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Avatar: The Legend of Korra
…official video stream with a limited viewing opportunity. The Legend of Korra had a lot to live up to in the shadow of Aang, Katara, Zuko, Sokka, and Tophs’ adventure… |
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Insider Access To Inside Out
…to sink in, but Inside Out may very well be one of the most well thought-out and brilliant animated films of all time. First, let’s begin with a discussion of… |
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Despicable Me 2
…non-Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks movie on the list of the top 20 animated films of all time at the box office, earning over a quarter of a billion dollars domestically. Since this isn’t… |
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Eloise in Hollywood to Premiere at Teen & KidFilm Festival in Dallas
…and diverse line-up of new and classic films and videos for audiences of all ages. KidFilm is an annual outreach program of the USA Film Festival/Dallas, a 37-year-old Dallas-based 501c3… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…of contenders (mostly Disney classics, of course!) – I’d say something between Fantasia (animation! Demons! Dinosaurs! All together!), The Rescuers, and Secret of Nimh (of course, it was limited to… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The lives, times and works of the two last surviving of Walt Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” group of trusted animation geniuses, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston…. |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…of Mickey: The Story of a Mouse As Walt Disney himself would often say, “It all started with a mouse.” The unparalleled success of Mickey Mouse following the release of… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…processed it. But the other side of the tribe theme is the idea of family. The fun part of that theme was finding a way to marry the idea of… |
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Disney opera opens
…visionary at the end of his life, of an artist who devoted his life to a vision of a world without death, now grappling with mortality… It does what opera… |
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World of Tomorrow
…memories in the life of the older woman. It is through this journey that the little girl will witness, through her own wonderment, what will become of humanity and the… |
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Doc McStuffins
…of jack-in-the-boxes aptly named Little Jack and Big Jack. Little Jack is not jumping out of his box at a startling pace, which earns him a visit to a state-of-the-art… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…Ray’s Encyclopedia takes an educational (but always fun) look at the real-life undersea stars of Finding Nemo, with live-action footage of thirteen of the species shown in the film accessible… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…freedom in terms of execution. AV: When you animate, the characters are often very rough and robotic. Is it more difficult to give the illusion of life in those conditions?… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…with the exception of a few of them, like the Aloof Pavilion. We made it feel like a nose pointing up in the air, because that shape language kind of… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…characters: Marvin The Martian, the Tasmanian Devil and Ralph Phillips, and often show the pre-restored state of some of the films. From the fifth volume of the original Golden Collection… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…the Opéra Bastille. The aim of this digital 3rd Stage is to commission new works from artists through original pieces offering an original perspective on the world of opera, music,… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…Popeye’s arms and the undoubtedly impressive realisation of Sweethaven, to the tiniest of touches, like the state of Wimpy’s hamburgers and background touches like the askew painting of the sea… |
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Real Steel
…of the screentime, they are themselves absolutely first rate contenders, building on the design and integration effects of the likes of TransFormers and I, Robot to offer up some exceptionally… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…feeling that a lot of the story was being revealed for a lot of the films during some of the presentations, reaching dangerously close to spoiling all of the key… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…kind of a proof of concept, Sox being cuter. And after that, Matt Nolte and Dean went back in and made Sox more of a cute character. They used to… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…know, I don’t think we have any idea of what you want on this.” The next day, he called me off to his office. He looked at me, and he… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…of years of history, so I tried to feature each instrument in a way that honored its tradition and range. One of the most challenging aspects of combining east and… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…part of our discussion with Mark, he shares his memories of this new golden age of animation, the Disney renaissance. Animated Views: At the beginning of the Florida studio’s launch,… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…Succinct and without losing any interest, this is a good piece that explores an often overlooked angle of the moviemaking process on these types of films. The Origins Of Beowulf… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…of Stephen Hillenburg, who created one of the most popular cartoons of all time with SpongeBob SquarePants. And, speaking of getting older(!), you all probably know that 2018 saw the… |
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The Chosen One
…(Fifer again), a loser in life if ever there was one. In a slight spoofing of Scientology, the plot follows Lou as he is mistaken, Monty Python’s Life Of Brian… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
There are several origins to Walt Disney’s choice of Snow White as his very first animated feature. One of them is that it was the subject of the very first… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…a number of places to become prevalent at the end of the movie in a kind of a Carmina Burana kind of way. AV: The film is also about parody…. |
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Up
…of thousands of helium filled balloons and setting course for the almost mythical Paradise Falls… The Sweatbox Review: Pixar’s latest computer animated feature may sound like an overcomplicated slice of… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…the “video premiere” market prior to the return of Simba and company with the first such officially released title, a sequel of sorts to Aladdin, The Return Of Jafar, which… |