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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…ourselves about our own stories of loss, in particular, the first time we really remembered experiencing loss in our lives. Out of that session of sharing came a story about… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…But honestly there’s so much nuance in the balance, placement and proportion the way he came together. There are details in this design that you may not notice by looking… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…narration felt like these poems belonged together on a deeper level all along. There’s a beautiful connecting motif permeating the book: It’s all about fiercely determined female protagonists revolting against… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…pretty much involved in the narration. KP: This would be my third movie working with composer Mark Mothersbaugh. There’s something very special about working with artists who really trust each… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…something cinematic about what we do sort of naturally and he asked us if we would like to pitch for TV or film. Of course, we agreed because it was… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…if I was going to do it again, I would only write about a topic that a lot of people would want to read about. Once I became engrossed in… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…Mary meets a boy named Peter, and though their relationship is initially somewhat antagonistic, they immediately share a type of bond. Mary dislikes Peter, who teases her about her wild… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…but it was your dream of Paris. That’s really what we wanted to bring to life: let people walk into their dream of Paris. AV: There’s something really reminiscent of… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #54: Mary Poppins – Jack of All Accents
…Mary Poppins a witch or fairy? Do Mary Poppins and Nanny McFee belong to the same nanny organization? • Mary Poppins: Julie Andrews casting story, Oscar acceptance speech, very serious… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…but if there is a “war” going on in the industry right now, then streaming is winning it, for better or for worse. True, there were still some huge box… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…talked a lot about those stories, about how there’s movies for kids and then there’s movies about kids. Like E.T. and Stand By Me — those are about kids, but… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…that break with reason. There is something largely conceptual about that drive. It’s a strange compulsion, innately human. AV: Your approach seems very metaphoric. RJ: There are definitely visual elements,… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…did you choose stop motion? DB: I’ve always enjoyed stop motion. I grew up with the Rankin/Bass holiday specials. There is something so charming and enchanting about the art form…. |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…over. People can say whatever they like about Tom Cruise [right], but there’s no denying he’s practically a human special effect at this point. How he keeps doing this is… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…be behind us, but we are now in the midst of a “tripdemic”: there’s conflict in Europe, and we all know about the crazy inflation at the grocery store and… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…and there was certainly a fine promotional push for them, but neither MGM or theatre crowds were excited about them. The conventional line is that the Flip cartoons had nothing… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…a sense, the primary connection there would just be the circumstance. He has evolved as an individual. He’s basically aged and his career has reached a point where there’s younger… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…2D drawings are also the way Katie imagines her own movies. But there seems to be something more personal in there… MR: Yes! In a way, Katie makes these movies… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…first time. The same is true with most of the information in the text. There is barely any duplication with any books about Disney released in the past. I was… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
…the symbol, the vanguard, the leader of what that means, but it really is something that talks to all of us. Inside all of us is something very special, and… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…went from Milan to London and from London to LA. Can you tell me about that extraordinary adventure? Cinzia Angelini: After working in Milan, Italy for about a year I… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…real media. Each frame was painted digitally and comped together in After Effects. AV: There’s a kind of limited animation in Dam Keeper. Can you tell me about that artistic… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…about comic book history. BEN: Continue to strive arduously to make a bigger name for myself — and therefore get my own projects made — in the movie business. JAMES:… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…fan of Cirque du Soleil, and notably their Varekai and Amaluna shows. There’s also something from the Lion King musical, with those half-man/half-plant characters surrounding Rafiki’s tree. All these inspirations… |
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Elemental
…least tried to make these relationships a little more interesting: Belle imprisoned by the Beast but eventually there’s something there; Shrek and Fiona despising each other during their journey until… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…locally, just faded away. But if there’s something else everyone knows it’s this: don’t underestimate sentimental adults who long to relive their youth! Aiming directly at those nostalgic adults, MeTV,… |
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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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Inside Job
…be allowed to develop the other characters a lot more as well as further explore the conspiracies so that there is a proper balance to Reagan’s development. There’s great promise… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…directing a feature film for Lupus Films Ltd, to be released in 2024. Charlie Mackesy Animated Views: Before talking about the film, can you tell me about the creation of… |
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Sanjay Patel talks about his Super Team
…the story reels, then told them more about how I grew up in a household that was split into east and west. I told them about trying to balance two… |
