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Animator Screenwriter

Get to Know Your Golden Globes Nominees for Best Motion Picture, Animated

Yesterday we delighted and thrilled you with two Golden Globe primers to make you the toast/scourge of your friends and/or family. Our primer for the Best Motion Picture, Drama and Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy categories were designed to give you the tools (in the form of interviews we've done with the below-the-line artists who helped make those films great) to sound like a cinematic savant. "Harold, did you know Carol 

By  |  January 8, 2016

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Animator

The Good Dinosaur Animator Kevin O’Hara on Visual Storytelling

What if the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs missed the earth completely and they never became extinct? That’s the question The Good Dinosaur asks as it explores the relationship between an Apatosaurus named Arlo and his human pet/friend. We chat to Pixar animator Kevin O’Hara about how technology has changed the animation game and being inspired in the early days by a meeting with legendary Donald Duck animator Milt Neil.

By  |  November 30, 2015
To Infinity… And Beyond! Ranking Our Favorite Pixar’s Films

Happy Thanksgiving, readers! With Pixar’s latest The Good Dinosaur just around the corner, we’ve taken on the notoriously difficult task of ranking all 15 films from the beloved Disney animation studio known for their commitment to quality. Humbly submitting our approximation of the films from Pixar’s least inspiring low to their most impressive high, we’ll offer speculation about the upcoming sequels Finding Dory, Toy Story 4,

By  |  November 26, 2015
Prepare to Weep: Pixar, 20 Years Strong, Delivers This Delightful Montage

As the theme of the very first Toy Story reminds us, we've “got a friend” – in Pixar. This new montage also reminds us nobody is better at eliciting genuine emotion than Pixar has been for the past 20 years. Through the good and bad times, the Pixar characters have been there for us.

Grab some tissues before you watch. The first 30-seconds of this montage is dedicated to friends from Pixar's past who taught us lessons about growing up,

By  |  October 20, 2015

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Director

Raging Storm Sets Arlo on his Path in New The Good Dinosaur Trailer

The underlying conceit in The Good Dinosaur is that the asteroid that struck the earth and killed the dinosaurs missed, meaning dinosaurs and humans would walk the earth together. When the young Aapotosaurs Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) is separated from his father by a wicked storm, he’s united with a young human named Spot (voiced by Jack Bright), who quickly becomes his best friend. This much we already knew,

By  |  October 6, 2015

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Actor

The Good Dinosaur‘s International Trailer

We get a bit more of an introduction to the star of The Good Dinosaur, the young apatosaurus named Arlo, and his feral human friend, Spot. But this new international trailer is all about the other dinosaurs that will challenge our fearless (in Spot's case, anyway) heroes as they journey through their wild world.

Check out the new trailer and catch a few very familiar (and wonderful) voices of some of the dinosaurs,

By  |  September 21, 2015

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Actor

Need a Midweek Smile? Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Trailer & This Song Will Help

Need a midweek boost? Check out Pixar’s smile inducing trailer for The Good Dinosaur. The stunning visuals of glittering stars (the kind in the sky) and tumbling rocks make us forget that this movie is in fact animated – it's got that Pixar quality of being almost photo-realistic and yet entirely dreamlike – it is the kind of world we wished we lived in, no boring desks and long lines for a Mochachino.

By  |  July 23, 2015