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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…making of the soundtrack of the movie, based on a truly respectful approach to South Pacific musical traditions. AnimatedViews: Can you tell me about the overall process of working on… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…be their He-Man, their Masters Of The Universe, that speak to their world. Our aim was to be absolutely true to the spirit and intention of the original, to the… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…the concept of your book and how did you come to it? CR: The point is above all to decipher and analyze the making of a selected list of those… |
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Arcane
…not a lot of restrictions upon the series towards the storytelling and the world-building. While the game’s champions have pre-established backstories, they were less about being definitive than they were… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…fashion as the lesser Disney animated classics. Young kids probably wouldn’t mind watching it, but they also probably wouldn’t want to view it repeatedly like they might The Lion King…. |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…craft. On every film, we get to try out ideas and see them to their birth. Then they go into the film, and then the film is done. Each time,… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…Studio out there, knocking the spots off of the competition of the time (and since). Everything about The Lion King, from the voice talents to the date of release, fell… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…This questionable perk involved the juxtaposition of the voice actor’s lips over the drawings in order to create the illusion that the character was talking. It was originally developed by… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…nods at movies by Hayao Miyazaki: the pig (Porco Rosso), the windmill blowing the dirt (Nausicaä), the miner in your first story development (Castle In The Sky), the medieval influence… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
From the humans who brought you the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…than $15 million. Instead, The Lion King 3D became the top film at the box office for two weeks, with $30.1 million and $21.9 million. Disney responded by extending the… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…to studying the battle of wills between The Light Side and The Dark Side of The Force. The theme is more prominent in The Twins by Hiroyuki Imaishi and Lop… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…a household name to the kids of the region. There would usually be skits with a regular cast of characters and cartoons. A big part of their appeal was the… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…of covid, we weren’t able to record the whole orchestra at once. We recorded the strings, and then the brass, then the woodwinds, and then we did the percussion. Then… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
On December 4th, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that, among the 63 movies already qualified in the category, 10 animated short films had advanced in the… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…deeper level. AV: The light is also very unique. For the scenes taking place during the day, we can almost feel the warmth of the sun on the leaves, the… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
Annually near the end of July, hundreds of thousands of fans would be flocking to San Diego, California, for the San Diego Comic-Con. As many as 170,000 would pack the… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…story with quipping. The second comes from the eighth season of The Simpsons. There is an animated show within the show that the Simpson children watch called The Itchy &… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…Josie And The Pussycats) takes the rap for stealing the house’s TV, to keep her brother Ray Ray safe. Ray stays hidden in the walls of the house, and develops… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…novel narrating the story of a dysfunctional family where selfish parents totally ignore their children. Convinced they’d be better off raising themselves, the kids hatch a sneaky plan to send… |
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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
…to join the team in 2012. At the time I was working on the first version of The Good Dinosaur, and I was really excited about both of these films,… |
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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 Lion King 1½
…Goofy: The Three Musketeers (which looks great, and happily falls between the animation style of the classic shorts and none-too-cheap-looking DTV product), Lion King II: Simba’s Pride Special Edition (which… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…drawing to the artist. I also like to let them be free in their creations, but making sure the emotion I was aiming for is there. Sometimes, it is very… |
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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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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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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…thinking about this, because it was not easy. I would love to answer that we all were on the same page from the beginning, but the truth is that making… |
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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…. |
