Now Available: The Animated Voice, Volume One!
What is it like to be a voiceover actor? The Animated Voice, Volume One, is now available, and you can get it at Amazon.com here. It features my interviews with Keith Scott, Will Ryan, Pete Docter, Mark Evanier, Katie Leigh and the voice of Courage the Cowardly Dog, Marty Grabstein, plus, an ASIFA-Hollywood interview with […]
A Town With An Ocean View
Would you like to hear some delightful music? Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi wrote this piece, “A Town with an Ocean View,” for Hayao Miyazaki’s classic, Kiki’s Delivery Service. Adrián Zúñiga uploaded this to YouTube on July 29, 2012. Here’s a piano version, if you prefer: Lapislazuli2512 uploaded this on January 9, 2011. Delightful.
The Iron Giant — Enhanced!
In 1999, Warner Bros. released The Iron Giant, directed by Brad Bird. The story is about a kid named Hogarth, who befriends a mysterious giant robot, whose landing on the earth damaged his memory of being a weapon of mass destruction. But when an incident triggers the robot’s memory, will he resort to his destructive […]
Wonky Dragons
Here’s some caricatured dragons from the Spanish film, El Corazón del Roble / The Heart of the Oak. This is the third and last of the Dragon Hill series, the earlier ones being hand-drawn efforts. 3D artist Jon Unceta textured, shaped, and rigged the CG versions, more streamlined than the hand-drawn versions. Oddly, the producers […]
Happy Holidays from Film Roman, 1991-1994
Film Roman is the studio responsible for the production of such notable animated fare as The Simpsons (Season 4 to date), King of the Hill, The Oblongs, The Critic, Garfield and Friends, Bobby’s World, Grimmy, Mighty Max, Felix, Cro, and Tom and Jerry: The Movie. I began working there as a storyboard revisionist on Garfield […]
Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Chapter 3
The perilous voyage to Iscandar continues. https://youtu.be/R-VbKu1QwAc Released to 12 Japanese theaters, October 13, 2012 to October 26, 2012 (expanding from ten theaters for the previous films). This chapter, Dai-sanshō: Hateshinaki Kōkai (Chapter 3: “The Endless Voyage”), compiles episodes 7-10 of the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 TV series.
DreamWorks’ Dragons Debut
A Viking named Hiccup. A dragon named Toothless. Their adventures have so far spanned ten books by British author Cressida Cowell. DreamWorks produced a film version of How to Train Your Dragon, directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, which turned into a box office blockbuster in 2010. A trio of shorts followed: Legend of […]
