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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…The Puppetoon Movie, and three years after the release of the similarly positively reviewed The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 disc, producer Arnold Leibovit is back to present another collection of… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…a “brave little tailor” scene with a Smurf for the study of the animation style. AV: Do the characteristics of the “School of Marcinelle” (Peyo’s style, part of one of… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…to it, although I could emotionally sympathize with the characters. But it was when I understood that one of the other themes of the movie was parents’ sacrifices for their… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…“This Wish”. You can hear them with the Steamboat Willie logo. I used a ghostly imaging of the first five notes of the chorus of the song. Also, one of… |
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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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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…have been able to tell this story, in depth and the way I wanted to tell it from the start: through the testimonies of the artists themselves and of the… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…the French Disney subsidiary in the tremendously bureaucratic Archives Of Paris, I was able for the first time to establish the date of the foundation of the Disney office in… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…of CG, from the cartooniness of the Cloudy films to the quasi-tradigital look of Mitchells and the Spider-Verses. The films haven’t always been the strongest, but I suppose Sony is… |
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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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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…private collections, galleries, and public spaces around the world. His internationally bestselling book, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse, was published in October 2019 and holds the… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…scored the whole movie, but also participated in the arrangements of the songs. GF: Most of the songs were already written when I arrived on the movie. Lin would be… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…and the supposed chemistry they boast of at the top of the chat. Those who really enjoy the movie may find interest here, and there are some sparks that provide… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…– when the world is a true reflection of the people. AV: How do you see the differences between the world of the living and the world of the dead?… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…majority of the action takes place in the more stylized fairytale world. That’s also the place shown in all of Blake’s original illustrations. For our first meeting about the project,… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…an inspired duet. The unique, interactive nature of the story allows the viewer to seamlessly follow the journey of either of the two characters from birth to adulthood. We were… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…very important in the development of the film, and not only for the notes themselves. The album cover for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon was among the… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…we had to rely on color of hair or positions of the bodies. The growth of the population of the base was a way to measure that progress, and then… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…models, the artists in this division forged a new path. In the third volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking series They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art Of… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…wrote of the Disney composers of the time are some of the most detailed ever published. Can you tell me about how you worked on them? What was the most… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…this world. The believability of the world around Moom was something we thought helped to anchor the fantasy of these memories to a more realized world. AV: Design-wise, how did… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…working with artists who live on the other side of the planet and the language barriers; and really inspiring to see all of these amazing people come together because they… |
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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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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…with him. I would say the most challenging part of Luca’s design was finding the balance of the features and the shapes. There’s a lot of nuance with him as… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…heartbreaking backstory plays through the majority of the first season, though some of the others manage to receive enough of the spotlight for them to flourish with their own personal… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…red panda. “It’s kind of like ‘The Incredible Hulk,’ but cuter,” says director Domee Shi. To imagine with her the look of that one-of-kind world, Shi appealed to the same… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…been true of all of them: they all do embrace their own narrative. Moana or Tiana are really putting themselves out there and taking charge of their destiny. They’re not… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…be their He-Man, their Masters Of The Universe, that speak to their world. Our aim was to be absolutely true to the spirit and intention of the original, to the… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…making of the soundtrack of the movie, based on a truly respectful approach to South Pacific musical traditions. AnimatedViews: Can you tell me about the overall process of working on… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…who worked on the movie, and they all brought their own experiences into the movie. And I wanted to reflect that in the end credits. It isn’t just a movie… |
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Arcane
…League of Legends, have now engaged in their most ambitious media project to date producing the animated series Arcane. Within the world of Runeterra, upon the continent of Valoran, there… |
