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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…Lyndon Travers’ Mary Poppins stories, which had debuted in bookstores in 1934. Travers was more than reticent about her books being adapted by Hollywood, even despite Disney’s renown for quality…. |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…to move from there? DL: I didn’t want to just do a music video for the song and felt I needed to prove to Sarah that I had something to… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…than thinking about the places. AV: Can you tell me about your thematic approach to the movie? DR: I wrote all the children’s themes in the same time signature, very… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…about the MOTU universe and mythology is that it is so vast. So, as a composer, it was simultaneously exciting and daunting because there are so many different characters and… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…can start replenishing the assets.” There’s a thing at Pixar where we reuse models constantly, and it’s okay, it helps. But what happens over the years, the models are not… |
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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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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…(It is also definitely for ADULTS ONLY.) There is a line of reasoning that says that such an approach is fair and even-handed, and therefore no one should really take… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…Can you tell me about the relation you envisioned between music and production design? HJ: We tried to be true to the different types of music. There’s a whole range… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…There’s no need to talk about his demand for perfection in everything he touched but, quite simply, Mary Costa was that perfection, both an as artist and a human being…. |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…a spinoff angle that felt forced in, and an over-the-top and embarrassing attempt to canonize the main character, there’s no denying fans of the show deserved better. Feel free to… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…the evil five-headed dragon goddess Tiamat, there was always something dangerous and exciting that made the show visually unique and impressive. The Dungeons & Dragons animated series was a big… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…its job of providing some production context, background information and exploring various aspects of the show, there’s a slight lack of pizazz among the participants, considering how many there are… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…I experienced a very positive shock: not only was Rose answering most of the questions I had about his department, he also mentioned something fascinating, the fact that he had… |
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Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!
…don’t take place at the turn of the century. There is no storyline not so ever in any of the Poppins books. They’re all about wonderful characters and wonderful incidents,… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…Troy Quane, Nimona is an epic tale about finding friendship in the most surprising situations and accepting yourself and others for who they are, based on the National Book Award-nominated… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…the depiction of rockets, but it is funny to hear about the validity of science being present in a movie about a wooden boy flying through space with a talking… |
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Onward
…But there’s something special about getting to enter one of the studio’s unique world’s for the first time. In thirteen previous visits, I’ve only been disappointed once. In other words,… |
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Trolls World Tour
…even if it manages to come close to them. There’s still all of the Twizzlers-friendly pleasure that you loved (or maybe didn’t) about the previous adventure, but it’s missing some… |
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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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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
…the title of the film for details!) When she finds out there is even more being hidden about her family than she knew, she sets off to find out the… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…left out there. And there is magic in Onward indeed! In every bit of it. And in every note of the score composed by Mychael and Jeff Danna. The two… |
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Santa Inc.
…that, a reference is made to the size of Prancer the reindeer’s junk. Then there’s more profanity. Lots more profanity. Then there are “jokes” about women being sexually assaulted at… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…amount of richness in the big shots. AV: When watching Oni, I thought about films like Pom Poko or Summer Days with Coo, which speak about Japanese culture and the… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…And Reddy was still playing along with a couple of other Hanna-Barbera shows (one with a slow-talking dog, as I recall), but there was not much else besides repeated airings… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…dark. And no, I’m not talking about the tone. I’m talking about the screen being so shaded that I could barely tell what was going on or even get a… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…surrounds and rear speakers get a modest workout, and there is light use of bass. The English track is available in 5.1 or 2.0. There are English captions, and no… |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…but organic, not so technological world. It is very much a celebration of the symphony orchestra in all of its pomp and glory. That’s not to say that there’s not… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…films myself. I think there’s a little part of me that just exists from listening to them so much. Those are kind of the easiest things for me to do!… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…that wanted to make a difference with her short. I wanted that, something that was not just about making money, but making a change in the perspective of others towards… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…about the intriguing film and its unlikely production, we talked about it with no less than its director, Luiz Bolognesi. Animated Views: Mr. Bolognesi, how did you come to animation?… |
