In this episode, we'll hear a presentation about finding the story for "Cars 3" with writers Mike Rich, Bob Peterson and Kiel Murray and story supervisor Scott Morse. They'll discuss, among other things, social barrier-breaking real racers who inspired the story, the background of Cruz Ramirez, and how the team dug into the audio archives for Paul Newman and Tom Magliozzi.
In this episode, I share my reaction to the footage of "Cars 3" that I saw a couple weeks ago, and we dive into the film with director Brian Fee, producer Kevin Reher and co-producer Andrea Warren.
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.
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.
Mark Crilley joins the podcast to review The Incredibles, which was (finally) released in glorious HD on blu-ray this week. Mark is an author and illustrator; you can see his great work at his website, markcrilley.com.
