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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…to Disney in 1987, working on The Rescuers Down Under (visual development and story), Beauty and the Beast (he storyboarded the death and resurrection of the Beast), The Lion King… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…the Elves. Now, as such, he explores the look and the personalities of the different characters of the film, as well as their relationships with each other, their backgrounds and… |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
…in story, first. Then, I worked with the animator on getting the correct performance. But the underlying emotion structure was in the original story reels. That wasn’t like something that… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…Neither of these behind the scenes programs are the usual fluff pieces, leaving it to Watching The Skies: In Search Of Extraterrestrial Life and The Day The Earth Was “Green”… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…it back into the movie for the special edition. They also had to go back and “clean up” the backgrounds of the castle after the sequence since the servants were… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…They’re all little real moments. Then Kelly Slater and Rob Machado – surfers in the movie, the real deal – they played roving reporters, and then Sal Masekela – they… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…about the archives is, the Animation Research Library – is they kept all the cleanup drawings. So all the scenes are there in their cleaned up stage but they didn’t… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…the villains – they’re the most interesting of the animated characters. I don’t think the villains have changed much. They all have an agenda of their own that has driven… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…until recently, a philosophy that the Studio upheld, breaking the rule but twice, for theatrical follow-ups to The Rescuers and Fantasia, but when Aladdin and The Lion King proved such… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…the new generation of artists found their solid ground, allowing them to flourish over the next decade with The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King…. |
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The Jungle Book 2
…appears throughout, while the Song Selection allows instant access to the various songs in the movie. Both use the same subtitle track. Keeping with the songs in the film, there… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…rich and deep full animation and employing all the tricks of the trade at their disposal. At the other end of the spectrum is the TV division, which produce the… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…to rid the colony of them in the belief that they are hording the “gold” for themselves, and Pocahontas and Smith find their love in danger of becoming exposed and… |
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Bambi II
…the theatrical sequel The Rescuers Down Under and the musical pastiche of the character franchise continuation Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers. His weaving of new themes with the established… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…Slipper And The Rose and the original animated Charlotte’s Web among others), they weren’t at the Studio to protect the songs they had written for The AristoCats and many fell… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…cousins on the big screen when they got the chance. Slowly but surely the quality of the animation got better, too, as the crews became accustomed to recreating the characters,… |
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Miyazaki’s first is revisted by a new contributor!
…had on the market. Where their then-contemporary releases included The Rescuers, Pete’s Dragon and The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, Miyazaki’s Cagliostro was a straight action adventure epic –… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…John Musker and myself to consider the idea of setting the fairy tale The Frog Prince in New Orleans. We pitched him the story that became the basis of the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…even more on classic Disney and set the directing pair on the road to Aladdin, Hercules and the recent return to the Studio’s hand-drawn animation, The Princess And The Frog…. |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, depending on availability, on the night of the program when the doors open at 6:30 p.m. The Samuel… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…A great addition to the collections of long-time Disney animation fans, this almost makes up for the lack of those Treasures tins. Here’s what I thought of the film, the… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…Because The Lion King was considered an original story there was always the need to anchor it with something familiar. When we first pitched the revised outline of the movie… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…card. More importantly is that Bambi II marks the return of Bruce Broughton to the Studio after his fantastic work on the theatrical sequel The Rescuers Down Under and the… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…to explain their role in the making of the picture, including a potted storyboard version of the story, the work of the layout boys, pencil test footage, original recordings sessions… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…thin premise. There is an unwritten “rule” than the Lion King films all follow Shakespearian themes, with the 1994 original loosely following the plot and events of Hamlet, and the… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…Harpers and the McGees, as Cook named them out of respect to their real-life doppelgangers. But the director admits, “One reason the story of the Hatfields and the McCoys has… |
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Home On The Range
…promos and Blu-ray previews for the Cinderella Diamond Edition, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, the Pocahontas and The Rescuers 2-Movie Collections, The… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Blu-ray previews for the Cinderella Diamond Edition, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, the Pocahontas and The Rescuers 2-Movie Collections, The Tigger Movie,… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…and interact with the characters on the page, but there’s a little less of their bumping and fumbling with the typed text in the book they inhabit this time around,… |
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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…in the video game world. Again, the kudos goes to our Talent Development department for finding the artists and bringing them to the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Once they are… |
