Interviews

049: Matthew Luhn

049: Matthew Luhn

Matthew Luhn is a head of story at Pixar who also will be teaching an upcoming tour of Masterclasses with Pixar animator Andrew Gordon.  He comes on the show today to talk about his job at Pixar and the upcoming class.  The Masterclass in Animation and Story Development is presented by VanArts and will hit New York, Austin and Montreal this summer.

048: Stéphane Kardos, Art Director

048: Stéphane Kardos, Art Director

Stéphane Kardos is an art director at Disney Consumer Products, where he helps turn characters from Disney and Pixar films into toys, clothing, books and other products. He talks about how much artistic integrity goes into this process, and tells his own journey around the world as an artist.

046: Hal Hickel

046: Hal Hickel

Rango's supervising animator Hal Hickel is an Academy Award winning effects animator from ILM who has supervised the animation for various live action blockbusters.  Rango is the first fully animated feature film to come from Industrial Light and Magic.  In this interview, Hal talks about ILM and shares some stories about the making of Rango. 

041: Teddy Newton (from the Pixar Talk Archive)

041: Teddy Newton (from the Pixar Talk Archive)

As Oscar Month comes to a close, we bring you one more interview with a nominated Pixarian.  Teddy Newton spoke with Pixar Talk's Greg Mariotti in June 2010 about his short film, Day and Night, which was later nominated for Best Animated Short.