KrumbleTV Creator On Making Animated Films With Metahuman Creator
Using his unique production methods, the self-taught Russia-born, Texas-based animator is able to produce an entire animated short in one workday.
Using his unique production methods, the self-taught Russia-born, Texas-based animator is able to produce an entire animated short in one workday.
The Kremlin has also said it will create a production hub in Moscow and lighten the tax burden on animation companies based in Russia.
The 2020 short impressed at Annecy, Ottawa, and Tallinn, and is now free to watch on Youtube.
Nine days after its release, ‘Cheburashka’ was already the highest-grossing Russian film ever. Now it’s more than doubled that total.
Svislotski worked for numerous studios including Russia’s first non-state-run outfit Pilot Studio, and on American series such as “Duckman” and “Rugrats.”
Fresh off his Oscar nomination for Boxballet, Anton Dyakov has released a new short film.
Cartoon Brew spoke with Dyakov about how he structured his short film, the differences between animating boxing and ballet, and why he chose to include a single word of dialogue in an otherwise silent film.
The festival, however, has said that it will continue to support anti-war filmmakers who live in the country.
“There is no way to justify this terror the war has brought to peaceful Ukrainian people on our behalf,” say Russian animators.
Let Putin have it – in animation.
The conference’s organizer says that it is “immediately suspending business relations with Russian-based companies.”
Disney is also pausing the release of all future theatrical releases in Russia.
“There is no justification for bombing and killing,” says the animation community.
This year’s animated feature nominees were predictable. The short ones certainly weren’t.
Here are films from Austria, Estonia, Taiwan, Russia, and Indonesia …
Yuri Norstein and Francheska Yarbusova have been working on the feature since 1981. A new video essay retells their tale of creative ambition and frustration.
The shift marks the end of Soyuzmultfilm’s 85-year history as a state-owned animation studio.
This study of undervalued women animators from Russia and the Soviet Union doubles up as a good primer on the history of animation in the region.
The Russian studio’s “Secret Magic Control Agency” topped Netflix’s chart of most-viewed films earlier this year.
The Oscar-qualified “The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks” won the top feature prize.