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Incredibles 2 Brad Bird Makes a Heroic Return ANIMATIONWorld GOOGLE SPOTLIGHT STORIES | SPECIAL SECTION: ANNECY 2018 MAGAZINE © JUNE 2018 © PIXAR’S INCREDIBLES 2 BRAD BIRD MAKES A HEROIC RETURN SONY’S NINA PALEY’S HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 BILBY & BIRD KARMA SEDER-MASOCHISM GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY TAKES DREAMWORKS ANIMATION A BIBLICAL EPIC YOU CAN JUNE 2018 THE HELM SHORTS MAKE THEIR DEBUT DANCE TO ANiMATION WORLD © MAGAZINE JUNE 2018 • SPECIAL ANNECY EDITION 5 Publisher’s Letter 65 Warner Bros. SPECIAL SECTION: Animation Ramps Up 6 First-Time Director for the Streaming Age Domee Shi Takes a Bao in New Pixar Short ANNECY 2018 68 CG Global Entertainment Offers a 8 Brad Bird Makes 28 Interview with Annecy Artistic Director Total Animation Solution a Heroic Return Marcel Jean to Animation with 70 Let’s Get Digital: A Incredibles 2 29 Pascal Blanchet Evokes Global Entertainment Another Time in 2018 Media Ecosystem Is on Annecy Festival Poster the Rise 30 Interview with Mifa 71 Golden Eggplant Head Mickaël Marin Media Brings Creators and Investors Together 31 Women in Animation to Produce Quality to Receive Fourth Mifa Animated Products Animation Industry 12 Genndy Tartakovsky Award 72 After 20 Years of Takes the Helm of Excellence, Original Force Hotel Transylvania 3: 33 Special Programs at Annecy Awakens Summer Vacation Celebrate Music in Animation 74 Dragon Monster Brings 36 Drinking Deep from the Spring of Creativity: Traditional Chinese Brazil in the Spotlight at Annecy Culture to Schoolchildren 40 Political, Social and Family Issues Stand Out in a Strong Line-Up of Feature Films 44 Annecy 2018: The Short and Short of It 17 Nina Paley’s Biblical Epic Seder-Masochism 48 Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef Return 21 Masaaki Yuasa with This Magnificent Cake 76 Dreamers Studio Takes Speaks in Many Colors an Innovative Approach 50 Google Spotlight to Animated Movie Stories Returns to Annecy Marketing, Merchandising 57 Cats & Peachtopia and Distribution 53 The Moneygoround: Looks at Father-Son Liu Jian’s Have a Nice Day Relationships from a 78 Silkroad Provides Feline Perspective Integrated Visual Services for a Booming Industry 60 Unconditional Love: Julia Pott Journeys to 82 Kre8tif! 2018: 24 New DreamWorks Summer Camp Island A One-of-a-Kind Festival Shorts Program Is for the in Southeast Asia Birds (and Marsupials) 62 DreamWorks Animation Television Spreads its Wings 85 Giggles from Asia June 2018 2 ANIMATIONWorld Magazine awn.com 3 June 2018 PUBLISHER’S LETTER ANiMATION © s we gather again for the largest festival dedicated to the world of animation, the WORLD scope of the Annecy International Ani- MAGAZINE mated Film Festival continues to grow. JUNE 2018 - SPECIAL ANNECY EDITION With an ever-increasing number of big studio features, shorts and series; the CO-FOUNDERS & PUBLISHERS incredible work of a diversity of indie producers; and DAN SARTO & RON DIAMOND theA latest VR/AR and immersive media productions, the animation industry is more expansive and vibrant than EDITOR IN CHIEF ever. And, once again, creative director Marcel Jean and JENNIFER WOLFE Mifa director Mickaël Marin have done a superlative EDITOR AT LARGE job of bringing together a truly representative sampling DAN SARTO of this creative abundance in one beautiful place, and ASSOCIATE EDITOR ANIMATIONWorld Magazine is again proud to be an JON HOFFERMAN integral part of the celebration. With some 25 features screening in and out of competition, as well as a number of CONTRIBUTING WRITERS special events, this year’s festival is a delight for fans of long-form animation. In our CHRIS COLMAN cover story, we talk to Brad Bird about Incredibles 2, the long-awaited sequel to his SHARON KATZ 2004 hit, which premieres at Annecy on June 15. We also talk to director Genndy SCOTT LEHANE Tartakovsky about his return to helm the third entry in the wildly successful Ho- TOM MCLEAN tel Transylvania franchise, and take an in-depth look at both Nina Paley’s highly CHRIS ROBINSON personal biblical epic Seder-Masochism and Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef’s JOE STRIKE anti-colonial epic This Magnificent Cake. Directors Liu Jian, Masaaki Yuasa, and SARAH VAN SCIVER Gary Wang talk about their latest features, while Joe Strike provides a rundown of all CONTRIBUTING WRITERS (China) the feature films in competition. RUDY CHAN This year’s guest country is Brazil, whose animation industry has experienced YANG JUNJIE explosive growth over the past decade. Brazil-themed screenings, curated by the EMMA WU founders of Anima Mundi, include three programs of contemporary shorts, the best of SOPHIA ZHU Brazilian TV series, a documentary about Brazilian animation, and special showings ADVERTISING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT of Ale Abreu’s Boy and the World and Luiz Bolognesi’s Rio 2096: A Story of Love and DONNA M. BULFORD Fury. For those interested in the business side of things, Brazil will be invading Mifa [email protected] with some 30 companies and more than 200 delegates. ADVERTISING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Animated TV series are big and only getting bigger, with many major studios con- (China) tinuing to expand their offerings. Our stories on DreamWorks Animation Television EVEN CHAN and Warner Bros. Animation offer insider looks at two of these. We also talk to British RAYMOND D. NEOH animator Julia Pott about her new Cartoon Network series, Summer Camp Island. CLOUDY POON DreamWorks Animation also has a new shorts program, and their first two produc- STAN TIAN tions, Bird Karma and Bilby, will open and close the festival. In our shorts coverage, SOPHIA ZHU we also preview some of the outstanding films in this year’s competition, talk to first- time director Domee Shi about her new Pixar short Bao, and interview the creators at PRODUCTION Google Spotlight Stories about their latest VR projects, which will be—that’s right— ROCK N POP GRAPHIX spotlighted at the festival. ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK We also have pieces on festival poster designer Pascal Blanchet, Mifa Animation 13300 Victory Blvd. Suite 365 Industry Award recipient Women in Animation, and this year’s special “Music in Van Nuys, CA 91401 Animation” program. (818) 786-5402 So what are you waiting for? Start reading and enjoy ANIMATIONWorld’s celebra- www.awn.com • [email protected] tion of all things Animated @ Annecy! CG GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT LTD. Room 414 InnoCentre, See you by the lake, 72 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong (852) 2111 1097 www.cggemedia.com Dan Sarto © AWN, Inc. 2018. Co-Founder & Publisher, Animation World Network – AWN.com All rights reserved. No part of the periodical may be repro- duced without the prior consent of Animation World Network. The copyrights and trademarks of images featured herein are the property of their respective owners. ANIMATION- World Magazine acknowledges the creators and copy- right holders of the materials mentioned herein, and does not seek to infringe on those rights. June 2018 4 ANIMATIONWorld Magazine awn.com 5 June 2018 FIRST-TIME DIRECTOR DOMEE SHI TAKES esign elements that “ might look good on A BAO IN NEW PIXAR THEATRICAL SHORT D paper look really strange when you turn them The first Pixar short directed by a woman explores into 3D shapes.” loneliness, loss and the magic of dumplings. to bring him into sculpting as quickly as possible, to see how that cuteness would translate into a 3D space. And one thing we discovered early on is that his arms actually cannot reach his mouth. And that gave us a lot of information and helped us identify cer- tain problems that we might run into downstream, in animation.” Pixar short Bao opens in theaters on June 15 with Incredibles 2. She added that they also struggled to make sure the mother’s charm comes BAO © 2018 DISNEY•PIXAR and Bao is no exception. It’s not only Shi reported that she was particu- through in the final film. “We did a Sri’s first time as a director, but Nei- larly influenced by Japanese animation, lot of research trips to Chinatown and man’s debut as a producer, and Rona like My Neighbors the Yamadas, as she found that we were seeing a lot of bold Liu’s as production designer. gathered up examples of animation fashion choices, and that’s when we Shi recalls that “after it got green-lit, styles as references for animation su- realized that we can actually use Mom’s I really started to dive deep into the pervisor Juan Carlos Navarro. “I loved outfits—her colors and patterns—to story... I always knew I wanted to cre- how squishy their character looked, support her emotional journey through- ate a story about a lonely empty-nester and how pushed their expressions are,” out the film.” mom who goes through this crazy she says. “We drew inspiration mostly “We wanted this short to be fun to BY SCOTT LEHANE Shi, who has worked on such films time, but, after getting an unexpect- dumpling fantasy in order to process from 2D animation, which became a watch, but also an accurate portrayal as Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, edly positive response, she decided to her real son moving away. The core of challenge in 3D because of how big the of a Chinese mom’s life,” concludes n aging Chinese mother Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4, drew bring the idea to Pixar, which has an that story was always the same, but in characters’ heads are, and how exag- Shi. “And I think the crew did an suffering from empty-nest inspiration for Bao from her upbring- in-house professional development earlier versions of the story, I had more gerated their limbs are.” amazing job of both.” syndrome gets another ing as an only child in a Chinese- program that allows employees to pitch characters.” But, says Shi, as they were going into chance at motherhood Canadian family in Toronto’s bustling ideas for shorts.
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