Agency: Studio Voile “We were lucky to have a really dynamic, open brief to play with, incredible mutual trust, and a team of creative minds all eager and open to creative exploration. Pushing outside of the usual brand approach to …
Month: August 2022

Sphere Animation and BYUtv Team Up on ‘Saving Me’
Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network. The show tells the story of a grumpy old tech billionaire from the distant future who has made a mess of his life, relationships, and the world. So he goes …

Peter Ramsey, Oscar-Winning Director of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, Signs With Mirada
He delivers an exceptional breadth of knowledge, craft, creativity, and innovation across genres, further extending Mirada’s expertise across high-end filmmaking, commercials, animation, and immersive and digital experiences. “Whether crafting immersive worlds for comic book, sci-fi, fantasy, or gaming genres, or …

L.A.’s Pauhaus Gallery Hosts Exhibition Of Artwork From Stop-Motion Innovator David Daniels’
Among Daniel’s most enduring legacies is the invention of the mind-melting Strata-Cut animation technique. The artist creates “loaves” of clay which are cut into thin slices, revealing the movement of the pre-animated images inside. Examples can be seen in the …

HBO Max Axes ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Animated Series
The cuts keep coming! The latest victim of Warner Bros. Discovery’s mad inquisition is the animated series Batman: Caped Crusader, a continuation of the fan favorite Batman: The Animated Series of the mid-90s, which was slated to release on HBO …

9 Animated Shorts That Are Oscar Hopefuls For 2023
Liza is late coming home for dinner, and she’s walking into a trap. Steakhouse is a tense and intimate revenge fantasy that is as funny as it is disturbingly relatable, a hallmark of Cadez’s work. Made entirely using analog cut-outs …

Arena Breakout “Winner Takes All” Game Trailer by Morten Vinther and The Mill
Editorial: The MillEditor: Joe Mackedanz “Gamers are so savvy, when it comes to tactical warfare and weapon handling so I wanted to make sure everything felt realistic. On the mocap shoot, I employed a veteran Navy Seal weapons specialist to …

Also Made on iPad: Zedd, Maren Morris & Beauz “Make You Say” Music Video
Working with Pulse Films director Colin Read, CD Will Johnson and the Scholar crew return to the Made on iPad pipeline with this hand-animated guide to the three phases of a breakup as experienced by singer-songwriter Maren Morris. Production: Pulse …

Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Xi Chen
Other key works: The Winter Solstice (2008), Mahjong (2013) Says: “The starting point is often some photographs or ancient paintings. The temperament of the people in older times is very different from the people in today’s life. This difference really …