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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…delightful The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins (1943). Poor Bart can’t doff his hat to the king, because another keeps appearing in its place. The king is initially unimpressed by… |
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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… |
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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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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…the half-hour the Robert Guillaume hosted The Making Of The Lion King that made the LD but not the DVD. Much of that LD set’s material did make the original… |
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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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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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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…of the film. So, I worked with them as well, making sure that I really extracted all the ideas that they had in their head and then help visually translate… |
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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
…doing in these kind of immersive lands is plunging the guests fully into the worlds of these films, and so, taking inspiration from these movies, to do what we all… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…Fire characters. The rest of the city has dedicated districts for Water, Air and Earth—though since those elements have been there for generations, the areas are more diversified. Since the… |
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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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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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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
…Little Pigs, Jack & The Beanstalk and Cinderella, and serves them with a mischievous twist. The 30-minute-animated short was directed by Oscar nominees Jakob Schuh (The Gruffalo) and Jan Lachauer… |
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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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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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“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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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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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…to beg for the space ranger toy that would change the lives of Woody and the other toys of the boy’s bedroom forever! Both a sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…just can’t see it, but I know it’s there. You put on the goggles and suddenly there it is! It’s almost like The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. You… |
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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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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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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…to actually be completed in Canada, was Lion King II: Simba’s Pride. Though not made directly by the original artists, Simba’s Pride was created with the big screen in mind,… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…been true of all of them: they all do embrace their own narrative. Moana or Tiana are really putting themselves out there and taking charge of their destiny. They’re not… |
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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… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…was still believable, and didn’t look like a toy and a miniature stadium making the audience start to question the look, and taking them out of the emotion of the… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…working with artists who live on the other side of the planet and the language barriers; and really inspiring to see all of these amazing people come together because they… |
