Animation veteran Andrei Svislotski died on Monday, December 19. He was 62. Svislotski studied architecture and graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1983, but then returned to school to study animation. He began his animation career in the late …
Month: December 2022

Best of Stash 2022: Explainers!
CREATEME “THE OPPOSITE” Online filmIssue: Stash 155 We don’t know of any other best-of-year lists that recognize explainer videos but Stash has a definite soft spot for designers and animators with the skillset and patience required to distill complex ideas …

Best of Stash 2022: Music Videos!
SNAKEHIPS ft. DUCKWRTH “ALL AROUND THE WORLD” Music VideoIssue: Stash 156 Music videos selected for the Stash Permanent Collection will always value the director’s design/animation/VFX craft over the popularity/sales of the performer, which makes our year-end list refreshingly different than …

The Many Visual Worlds of ‘Westworld’
JW: We actually don’t do very much previs. We work really closely with our production designer and art department in the beginning stages, and we really rely on them from a world-building standpoint. Jon Carlos came up with the idea …

‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond’ Release Dates Set
[embedded content] Whitney is a freelance writer focusing on VFX-driven fantasy film & TV as well as preschool animation. January 18 in the United Kingdom and Ireland January 19 in Australia January 20 in the United States and Canada January …

Cartoon Saloon’s Louise Bagnall Shares First Details On Her Debut Feature ‘Julián’
Love’s book is a fairly short story, so to facilitate that expansion into a feature animation project, the team decided to stretch out the narrative timeline. Louise Bagnall. “[The book is] one lovely afternoon… We dug a little bit deeper …

NVIDIA Studio Highlights 3D Artist Edward McEvenue
Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network. [embedded content] For the latest creative app updates, download the monthly NVIDIA Studio Driver. Modeling for The Great Candy Inquisition was split between Houdini, who’s RTX-accelerated Karma XPU renderer allows …

18 Lesser-Known Stop-Motion Christmas Gems To Enjoy This Holiday Season
Last Year’s Snow Was Falling (1983) is a wonderfully bizarre Soviet short about a shiftless drunkard who tries to chop down a New Year tree in a magical forest. The film was directed by Aleksandr Tatarskiy, who later co-founded Pilot …

Toros Kose Unleashes Hydra Design Labs Brand Film
Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2022 “In the beginning, the concept was more of a clear red thread, visualizing the various steps of automotive design. What ended up in the final version is a more freeform take on this idea …