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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…And then there’s “We Got Something Cooking”, the theme song for the third episode. DM: To me, it was always The Partridge Family, and also The Brady Bunch. It’s a… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…hitting the funny bone (“I hid the self-destruct button on the bottoms of their feet so no one could reach them…I think I’ve said enough”). But Phineas And Ferb: The… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…helped tremendously. One of them is the autobiography of the Disney concept artist, Mel Shaw, who was active at the Studio in the 1930s and then again in the 1970s… |
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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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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…reminding us of the strange, the unique and the downright bizarre by way of occasional new TV shows and the ongoing success of the Odditorium museum attractions. The Disc: The… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…time I wanted to honor and carry through on the vision that the Director and the Production Designer had. Because they are the ones that are leading the visual language… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part II
…The layout crew is instrumental in the next phase—fine-tuning the characters and the camera from the story reel to create the “shots” that will tell the story to its greatest… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…private collections, galleries, and public spaces around the world. His internationally bestselling book, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse, was published in October 2019 and holds the… |
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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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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 Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part I – Intro
…The Incredibles November 2 – Creating an Incredible Universe: The Epic Design of The Incredibles November 3 – Incredible Believability: Breakthrough Animation & Technology Give The Incredibles Lifelike Qualities November… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes – The Magic Earmuffs and The Wishing Bear. These two episodes are from the first season of the show. In The Magic Earmuffs… |
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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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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…the simple logic of those old puppet theatre stages, the flat set elements with their volumes just painted-on, all that became a big influence when we started imagining the look… |
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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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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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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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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…led to a full-fledge theatrical film. At the time, Hasbro was teaming up with producers to release some of their successful cartoon properties in theaters. First came The Transformers: The… |
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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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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…of the safest places in the West! That is, until the Dalton Gang of four desperate desperados mosey on into town. Scaring the townsfolk, they command the run of Daisy… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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… |
