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.

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Notes on Leviathan at Otakon 2024

Director Christophe Ferreira, Qubic Pictures producers Justin Leach and Katrina Minnett, Orange producers Yoshihiro Watanabe and Kiyotaka Waki, novelist Scott Westerfeld, and vocalist Diana Garnett came to Otakon in order to tell us about their cartoon called Leviathan, and now I’m here to tell you what they told us.

-but not everything, because the panel was an hour and a half, and this is a sakuga blog.

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