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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Animation Score Musings   Last Post   Posted:   Aug 7, 2012 - 8:43 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) I'm usually pleasantly surprised by animation scores. There must be something about the medium that inspires composers. My latest find is "LION OF JUDAH" by Greg Sims. Nit picker that I am I actually cut my playlist down to 30 minutes. But there are some wonderful cues. The most beautiful being "Moonrise Over Jerusalem~Jack's Despair". http://www.screenarchives.com/media/15491-12484.mp3 Samples on SAE: http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/15491/LION-OF-JUDAH/    Posted:   Aug 7, 2012 - 8:47 AM     By:   judy the hutt   (Member) I love the music to both Tintin and Puss In Boots. Fun stuff.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2012 - 9:00 AM     By:   mstrox   (Member) I'm usually pleasantly surprised by animation scores. There must be something about the medium that inspires composers. Animation is typically done either because it includes something fantastical that would be hard to do practically with live action, or as a stylistic choice - both reasons remove a little bit of the reality from the proceedings, and for that reason animated scores are less grounded. I'd think that an animated film is a little bit like a playground for a composer.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2012 - 9:23 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Animation is usually produced with the mind set of "loud and in your face," and this ironically has helped the animation score retain strong vibrant thematic material. Good example would be John Ottman's Astro Boy score. I had no idea he could write something so powerful and dramatic. Powell's animation scores stand out as his very best work IMHO. Joel McNeely usually hits a home run with the scores he's composed for Disney's made for video fare.    Posted:   Aug 7, 2012 - 9:38 AM     By:   Dirk Wickenden   (Member) I have said roughly the same in a couple of other threads a little while ago but I will word it a different way for this thread. I feel that the majority of contemporary live action dramatic scoring is uninspired, thematic-less, ambient non-music (hence why I rarely buy a contemporary score bar the odd exception) but animation/'children's films' is where it's at - often big orchestral scores full of melody and lavish orchestration. Often pastiche I guess but still tuneful. Yes or no?    Posted:   Aug 7, 2012 - 9:38 AM     By:   ddddeeee   (Member) Animation is locked very early compared to live action so the composers don't have to deal with edits or cuts nearly as much.    Posted:   Aug 8, 2012 - 12:36 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) Cartoon Network had a "preview" of the new HTTYD television series last night. I was trying to get a feel for the music. But I had a hard time hearing it. Not sure if they tracked music from the film score or wrote something entirely new. I heard some similarities in the beginning but then it seemed to go off into its own direction musically. Anybody catch the premier or listen to the music? Regarding the premier itself it was pretty much what I expected. While the animation was very good, (nearly feature film quality) the scripts are just blah. I tuned in because I read they were going for a more mature audience. But I felt the scripts were written for seven year old's. Very simple, "we have a problem" now "how do we solve it?" kinda approach. What makes things worse is we get a lot more of Hicups nerdy friends. They were tolerable in the film because they were secondary characters. In the series we see a lot more of them and they remind me how annoying most 3D films are.    Posted:   Sep 27, 2012 - 11:30 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) LA PLANETE SAUVAGE (FANTASTIC PLANET) http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/21800/LA-PLANETE-SAUVAGE-FANTASTIC-PLANET-PRE-ORDER/ Really excited to see this score get a re-release. It's been long out of print and I don't own it on CD.    Posted:   Sep 27, 2012 - 7:30 PM     By:   dan the man   (Member) I would say percentage wise that there seems to be a higher quailty of film scores which have come from animated films over the years.Thinking about it, i can't think of many weak ones or ones with little music.    Posted:   Aug 19, 2015 - 8:22 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) Where are the expanded Dreamworks animated scores? An American Tail, Land Before Time, Balto, Prince of Egypt etc... This studio seems to be the major holdout.    Posted:   Aug 19, 2015 - 8:51 PM     By:   TacktheCobbler   (Member) Where are the expanded Dreamworks animated scores? An American Tail, Land Before Time, Balto, Prince of Egypt etc... This studio seems to be the major holdout. Unless I'm mistaken, the only one of those four that actually belongs to Dreamworks is Prince of Egypt, the rest of those are with Universal.    Posted:   Aug 19, 2015 - 9:21 PM     By:   riotengine   (Member) Watched Titan A.E today and the score made more of an impression this time. Greg Espinoza    Posted:   Aug 20, 2015 - 12:26 AM     By:   fvincent   (Member) Where are the expanded Dreamworks animated scores? An American Tail, Land Before Time, Balto, Prince of Egypt etc... This studio seems to be the major holdout. Unless I'm mistaken, the only one of those four that actually belongs to Dreamworks is Prince of Egypt, the rest of those are with Universal. You're right. DreamWorks made animation pictures such as Antz, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, the Shrek-films, the How to Train Your Dragon-films, the Kung Fu Panda-films, the Madagascar-films, etc.     General Discussion: Animation Score Musings    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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