Here are some audio and video clips showing how theme park sound is done.
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Tyrus Wong, the Chinese-American artist who was the production designer of Disney’s classic feature Bambi (1942), passed away today at the age of 106.
My recent interview with the LA Times about Disney Imagineering.
Visitors to a new exhibition at The Dali Museum won’t just be looking at art. They’ll be exploring a Dali painting in a three-dimensional world that turns art into an immersive experience.
What has three letters, many aliases and is of major significance to the sound community? You guessed it: ADR aka Automated Dialog Replacement aka Additional Dialog Recording aka Dubbing aka Looping. All of these monikers are understood as the process of re-recording dialog that cannot be salvaged from a production. To make one thing clear, there is nothing automated about it. ADR is an art.
“I can put goggles on and I just step into the paper and now I’m drawing in it,” Keane says. “Today, all the rules have changed.”
Photo Credit Mr. Fun’s Journal Floyd Norman: An Animated Life is a feature-length look the prolific animator and story artist’s life from growing up in Santa Barbara, CA to his years working as an animator at Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Pixar and more. The undisputed “Forrest Gump” of the animation world, Norman was hired as the first […]
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60 Years Ago: Operation Disneyland
Photo courtesy Chuck Pharis Two of my favorite things are Disneyland and Television. In celebration of Disneyland’s 60th anniversary I decided to post the behind the scenes ABC video showing the technical preparations. Below is the actual show from opening day itself. You can see how far TV and Disneyland have come over the years. […]
From Disney Research. Authors Seungmoon Song (Disney Research Pittsburgh) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research Pittsburgh) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research Pittsburgh) IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2015 May 26, 2015 Our goal is to bring animation characters to life in the real world. We present a bipedal robot that looks like and walks like […]
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Duet Festival Screenings
We have a couple of updates about Duet, the recent film by Glen Keane. The film is part of the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival 16 – 21 September 2014 Bristol, UK. Duet will be shown Friday Sept. 19. Encounters Festival is the UK’s leading short film and animation festival, and the annual meeting place for filmmakers and […]