Monthly Archives: August 2015

4 Comments

Hank Tucker

  By

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

 

What is your name and your current occupation?
I’m Hank Tucker, story artist for Disney Toons Studios in Glendale.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I had two jobs before getting into animation: the first – lasting less than a month – was as a gas station attendant in Canoga Park, CA. The next – which figures heavily into how I got into animation (see below) – was as an apprentice editor at Columbia Pictures Television in 1974. I coded film, ground out leader and mag-track and carried dailies in a bike basket across the TBS (now WB) lot for shows like Police Story, Police Woman and Born Free – getting laughed at, yelled at and occasionally entertained by the likes of David Carradine, Yul Brenner, Angie Dickenson and The Doobie Brothers along the way. I was 17- 18. The job lasted 5 months until I was rightly jettisoned for confusion, inertia and chronic boredom…
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
The projects I’m most proud of having been involved with: The Tick animated series for Fox which I produced and directed from 1995-96; Enchanted, which I boarded on for Kevin Lima at Disney and most recently the new Road Runner theatrical shorts for Matt O’Callahan at Warner’s.
How did you become interested in animation?
Around Christmas of ‘67 my mother dragged me to Disney’s The Jungle Book. I had hated Disney films more or less up to that point, being either scared or depressed by most of them and preferring Bugs any day of the week. But when I saw that tiger Continue reading
No comments

Constantine Krystallis

  By

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

 

What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Constantine Krystallis and I am a Senior Character animator and Visual Effects artist in the Computer Game company in Athens, Greece.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?

Animation was always my goal so I tried to get into it immediately after college. I landed a job in an advertising firm doing mostly visualization and graphic design work. There was very little animation involved so I was on the look out for something else. I have also worked in an archeological site scanning pictures for the digital database. The place was so hot I had to place a wet cloth over the scanner for it to work because it was overheating.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?

I would say that my greatest fulfillment so far comes from my last personal short film which I created in 2008 for my MA of Animation course, called Mariza. It was my final project and has done very well in the festival circuit winning both national and international recognition and awards. It is always great to be in a theater and hear people respond and laugh with your work. I am also very proud of the current project I working for, Darkfall online. It is the first major attempt Continue reading
No comments

Preorder the Disney short film collect on sale August 18th

  By

Preorder the Disney short film collect on sale August 18th.

From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes an extraordinary new collection of award-winning and beloved short films including the never-before-released Frozen Fever, starring Frozen’s Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Sven and Kristoff, and the Oscar-nominated Lorenzo. The Short Films Collection also includes the 2012 groundbreaking Mickey Mouse cartoon, Get A Horse! as well as hailed Oscar® winners Paperman and Feast. Enjoy them together for the first time in this must-own collection, featuring all-new extras including introductions and interviews with the Disney Animation filmmakers themselves.

 

 

No comments

550 Million animated Years Of Human Evolution In Seconds

  By

Dutch graphic designer Jurian Möller created this detailed animation to show 550 million years of evolution, complete with dates and species at the top corners. Transitioning from modern man to amphibian to the earliest of the earth’s creatures and back again in seconds, this is a detailed animated depiction of human evolution.

Check it out!

One Comment

Don Cameron

  By

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

 

What is your name and your current occupation?
Don Cameron and I am currently background and prop supervisor on the Ultimate Spiderman at Film Roman.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Probably Dead Space. When you consider the schedule we had the fact it was even completed was astounding. It was cool to be a part the The Batman Animated Series but I was a small part of that.

How did you become interested in animation?
Warner cartoons and Disney, wouldn’t the answer be pretty much the same for anyone my age?

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I was born in Glasgow Scotland. I got into animation from a chance meeting at the Christmas party DC Comics used to hold out here. It was at the Wilshire Abel Theater and I was introduced to Chuck Patton by Mike Vosburg. Chuck offered to Continue reading