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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 2024: Back To Basics!
…the galaxy far, far away to the multiplex where it belongs. At the end of the day, people love their comfort food, especially during uncertain times. The “real world” felt… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…a mouse named Amos is actually responsible for all the achievements of Benjamin Franklin. There may to lots to admire about the short— such as the terrific animation, and interesting… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…later). The conversation then shifted to the spin-off TV series which is already in early development for HBO Max. Told from the perspective of “the city,” it will chronicle the… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…songs, the styles, the models he had in mind when he was writing the songs. Then, the counterpoints are something I added to the material. AV: In the animated film,… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…their films. New scenery appears over the course of the stories, brought by the spirits of the forest, inviting the audience in to discover new worlds as though they themselves… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…from Flip completes the package. Ink And Paint: Years in the making, and worth the wait! The shorts here look the best they have in decades, thanks to meticulous work… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…In The Sea Beast, we don’t explain why the city is the shape that it is. I do know, and then the audience assumes that the people that built it… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…to introduce the characters has become a tradition of sorts in recent versions of X-Men (see Shadowcat in the previous version, as well as Rogue in X-Men: Evolution and the… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…(not always exactly upgrades) to earlier titles, including The Emerald Forest and impressive amounts of 4Ks (The Italian Job), and debuts for The Big Bus, Rin Tin Tin‘s initial adventures,… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…I actually animated all the main characters, Bolt, Mittens, Rhino and Penny, in different sequences. One of the sequences I worked on is at the beginning of the train scene… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…the show in three different ways. We can watch with the storyboard in the main screen and the animated cartoon in the corner, the cartoon in the main screen with… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…opposite the Blu-ray. An informative fold-out booklet helpfully provides information on George Pal and all the films from the set. Ink And Paint: All of the films in the main… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…Once again, Mark Evanier (The Garfield Show) gathers together four of the most-heard actors in the animation business to talk about their craft, to demonstrate the voices they do on… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…it’s also the melody for Castle Grayskull. And in addition to that, the first few notes of the theme make the motive for the sword of power, and the melody… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…Amos in CTN last November. They showed an animatic and told me how everything works in the team. The most interesting part to me is the idea to use the… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…including G’Nortt, the dim-witted doggie GL! Again, just awesome. Doctor Fate’s in the teaser, too! Return Of The Fearsome Fangs! – No one really ever wanted to see The Terrible… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…too heavy or emotional. One of my favorite sources of friction in the film is the triangle between the three young leads. The story takes place in that innocent time… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…of this movie. Veronique and the Lafig Studio also were instrumental in the choice and approval of the hair color for the Smurf girls which I believe was the best… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…with just the Puppetoons in chronological order, and kept the hand-drawn ones to the bonus features; but as each film is individually selectable, the viewer can watch them in whatever… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…the instruments mixed in there was a dulcitone, which is the instrument I ended up using for the globes, the wishes themselves. That was the instrument I continually used as… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…on their own. AV: The choice of the “pipa god” as one of the main characters shows the importance of music in the movie. PK: He was in the script… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…and planning. The themes are always well integrated into the storylines for each episode. Some of the storylines introduced in the first few episodes include the diplomatic battle between the… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…intense when the story is being invented, and when the characters and locales are being designed. So, the closer you get to the designers and the story artists – in… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…CZ: The stories of the main characters, Gene (the emoji) and Alex (the human), run in parallel. They are influencing each other and at the same time they belong to… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…they sang in their demo. For the recording, we appealed to other singers, but as they’re used to singing in most of their movies, they blended in with these singers… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…which broke the mould for TV animation back in the day in terms of its quality and design. But then came shows such as Tail Spin, Jungle Cubs, and the… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…helped tremendously. One of them is the autobiography of the Disney concept artist, Mel Shaw, who was active at the Studio in the 1930s and then again in the 1970s… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…enjoyable looking at how “filler” programming was produced back in the day. Ripley himself isn’t always too confident in front of the camera, but then again who was in the… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…involved in the film in the beginning, as an individual contributor. I wasn’t a lead yet on the film. Then I became Sets Art Director. AV: How did you contribute… |
