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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Animation legend Dale Baer passes away at 70
…Jerry: The Move, and an episode of the Disney series Quack Pack. Baer briefly worked on live-action features as his studio provided the animation for the Whiskers character in the… |
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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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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…of the film. Remember the sound of Lebo M’s chant during the Lion King sunset? Or the native chant at the beginning of Brother Bear? For Frozen, the creators of… |
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Trolls World Tour
…which have chosen to delay the theatrical runs of their would-be blockbusters, Universal decided to skip that route entirely, choosing to release the follow-up straight-to-streaming as a digital rental. This… |
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Knights of Guinevere
…displayed by the characters in their movements, even at their most subtle, inform of their personality and what they’re really saying and feeling in the moment. From the hesitated ticks… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…is synonymous with not accepting things as they are. So I decided to tell the history of America from the point of view of the Indians, working hard in their… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…International Feature) and Encanto (Animated Feature, Original Score, Original Song). The other Animated Feature nominees are Luca, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and Raya and the Last Dragon. The full… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…AV: How would you describe the art direction of Mila? AK: Mila takes place in the 1940’s. The art direction has a tame palette that reflects the colours of the… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…the visual as well as musical point of view. Was the orchestration different, too? JAT: The orchestra is the same for the TV sections as it is for the rest… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…It’s just as plain as the rest of the disc, a fact made worse when you consider that these shows have no Vince Guaraldi music in them to liven them… |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
