We kick off a new series focusing on the stories of animation students preparing to enter the industry with an in-depth interview with BYU animation student Jenna Barton.
090: Bret Parker
086: Mark Walsh
083: Composer Alex Mandel
082: La Luna Director Enrico Casarosa
080: Mark Andrews 2
078: 'Brave' Producer Katherine Sarafian (Pixar Visit #5)
070: Inside the Real Up House
062: McKay Farley
058: Dylan Brown, Creative Director for Pixar Canada
056: Real Life Pizza Planet Truck
052: Don Hahn, Brain Storm
050: Michael Giacchino
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
047: Elyse Klaidman, Pixar University
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.