The Animation That Changed Me: Peter Chung on ‘Space Adventure Cobra’
Watching the series "was the first time that it really became clear to me what a director does," says Chung.
Watching the series "was the first time that it really became clear to me what a director does," says Chung.
The hazards of social media, love for an IT technician, the solitude of Antarctica: these animated features offer something different than the usual.
Discover the full list of winners at this year's edition of the Jamaican festival.
"There was a magical quality in it: it's more like little dolls that were coming to life," says Park of the classic British stop-motion series.
Episodes, many of which feature industry professionals, are available in both English and Farsi.
The online festival will take place on March 24–25.
Spanish animator Mònica Eggert has achieved something rare: she's made a demo reel that's a hit with audiences. We asked her about how it came together.
"Everything in this film was new to me," says Laudenbach.
French artist Marie Paccou has added a new invention to the long history of animation production: the umbrellotrope.
"The more you expand your own emotional journey through life, the more the movie gives back to you," says Desrumaux.
Veteran animator Dave Pruiksma ("Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin") reflects on what he learned at Disney and why he set up an online school.
A tribute to the talents the community lost this year: animators and cartoonists, directors and producers, voice artists, dancers, and basketball players.
Says Bollinger: "Witnessing Daffy Duck coming apart at the seams as his world was deconstructed in front of him … it was sheer genius!"
"The sprawling story seems to touch on almost every aspect of human life," says Long. "I found it overwhelming and strangely addictive."
"We love drawing and have always wanted to express ourselves creatively in that medium," say the show's developers.
"I just don't think we'll ever get something that game-changing in animation again," says Louis of Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk classic.
Vincent Alexander run us through the finest self-referential moments in animation, from Koko the Clown to "The Simpsons."
Susan Young's 1985 short is set during London's famed Notting Hill Carnival. "The thing that really excited me was that she’d used animation to say something about society at that time," says Quinn.
"I wasn’t sure what the film was about," says Clapin, "and that hardly mattered to me."
Animators are invited to create videos across a range of categories using Cartoon Animator 4.