How to Hook Up Your Home Theater
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| How To Hook Up Your Home Theater
Goofy series |
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 Poster for How To Hook Up Your Home Theater |
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| Directed by | Kevin Deters Stevie Wermers |
| Produced by | Chuck Williams |
| Story by | Kevin Deters, Wilbert Plijnaar, Stevie Wermers, Dan Abraham |
| Voices by | Corey Burton Bill Farmer |
| Music by | Michael Giacchino |
| Animation by | Andreas Deja, Mark Henn, Eric Goldberg, Dale Baer |
| Studio | Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  December 21, 2007 |
| Color process | Digital Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 min |
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How To Hook Up Your Home Theater is a 2007 theatrical cartoon from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Kevin Deters and co-directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton. This is the first theatrical Goofy solo cartoon short (other than a few educational films) made since Aquamania (1961). The short was partially produced using a new "paperless" production pipeline for Disney, the first major change in production technique for hand-drawn animation at Disney since the introduction of CAPS, and was also an attempt to see if the new digital animation tools could be used to produce a short with the same graphic look as that of a 1940s cartoon. Instead of animating with pencil on paper, some of the animators, such as Dale Baer[1], worked on Wacom's cintiq tablets along with Toon Boom Harmony for the animation, while other animators such as Mark Henn and Andreas Deja continued to work in the traditional method with pencil on paper. It was reported on Animation World Network[2] that about 50% of the short was done in the new paperless technique. It is widely expected that Disney's next hand-drawn animated feature The Princess and the Frog will utilize these new techniques.
The short was released with the Disney film National Treasure: Book of Secrets on December 21, 2007. This short was shown early at the "Animate with the Greats" class taking place at Facet's Theatre. Several Walt Disney Animation Studios animation artists taught the class, including Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers.
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- A scene from Goofy short in 2007 in Disney Sports Soccer in April 30, 2009.
