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The Incredibles
…– to boot, but The Incredibles was anything but a sure fire thing when originally released. Bird, the director of the astonishing The Iron Giant, was coming off the back… |
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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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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…the likes of Critical Role and The Adventure Zone showcasing the thrill and excitement in playing the game, managing to become sudden cultural sensations over the past several years. 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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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…the galaxy far, far away to the multiplex where it belongs. At the end of the day, people love their comfort food, especially during uncertain times. The “real world” felt… |
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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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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…Animated Feature – to boot! And one can just see the marketing minds at work…along the way of production the film switched names from The Invincibles to The Incredibles, meaning… |
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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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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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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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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…coming into their own, the filmmakers now set out to build the richly stylized world of The Incredibles around them. The design scope of that world turned out to be… |
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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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Annie Awards results – \\The Incredibles\\ wins big
…\\The Incredibles\\ Peter Sohn – \\The Incredibles\\ Kureha Yokoo – \\The Incredibles\\ Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Tony Fucile – \\The Incredibles\\ Carlos Grangel – \\Shark Tale\\ Joe… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…releases of The Son Of The Stars, The Pied Piper, Heroic Times, Cat City [below], and they also put out Denmark’s Benny’s Bathtub. Also consider Warner Archive, the boutique label… |
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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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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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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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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…the disc contents are listed on the back cover, at least. The back cover makes the mistake of mentioning that there is a Spanish language track, when there is no… |
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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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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…the show in three different ways. We can watch with the storyboard in the main screen and the animated cartoon in the corner, the cartoon in the main screen with… |
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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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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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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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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…works. Pal, of course, was the fantasy film maestro who was later responsible for bringing such classic films as The War Of The Worlds and The Time Machine to the… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…I reintroduce it. There are other examples throughout the film. And as far as my own themes for the score, there’s The Kingdom Of Rosas, which is the theme at… |
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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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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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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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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… |