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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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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…recent years, I’ve hosted several radio shows in the Chicago market. Along the way I’ve had parts in movies, television shows, and commercials. AV: How and why were you selected… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…of the complexity then comes from the fact that he lives in New Zealand and then Lin-Manuel lives in New York and of course Mark lives down in California. So,… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
…Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah • Leslie Odom, Jr. in One Night in Miami… • Paul Raci in Sound of Metal • Lakeith Stanfield in Judas and the… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…Arts in graphic design at Oregon State University in 1976 and a Master’s degree in design from Stanford in 1978. Jessup currently lives in Marin County, California, with his wife,… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…Broadway history in creating The Little Shop Of Horrors, and film history in creating The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin. But our story starts before that time…. |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…George Pal’s wonderful stop motion puppet films. Leibovit has worked with Paramount Studios and various archives in the USA and Europe to gather another twenty-one Puppetoons, plus seven hand-drawn animated… |
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Arcane
…into filth and ruin while struggling to survive. Divisions festered and before long a terrible battle between the cities left many lives lost. An uneasy truce was brokered and some… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…“animatednews.com” was already taken. So we stuck with Olivier’s nomenclature and went with “animated-news.com”. When the original Animated Views launched both “animatedviews.com” and “animated-views.com” were available and we snapped up… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…South), Cinderella, Jack And The Beanstalk (“Mickey And The Beanstalk” in Fun And Fancy Free), Peter Pan, Wind In The Willows (in The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad) were… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…you manage to integrate the imaginary characters of Moom and Lumin into the very realistic vegetal environment? RK & DT: It was important for the texture of Moom and the… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…is just plain bizarre. It was also used in two other Cambria productions, Space Angel (1962) and Captain Fathom (1965). Incidentally, Cambria also produced the show The New Three Stooges,… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…directors found themselves searching for ways to expand upon their filmmaking experience in Pixar’s art department. They decided to write and direct an independent animated short film together. The film,… |
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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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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…Commentaries by creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein and the cast. In the first, for Freaks & Geeks, they cavort in a friendly manner, amazingly revealing that there were jokes… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…special short, in front of the camera and behind…” We decided to accompany that intriguing work in progress in talking now with none other than the Art Director himself, namely… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…fans love and treasure. The idea is not to berate Star Trek in any way, but to instead find the humour in Star Trek situations. The dialogue comes fast and… |
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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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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…and hear again some of those songs that stuck with us all through childhood and will be instantly recognizable again. In our top ten, one of these discs just isn’t… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…fine selection of extras, with the fun if inconsequential new featurette Secrets Of The Furious Five on its own in a bundled-in platter, something Blu-ray owners inexplicably found missing in… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…of animated programs aimed specifically for adults. The show revels in very adult themes and content due in large part to the influence of the anime and video games the… |
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Big Hero 6
…Marvel movies) and X-Men and Fantastic Four at Fox, Marvel and Disney are now beginning to move away from the more established characters and starting to really investigate those additional… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
Last year, 2015 brought us Inside Out, more Avengers, Star Wars and a heap of interchangeable animated features, plus that infamous “future date” when Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…special attention to pictures from WWII, and what scars the plaza had in that time period compared to nowadays. Since those sequences would play both in a “dream land” and… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…Friday and into Saturday morning, the four movies being looped were The Incredibles, Lady And The Tramp, The Aristocats, and Captain Marvel. While we didn’t catch if anything changed through… |
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Marvel news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…December 11, 2020 @BrieLarson returns as Carol Danvers in @MarvelStudios’ Captain Marvel 2, directed by @NiaDaCosta. Joining the cast are recently announced Ms. Marvel, Iman Vellani, and Monica Rambeau played… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…culture in your work, globally as an artist, and more specifically in Dam Keeper? RK & DT: Dice grew up in Tokyo, Japan and Robert grew up in the suburbs… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
On December 4th, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that, among the 63 movies already qualified in the category, 10 animated short films had advanced in the… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…supplements, including the Studio’s usual kid-friendly extras and now-standard new animated short, plus interest for collectors with a picture-in-picture commentary and more. DreamWorks has a way to go to top… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…and Steven Spielberg’s production shingle, Amblin Entertainment. Despite his involvement in two of the previous three Roger Rabbit shorts, Cook “was not involved” with Soup. Artwork from the abandoned Roger… |
