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Animation Addicts Podcast #52: Interview with Vic Mignogna
…got to interview Vic Mignogna, one of the most famous anime voice actors in America. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV5704756063.mp3 Highlights: • Identity and name crisis with Vic Mignogna. • Why he loves anime… |
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The 2022 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken sinks deeper as film doesn’t see holiday boost
…against a Pixar release (Elemental) and a critically adored superhero movie (Across the Spider-Verse) for its target demographic. Why not save it for mid-July, when there are no major animated… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…again, these are meant to be fun and decorative — the fact that Disney mastered actual tapes at all rather than just selling empty boxes is pretty impressive. These videocassettes… |
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Kingdom Hearts IV announced as part of franchise’s 20th anniversary
…the third game regarded as the finale to what series director Tetsuya Nomura has dubbed “The Dark Seeker Saga”, the fourth game will see Sora and company embark on a… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #34: Toy Story 2 – British Invasion
…Pixar’s first sequel Toy Story 2. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV5582303857.mp3 Highlights: • What Have You Been Watching (WHYBW) – Animation Edition: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Does that count as animation?), Rio, Hotel Transylvania…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #33: The Adventures of Tintin – Relax, I Interviewed A Pilot Once
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Morgan and Chelsea are flying solo as they talk about fast-paced, adventure film, The Adventures of Tintin. Join these newbies as they learn about and… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #62: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron – Tradigital Animation
…Discussion: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron • Who are Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook? • Bryan Adam’s soundtrack. Phil Collins/Tarzan knock off? Gotta love the early 2000s. • “Tradigital Animation”… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #32: Mulan – Yodeling Huns
…Thou shalt make a crappy DVD cover. • Animation style and design is very modern, yet true to Asian aesthetics. • Act 1: cool intro, big fan of Shan Yu,… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…of action music, but also – and most of all, should I say – in his layering of emotion. Because Bolt is not only a comedy or an action, animated… |
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The 2023 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…your characters so expressive and emotional? RK & DT: Chris Sasaki (character designer) and Andrea Blasich (character sculptor) did a tremendous job creating simple and appealing characters. Erick Oh and… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…There are about as many imperfections as one might expect, with a modest amount of marks and scratches present. Given that this movie was unlikely to receive a full digital… |
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Roecker set to Live Freaky
…a young man who discovers an old copy of Helter Skelter (former Los Angeles D.A. Vincent Bugliosi’s account of Charles Manson’s killing spree) and decides to interpret it as a… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…as well. Lynne Naylor did some of the female designs, and comic artists Kevin Nowlan and Mike Mignola made contributions as well, along with artists at the studio. There is… |
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The Blazing Dragons of Monty Python’s Terry Jones
…showcased in the first second season episode aptly titled A Killer Makeover. This was an attempt to make him appear more sinister and villainous. Furthermore, there were additional issues that… |
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The Star
…Perry and Oprah Winfrey as camels, Aidy Bryant as a sheep, and Ving Rhames and Gabriel Iglesias as dogs also all do fine jobs in their roles as well. This… |
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Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection
…his adventures as a World War One flying ace, atop his Sopwith Camel. Somehow, the animation makes it all work, with Snoopy’s doghouse being shot down in enemy territory, and… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…however, this is not a true criticism, since the focus is clearly on Disney and his associates, many of which are profiled at points during the documentary. And this amounts… |
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Armageddon
…this type. With such an event coming as something as a shock to NASA, there isn’t a team available at such short notice that can navigate themselves towards the asteroid,… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…what it doesn’t tell us, and what the underlying truths are…all of them kept mysterious and under wraps, and the teasing as to what it all meant boosted by writer-director-star… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…I’d still probably pick it as the best of this last bunch and it’s as good as any to end on. Each show, as always, concludes with Filmation’s well disguised… |
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Electric Girl series being developed for Cartoon Network
ICv2 News indicates that at Comic-Con, Ait/PlanetLar publisher Larry Young made known that Electric Girl, from creator Michael Brennan, is being developed by Cartoon Network as an animated television series…. |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…are being reviewed as extras here. First up are excerpts from an archived audio interview with Rudy Ising, a Laugh-O-Gram Studio animator (and later MGM director with Hugh Harman), conducted… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…an amphibian-like creature that sucks the energy from his victims, and Scorpia, who is a woman of half-human and half-scorpion parts. What is interesting about the villains on this show,… |
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Technicolor’s Atomic Puppet
…as well as the creator/executive producer on the UPN series, The Mouse and the Monster. Technicolor is a company listed on NYSE Euronext Paris and NYSE stock exchanges, and this… |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…something about a Christmas special that gives it an advantage over anything else. And this is certainly one of the greatest ever. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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[UPDATED!] The Ten Commandments CG
…screenplay by Ed Naha and features the voice talents of Ben Kingsley as the narrator, Elliott Gould as God, Christian Slater as Moses and Alfred Molina as Ramses. Update! The… |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…at youngsters. To Walk A Mile offers another clichéd story, this time about a boy named Mark who is ashamed that his father refuses to fight. Naturally, there is a… |
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Character designs for upcoming Spawn series revealed
…and has since Spawn #32, as well as a more comic-oriented Clown, reminiscent of Greg Capullo’s art from the popular Spawn Bible, a one-shot comic, explaining the origins of Spawn…. |
