We continue with our series of interviews featuring various leading lights of animation. Here’s the second half of Mr. Alvarez’s interview …
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The Animation Guild: A Morning With Robert Alvarez — Part 2
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The Animation Guild: A Morning With Robert Alvarez — Part 1
When it comes to animation, Robert Alvarez has done almost everything. "I’ve boarded, I’ve directed, I’ve designed, I’ve done backgrounds and I’ve animated. Everything but loading film." …
While a student at Choinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, Robert began his career with t.v. animation producer Fred Calvert. One of his first assignments? Working on a British project entitled Yellow Submarine, starring a rock group whose name has been lost in the mists of time. (Not.)
In the years that followed, Mr. Alvarez worked on various features and hundreds of television shows. As he tells it, he’s spent most of his working life fulfilling his junior high school dream of "being an animator."
http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/morning-with-robert-alvarez-part-1.html
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Inkstuds: Simon Bisley Interview
Simon Bisley was one of those creators that had a profound impact on me when I was in my teens. Coming across his work in Slaine was amazing. It was violent, over the top and extreme in all the right ways. Simon has continued to make work and seems to never slow down. We cover a million different things in this interview, but somehow don’t even discuss what he is working on right now.
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Kickstarter Podcast #5: Glorkian Warrior
In the latest Kickstarter Podcast (subscribe on iTunes or listen online), we sit down with indie comics legend James Kochalka and Pixeljam Games’ Rich Grillotti and Miles Tilmann about Glorkian Warrior, a retro-inspired videogame that mixes hand-drawn and 8-bit pixel animation.
http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/465969341/kickstarter-podcast-5-glorkian-warrior
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NPR: Ray Bradbury: The Fresh Air Interview
Ray Bradbury has been awarded the 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. He is the author of over 23 books, including I Sing the Body Electric, The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, all classics of science fiction. Bradbury created the scenario for the U.S. Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, and the concept for Spaceship Earth at EPCOT at Disney World. In the early ’60s, he wrote screenplays for the television programs The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He lives in Los Angeles, Calif.
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ScreenwritingU: BRAVE’s Mark Andrews reveals the secret to writing a Pixar movie
Ever since the first Toy Story came out and brought us all to tears, screenwriters around the world have wondered what happens in the secretive Pixar writing room.
ScreenwritingU brings you the inside story to what really happens behind closed doors when writers get to create a movie for Pixar with our one-on-one podcast interview with Brave screenwriter Mark Andrews.
Brave tells the story a Scottish princess who doesn’t want to go through the process of having an arranged marriage. But oh, do her parents have a different idea. When the princess finds a magical out to her big dilemma, things start to get very odd in Scotland.
Screenwriter Mark Andrews, who showed up for the premiere Monday wearing a kilt, is just the man to write and direct this kind of story. He knows there’s no such thing as magic. It’s all about hard work.
“I call the story process alchemy,” says the long time Pixar employee who has worked on titles such a The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille. Many consider him to be Pixar bigwig Brad Bird’s “right-hand-man.”
“We’re trying to turn lead into gold,” Andrews says of the process of writing. That’s not too tough when you have a room full of Pixar writers, right?
Believe it or not, it’s tough for them, too. The writers usually sit around a big table, which Andrews describes as “chaotic,” arguing and improving scenes as ideas come to them. “Especially with these original tales, it’s hard to do because you’re doing it from scratch,” Andrews explains of the grueling process of designing a story that moves the audience emotionally but is fun and fast, too.
So, what’s the secret then? How does Pixar leap over those hurdles producing successful stories time and time again? “We go into it intellectually,” Andrews says. “But we come out of it using our guts.” So, there is no science. Not really.
You just have a use a little magic, which according to Andrews, comes from inside.
Andrews screenwriting credit list includes John Carter, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars. Andrews was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2006. Brave releases in theaters Friday, June 22.
http://www.screenwritingu.com/screenwriting-interviews/193-pixarbrave.html
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The Creators of Trails of Tarnation [TurnStyle Artist Series Podcast]
Nicholas Gurewitch and Derek Walborn are two-thirds of the creative team behind the twelve-part “serial western” Trails of Tarnation — an absurdist romp through a cartoon like Old West– that is shot using real film cameras. Cowboys Derek (played by Walborn) and Jeff (Jeff Stanin) are “on the run from the corrupt Sheriff Maynard Lumbar.”
http://turnstylenews.com/2011/03/31/the-creators-of-trails-of-tarnation-artist-series-podcast/
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David Lynch with Jason Eldridge on KCRW Guest DJ Project
David Lynch chooses and introduces 5 songs that have inspired him over his career.
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Nerdist / Digg Dialogg: Chris Hardwick interviews Ozzy Osbourne
Who would have thought interviewing Ozzy would make for a smart, entertaining discussion? I love hearing him break down The Beatles (at 19 minutes in).
I originally watched this on Digg Dialogg, but it was reposted in extended MP3 form on Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist podcast. http://www.nerdist.com/2010/06/nerdist-podcast-23-ozzy/
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Merlin Mann interviews Seth Godin
Merlin talks with Seth Godin, whose new book, Linchpin (Kindle, Hardcover, Worldcat, ISBN), comes out today. Topics include, “The Lizard Brain,” Bob Dylan, protecting the well, and beating back the fear and resistance that drive mediocrity.
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