‘Nona’: The Pixar SparkShort Wrestles with Cross-Generational Bonding During Playtime
Story supervisor Louis Gonzales tapped into childhood memories of bonding with his grandma over wrestling in his SparkShort for Disney+.
Animation
Laika Announces Sixth Stop-Motion Movie, ‘Wildwood,’ Directed by Travis Knight, Shot by Caleb Deschanel
Laika embraces its hometown roots of Portland for the first time with Colin Meloy’s YA fantasy about a magical forest.
‘Twenty Something’: The 2D Pixar SparkShort Explores the Insecurities of Millennial Adulting
Aphton Corbin confronted fear of adulting through Gia, who feels like three kids hiding in a trench coat on her 21st birthday.
‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’ Trailer: Animating Tech Frustration and a Defective Robot with an All-Star Cast
Here’s a sweet glimpse of dysfunctional tech gone right from Disney/20th Century and Locksmith Animation.
‘Marcel the Shell’: Why Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp Declined Studio Offers and Made a Secret Movie Instead
The team behind the viral hit explain why they passed on big opportunities to invent a DIY approach for their creation’s next chapter.
‘What If…?’: Finding the Right Timeless Look for the MCU’s Animated Anthology
The animation pays tribute to two legendary illustrators: J.C. Leyendecker and Marvel’s Jack Kirby.
‘Dug Days’: Pixar’s Disney+ Shorts Reunite Carl with His Lovable Golden Retriever from ‘Up’
The late Ed Asner ended his career on a sweet note, having fun with Carl and Dug one last time in the new Disney+ series of shorts.
‘Love, Death & Robots’: Season 2 Anthology Offers Deeper Explorations into Adult Sci-Fi Animation
The Netflix animated anthology, which was awarded four juried prizes on Wednesday, stepped out of its comfort zone in Season 2.
‘Cryptozoo’: How the Animated Fantastic Beasts Adventure Became a Counter-Culture ‘Jurassic Park’
The husband and wife team of Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski have made the wildest, most surreal animated feature of the year with their menagerie of mythological creatures.
‘Vivo’: Depicting Colorful Havana, the Everglades, and Miami in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Animated Musical
Production designer Carlos Zaragoza and visual consultant Roger Deakins talk about constructing a heightened real world with contrasting color, light, and shadow.
‘What If…?’: How the MCU Got Flipped ‘Twilight Zone’-Style in the New Animated Anthology
Marvel embraces a heightened, illustrative animation style with cinematic appeal for changing destinies and altering the MCU.
‘Vivo’: Making an Animated Musical as a Kindred Spirit to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In the Heights’
Director Kirk DeMicco talks about his first animated musical and working with Miranda to capture the joyful spirit of Havana.
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