Kitbashing Adobe Substance 3D Assets with Sebastian Marek
Director/animator: Sebastian Marek “I wanted to make the spider more believable as a toy by adding subtle details resulting from the manufacturing process. For instance, toy parts usually have a characteristic line in the middle that results from…
Another Motion Project Rescued From Production Limbo
Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2022 Creative director: Ryan Duggan Illustrator/designer: Sienna Mae, Gabriele Calvi, Ryan DugganAE animator: Gabriele Calvi, Arm Sattavorn, Austin SaylorCel Animator:…
Italian Distributor Withdraws Animated Film From Festivals After Accusations Of Theft
Chernysheva, who continues to produce new films, remains stunned that her decade-old film was selected to screen in festivals years after its debut. Considering how “easy it is to resubmit the same film twice,” she said jokingly, “why…
Territory Studio Gets New London HQ Digs
Tom McLoughlin, Managing Director, said, “The breadth of projects taken on by the studio over the past two years has been incredible, driving a rapid expansion in our team. London remains one of Europe’s leading cities in film, TV, video…
Will Prime Video’s ‘God of War’ Series Follow Video Game Lore?
In the previous games, Kratos has a rich backstory involving revenge, Zeus, and insane murdering sprees before he becomes a “reformed father” in the more recent games. While his past can most certainly be told in flashbacks, understanding how…
‘Chainsaw Man’ Stage Adaptation In The Works For Late 2023
That’s right. The demon-fueled, blood-soaked exploits of Denji and his pals will be splattered across the stage for audiences to enjoy right in front of their own eyes. Season one of the animated series adaptation of Chainsaw Man may have wrapped…
Best of Stash 2022: VFX!
[embedded content] JOHN LEWIS “UNEXPECTED GUEST” TVCIssue: STASH 151 VFX supervisors Adam Droy and Pete Hodsman lead The Mill creature crew into a holiday adventure in bipolar hyena hilarity with Blur Films director Chris Balmond for Amazon…
‘Karma’s World’: An Invaluable Education in Black Character Animation
In the episode, Karma has a sleepover with her friends who proceed to ask her a series of personal and sometimes uncomfortable questions about her hair, comparing Karma’s thick Black locks to their straight hair. The onslaught of inquiries, while…
Best of Stash 2022: Game Films!
Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 [embedded content] 2089: FRONTIER Game TrailerGamesIncluded in STASH 156 Somei Sun, director and CG artist in Singapore: “The clients approached me after seeing my previous Evangelion short film (Stash 142),…
‘Avatar’ Crosses $850 Million Globally As ‘Puss In Boots’ Domestic Debut Is Battered By Brutal Weather
Despite brutal weather across much of North America, the film generated another million in ticket sales domestically, bringing its global weekend box office to 4.6 million. Avatar’s 5.4 million global cume puts the film in third place at the 2022…
Russian Animation Director Andrei Svislotski, Key Figure At Klasky Csupo, Dies At 62
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…
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…
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,…
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 of the tower…
‘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 26 in…
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…
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…
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 Studio,…
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 and much more of an…
Oscar Winner Rodney Rothman Closes Animation Development Deal with FOX
Whitney is a freelance writer focusing on VFX-driven fantasy film & TV as well as preschool animation. Rothman said, “Michael and his team at FOX Entertainment are undisputed all-time champions of broadcast animation; their record speaks for…
The Beatles “Here, There and Everywhere” Music Video by Rok Predin and Trunk
“Then we needed to match that treatment to the animation coming out of 3D. We used 3D models of each of the band members to tie the animation of separate archive shots together. “What we needed was a convincing 3D sculpt of each of the…