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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…in me urged a look when the show began its run on UK television early the following year. Just glancing over the back-jackets of the discs as they reveal the… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…it on LaserDisc, and then they did a DVD of it. They did The Puppetoon Movie. They had a Laser then they had a DVD. So, he was wanting to… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…light-hearted way. While the plot is a bit scattershot, the frenzied feel actually works well with the tone of the film. What really pulls together the disparate pieces is the… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…doing the lighting, the DP with the camera, all this technical stuff that really takes the majority of the time. And then when it’s all set, then we animate. And… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…of the great adventure themes. Seems the short may have been temp tracked by a couple of James Horner cues though…there’s the unmistakable mark of his The Rocketeer in the… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…and, my favorite, the ultra-hilarious X-Terminators. Randall’s Picks Like the real world, the entertainment industry is feeling the effects of huge change. The worst of the Covid pandemic seems to… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…of their rolls, turning the mechanics of the game into the foundations upon which to develop compelling story moments. The Legend of Vox Machina carefully enhanced these for even greater… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…there’s no reason to assume the Mouse House won’t really deliver the goods for the now inevitable Moana 3. Still, not every wish of Disney’s came true. The rushed “replacement”… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…an upcoming Treasures set. The no-shows for the Winnie the Pooh featurettes are understandable, since they have their own DVD, more or less, albeit in feature form as The Many… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…Snyder proclaiming him “the heart of the movie”). There was also the announcement that the final runtime for the Snyder cut is four hours(!), and that it will be split… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…football cartoon follows, then the rather amorous old maid returns for the fun western spoof The Pony Express. Flip reverts to boyhood in The Music Lesson, then becomes a babysitter… |
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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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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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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…whereas the other ones have secondary colors: you have the green beast at the beginning, and then the more “let’s be friends” beast are blue and red, and then the… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…to images of the different X-Men using their powers. The show featured clever musical themes to their suspenseful and action-packed fight sequences. There are also great sound effects used throughout… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…Shortly after the final episode aired, the animation staff released an art book in limited print that fans went to great lengths to get their hands on. The beautiful illustrations… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
Each animator is an artist in his or her own right, with a unique personality and background that they bring to the character they’re working on. The richer the experience,… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…project is Lead Animator. The film is divided into four acts; I manage two acts (the first and the last one) on the project. As the lead on these acts… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…would eventually produce or direct such film classics as The Time Machine, The War Of The Words, Destination Moon, and The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm; but the first… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…of Freedom.” Other great episodes include “Return of the Sea Hawk” (great action-adventure story), “The Stone in the Sword” (where we learn about the crystal on She-Ra’s sword), “The Crystal… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…The hosts of The 4:30 Movie podcast return to Comic-Con (virtually, at least) as they curate an all-new theme week of the greatest movies of 1981 in the tradition of… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…from the DC vault. These animated shorts are each great on their own, but often do figure somewhat into the rest of the episode or even lay groundwork for a… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…the series, the melodies not only represent the characters, but they can also represent a concept. For instance, Adam’s theme is the melody for Adam, the melody for He-Man, but… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…was. The scores are on a scale of to 10, with being the worst of the worst, and 10 the best of the best. Those scores are saved for the… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…It’s been a pleasure to have them share their labor of love for the film, and their own journey through the Forbidden Forest… AnimatedViews: Noëlle and Patrick, can you tell… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…the Star Wars saga. At the beginning of the season, the Galactic Republic is in the middle of the war with the Separatists (the Confederation of Independent Systems) which is… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…The same with the bad guys, the bad goons as they are referred to. They kind of chase Din throughout the movie, and they’re very modern, they look like they’re… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…the Hollywood shorts. Gasparcolor in particular will simply not look as great as the Technicolor elements seen on the Hollywood films (notably in the color department), but the same care… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…but we wanted them to be appealing and relatable to the audience. AV: The film takes places in two worlds: the “real” one and the one within the Smartphone. They’re… |
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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… |
