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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…screenplay.” Reece is unable to offer a synopsis or even a title for Marza’s top-secret project. He notes that, with this film, Marza is poised for global success, able to… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…folk artist uses his art to get the girl he loves. “As an artist, I have a connection with that story – a story about an artist and his artwork… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…reality. There were a lot of people back then who were saying, “This is an abomination! Black-and-white film is so beautiful, why are we doing this? We’re ruining the beautiful… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…Elisa Maza, and her character’s design is actually modeled after the actress. The voice of Demona is provided by another Star Trek alumni, Marina Sirtis (best known as Counselor Deanna… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…Cara Speller is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-nominated, BAFTA-winning and triple Grammy-nominated producer, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Short Films and Feature Animation branch at The Academy of Motion… |
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Onward
…the odds are always good that the DMs at Pixar are going to work their magic and wow audiences again with every new release. And Onward is no exception. In… |
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Lightyear
…The second sequel was just the third animated film ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. And the third sequel, while not as highly acclaimed as the previous… |
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The Wild Robot
…an elderly goose called Longneck. Nighy is someone who remains a brilliant character actor who is also inexplicably underappreciated, and I’m always glad when he shows up in anything. For… |
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Warning From Space
…and trailers, this is a satisfying disc for anyone inclined to check out this somewhat landmark film. Arrow Video’s Blu-ray of Warning From Space is available to purchase from Amazon.com!… |
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Mulan
…right tone when needed. Gong Li is great as Xianniang whenever she is able to shine. And Jet Li is actually quite fun any time he shows up as the… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…elements had been done at UCLA, and new work was commissioned to other helpers such as Steve Stanchfield and his crew at Thunderbean Animation, who performed an immense amount of… |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…newcomers (Oscar Isaac as Miguel O’Hara, Jason Schwartzman as The Spot, Issa Rae as Jessica Drew, Karan Soni as Pavitr Prabhakar, and Daniel Kaluuya as Hobie) easily rise to meet… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…countries equally. Hear the stories from Mexican voice actors Cristina Hernández (Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Padme Amidala), Sebastián Llapur (Darth Vader, Daffy Duck), and Claudia Motta (Bart Simpson, Pikachu) about the different… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #48: Interview with Steve Hickner
…progress in the animation industry. Hickner has a rich, 30-year career in animation working at a variety of studios such as Disney, Amblination, and DreamWorks. He’s known as the “pro’s… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…job of helping to tell the story. In any event, this book was a joy to read and comes highly recommended. Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History is available now at Amazon.com…. |
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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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Dog Man
…sometimes–and why a romance subplot is abruptly acknowledged–but that is fitting for a film where a robot’s name is literally pronounced “ADHD.” This is perhaps most evident during the climatic… |
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Arcane
…Legends is generally seen as colorful, clean, and vibrant. Arcane, on the other hand, is saturated, dirty, and graphic. This enhances the dark atmosphere of the story while allowing Charrue… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…as it’s a good story, that’s what it’s all about. AV: What advice do you have for anyone wanting to work in the animation industry? CB: I say this to… |
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All*Star Superman
…what’s with the lips?) Clark is oafish and tousle-haired, Jimmy is oddly lanky, and Lois shows too much skin. And of course, lines are all-around smoother; Quitely’s wrinkle-ness wouldn’t translate… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…wouldn’t mind having that. So I went and spoke to the man and had a nice meeting with him. I asked, ‘Well, what about Andy Panda? What about Chilly Willy?… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #39: Rise of the Guardians – Guardians of Liberty
…the highs and lows of the movie, characters and a million tangents! http://media.blubrry.com/therotoscopers/traffic.libsyn.com/therotoscopers/39_Rise_of_the_Guardians_-_Guardians_of_Liberty.mp3 Highlights: • What are we watching? Mini The Great Gatsby Review and My Little Ponies: Friendship Is… |
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Paul & The Dragon
…and not quite as appealing as how he appears in the final version, but all the heart and emotion are still very much apparent even at this early stage. Paco… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part II
…breathtaking. I loved the idea of this great adventure about a superhero family trying to do what all families try to do—make one another happy. And I knew in Brad’s… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…no-nonsense in his character. And so we wanted to go after a very rectangular and kind of firmly anchored to a square grid as much as possible. Because through his… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…Norway. I have a band called «Transjoik», and work as a producer, composer and musician. I am also a professor in music at «HiNT», a university college in my region… |
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Indiana Jones meets underwhelming box office destiny; Ruby Gillman drowns
…in what they were selling. However, that may not be the only thing we can blame here. After all, look at The Flash, a film which absolutely dazzled critics and… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Cow design-wise? AS: Aria will be a painterly short: colorful, layered, and with a cubistic approach. I have always loved doing visual development pieces for a production; and usually, once… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…first Cloudy movie? PT: A lot of the work centered around resurrecting as much data as we could from the first film and altering it as little as possible, so… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #46: Meet the Robinsons – ‘Blame You’ Wins Hands Down!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV2708648106.mp3 Mason and Chelsea join the Rotoscopers new writer, Alex Parker, as they discuss Disney’s CGI animated film Meet the Robinsons. Highlights: • Chelsea tweets… |
