Toon Talks Podcast with Eric Goldberg

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Toon Talks has a nice interview with Eric Goldberg up.

From the site:

To anyone who has met Eric, I’m sure you’ll agree that he embodies everything we love about the characters and craft of animation – he really is a ‘living cartoon character’! What a wonderful honour and pleasure to have him on the show!!
In the mid-1970s Eric broke into the industry working on Raggedy Ann and Andy at the Richard Williams studio where he quickly raised through the ranks from Assistant to Director! For a time in the 80’s Eric ran his own studio, Pizazz Pictures before returning to the States to work at Walt Disney’s as a lead animator on the Genie in Aladdin and later co director for Pocahontas, and the lead animator on Phil in Hercules. While at Disney’s Eric began his own short which was set to the George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. His short later became part of Disney’s Fantasia 2000 after he was allowed to use Disney’s staff which were on down time from The Emperor’s New Groove, to help complete it. He was also director for Fantasia 2000’s “The Carnival of the Animals” segment.
Eric also developed Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are as a CG animated feature film and was an animation director on Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes: Back in Action, as well as providing the voices for Speedy Gonzales, Tweety, and Marvin the Martian.
Eric also directed a short cartoon for a Buddhist cultural centre in Hong Kong, A Monkey’s Tale. A fun lesson about greed. He animated the title sequence of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 2006 remake of The Pink Panther, with Bob Kurtz of Kurtz and Friends. Later returning to Disney, where he directed four minutes of animation for the Epcot attraction Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros and contributed to animated short How to Hook Up Your Home Theater. He was the supervising animator for Louis, the Alligator in The Princess and the Frog and Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh and head of animation on Get A Horse!

But all this, is still just a drop in the sea of contribution Eric has added to our industry.

Check it out at this link.

Exclusive Audio Interview with Chris DiGiovanni; Assistant Director on Freebirds

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In our third installment of audio interviews with the team who made Reel FX’s newly released film Free Birds a reality, we have ex-Pixar animator Chris DiGiovanni who was the assistant director Listen to Chris talk about the process, his career, and the software used in the film.

Enjoy!

 

 

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More about the film:

Directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!), this new animated buddy comedy features a hilarious all-star cast lead by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler. Wilson and Harrelson play two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks who must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history— and get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu for good. Freebirds is currently playing in theaters nationwide. More about the movie can be found via the Free Birds site.

More about Tony Copolillo: Tony is a Los Angeles-based artist / photographer / illustrator working in digital and traditional formats with over 20 years experience in motion picture advertising as a photo illustrator and compositor. You can head on over to siopio.com to check out some of his 3D training tutorials and other fun projects, and you can also hear him do a semi-weekly podcast atthenowwhatshow.com

 

Exclusive Audio Interview with Rich McKain; Supervising Animator for Free Birds!

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Up today is the second in our series of three interviews with animators and artists from Reel Fx/ Relativity Media’s animated feature Free Birds! This time around we’re speaking with Rich McKain who was the supervising animator on the film. Enjoy!

 

 

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More about the film:

Directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!), this new animated buddy comedy features a hilarious all-star cast lead by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler. Wilson and Harrelson play two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks who must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history— and get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu for good. Freebirds is currently playing in theaters nationwide. More about the movie can be found via the Free Birds site.

More about Tony Copolillo: Tony is a Los Angeles-based artist / photographer / illustrator working in digital and traditional formats with over 20 years experience in motion picture advertising as a photo illustrator and compositor. You can head on over to siopio.com to check out some of his 3D training tutorials and other fun projects, and you can also hear him do a semi-weekly podcast atthenowwhatshow.com

 

Exclusive Audio Interview with Jeff Biancalana; Head of Story for Free Birds!

FREE BIRDS After many requests, Animation Insider is proud to begin a new feature on our site in the form of audio interviews for artists! In collaboration with Reel FX, we are very pleased to roll out the first of three exclusive interviews with animators from the new Relativity Media/Reel FX film Free Birds which opens nationwide in theatres today! First up, our own Tony Copolillo interviews Jeff Biancalana; Head of Story on the film. Enjoy!

 

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More about Relativity Media/ Reel FX’s  Free Birds:

[video src="http://www.animationinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/FB_MeetTheFlock_OwenWoody_101-Broadband-High.mp4" /] Relativity Media and Reel FX Animation Studios, are pleased to announce that FREE BIRDS is now playing in theaters nationwide! Directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!), this new animated buddy comedy features a hilarious all-star cast lead by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler. Wilson and Harrelson play two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks who must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history— and get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu for good.

More about Tony Copolillo: Tony is a Los Angeles-based artist / photographer / illustrator working in digital and traditional formats with over 20 years experience in motion picture advertising as a photo illustrator and compositor. You can head on over to siopio.com to check out some of his 3D training tutorials and other fun projects, and you can also hear him do a semi-weekly podcast at thenowwhatshow.com