascinating about She-Ra as an animated heroine. After 25 years of entertaining children and adults, she has endured as… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…to combine Hanna-Barbera and Disney, but it had a strikingly beautiful painted cover, with Fred and Barney clinging to umbrellas with their kids in front of a full moon. And… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…a real love interest! Once that initial plot is over with, Don Diego and his mute aide Bernardo stay in Monterey to deal with a mean-spirited acting Governor and his… |
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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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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…American audiences at the time. When G.I. Joe came out the following year as a miniseries, it was Hasbro’s first attempt at re-launching an established all-American brand complete with a… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…DVD keepcase is packaged together with a six-inch collectible stocking. The stocking comes in a plastic bag and everything is wrapped up with a cardboard slipcase complete with “To” and… |
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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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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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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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Iron Man – Armored Adventures: The Complete Season One
…an interesting production history, with Marvel Animation and French animation company Method Animation being listed as co-producers along with India-based multinational powerhouse DQ Entertainment, public television network France 2, and… |
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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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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…all about the jokes. This is not as much a full-out parody as previous Lego Star Wars projects. These are plot-driven stories with character moments, with real danger and peril…. |
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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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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated – Season One, Volume One
…minor character modifications from previous versions and look a little younger (but nothing dramatic). The animators and art designers have done a great job with this series and many of… |
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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… |