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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…each expression. Goldenloin, on the other hand, is the sword. He’s supposed to be the classic hero, that white knight, the golden savior, the one that has the privilege and… |
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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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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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The Incredibles on Ice on "Parr" with Disney Ice Shows
…that keep the audience in stitches throughout the evening. Even with its unique combination, the show has a wonderful ballance of The Incredibles and the Magic Kingdom showing both in… |
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Report from the Incredibles screening with Brad Bird
…one long, boring meeting during the production of The Incredibles where they talked about nothing but how leaves (yes, those green things on the end of tree branches) would be… |
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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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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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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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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
…Student, won the First Prize of the Tom Baron Business Competition (for the first time won from a non-business student), and graduated with Magna Cum Laude and the Departmental Award… |
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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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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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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…theme of the story. Lighting the candle, keeping it lit, light changes representing the transformation of the temple from something grey, dead and lifeless into something vibrant and celestial, ultimately… |
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DVD review: The Incredibles
Coming Soon reviews the Incredibles DVD, giving the disc’s bonus features a score of 9/10. As for the film itself, the site provides another score of 9/10, stating its “bottom… |
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Reviews: The Incredibles
…keeps on producing films of this quality.” While the positive reviews for The Incredibles come as no surprise, a less-than-positive note about the Cars teaser does surprise one a bit,… |
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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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Soul
…as they truly were. And that connects us with what he is going through. The yet-to-be-born soul, named 22, may be on the opposite side of the divide, but she’s… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Surprise Best Picture nod for \\The Incredibles\\ from PGA
\\{{link http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1384368,00.html The Guardian}}\\ reports that in a major surprise the Producers Guild of America nominated \\The Incredibles\\ for their prestigious Best Picture award. As the PGA awards are presented… |
