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Balancing Indie and Industry: 5 Points from Nick Cross's Glastalk

Nick Cross grew up with aspirations to be a biologist, but was rerouted toward art school by the advice of a guidance counselor. It worked out well: o...

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"Toy Story 3" screenwriter Michael Arndt teaches you how to write a Pixar movie in this free 70-minute lecture

Ten years ago, shortly after Pixar's Toy Story 3 had opened to widespread acclaim, its screenwriter Michael Arndt delivered a lecture at the studio in...

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"Wolfwalkers" story artist Iker Maidagan writes a valuable description of the development of the film

This week, the team behind Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers learned that their film has been nominated for an Oscar. If there was a statuette for best beh...

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How the hit short film "Puparia" was born out of dissatisfaction with the anime industry

Shingo Tamagawa, an animator closely associated with the studio Sunrise, was afraid he'd start hating his drawings, and even the act of drawing, if he...

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Learn how Dolly Zoom adds emotional power to animated scenes

The dolly zoom is as familiar as it is hard to describe: a space-bending cinematic effect created through a combination of camera movement and zoom, w...

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Video of the week: Delicate crafts of Disney's Orchestra Score

Disney's songs have been covered, parodied, deconstructed, and classified to death. In analysis of the studio's music, the instrumental scores tend to...