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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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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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Inside Job
Those conspiracy theories spouted by crazy, drunk old men angrily shaking their fists at the sky? They’re real. The world is controlled by the shadowy elite and shape-shifting lizard people…. |
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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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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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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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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…work of Pascal Campion has been a great source of inspiration for the use of light and color. Most of the inspiration came from the use of lights, the staging,… |
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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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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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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… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…the 1980s and Spielberg got into the animation game with The Great Mouse Detective and An American Tail, respectively). It’s interesting to see the state of the prints in the… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…great tests to figure out the unique way they could animate. The big reference point for animating the deities was classical Indian dance. We brought in a local expert, Katherine… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…then there was the logo in the upper left corner: HBR – Hanna Barbera Records! What? Hanna-Barbera had their own record label?! And their records told original stories, had original… |
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Soul
…capture in computer animation. The land of the souls-in-waiting is plush and has a beautifully hopeful feel to it. The path to The Great Beyond is stark and eerily stunning…. |
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Christian Renaut’s book trilogy on Walt Disney animation comes full circle
…most famous ones, even though the Nine Old Men are very often mentioned and quoted. With this book, the reader is within the team of creators, behind the scenes. There… |
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Warning From Space
…populous. Rather than the superbly intimidating aliens in The War Of The Worlds, however, we get the rather silly star-shaped creatures previously mentioned. That’s okay, though, because the serious tone… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…of the studio, examining the warts and celebrating the victories. Scholars will appreciate the many viewpoints offered, and fans will enjoy learning the secrets behind their favorite cartoons. I heartily… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…interpret the themes however they like. Clearly there are broad messages about love, sacrifice, freedom, and inhibition. Using monsters to explore these themes provides for some fun opportunities! AV: Why… |
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Mulan
The original Mulan animated feature from 1998 was a great film. One of the better stand-outs at the time the Disney Renaissance was coming to a close by that point,… |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…Popeye cartoons. The good stuff, as many fans know, are the black and white Fleischer theatrical shorts of the 1930s through the early 1940s (plus their three color two-reelers), which… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…the look of the scene or objects in the scene based on distance to camera. The farther an object was from camera, the more impressionistic it became. This was very… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…running out and Steppenwolf’s army threatening the very existence of mankind, the five of them might not be enough to stop them. And a certain recently deceased caped hero may… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…They’re the ones we want to experience things through, so, that definitely affected our shooting style. ED: We were very specific. Most of the time, it’s the kids but there… |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…them, I didn’t analyze the harmony, I just wrote them as they came and felt happy with them. And because the four chords themselves were so unusual, when it came… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…of the film. Remember the sound of Lebo M’s chant during the Lion King sunset? Or the native chant at the beginning of Brother Bear? For Frozen, the creators of… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
…rendered in exquisite hand-drawn animation, celebrates the power of our shared humanity Apple Original Films Academy Award nominee The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse won the BAFTA… |
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Trolls World Tour
…which have chosen to delay the theatrical runs of their would-be blockbusters, Universal decided to skip that route entirely, choosing to release the follow-up straight-to-streaming as a digital rental. This… |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…International Feature) and Encanto (Animated Feature, Original Score, Original Song). The other Animated Feature nominees are Luca, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and Raya and the Last Dragon. The full… |
