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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…it. In addition to iTunes, The Little Matchgirl is available on The Little Mermaid Platinum Edition DVD. The Animated News & Views team thanks Roger Allers for participating in the… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…little kids, too. That was fun. The little kids – a lot of their little scenes together are some of the most charming moments in the movie. They’re all real…. |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…little looser. In his animation, he was maybe a little more not assured of himself physically, he could be a little more awkward, his feet were a little bigger, they… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…orchestrally speaking, how did you approach the world of Andalasia? DT: Unreal. It had to seem unreal. Everything a little bit exaggerated, everything a little bit campy. Everything beautiful but… |
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UPDATED: Looking forward to the WABAC
…be directed by Rob Minkoff, marking his first animated feature since he helmed the blockbuster The Lion King. Minkoff has since directed such live-action hits as Stuart Little and its… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…while I hit many of the animation panels, my schedule was a little more heavy on non-animated stuff than the other guys. The first consideration when my wife, Tami, and… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, Dolby True-HD 7.1, Rated G, Retail: $49.99 Storyboard: When little clownfish Nemo is fished out of the ocean, his father Marlin sets out on an epic… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…ratio, I was a little worried that at least one or both of The Rescuers movies would also find themselves cropped a little top and bottom. There isn’t a great… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…Maltese and Maurice Noble! Music-only tracks are included for Three Little Bops, One Froggy Evening and What’s Opera, Doc? and there are vocal-only tracks for Three Little Bops and What’s… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…Disney films be renamed in the same way, such as “Seven Little Men Help A Girl”) couldn’t do any harm to this great little gem of a movie (later released… |
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The Little Mermaid grab bag #3: Two press releases
The following are two official press release relating to yesterday’s release of Disney’s The Little Mermaid on 2-Disc Platinum Edition DVD. The first is a lighthearted one pointing out Ariel… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…and music, is stately and a little too measured. It’s all done to an exacting perfectionism, of course, and there’s little to actually fault in the drawing, but for a… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…survive… The sequence does offer Indy one other classic Jones moment (you’ll know which), but otherwise there’s little point and it all feels a little embarrassingly small scale. 0:47:55 =… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…a clear step back toward top form for the Disney Studios after the emphatically boisterous Chicken Little and had picked up good word of mouth, I honestly didn’t think that… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…was a little like hers, coming from a small village to a station that looked a little bit like the one that I had close to my house in Germany,… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…a little cramped, and I wonder if this is still essentially a 1.66 image zoomed in to 1.78, cropping a little top and bottom to fill the frame, since there… |
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Could a Little DTV be a big success?
Reuters via Yahoo! News focuses its attention to the direct-to-video title Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild. Considering the success other DTV animated projects have enjoyed, the composition examines… |
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Valiant
…inspired to sign up his services for England. Just then, in walks Britain’s greatest pigeon hero, Gutsy (Stuart Little’s Hugh Laurie, sporting his real accent and not the American accent… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…the bigger names to return in place of the sound-alikes used here. The flashbacks are pretty fun, but they also feel a little long, taking a little bit away from… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…well as give a little more top and bottom. Everything is crisp and clear, and the little touch ups given to the animation throughout the film suddenly become worthwhile. Those… |
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Ariel’s Song: Jeanine Tesori and James Dooley, two fortunate composers under the sea!
…provided the most refined and colorful score to The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning. Animated Views: Your arrival on The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning was quite usual, wasn’t it? James Dooley:… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…himself. Possibly a little too higher praise for some (and subsequent viewings have dampened my enthusiasm a little), but at the time I found Never-Land to be a colorful showcase… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…there’s little to actually fault in the drawing, but for a film that really brings humans to the fore with such plotted passions, there’s precious little life in them. Likewise… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Street book) little movie that returned to what Disney did best, but did it quick and economically, keeping the animation division off the chopping block for a little longer at… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…AV: First of all, can you tell me a little about your background, your Italian origins, and what led you to go and study in New York? I believe animation… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…It’s true that the Studio relaxed a little with the voice cast, bringing back the proven Jungle Book breakout star Phil Harris as the male lead, where he basically reprises… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…a sweet princess preyed upon by a wicked stepmother and rescued by seven odd little men, pulled cartoons out of the supporting program and changed the future of filmmaking. Now… |
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\\Chicken Little\\ in Disney Digital 3-D
…film in 3-D can be found here: **COMMERCIAL** – QUICKTIME: {{link http://bvim-qt.vitalstream.com/ChickenLittle/ChickenLittle_NeverBefore_DIYC3101_0300.mov small}} | {{link http://bvim-qt.vitalstream.com/ChickenLittle/ChickenLittle_NeverBefore_DIYC3101_1500.mov large}} – WINDOWS MEDIA: small | large **PRESS RELEASE** THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS AND… |
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My Little Pony: The Movie
…My Little Pony: The Movie different is that it’s a property that already has a built-in audience, one which brings in more than $600 million annually for its parent company… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…in place, and Woody even gets his own crazy opening number. The cartoons continue with The Screwdriver, a cartoon with clear adult undertones (though nothing that would offend little ones… |
