Hidenori Matsubara needs little introduction. While he was attending the International Animation Research Institute in Tokyo, he bought a copy of the Royal Space Force pilot film from General Products, then under production at the animation studio they spun off to make it: Gainax. He applied to join, passed their admission test, and over the […]
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Interview with Christophe Ferreira, Justin Leach, and Katrina Minett at Otakon 2024
Christophe Ferreira began his career as a dougaman at Telecom Animation Film under Yasuo Ootsuka and Kazuhide Tomonaga, passed from project to project and position to position, took a detour outside the industry into comics, ducked back in for color scripts and storyboards on Hirune Hime, and now takes the director’s chair at Orange for an adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s novel Leviathan.
Needless to say, when I saw Otakon had invited him as a guest, I had many questions for him – and he was kind enough to let me ask a few.
Read more →Podcast_Unknown.mp4 Episode 1: Toniko Pantoja
Welcome to the start of our new animation podcast! We’re kicking things off with an interview with Toniko Pantoja! Animator and storyboard artist at studios like Netflix and Dreamworks. We talk about his beginning in web animation, his time at Netflix + Dreamworks, state of indie animation, and a whole lot more! Hope you all […]
Read more →Trying to Bridge the Gap between US and JPN Productions: An Interview with Will Feng
Join us as we interview Will Feng! An animation producer affiliated with Studio Trigger; he produced their video game openings (Shantae, Indivisible, Omega Strikers) along with scouting out overseas artists James Gilleard and Jasmin Lai for BNA. Get to know his early animation experiences working at Titmouse, what motivated him to work in anime in […]
Read more →Trigger Fukuoka’s New Generation: Shunpei Gunyasu, Takuya Saitou, and President Masahiko Otsuka at Otakon 2023
For Otakon 2023, Studio Trigger president Masahiko Otsuka decided bring along two skilled but essentially unknown young animators from the Trigger Fukuoka satellite: Shunpei Gunyasu and Tatsuya Saitou. Otsuka has “big plans” for the digital branch, now hard at work on Dungeon Meshi. What are these new animators like, and how’s it going down down in Kyuushuu?
Read more →Interview with Quintessential Quintuplets TV Special Staff at Otakon 2023
Veteran Shaft animator Kazuya Shiotsuki, freelance screenwriter Keiichirou Ouchi, and TBS producer Junichirou Tanaka came to Washington DC for Otakon last week – July 2023. Otakon was kind enough to arrange for me to sit down and talk with them alongside an interpreter to compensate for my questionable listening comprehension, and they were in turn kind enough to accept.
Read more →A Peek into the Future: Interview with Rising Talent Ryo Shimura
It’s impossible to talk about Shaft these days without bringing up the mass exodus of talent and the reshuffling of roles to compensate– as we covered in lengthy detail here. I mentioned Ryo Shimura being one of the more exciting names for me back when he was just an inbetweener. The imperfect ambition of Nue […]
Read more →Exclusive interview with Vincent Chansard – Part 2
Part 2 of our lengthy discussion with French animator Vincent Chansard!
Read more →Exclusive interview with Vincent Chansard – Part 1
Thanks to Iluvatar, we get the opportunity to publish an interview between him and famous animator Vincent Chansard. Impressing fans and industry professionals alike, Vincent Chansard has been an action ace on several big productions. In this first part of the interview, we get to know about his school background, the difference between western and […]
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