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Interviews

Luck Luck

As ‘Luck’ Would Have It: A Chat With Peggy Holmes (Video Interview)

‘Luck’ director Peggy Holmes discusses the process of creating and developing Skydance Animation’s first animated feature.

By Cole Delaney | 2 weeks ago

"Wall-E" "Wall-E"

How A ‘Warrior Mentality’ Fuels The Spirit Of Pixar Film Editing (Video Interview)

Talking Editing With ‘Making The Cut At Pixar’ Authors Bill Kinder And Bobbie O’Steen.

By Cole Delaney | 4 weeks ago

Tent Sale by Smokescreen

Black-Owned Studio Smokescreen Launches In L.A., Watch Their First Short Here

Founder Kris Wimberly discusses the new studio, meant to be a gateway into the industry for artists from marginalized communities.

By Jamie Lang | 1 month ago

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/netflix-debuts-first-trailer-for-the-sea-beast-214576.html

Cartoon Brew Podcast: ‘Sea Beast’ Director Chris Williams On Worldbuilding And The Pain Of Animating Rope

Director Chris Williams discuss the cinematic influences behind The Sea Beast, and how working on Moana prepped him for this film.

By Cole Delaney | 2 months ago

Lilo & Stitch

‘Lilo & Stitch’ At 20: Directors Chris Sanders And Dean DeBlois Reunite (Video Interview)

Watch the directing duo of Lilo & Stitch reminisce about the creation, development, production, and enduring legacy of the Disney classic.

By Cole Delaney | 2 months ago

Lightyear

‘Lightyear’ VFX Supervisor Jane Yen On Making An IMAX Blockbuster From Home, And How VR Helped

Working from home, the studio developed a new IMAX pipeline for its first theatrical release in more than two years.

By Jamie Lang | 2 months ago

Spider-verse: Across the Spider-Verse

‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ Directors Discuss Their Sequel (Video Interview)

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson sat down with Cartoon Brew’s Kambole Campbell to discuss the Spidey sequel.

By Kambole Campbell | 2 months ago

Unicorn Wars

How ‘Bambi,’ ‘Apocalypse Now,’ And The Bible Blend In Alberto Vázquez’s ‘Unicorn Wars’

Former Annecy winner Alberto Vázquez uses teddy bears and unicorns to deliver his colorful, vulgar, and hilarious anti-war allegory.

By Jamie Lang | 2 months ago

Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish Featured

Lei Lei’s New Feature ‘Silver Bird And Rainbow Fish’ Navigates The Personal Side Of Chinese History

A look at how Lei Lei combined his own ancestry with photos picked up at flea markets to tell a timeless story about family.

By Chris Robinson | 2 months ago

Signe Baumane On Lessons Learned While Making ‘My Love Affair With Marriage’

“We have so much ability to love, but our ability to hate comes from the same place,” Baumane learned while researching the film.

By Jamie Lang | 2 months ago

Linklater

Richard Linklater On His Return To Animation With ‘Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood’ (Video Interview)

Apollo 10 1/2 director Richard Linklater discusses his return to rotoscope, crafting a visual narrative, and the flexibility of memory.

By Cole Delaney | 2 months ago

Face's Music Party

‘Face’s Music Party’: A Kids Variety Show With An Indie Twist

Nick recruited independent artists from around the world to create music videos for classic kids songs which appear in the show.

By Jamie Lang | 2 months ago

The Bad Guys

‘The Bad Guys’ Director Pierre Perifel On Shifting Away From CG Paradigms (Video Interview)

“The race for realism is over [in cg animation]”, says Perifel, who took a more illustrative approach to character posing and other elements of Dreamworks’s The Bad Guys.

By Cole Delaney | 4 months ago

Cartoon Brew's Oscar coverage

Explore Our Coverage Of The Oscar-Nominated Animated Features And Shorts

Awards season comes to a close this weekend with the Oscars, which makes it an ideal time to review some of our key coverage of this year’s Oscar-nominated features and shorts.

By Amid Amidi | 5 months ago

Jared Bush and Byron Howard

‘Encanto’ Directors Jared Bush And Byron Howard On Avoiding Tropes And Crafting A Unique Story (Video Interview)

“Encanto” could have easily become a Mirabel and Bruno buddy story, but “from the beginning we knew we didn’t want to fall into that trope,” explained Byron Howard.

By Cole Delaney | 5 months ago

Flee

Editor Janus Billeskov Jansen Explains His Role In Constructing The Narrative Of ‘Flee’

Jansen’s masterful integration of archival footage, audio recording, and animation was key to the success of three-time Oscar-nominated “Flee.”

By Chris Robinson | 5 months ago

Bestia

‘Bestia’: How A True-Life Story Of Torture And Evil Was Turned Into An Oscar-Nominated Stop-Motion Film

The film was made during Chile’s recent social uprising. “We were making a short film about torture in the past, while this was happening again in our country,” says director Hugo Covarrubias.

By Carlos Aguilar | 5 months ago

The Cuphead Show

The ‘Cuphead Show’ Roundtable: Netflix ‘Didn’t Know The Trouble We Could Run Into’

The crew tell us how they set about adapting the hit game into an animated series with lush production values.

By Cole Delaney | 6 months ago

Bob Spit

The Brazilian Feature ‘Bob Spit’ Is This Year’s Most Punk Oscar Contender

Think of Will Vinton fused with William S. Burroughs, with a dash of “Mad Max” and The Clash. Director Cesar Cabral tells us about the making of his wildly unique animated feature.

By Chris Robinson | 7 months ago

The Spine of Night

‘The Spine Of Night’ Directors On Making A ‘Very Naked, Very Violent’ Fantasy Film

Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt started the film as a self-funded passion project. Eight years later, it’s in the running for an Oscar.

By Cole Delaney | 7 months ago

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