Starting an animated short film at age 12 forced a young director to face his grief while continuing to learn from a father who’d passed away far too soon.
The veteran director of ‘Wolf Children’ and ‘The Boy and the Beast’ paints an intimate portrait of a young boy’s vivid imagination and how it helps him accept the arrival of his baby sister.
A longtime collaborator with director Genndy Tartakovsky, production designer Scott Wills helps bring a 2D sensibility to CG production in Sony’s latest animated comedy feature.
Chad Hurd and Justin Wagner share artwork and creative insights from the Season 9 pre-WWII South Pacific island redesign.
Chad Hurd and Justin Wagner share artwork and creative insights from the Season 9 pre-WWII South Pacific island redesign.
The creator of ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ teases his new animated feature film at SPA, shares his insights on the difficulties of the creative process, and gives advice for young artists looking for a career in the industry.
The creator and visual supervisor discusses his world-building and design work on the upcoming VFX-driven Netflix Original Series.
The overall VFX supervisor riffs on witness cameras, bleak L.A. cityscapes and the super-secret digital recreation of Rachael in Denis Villeneuve’s mesmerizing ‘Blade Runner’ sequel.
The legendary animator finds his game and garners an Oscar nomination alongside legendary hoopster Kobe Bryant with their animated ‘love letter’ short film tribute to the sport.
The 45th Annual Annie Awards will take place on Saturday, February 3, 2018, at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Winning contests are fantastic for getting publicity.
Handling broken deals is never easy…and involves lots of crying.
Landing a production deal is heaven…and losing it is hell.
Landing a deal after years of hard work is quite SWEET!
At this point in the project, I really hoped I would be further along.
My art is on his butt!
Supervisor James Baker leads the studio’s previs, techvis and postvis efforts on their second ‘Guardians’ and 11th Marvel film collaboration.
DreamWorks Animation’s zany new CG feature, directed by David Soren, brings popular Dav Pilkey book series to life.
One Animation studio head John McKenna continues his series exploring the inner workings of the animation industry.
Debut feature from acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw currently playing in select U.S. theaters.
Web-based storyboarding tool makes it simple to add, remove, reorder and replace content to quickly and easily create and share the perfect storyboard.
Executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos talks tight production schedules and Zarkon’s growing obsession with Voltron as the new season comes online.
Stand-alone page layout application designed specifically for the purpose of storyboarding instantly assembles panels into a professional storyboard layout.
Director Chris Appelhans bucks conventional industry “wisdom” by choosing VFX powerhouse as partner for first foray into crowded and uncertain Chinese animated feature film market.
New digital platform shares the visual storytelling process with over 70,000 pieces of art from high-quality animated projects including Oscar-nominated features ‘The Secret of Kells’ and ‘Song of the Sea.’
