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Arcane
…not a lot of restrictions upon the series towards the storytelling and the world-building. While the game’s champions have pre-established backstories, they were less about being definitive than they were… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…the status of shots, assets, etc. any time that works for them and be able to adjust on the fly, have the supervisors update their tabs for their departments so… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…these historians have an easier access to the Disney Archives these days than I have. When I started out in the late 1980s, I had a pass to freely stay… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…is a famous studio guitar player, and then I did the mock-up for the orchestra. And then, two years later, we went in to record the song with live musicians…. |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…appreciate this next feature the most. In the film, the movie’s opening credits run over a sequence showing the shelves in Geppetto’s workshop. The Little Toy Shop Sequence Without Credits… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…was therefore curious to see where the show headed afterwards, and though I missed the Season Two episodes, I was happy that Paramount recently put out the third and final… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…craft. On every film, we get to try out ideas and see them to their birth. Then they go into the film, and then the film is done. Each time,… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…nods at movies by Hayao Miyazaki: the pig (Porco Rosso), the windmill blowing the dirt (Nausicaä), the miner in your first story development (Castle In The Sky), the medieval influence… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
From the humans who brought you the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…of covid, we weren’t able to record the whole orchestra at once. We recorded the strings, and then the brass, then the woodwinds, and then we did the percussion. Then… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…to studying the battle of wills between The Light Side and The Dark Side of The Force. The theme is more prominent in The Twins by Hiroyuki Imaishi and Lop… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…each section of the world – the lush forest world, the dreamscape, and the journey beyond. Each of these sections also had a color progression, a buildup. Once I got… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…story with quipping. The second comes from the eighth season of The Simpsons. There is an animated show within the show that the Simpson children watch called The Itchy &… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…deeper level. AV: The light is also very unique. For the scenes taking place during the day, we can almost feel the warmth of the sun on the leaves, the… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…a pandemic and all the challenges they’ve faced with staying productive in the ever changing world that is the year 2020. The Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel Every year, former… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…novel narrating the story of a dysfunctional family where selfish parents totally ignore their children. Convinced they’d be better off raising themselves, the kids hatch a sneaky plan to send… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…each expression. Goldenloin, on the other hand, is the sword. He’s supposed to be the classic hero, that white knight, the golden savior, the one that has the privilege and… |
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Inside Job
…into a massive monstrosity. The thing that really makes the look of Inside Job stand out from other shows is the visualization of the conspiracies at the heart of the… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…was your first move? The sound? The themes? DV: It was kind of all of the above. When we got the job, they called us and we were hoping to… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…major roles, their presence lends itself to showing that there’s more than just humans, elves, and dwarves. There’s the eagle-like aarakocra and the aptly named dragonborn conversing with the characters…. |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…help them develop their ideas while keeping the characters consistent and satisfying the vision of the director. I don’t try to force my own ideas into their shots, but I… |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…once the animators got the permission to not worry about runtime, they used that leeway to stop editing the story they had, rather than to fill the extended time with… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
Our journey accompanying the creation of Mila continues. After the story and the character design are set, it is time to create the definite look of the overall film. That’s… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…will you keep from the experience? ND: First of all, I always love the first moment with the orchestra. And then, there’s this cue, right at the end of the… |
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Onward
…and kids visiting the land of the dead are great one-off ideas, but their worlds are inextricably tied to their specific plots. The monster world may be the next most… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Student, won the First Prize of the Tom Baron Business Competition (for the first time won from a non-business student), and graduated with Magna Cum Laude and the Departmental Award… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…with the help of a friend escaped with the bicycles, the kids still on their Pajamas and all that they could carry. The street they took is very steep and… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…theme of the story. Lighting the candle, keeping it lit, light changes representing the transformation of the temple from something grey, dead and lifeless into something vibrant and celestial, ultimately… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…along for the ride, Dad must show up for them when they need him most — and they’d better make it home before Mom finds out! Everett Downing and Patrick… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…the theater community is a lot like the animation community in that people get involved first as a fan, but then as almost a keeper of the torch. Both always… |
