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2019 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…The Little Mermaid, the 25th of The Lion King, the 20th of Tarzan, and the 10th of The Princess and the Frog, just to name a few. In honor of… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…one of filmmaking’s masterpieces, sadly overlooked more often than not in the general consensus. It’s full of inventive ways of storytelling (Lady’s growing “overnight” to show the passing of time,… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…surely a fraction of the priceless riches this now hugely vast archive of material can provide to researchers, or producers of documentary subjects. Documentaries have always been a part of… |
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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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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…a span of 10 years. We didn’t exactly have a hedge, but we did have a bunch of small trees, and in back of that was a field full of… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…my shelf, along with the superlative restoration of George Pal’s The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm to the always enticing Warner Archive, the bonkers Return Of Captain Invincible in… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…topping my pick for off-screen material of 2018. Shout! Factory issued a glorious Blu-ray of the complete series with the collector’s edition containing a bonus disc of fun extras, such… |
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Kellyann Lamb, Scott Gagner on A World of Barriers
…it. AV: Looking at A World of Barriers, could you separate the requests and conditions of Adobe from the original ideas of Visual Resource? SG: They really just wanted us… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
…The Extraordinary World, or to see GKids ads for Only Yesterday, Boy & The World, When Marnie Was There, The Prophet, The Tale Of Princess Kaguya, and Song Of The… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…mastered but one of the most rewarding combinations of sleight of hand, draftsmanship, acting and entertaining. RI: What changed in terms of techniques or way of working on a 2D… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…the real world in which Nemo is set, with Jean-Michel Cousteau hosting as if this is going to be one of those “around the world” pieces often shown on nature… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…with Huck Milner introduced to voice middle child Dash. After banter from the veterans offering Huck advice, they showed off a fun, almost fully completed scene of Jack-Jack encountering a… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…his pre-Disney short film Shades of Sherlock Holmes before getting word of the Talent Development Program. They showed off a great picture of young Clements as part of a group… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…Stanton. An often insightful track, it never gets really bogged down too deeply with the technicalities of making the film, offering a nicely rounded chat that is of interest to… |
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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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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
…World Of Invention is not a straight educational show, it isn’t an all-out, usual Wallace & Gromit kind of spoof-noir caper, either. We do learn, about a huge array of… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…new. Keep that grain of salt between your fingers as you watch Belle’s Magical World. There are four half hour episodes starring the entire cast of the original movie, plus… |
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Trolls World Tour
…a whole lot of other people did as well, perhaps making the announcement of a sequel inevitable. Of course, when Trolls World Tour was first put into production, no one… |
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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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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…The animation renaissance of the mid-1990s is naturally still a part of most of our memories, inarguably the high-point of the Eisner/Wells/Katzenberg regime where The Lion King became the biggest… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…small layer of enjoyment, I suppose! AV: What was the input of the Disney legends of animation like Vance Gerry or Frank & Ollie on Oliver & Company? GS: To… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…– or ‘mockumentary,’ whatever, but it really is kind of an animated documentary – I thought was really unique and fun. I was a big fan of a lot of… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…the time”, and I replied, “No, but I’d have a lot of fun if I was!” One of my favorite films, although I suppose it’s a bit of an oddball… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
As all connoisseurs of animation know, a storyboard is the succession of drawings used during the pre-production of an animated film (and very often in live-action too) intended to visualise… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…already packed world. A fun game for fans of the ride is to pick out where little scenes, moments and characters can be glimpsed in the films, but At World’s… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…of the technical details of the development work and could get a good sense of what was reasonable to ask of the technical team. I was able to know when… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…never grow tired of having fun with. Click on picture to enlarge AV: Do you happen to collaborate with the animators? PDS: Yes. On top of just doing drawings of… |
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Shrek 2
…plenty of fun for the media-savvy family, made by one of the slickest producers of such fare. Is This Thing Loaded? Leaked to various online destinations, DreamWorks had a situation… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…Po’s real world of beautiful, hyper real CGI. Kung Fu Panda is certainly one of the best looking of the DWs films; one gets the impression that their most experienced… |
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The Muppets
…kind of run-down shack off-off-off Broadway). I know that some of the Muppet-mad Pixar crew supported the production, and maybe this was a way of saying thanks, but with the… |
