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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…the interior but also on the exterior of the attraction as we were trying to capture the caricatured feeling of Paris that they had created for the film that Harley… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…showdown when Cobra-La mounts their second offensive to obtain the BET. They want to use the BET device to shower the Earth with spores that will mutate mankind into creatures… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…to her. It’s very simple, in 3/4. And then, when the brothers and sisters are getting their magic, it starts to expand and becomes the Encanto theme, the overall theme… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…the moment Superman dons the costume and flies towards the camera for the first time! BEN: The Rescuers, at the Studio 70 cinema, opposite Elstree Studios, in 1977, while my… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…what they did in the first one. And the filmmakers know there isn’t much story in all this, because they resort to papering over the cracks with the barrage of… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…the ensigns of the lower decks, the ones who actually make the ship run, the ones who do all the menial but vitally important stuff, similar to the ship they… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…was animated first, then CG, and then they used hand-drawn lines around the edges to give Paperman that look. But, to me, the ultimate goal is to have the computer… |
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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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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…of my sets art directors take a simple hallway, and the hallways really show Buzz’s progression, because the Zurg walls show more advanced technology than the one they had when… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…the animated features. The first one helped the animators better visualize the characters in three dimensions and therefore portray them and animate them more realistically. The second one tried to… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…their home-grown characters are second to none in the popularity stakes. Asterix The Gaul and his friend the mighty Obelix, Lucky Luke the lonesome cowboy (a great throw-back to the… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…isn’t enjoyable, from the “lonesome cowboy” stereotype to the wild-gang baddies and the clink-click of the boot stirrups in the final showdown. Yes, we’ve seen it all before in a… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…The Studios built on the expertise they gained with the Mickeys and Silly Symphonies when they started work on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. When you consider the importance… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…the ofrendas, really elaborate altars in their living room, honoring their ancestors, and then to the cemeteries during the day where there was literally all generations working together, usually led… |
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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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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…of each week ended in a cliffhanger to be resolved the following day. Friday’s show provided the finale for that week’s adventure. By the end of the show’s run, enough… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…the Horde and joins the rebellion alongside Adam and the rest of the rebellion. When she lifts the Sword of Protection into the air and invokes the grace of Greyskull,… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…high-speed camera inside a guitar and then play? Then, they record the voice at the same time and then they slow the video imagery down to keep the sound the… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the heart, and a wonder for the eye. With the most up-to-date medium, Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi prove once more their mastery and genius, through their love for the… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…started to study ballet, I realized that’s exactly what they’re doing. I mean, they’re constantly moving, but they hit these Golden Poses as the ballerina leaps in the air and… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…the modeler massaging the character, me with my drawings, then with the computer. And you’re building the character together. And then, the animators come in. AV: Indeed, on Luca, you… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…of Zorro, before discussing the set’s special features. These special features are showcased on their own disc, the sixth in the set. This disc begins with the final two hour-long… |
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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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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…curious and wanting to go out into the world and find themselves, and then you go do that. That’s really important to them. The way they’re presenting the Disney Princess… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…and we couldn’t have made the characters without the environment. Constantly, we had to move them at the same pace so that we could keep comparing them in terms of… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part Two
…team-up of yesteryear between Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder, showing off all the visual tropes of the 1960s TV show. Then, we travel to the present to find robin… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…(unless it actually happens in the episode!) since all the shorts seem to be shown in their full aspect ratio. Another sign that the show’s creators are fans themselves? Remember… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…to get further into the creation of the shown premiering September 16 on Netflix. And the least we can say about them is that “they have the Power!” Animated Views:… |
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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… |
