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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…connection as it was just the physical design. Emotionally, Jasmine grew out of the story made by the story artists and the directors. But I needed something fresh to help… |
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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
…This continues the rest of the way through the story. I can understand that they had no suitable role for Bugs out of the Christmas Carol story— you couldn’t have… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…Chinese American film composer, with dual citizenship in the United States and Croatia. Over the last 20 years, he has composed music for over 50 films and television programs including… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…starts to participate in the story, just like the audience, I hope, in terms of investment. At the end of the story, he becomes part of this family. That arc… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…was vocalized by Sebastian Cabot, also doubling as the narrator, another future Pooh performer (again as the story-teller) and as Bagheera in The Jungle Book. The story lends itself well… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…(he also wrote the screenplay for the nightmarish but brilliant The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr T, starring Hans Conried, who provides voices here alongside Jones and June Foray) with Jones’… |
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Metropolis
…and Japanese 5.1 DTS tracks, Rated PG-13, Retail: $24.95 Storyboard: Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga is brought to life in a state-of-the-art animated epic. In a future society, a madman’s plan… |
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Big Hero 6
…PG, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: A computer wunderkind adapts and teams up with his older brother’s robotic creation and his geeky research colleagues to take on a mysterious threat out to… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…our exclusive interviews here! Storyboard: Sergei Prokofiev’s immortal musically told story comes back to life in a stark and stunningly stop-motion rendered retelling which won the Oscar for Best Animated… |
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Tangled
…Tangled turns out to be a pretty good one after all. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board? Tangled Walt Disney Animation Studios November 24, 2010 100 minutes Rated… |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
…as they didn’t want Bolt to seem to be a stupid character. By the time I saw the story reel, I thought they had achieved all those storytelling goals. AV:… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording
…story. The film nevertheless managed to receive positive critical praise and was a decent box office hit. In 1999, Disney took another chance and adapted their version of the story… |
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Kaena: The Prophecy
…Dolby Digital 5.1 (Canadian version has Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Rated PG-13, Retail: $24.96 Storyboard: A young woman on a distant world discovers an ancient truth about her people. The… |
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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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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
Warner Home Video/DC Comics (November 9 2010), single disc, 90 mins, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, Retail: $24.98 Storyboard: The (not-so, as it turns out) secret origins… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
Walt Disney Productions (February 17 1940), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 10 2009), 2 Blu-ray Discs plus 1 DVD, 88 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition and 1.33:1 original full frame… |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
Walt Disney Productions (1971), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (September 8, 2009), 1 disc, 140 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: An amateur… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…interesting storyboard ideas and strong points of view for some specific moments of a sequence. I call this first approach an “art story board”. AV: Can you share with us… |
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Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season
Warner Bros. (1999), Warner Home Video (March 21, 2006), 2 discs, 280 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: Years… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…every culture has some version of this fairy tale. Glen Keane: Yes. Well, it’s a story that really touches the heart of everybody who sees it. Though when we were… |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…another story… Musical Effects If the music complements the story in terms of the characters, it can also act as a counterpart to the visual effects, for the most unexpected… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #74: We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Get ready, we’re warping back in time to review the 1993 animated film We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV8749073244.mp3 Highlights • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Two… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…really you are just seeing snippets of a larger story— a story that was already told years ago. It does serve as a decent primer for the next movie, at… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
Hanna-Barbera (1996), Warner Home Video (February 17, 2009), 2 discs, 266 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: In this… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…production storyboards and pencil test animation), and the film’s scope has been opened up in both story and its look. The artwork and effects animation is much more intricate than… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…shmimelime! And lastly, rather than using time travel as a mechanism to move characters in a story, time travel becomes the story itself. In this film, the writers don’t seem… |
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Shrek The Third
…across here. Running 10:40, this is a very welcome peek behind the microphones – something I always like to see in an animated movie’s extras and that only DreamWorks seems… |
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Zootopia
…of the art. Any moral to be found in them is in service to the story they wanted to tell — unlike here where the story is in service to… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…and includes the subtitle “The Historical Musical Animated Classics.” Disney has released a limited amount of cases for this collection with a total of only 150,000 copies to make this… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
Walt Disney Feature Animation (1991/2002), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (September 20 2016), Blu-ray Disc plus DVD and Digital HD code, 84/92 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 1.78:1 widescreen, 7.1… |