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Lasseter talks Princess, Toy Story 3, Up
John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, recently mentioned some of studios’ upcoming projects to Rotten Tomatoes. Regarding the traditionally animated The Princess and the… |
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Toy Story 3: Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear commercial (circa 1983)
Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear commercial goes viral… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…such films as Brother Bear (story artist), Meet the Robinsons (screenplay, story artist, voice actor) and, most recently, as story supervisor on Bolt. In that role, Nathan oversaw the story… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…non-fussy presentations of the first five films, from the LucasFilm era’s The Adventures Of André And Wally B and the 1988 Oscar-winning Tin Toy, the eventual inspiration for Toy Story… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…been involved in the production of a handful of animated Pixar shorts including: Toy Story Toons: Small Fry and Toy Story That Time Forgot, and he was the production designer… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
…the same direction and collaborate for the good of the story. A Pixar signature. EC: Absolutely. It’s the story that supported those decisions. Our story is like a storybook fable…. |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…room is designed. AV: Your story evolved from a story about a human miner to a city peopled by animals. How did you come to that choice? RK & DT:… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…the time a director even pitches the story he will have been living with that story all by himself for a while. After that pitch, John Lasseter guides the story… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…the modern storyboarding gurus. It was his brainstorm to have a head of story position on Disney projects while he was at Disney, to work in liaison between storyboard artists… |
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Cars 2 screenwriter Ben Queen on the race for his “Art Of” book!
From the early pencil sketches and conceptual artwork to the storyboards, color scripts and character designs, the gorgeous Art Of Cars 2 volume celebrates the artistry and imagination behind Lightning… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…find their own way to embrace their unique identities. So, I felt like, this story, while it’s personal to my story, I think is a personal story to everybody. Indeed,… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…design his heroine, and storyboard artist Troy Quane, who came on board to shape the story with the director. Please click on the many exclusive images throughout both interviews to… |
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Toy Story movies coming to Blu-Ray
…to deceased Pixar veteran Joe Ranft. Special sneak peeks at Toy Story 3 will also be included. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 will be released on March 23rd, 2009…. |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…guest-lectured at universities in Hawaii. Then she got to work at Disney Animation Studios as Supervising Animator on Toy Story 3, Meet the Robinsons and most recently Bolt. Presently living… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…Florida expanded to about 400 artists in a new $70 million, 200,000-square-foot, four-story animation building. “A great way to spend your life” But Mulan had taken its toll on Cook,… |
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Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition
…period piece, which makes it unlike any other superhero story that has been brought into the animated world. The scope of the story could also be considered daunting, given a… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…Tarzan at the story department. Story was really the thing that I was becoming really passionate about and I felt that the Disney story department was really the place to… |
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Cars 2
…in theaters, and as a semi-mini-sequel to Toy Story 3, the first in a new series of Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation is also included (also on the DVD), and… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…to introduce a new Disney (anti-)hero…had we not recently seen the exact same shtick play out in one of the Toy Story Toons in which rejected fast-food meal toys come… |
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Finding Dory
…and here’s where the irony comes in, that Pixar’s sequels have largely…(whisper it)…just not been very good. After the extraordinary Toy Story 2, itself a last-minute fix to a knee-jerk… |
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Some time with Borrowed Time directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
…make a film together when the time was right. Lou enjoyed the next 8 years at Pixar as a Character Artist on WALL•E, Toy Story 3, Partly Cloudy, Day &… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…does it compare? Pretty well, actually, although if the story sounds strangely familiar it’s that, in the end – and as with many of these DTV offerings – the story… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…Europe. In 1998, Miller was hired by DreamWorks Animation, becoming a story artist on the studio’s first animated feature film, Antz (1998). Next, he served as a story artist on… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…Since I started in animation in the late 80s, I’ve had the opportunity to work my way up from cell painting, inking, inbetweening, animating, story artist, story supervisor and finally… |
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Two Toy Story sequels in the works
…spokeswoman in Los Angeles for Disney studios later elaborated, saying, “They’re working on different story ideas with the hopes there will be a Toy Story 3 and another after that.”… |