Animation Archive

  • The Incredible Journey meets The Truman Show in Disney’s canine animation BOLT. Celebrity pooch Bolt is the star of his own hit TV series. But the action-hero dog has no idea his daily brushes with danger are the invention of scriptwriters, until he’s accidentally shipped to New York and has to find his way home to Hollywood with the help of a crotchety cat and a hyperactive hamster. As Disney’s first feature under the guidance...

    Chris Williams & Byron Howard (directors) – Disney’s Bolt

    The Incredible Journey meets The Truman Show in Disney’s canine animation BOLT. Celebrity pooch Bolt is the star of his own hit TV series. But the action-hero dog has no idea his daily brushes with danger are the invention of scriptwriters, until he’s accidentally shipped to New York and has to find his way home to Hollywood with the help of a crotchety cat and a hyperactive hamster. As Disney’s first feature under the guidance...

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  • BEN BURTT, Oscar-winning sound and character voice designer for Star Wars and ET, chats about finding inspiration in sonograms, songs from Hello, Dolly!, and enjoying the luxury of time working on Pixar animation WALLE. MMM: Legend has it that you use almost everything that comes into your life eventually as part of the sounds that you create, even sounds you heard while your wife was pregnant… Burtt: [Laughs] I’ve always found when you’re trying to...

    Ben Burtt (sound & character voice designer) – WALLE

    BEN BURTT, Oscar-winning sound and character voice designer for Star Wars and ET, chats about finding inspiration in sonograms, songs from Hello, Dolly!, and enjoying the luxury of time working on Pixar animation WALLE. MMM: Legend has it that you use almost everything that comes into your life eventually as part of the sounds that you create, even sounds you heard while your wife was pregnant… Burtt: [Laughs] I’ve always found when you’re trying to...

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  • Writer-director ANDREW STANTON talks about hot-button issues, designing under the radar, and starring in Hello, Dolly! MMM: Can you take us through your having the germ of the idea for WALLE to that eureka moment when you knew you’d hit the jackpot and that you were going to make a film that will be regarded as a masterpiece? Stanton: Well, it did have this long journey. It was this one sentence out of a lunch...

    Andrew Stanton (writer-director) – WALLE

    Writer-director ANDREW STANTON talks about hot-button issues, designing under the radar, and starring in Hello, Dolly! MMM: Can you take us through your having the germ of the idea for WALLE to that eureka moment when you knew you’d hit the jackpot and that you were going to make a film that will be regarded as a masterpiece? Stanton: Well, it did have this long journey. It was this one sentence out of a lunch...

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  • SIGOURNEY WEAVER chats about disembodied voices, being a happy hitchhiker, and how starring in Alien helped land her the part of the spaceship’s computer in Pixar’s animated movie WALLE. MMM: You play the voice of the ship’s computer, but I believe you’re such a fan of Pixar that you said you would have done it for almost no money? Weaver: I was absolutely delighted as I was a stalwart fan and very enthusiastic of Pixar....

    Sigourney Weaver (actress) – WALLE

    SIGOURNEY WEAVER chats about disembodied voices, being a happy hitchhiker, and how starring in Alien helped land her the part of the spaceship’s computer in Pixar’s animated movie WALLE. MMM: You play the voice of the ship’s computer, but I believe you’re such a fan of Pixar that you said you would have done it for almost no money? Weaver: I was absolutely delighted as I was a stalwart fan and very enthusiastic of Pixar....

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