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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…of the Bride, the latter picked out by the directors as their favorite. There was time after the screenings for audience questions. I liked that a good portion of the… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…through some of the fan theories had been fun, but he’s making sure to focus on what was true to the story as they started making the second season. To… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…making of Disney’s new classic by speaking to both men about their successful partnership and how the magic of Andalasia was brought to the screen! Please click on the many… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…and the week before was the 90th anniversary of the original Popeye the Sailor cartoon. Alvarado noted that they had restored around 10-20 cartoons, about 50 were in progress, and… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…way. You know, all the eyes look the same, all the mouths look the same. Even the way some of them move, you know. The dad at the beginning of… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…The look of Krypton isn’t as original as the producers were striving for: they mention in the supplements that they wanted to go in a new direction, but the retro-30s… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Marvel. I also really enjoyed Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, showcasing the studio’s continued interest in diversifying their films in taking one of their lesser known heroes… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…explain the fact that you got down to the bottom of the ride and you find the skeleton pirates? How did they get there? And why? They went down there… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…was in a completely different state, with their last film, The Princess And The Frog, struggling to even make it past the $100 million mark, causing then-creative executive John Lasseter… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…month for them to hear all of the 30 or more pitches, but eventually they called us back. Andrew told us that they knew we were the guys for 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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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…been seen in ages, and the myth of superhero movie fatigue proved to be just that, with four of them easily zooming past the $300 million mark in the States…. |
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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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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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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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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…from Flip completes the package. Ink And Paint: Years in the making, and worth the wait! The shorts here look the best they have in decades, thanks to meticulous work… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…The Sweatbox Review: The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, the made for video sequel that first premiered in 1998, four years after The Lion King’s phenomenal theatrical debut, has a… |
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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 Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…The pilot for the surreal The Amazing Digital Circus has surpassed 200 million views (and counting!), though Lackadaisy [right] might be even more impressive for its astonishing level of polish… |
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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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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…And from there, the melody climbs and expresses his thirst for power, just like the theme of Scar by Hans Zimmer in The Lion King. The theme goes stronger and… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…progressing I was made comfortable working with them. I don’t feel much different working with professionals and students, if you tune them the right way and treat them as equals… |
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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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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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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…When it came to the production, they asked her to go on working on the project as a background and matte painting artist. She then came back to Visual Development… |
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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… |
