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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…went direct-to-streaming, including adequate sequels like Hotel Transylvania: Transformania and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, and the underwhelming and appropriately named Disenchanted (blending live-action and animation). Rescue Rangers,… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…hands down always want to be in an actual cinema. 14. What are some of your favorite animated TV shows? DAN: Tiny Toon Adventures is always at or near the… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…First Avenger, Avengers,Wreck-it-Ralph and Moana to name just a few, to arrange them. A true fan of all those series, Metzger’s versatility and affinity with all kinds of styles and… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…Disney Archives, the first volume of this new venture is now completed. We asked Christian to tell us more about this volume and his exciting journey up its publication. Animated… |
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"The Pitch Bible"
Before you pitch that next big movie idea to a studio or star, you may want to check out Animation World Magazine‘s helpful guide, “The Pitch Bible”…. |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…guys made a superb score! AV: You’ve been working with them both as an orchestrator and a conductor. As an orchestrator, how do you work with them? ND: In every… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…instruments, too, like the tiple and the bandola, which are different types of guitars. I literally bought an arpa llanera, a marimba called marimba de chonta, which is a very… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…Asia. The lead orchestrator, Pete Anthony, is a genius orchestrator and I adore learning from him. All his team is just amazing, John Kull, Jeff Atmajian and Peter Boyer. How… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…this?” until people got to see some footage from it, the “Avengers flick where all of the members are Spider-Man” is a monumental achievement on almost all fronts, positively flooring… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…fun! The Art Of Lightyear is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Tim Evatt, Andrea Lirio and Chris Wiggum at Pixar, and April Whitney at Chronicle Books…. |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…and I always loved movies and TV and soundtracks, too, so, we kinda have a sense of what we like, things added to pictures that we like, and we sort… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…potential. An unplumbed setting for an animated film, a deep and interesting foundational legend to build off of, a good message, amazing animation, a great cast of actors, and all… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…and what has not been written about sufficiently, and at the center of that Venn diagram was Disney and music. AV: What is your target audience? JB: While the book… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #44: Interviews with Alan Menken & Richard Sherman
…Disney Songbook.” https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV5391552854.mp3 This is a great interview with many of the writers from major Disney fan outlets. The first 15 minuets are questions just for Alan Menken. • What… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…Belgium, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Spain and more also contributed in a variety of ways. In all, they have grown to a crew of about 250… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…into a new project. The Art Of Turning Red is available to order from Amazon.com! With our thanks to Rona Liu and Chris Wiggum at Pixar, and April Whitney at… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…a Supervising Animator is much like a Head Of Animation at DreamWorks and Disney. We are responsible for leading the creation of characters in pre-production, assembling and leading the team… |
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Disney+ explores animated retellings of Marvel Cinematic Universe with What If…? trailer
…as one of the last programs featuring a performance by the late Chadwick Boseman, who had recorded all of his lines as T’Challa before passing away in August 2020. Also… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…Brave New Metropolis, in which she is transported into an alternate dimension in which Lex Luthor rules the planet…with a black-suited Superman at his side! Crossovers are always fun and… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…experiences, he offered me a position as lead animator on Aria For A Cow. And I gladly accepted. What I really liked about the project is: I got to see… |
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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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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…would not be afraid to give you honest feedback. It’s a great way to see what is not clear, what works and what doesn’t, and to reinforce what is working… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…first script. It was pitched to me as a witty adventure about a heroine coming of age. You can’t just insert ‘wacky’ into a film after it’s already been animated…. |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…and Magic (ILM) in 1986. As a visual effects art director at ILM, he earned an Academy Award® for his work on Innerspace and an Academy Award® nomination for Hook…. |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…their personalities. So, Tim is very pose-to-pose because he’s a kid trying to act as an adult and all of that kind of subtext allowed us to create a style… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…legend to build off of, a good message, amazing animation, a great cast of actors, and all the resources Disney can provide. All of it squandered because somewhere along the… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…His articles about the Disney parks, Disney animation, and vintage international Disneyana, as well as his many interviews with Disney artists, have appeared in Animation Journal, Animation Magazine, Disney Twenty… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…a freelance editorial illustrator. He began his career at Pixar Animation Studios in 1998 as a sketch artist on Monsters, Inc. He has worked as a character designer and art… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…the unit. A big name in the animation industry, the award-winning Director of Animation and Story Artist began his 15-year career in film and animation as a graduate of the… |
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Don Bluth claims “movie pitch presentation” for Dragon’s Lair film is finished
…be a first still from the film. Bluth turned to Kickstarter a while back in an attempt to fund an animated studio pitch, but it didn’t work out and he… |
