Category: Focus

It Isn’t Easy Being The Coen Brothers

On Animation July 21, 2016

Kubrick? Red. Scorsese? Red. Refn? Red. Coens…green? You may not have noticed, but the Coen Brothers use the color green a lot. Jacob T. Swinney shows you just how much in his latest video essay.

Just a Few More Minutes Podcast

On Animation July 20, 2016

JAFMM is an animation and gaming podcast hosted by veteran artists Jeff Gabor, Pete Paquette, and Michael Berardini. The key word for this show is casual. It’s unscripted, unedited, and a lot of fun to listen to while you work. The …

Notes on Animation: Cats Don’t Dance by Marc Hendry

On Animation July 18, 2016

Toby Shelton’s Zootopia Storyboards

On Animation July 16, 2016

Veteran animation artist, Toby Shelton, shares his work on the sequence where Nick goes wild in a previous version of the film.

Saving Mr. Banks: Script to Screen

On Animation July 16, 2016

Director John Lee Hancock and writer Kelly Marcel discuss how the script for Saving Mr. Banks was successfully transformed onto the screen using heavily stylized elements, and musical cues from the classic film Mary Poppins to depict the life of …

Stephen Silver: Using the Golden Ratio

On Animation July 14, 2016

Horton Hears a Who: Shot Analysis by James Chiang

On Animation July 13, 2016

James Chiang is back with another thorough shot analysis. This time he looks at Aaron Hartline’s work on one of Blue Sky Studio’s most entertaining characters, Vlad Vladikoff, from Horton Hears a Who.