The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Will Ashurst

It’s Summer!

The Animation Conversation team takes a well deserved vacation in the sun. Don’t freak out. We will be back in August.

Thank you so much for your contributions and comments and for making this so much fun for us. Have a great Summer and see you very soon. Take care!

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Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 58

The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug.

ACP News:

• Pixar´s Toy Story 3 debuts at nr. 1 .The third animated feature to pass $100 million in its opening weekend.
• Pogo´s releases 2 new songs from Toy Story & Toy Story 2
• Teaser for the smurfs movie and their web site
• Toy Story 3 merchandise: “Barbie loves Woody – Beware of choking hazard”

  
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Top 5 list of the week:

Top 5 directors of animated featuresa of all time

Classic Movie Review:

This week we review “the Tune” (1992), directed by Bill Plympton
Next week we take a closer loo at “Grave of fireflies” by Isao Takahata

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Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 57

The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug.

ACP News:

• New Tangled (previously known as Rapunzel) teaser
• First Rango teaser.
• First international The Illusionist trailer

+ We give you a last round up for the Annecy Animation Festival 2010,
including a short walk-through of the shorts and features that got awards this year.
SUPER BONUS: David Silverman playing the Alt-horn on the lawn at Annecy.

Top 5 list of the week:

This week, tying in with the festival and the movie-review, we give you our Top 5 animated war movies!

Classic Movie Review:

This week, we review When the wind blows (1986), directed by Jimmy T. Murakami.

Next weeks classic movie: Bill Plympton’s “The Tune” (1992)

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Day 6.
Saturday, June 12th, 2010

This is our last day on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. Today, we brought together a small group of people to do a recap of the festival. We hope you had a great time following us this week, and hopefully you felt a little bit of the magic that is the Annecy festival.

Thanks to Martin Klint & Carl F. Corneil for helping me out today.

C U in a year-6 days!

Listen to the podcast, and come back to this page for links to anything discussed.

Show notes:

Short films in competition 5:
Roku-Jyo To Yo-Juo-Han/Two Rooms, Japan, 2010, 6m45s, Atsuko Nagashima
Monstre Sacré, France, 2009, 9m35s, Jean-Claude Rozec
Zhila-Bila Mukha/Once There Was A Fly, Russia, 2009, 13m, Alena Oyatyeva
Playground, Japan, 2010, 3m50s, Mirai Mizue
Vem Blöder?/Who’s Bleeding?, Sweden, 2010, 4m, Jessica Lauren, Film Tecknarna Animation-Fiction
Love Patate, France, 2010, 14m, Gilles Cuvelier
Teclópolis,  Argentina, 2009, 12m10s, Javier Mrad, Can Can Club
Le Silence Sous/The Silence Beneath The Bark, L’Écorce, France, 2009, 11m8s, Joanna, Lurie, Lardeux Films, Sens-Fiction Productions
Love & Theft, Germany, 2009,  6m49s, Andreas Hykade, Studio Bilder GMBH

Erlend

Day 4+5.
Friday, June 11th, 2010

We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting monday, so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.
Listen to the podcast, and come back to this page for links to anything discussed.

Show notes:

Between Frames:
Making of Simpsons Extravaganza 2 (Featuring Matt Groenig & David Silverman)
Making of Dragons and Princesses (Featuring Michel Ocelot)
Making of Disney: The art of traditional animation (Featuring Ron Clements & John Musker)
Making of Pixar: The Three dimensional Storytelling (Featuring Teddy Newton and the world premiere screening of Pixars Day & Night short)

That’s it for today. Now I’m off to see short program 5!

Erlend

Recorded on June 9th 2010 at the Annecy festival in France, here is my interview with producer Don Hahn, from The Walt Disney animation studio. Don talks about his newest project; the documentary Waking sleeping beauty, which he directed and produced. He also talks about how he got into animation, his experiences working at Disney, his future projects, and much more.

Don has worked on classic movies, like Beauty and the Beast, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and many more, and he recently published a lecture series based on the notes from the legendary animation-mentor Walt Stanchfield.

Thanks to Don for spending some time with us, and his assistant, Fumi Kitahara from the pr kitchen for setting up the interview.

Erlend

Day 3.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Sorry about embedding the wrong show. This is corrected now.

We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting monday, so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.
Listen to the podcast, and come back to this page for links to anything discussed.

Show notes:

Short films in competition 3:
Je T’Aime, Japan, 2010, 11m45s, Mamoru Oshii
Lipsett’s Diaries/Les Jounaux De Lipsett, France, 2010, 4m6s, Theodore Ushev
About St. Basil/Pro Vasiliya Blazhennogo, Russia, 2009, 13m31s, Natalia Berezovaya, Pilot Moscow Animation Studio
The Village/To Horio, Greece, 2010, 14m50s, Stelios Polychronakis
Don’t Go, Turkey, 2010, 3m51s, Turgut Akacik, Anima Studios Istanbul
Fossil Memory/Memorie Fossile, Belgium, 2009, 10m, Anne-Laure Totaro, Arnaud Demuynck
Hand Soap, Japan, 2008, 16m, Kei Oyama, Aichi Art Center

Features:
Despicable Me, France/USA, 2010, 1h28m, Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, Illumination Entertainment
That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!
Erlend

Day 2.
Tuesday June 8th, 2010

We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting monday, so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.

Listen to the podcast, and come back to this page for links to anything discussed.

Show notes:

Features:
Metropia, Sweden, 2009, 1h20m, Tarik Saleh, ATMO

Kerity La Maison Des Contes/Eleanor’s Secret, France/Italy, 1h20m, Dominique Monféry, Gaumont-Alphanim/La Fabrique Production/Lanterna Magica/S.R.L.

Waking Sleeping Beauty, USA, 1h26m, Don Hahn, Red Shoes/Stone Circle Pictures

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!

Erlend

Day 1.
Monday June 7th, 2010

We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting today (monday), so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.

Listen to the podcast, and come back to this page for links to anything discussed.

Show notes for todays show:

Short films in competition 1:

Jean-Francois – France, 2009 – 05:45 – Tom Haugomat, Bruno Mangyoku – Cube Creative Prod.
About one bird – Russia, 2009 – 08:50 – Olga Kudryavtseva
Koisuru Nezumi/Love mouse – Japan, 2009 – 13:49 – Shinsaku Hidaka
Esterhazy – Poland, 2009 – 25:00 – Izabela Plucinska – Donten and Lacroix Films
The art of drowning – Canada, 2009 – 02:06 – Diego Maclean
Tord & Tord – Sweden, 2010 – 10:44 – Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
The lost thing – Australia, 2010 – 15:00 – Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan, Passion Pictures

Features:
Evangelion Shin Gekijoban 2.0 – Japan, 2009 – 01:48 – Hideaki Anno – Khara, Inc.
Mai Mai Shinko To Sennen No Maho/Mai Mai Miracle – Japan, 2009 – 01:35 – Sunao Katabuchi – Madhouse, Inc.

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!

Erlend

-Morten

Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 56

The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie

ACP News:

• Groovin’ with Ken
• Animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com
• The first “Tangled” reviews
  
  

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Dinosaurs are awesome!

-Morten

Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 55

The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• Studio AKA win BAFTA Craft award for BBC winter olympic titles
• Studio AKA winter olympic titles
• “Despicable Me” featurette
  
  

Classic Movie Review:

This week its Dreamworks Antz (1998)



Next weeks classic movie: Jimmy Murakami‘s “When the Wind Blows” (1986)

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• “Fantastic Mr. Fox“
• “Metropia“
• “Eleanor’s Secret“
• “Piercing 1″
• “Summer Wars“
• “One Piece Film: Strong World“
• “Allez Raconte“

Lots of japanese animation this year. Don’t know if that’s good or bad, but they do produce a lot every year.

I’m glad to see a scandinavian project competing again this year. Tarek Saleh‘s Metropia deserves more attention, and I’m sure it’ll get that now.

For more info, go to the annecy.org festival site.

Erlend

And here is one of his films, ‘Yellow Cake’ which I love, so help Nick produce yet another gem!

Will

Will

Here’s the link: http://kotaku.com/5540330/these-golden-books-are-not-for-children/gallery/

Will

I find it fascinating how something as simple as this kick started the CG-animation business. Who would have thunk?

Erlend

an interesting read.

-Morten

New shortfilm from Aardman. Check it out.

-Morten

New trailer from Rio, Blue Sky Studios new project over at Moviefone. Looks fun, I  have no idea what the story is about.  A lot of squash and stretch going on.  Take a peek by watching the trailer here, og visit the site  ’Rio Trailer‘  for more sizes.

Will

Feel free to send us articles you’ve written or animated shorts you’ve contributed on, and we might just post it on the site!

Erlend

Angry Birds is a VERY popular game on the iPhone, and it’s a lot of fun.

They obviously put a lot of work into this Warner bros spoof trailer too, even though you won’t see it in the game. Good on you, Gameloft!

Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 54

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Sakshaug & Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• Charlie Kaufman working on “Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom!“
• New Season of Futurama starts 10 pm June 24th on Comedy Central.

Movie review of the week:

This week its Sony Pictures Animation Surf’s Up (2007)”



Next weeks classic movie: Dreamworks Antz (1998)

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Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 53

The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• Toy Story 3 piece on Spanish Buzz
• Pixars “Newt” has been canceled
• Brad Bird to direct Mission Impossible 4
• Short piece on Pixar´s short “Day and Night”
• First review of the Illusionist
• Animal Logic´s CG adaptation of “Bone”. Will it suck?

Movie review of the week:

This week its Jan Svankmajer’s Otesánek/Little Otik (2000)

Next weeks classic movie: Sony pictues Surf´s Up ( 2007)

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Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 52

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug & Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• Latest adverts from studio aka: The Lloyds TSB campaign. Direction and design by Marc Craste.
• Frame by frame No. 8, this weekend.
• The Animator’s Survival Kit–Revised Edition released. Buy it at Amazon or read the mini-review at Michael Sporns blog.

Top 5 list of the week:

Top 5 Dreamworks Animation movies of all time.

Listen to the this weeks episode for our picks.

Movie review of the week:

Blue Sky Animation Studio’s “Horton hears a Who” (2008)

Next weeks classic movie: Jan Svankmajer’s Otesánek/Little Otik (2000)

Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 51

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Will Ashurst and Morten Øverlie.

ACP News:

Who is directing Monster’s Inc 2?
Comedy Central censored “South Park” last week (you will have to login on facebook to see this link)
Aardman animation are opening up a training studio in South Africa

Movie review of the week:

Ghibli’s “Spirited Away” (2001)

Next weeks classic movie: Blue Sky’s “Horten hears a who!” (2008) and Chuck Jones’ “Horton hears a Who” (1970)

We just wanted to update you on our ongoing problems we have been having with iTunes.

First, the bad news: Turns out it was our fault all the time.

The the good news: We fixed it!

More bad news: You have to resubscribe to the podcast in iTunes.
Just do a search for “Animation Conversation” in iTunes and all should be good!

Thank you for your patience!

ACP Team

Animation Conversation Weekly hits ep. no. 50

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug and Morten Øverlie.

ACP News:

Gatchaman/Battle of the planets proof of concept/teaser from Imagi
MAD cartoons coming to Adult Swim
www.adultswim.com

Movie review of the week:

Pixar´s Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999)

Next weeks classic movie: studio Ghibli´s “Spirited Away”

Animation Conversation Weekly no. 49

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Morten Øverlie and Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

Pitchfork interviews Matt Stone co-creator of South Park
Autodesk release Maya 2011
“Birdemic”
Kung Fu Panda Online Virtual World
Sir Billi
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Movie review of the week:

Disneys “Atlantis – the lost empire“ (2001), directed by  Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.

Next weeks classic movie: “Toy Story” (2001) and “Toy Story 2“ (2001).

Animation Conversation Weekly no. 48

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Morten Øverlie and Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

“How to train your dragon” production interviews
“Megamind” teaser
Disney/Pixar sign Selick “the relic”
Lucasfilm Animation developing yet another Star Wars series

Movie review of the week:

Disneys “How to train your dragon” (2010), directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders.

Next weeks classic movie: “Atlantis – The lost empire” (2001).

Animation Conversation Weekly no. 47

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Morten Øverlie and Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

Two Norwegian shorts in the Annecy shortfilm programme.
Paramount and Dreamworks battling over 3d cinemas to screen their films.
Sony developing Popeye for the big screen. This time in glorious stereoscopic 3d.
Cartoon Brew commenting the upcoming Popeye movie.
Variety article about the new Popeye animated feature.

Movie review of the week:

Disneys “the Princess and the frog” (2009), directed by Ron Clements, and John Musker.

Next weeks classic movie: “How to train your dragon” (2009).

Animation Conversation Weekly no. 46

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug and Will Ashurst.

ACP News:
The disappearing cartoon (From Cartoon Brew).
The birdman talks (Brad bird interview excerpts) (From Spline Doctors).

The british animation awards
Toronto-based company C.O.R.E shuts down (From Hollywood reporter).

Movie review of the week:

“Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland” (1989), directed by Masami Hata & William T. Hurtz.

Next weeks classic movie: “The princess and the frog” (2009).

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 45

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug and Will Ashurst.

ACP News:
Legend of the Guardians trailer

All the Oscar shorts

Movie review of the week:

“Batman: Mask of the Phantasm” (1993), directed by Eric Radomski & Bruce W. Timm.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 44

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug and Morten Øverlie.

ACP News:
Cirkus Animation in NZ create great “info short” explaining the animation process to “stupid” clients

Getty and Disney to combat deteriation of animation cels

Disney’s “Tangled” teaser is out

Movie review of the week:

“The Iron Giant” (Warner Bros, 1999), directed by Brad Bird.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 43

The weekly podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Yaprak Morali and Morten Øverlie.

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ACP News:
Trailer for the documentary “Waking Sleeping Beauty”, directed by Don Hahn
“The Illusionist”, a short interview with Sivain Chomet
Interview with Tom Moore about “the Secret of Kells”
Mark McDonnel, from Disney, talks about gesture drawing
Interview with Steven Spielberg on the new Tintin movie

Movie review of the week:
“Cats don’t dance” (’97), Directed by Mark Dindall

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 42

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Will Ashurst and Morten Øverlie

ACP News:
Rapunzel renamed to Tangled

Annecy youtube contest

Out Of A Forest. stopmotion outdoors by Tobias Gundorff Boesen

Pivot – short

Movie review of the week:

“Monsters, Inc” (Pixar, 2001), Directed by Pete Docter & David Silverman

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 41

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Will Ashurst and Morten Øverlie.

ACP News
Awesome Frog’umentaries over at Slashfilm
Vanity Fair article on the Disney’s “ink and paint” ladies
A new studio Ghibli trailer, and no it’s not a Myasaki film
The Annies awards are here!

Movie review of the week:
“Pinchcliff Grand Prix”, by Ivo Caprino.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 40

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Will Ashurst and Morten Øverlie.

ACP News
Lord of the Rings animated feature on Blu-Ray
John K Curriculum. It’s awesome!
the animated feature Oscar nominees
Lego Toy Story. Yes, it’s true.
New A-HAA podcast premieres.

and heres the link to this years Oscar nominated shorts:
Granny O’Grimm
The Lady and the Reaper
French Roast
A matter of loaf and Death ( Wallace and Gromit)
Logorama

Princess and the Frog youtube channel

Movie review of the week:
“Mary & Max”, by Adam Elliot

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 39

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug and Morten Øverlie.
Will was busy trying to beat his personal record on the Rubik’s Cube and could not be with us.

ACP News

AWN present their top 10 movies of 2009.
New “Gremlins” relaunch. Going 3D or puppets?
Weird Al Yanko”wacko”wich has a new blog.
Bill Plympton and Patrick Smith also on the blog train.

Movie review of the week:

“Cloudy with a chance of meatballs”, from Sony.
Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 38

Happy New Year!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Morten Øverlie and Will Ashurst.

ACP News
Paul McCartney Golden Globe speech.
John K being awesome.
“Up” wins Golden Globe.
“The Fantastic Mr. Fox’s Oscar chances by Disney Execs.”

Classic movie review of the week:
“the Resuers“, from 1977.
Directed by John Lunsberry, Wollie Reiterman and Art Stevens.

Long story short: Will got sick, Morten was away, and Erlend had to finish an application by wednesday.

No worries though, we’ll be back next week, we promise!

The ACP team

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 37

Happy New Year!

Classic movie review of the week:
“Heavy Metal“, from 1981.
Written by Daniel Goldberg & Len Blum and more. Directed by Gerald Potterton.

ACP Summary of 2009:

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 36

The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug and guest-host Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• Rip Roy E. Disney
• Studio Ghibli’s new film KARIGURASHI NO ARRIETTY announced
• Watch Disney’s Prep and Landing online!
• Dreamworks animators interviews Ted Ty in new animation podcast
• Watch Rodrigo Blaas’ short “Alma” online!

Classic movie review of the week:

A Charlie Brown Christmas, from 1965.
Written by Charles M. Schulz, and directed by Bill Melendez.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 35
The weekly podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug and guest-host Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• Disney to make 1 hand drawn animated movie every 2nd year.
• ‘The Princess and the Frog’ debuts at No. 1, earning $25 million
• Paul Fierlinger’s My Dog Tulip get limited distribution in the US.

Classic movie review of the week:

How the Grinch stole christmas, from 1966.
Written by Dr Seuss, directed by Chuck Jones & co-directed by Ben Washam.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 34
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie, Erlend Dal Sakshaug and co-host Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• The 2009 ANNIE awards.
• Half hour Xmas special for BBC being produced by Magic Light Pictures.
• A peek inside Pixar Studios
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Frost

Classic movie review of the week:

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, from 1964.
Directed by: Kizo Nagashima Larry Roemer

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 33
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie, Erlend Dal Sakshaug and co-host virgin Will Ashurst.

ACP News:

• “Frankenweenie” to become an animated feature.
• Childrens BAFTA winners.
• How to make $55.000 by giving away your work.

Will mentions these links in the news segment: “Blue Zoo” and “Mr.MagoosChristmasCarol.com”.

Movie review of the week:
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (1962), directed by Abe Levitow.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 32
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

This week:

2nd part of our interview with Ralph Eggleston.
The book Ralph mentions: Harnessing The Technicolor Rainbow.

Movie review of the week:
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, from 2009

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 31
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACP News:

• Disney are trying to get “Up” nominated not only best animated feature but also best feature.
• Winsor McCay Award Recipients Announced.
• The original “Monsters inc” script.
• Jason Anders interviews Ralph Bakshi.

We interview the Ralph Eggleston. Yes your read correctly. The Ralph Eggleston. We finish of this weeks ACP by taking  a closer look at Ralph Bakshi’s “Coonskin” from 1975.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 30!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACP News:

• “How to train your dragon” trailer.
• Looney Tunes returns to Cartoon Network
• Pete Doctor not directing Monsters Inc 2.
• New trailer out for “Despicable me.”

Movie Review:
We take a closer look at the Danish animated feature “Princess.”

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 29!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACP News:

• Cool talk by Marc Craste from Pictoplasma?.
• Jonathan Demme to direct  an animated feature film.
• Robert Zemeckis to direct “Who framed Roger Rabbit” sequal.
• There won’t be a sequel to Monsters vs Aliens.

Movie Review:
We take a closer look at Laika’s gorgeous stop-motion feature “Coraline .“

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 28!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACP News:

• TED segment on making super real humans in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
• Interview: The Princess and the Frog Directors Jon Musker and Ron Clements.
• “Mary and Max”  now available on demand.
• NFB iPhone app.
• Clip from the upcoming Pixar short “Doug’s special mission.”

Yaprak Morali’s Book revew!
This week its “Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes” by Walt Stanschfield, edited by Don Hahan.

• Volume 1
  
• Volume 2
  

Movie Review:
Dreamwork’s “Prince of Egypt .“

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 27!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
Animation tools for 3DMax from DTools.
New trailer for Adam Elliot’s “Mary & Max.”
“My Dog Tulip.”
“How to train your dragon” characters revealed.
Mark Dindal to direct live action feature.
Henry Sellick to leave Laika.

Interview:
We were fortunate enough to meet up with animator Jens Gulliksen, who’s worked on big productions like “Corpse Bride”, “Max & Co” and “the Fantastic Mr. Fox” to name a few. Here is the 2. half you’ve been craving for. PS: I apologize for the background noise, it does get better throughout the interview. Yes, i will not use the same place again during lunch hours

Movie Review:
We review Disney’s “Bolt.”

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 26!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
Behind “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”
The worlds 2. greatest podcast, Radiolab talks about blinks.
Peter de Sève interview.
You can now subscribe to the Gnomon Workshop tutorials.

Interview:
We were lucky to meet up with animator Jens Gulliksen, who’s worked on big productions like “Corpse Bride”, “Max & Co” and “the Fantastic Mr. Fox” to name a few. This week you’ll get to hear the first half of the interview.

Movie Review:
We review Ghibli’s “Princess Mononoke.“

Animation Conversation Weekly nr25!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
First 5 minutes of Disney´s “Princess and the Frog” out on youtube.
Animerte dager i Fredrikstad.
Behind the scenes, “the Fantastic Mr. Fox.”

Book Review: Edmond Kiraz
Biography
Article about Edmond Kiraz
Book recommendation 1
Book recommendation 2

Interview:
We met up with producer Anttu Harlin from Finnish Anima Boutique, the guys behind the beautiful and heartwarming “Ella ja Aleksi“. I managed to mess up the last minute of the interview while exporting. Correct version will be up tomorrow 09.10-2009. Sorry about that – Morten

Movie Review:
We review Dreamwork´s “Shrek.“

Animation Conversation Weekly nr24!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
Made a shortfilm? Do the festival circuit or go online?
Software: Pencil
Norwegian Petition:  Show animated features in original language in proper theatres.
Iphone software: Hitchcock

Interviews:
We summarise this years Cartoon Forum, in Stavanger, Norway. Howard Litton, from Nickelodean, gives us an inside peek into the workings of the tv-animation business, and we get an inside scoop from Norway’s, probably, smartest animation producer – Frank Mosvold from Kool Productions.

Movie Review:
We review Pixar’s “UP.”

Animation Conversation Weekly nr23!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:

www.penciltestdepot.com <- Awesome site that contains pencil tests and other stuff from famous animators.
Disney/Pixar details Toy Story 3, Cars 2, The Bear and the Bow <- Roundup from The Animation blog.
NEOsitrin 20″ <- commercial by 23lunes
Animation Studio Leika shuts down it’s CG-animation department

Movie Review:
We review Disney’s “The Three Caballeros“ (1944).
Directed by Norman Ferguson.

You can see our ratings on the right side of this article.

If you wanna arrange an interview to talk about your project or have any questions, or maybe just wanna hook up and have a chat, use feedback@animationconversation.com or morten@animationconversation.com.

Hope to see your there!

Erlend & Morten

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Animation Conversation Weekly nr22!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
New Muppet Show movie in the works.
“How to train your Dragon” teaser.
Babar’ CG Animation Licenses to Europe.
The Roadrunner story.
King of the Hill’ airs its last episode this Sunday.
Disney Double Dare You.

Movie Review:
We review Don Bluth’s “An American Tail” from 1986. Next week we take a closer look at Disney’s “The Three Caballeros“.

Book Review:
Yaprak reviews “Bill Peet – An autobiography.”
http://www.billpeet.net/
http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Peet-Autobiography/dp/0395689821/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252945229&sr=1-5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRtKAQJUc3g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pxap-M_–k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y881yjtFluQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u6ZZf5HwtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rHY0l5s60&feature=PlayList&p=7F40249A47458294&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

Animation Conversation Weekly nr21!
The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
The Fantastic Mr. Fox featurette.
Luxo sues Pixar.
6 minute clip from “Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure”.
Fishing With Sam wins Giffoni Award.
Bergen Animation Festival, 10.-13. Sept.
Animation Volda , 17.-19. Sept.
Fredrikstad Animation Festival, 11.-15. Nov.
Cartoon Forum, Stavanger, 22.-25. Sept.

Erlend and Yaprak review “G-Force” (Not G-unit )
G-Force Trailer

AC-Plug: Devils, Angels and Dating Production Diary

We review Pixar’s “Wall-e” from 2008.
Next week we will take a closer look at Don Bluth’s “An American Tail”.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr20!
The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
Disney aquire Marvel 01
Disney aquire Marvel 02
The Chipmunks – squekqual trailer
Delgo team to sue over Avatar?
Marty Murphy dies.
France is still the big cheese in Europe.

We review Disney´s “the Black Cauldron” from 1985.
Next week we will take a closer look at Pixar´s “Wall-e”.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr19!
The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
Cartoon Brew TV: Behind the scenes with Disney´s “the princess and the frog”
Ferrell, Pitt and Hill join ‘Oobermind’ cast
Terry Gilliam wants to sweep floors at Pixar
Metropia premiers at The Venice Film Festival

Next week we will be back with our  top animated feature list, featuring Disney´s “the Black Cauldron.”

Info:
Please e-mail us at:
feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.

Follow us on twitter @ACPNews

Leave us a voicemail via Skype. Username: AnimationConversation

Enjoy the show!

Erlend & Morten
Hosts

Animation Conversation Weekly nr18!

The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
New Starcraft cinematic
Virginia Davis of Walt Disney’s Alice Comedies passed away
Daft Punk to score Disney´s Tron 2.0
John Kricfalusi and Bill Plympton, each starting up  animation classes.

Yaprak´s book review:
Before the animation begins: The art and lives of Disney inspirational sketch artists, by John Canemaker
John Canemaker’s web site
Ken Anderson’s inspiration, Ronald Searle

Animation Conversation Weekly nr17!
The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:
“The Princess & the Frog” pencil tests
Animation Mentor Reels ’09
“Monsters Inc” on Blu Ray 10.11.09
“Up” on Blu Ray 10.11.09
“Machinarium”, the video game.
“Ice Age 3″ making tons of cash.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr16!

The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:

Animation Conversation Weekly nr15!

The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

ACPNews:

Animation Conversation Weekly nr14!

The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

Be sure to listen to Will Ashurst´s excellent bookreview in this installment of ACP. A big, big, big thanks to the Will and hopefully there will be many more to come!

ACPNews:

Animation Conversation Weekly nr13!

The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

This time we bring you an interview with animator Stein “Fernando” Løtveit.

Make sure you visit Stein’s blog @ torerego.blogspot.com

The good news however, is that we already have something ready for next week, so there is no reason for you to lay down and cry. But if you do lay down, you should do it outside, on the grass, or on the apartment roof top. Right? Take this opportunity to get some sun on that pale ass of yours.

Anyway, we will be back in a week, and in the mean time, you can follow us on twitter @ACPNews. There you will find breaking news and updates all week long. Have a great summer week!

Morten & Erlend.

Animation Conversation Weekly nr12!

The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

We are again sorry about the length of the show. We will try to make it shorter next week.
A big thanks to everybody that contributed!

This week: Animation Conversation Weekly premiers!.

The weekly podcast is presented by:
Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug

We are sorry about the length of the show. We will try to make it shorter next week.

A big thanks to everybody that contributed:
Rasmus, Storm, Mikrofilm, Stripe, Bug, Filmkameratene, Qvisten, Kool and Lasso film.

Long time, no podcasts.

-Why?
I’ve been busy working, and to be honest, I’ve been uninspired.
-That’s too bad. What happens now?
Well, things are looking positive! I got Morten Øverlie to join me in our quest to bring good conversations to you guys, and we will be working on how to make that happen in the next few weeks. I can’t say much yet, but it involves shorter and more frequent podcasts.

To start off, you can follow us on twitter at @animationconver.

Also, you can take a look at our delicious-page, where we’ll post subjects we might talk about on the next show: delicious.com/animationconversation.

That’s it for now, C U Soon!

-Erlend

Hans G. Brekke currently works as an Animator at Tippett Studios in San Francisco. His work includes movies like Enchanted, Cloverfield and The Spiderwick Chronicles. He also produced and directed his own short, Melancholic in 2002.

This interview was recorded July 9th 2008.

Listen to the podcast for more details, and visit his site at www.hansbrekke.com or his blog at hansbrekke.blogspot.com.

Thanks again to Hans for doing the interview, and sorry about the delay!

Please e-mail us at:
feedbackATanimationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.
Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug
Host/Animator

Keith is a well known figure in the animation industry. He has worked for many highly regarded animation studioes, including Blur, ReelFX and DNA Productions.

He is currently training new talent through his Animation Personal Trainer (APT) and his Video Tutorial Service (VTS).

This is part 2 of my interview, recorded June 27th 2008.

Listen to the podcast for more details, and visit his blog at: keithlango.blogspot.com
Thanks again to Keith for doing the interview!

Please e-mail us at:
feedback<AT>animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.
Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug
Host/Animator

Keith is a well known figure in the animation industry. He has worked for many highly regarded animation studioes, including Blur, ReelFX and DNA Productions.

He is currently training new talent through his Animation Personal Trainer (APT) and his Video Tutorial Service (VTS).
Listen to the podcast for more details, and visit his blog at: keithlango.blogspot.com
Thanks to Keith for doing the interview!

Please e-mail us at:
feedback<AT>animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.
Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug
Host/Animator

This week: Making Animation Your Career

Cast:
Morten Øverlie
Andre Hay
Anette (Unfortunately I don’t have her last name right now)
Erlend Dal Sakshaug (host)

Links:

Acting in animation by Ed Hooks

Acting for animators by Ed Hooks

Illusion of life

Animators survival kit

PS: This month it was known that Richard Williams is releasing his Animators survival kit Masterclass as a 16 DVD box-set. Prized at about $1000, it’s not a bargin, but it looks like something we would want at some point. Check it out at: www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com.

Pictures:

Please e-mail us at:
feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.
Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug
Host/Animator

This week: Interview with Tomm Moore from Cartoon Saloon!

Tomm is Company Director at Cartoon Saloon which he started up in Ireland together with “The” Paul Young back in 1998. Cartoon Saloon has been doing commercials and TV-series ever since and they are now about to finish up on their first feature-film-length-movie titled “Brendan and The Secret of Kells”.

You can visit his studio at: www.cartoonsaloon.ie,
or watch episodes of www.skunkfu.tv ,
or read about
Brendan and the secret of Kells at theblogofkells.blogspot.com

Thanks to Tomm for doing the interview!

Please e-mail us at:

feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.

Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug

Host/Animator

This week: Realizing Your Ideas

Cast:
Kjetil Birtles
Audun Røberg
Erlend Dal Sakshaug (host)

Links:

Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa (Gurin with the Foxtail)

Norske billedkunsteres list of fundings

Cartoon Forum

Frame by Frame #5 (Sat. 26 april 2008)

Where to learn animation:

The Animator’s Survival Kit

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

Gnomon DVDs

feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.

Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug

Host/Animator

This week: News and movie predictions.

Cast:
Kjetil Birtles
Morten Øverlie (co-host)
Erlend Dal Sakshaug (host)

News:
The 2008 Oscars
Annecy 2008

Movies:
Wall-E
Up
Toy Story 3
Horton Hears a who
Rapunzel (unbraided?)
Note: Also see under the picks section
Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil
Bolt
Fraggle Rock the movie
Madagascar: The Crate Escape
Kung Fu Panda
Tortoise vs. Hare (dropped?)
Note: Dreamworks and Aardman is no longer collaborating. They signed a 3-picture deal, but parted due to creative differences after Flushed away was released in 2006. Aardman is currently in a three-year deal with Sony Pictures.
Smurfs
Igor
The Illusionist
Coralline
Food Fight

Picks of the week:
Splinedoctors
The Art of Glen Keane

Show notes:

Second part of our round table on the topic of Acting.

If you haven’t heard the first part, please scroll down this page to the previous post, or click the download button for AC02 in iTunes.

Cast:
William John Ashhurst
Stig Saxegaard
Morten Øverlie (co-host)
Erlend Dal Sakshaug (host)

Picks of the week:

Eadweard Muybridge
Carlos Baena
John Kricfalusi
The Thief
Cartoon Saloon

Please e-mail us at: feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments or questions for our cast of animators.

Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug
Host/Animator

Show notes:

Second podcast.
It may not sound like it, but there is quite a bit of time and effort put into every cast, so I have decided to devide the longer ones in two parts just to make editing a bit less of a pain and to get the podcasts out to you asap.

So this is another roundtable discussion, and the theme today is Acting.

Todays cast is:
William Ashurst
Stig Saxegaard
Morten Øverlie (co-host)
Erlend Dal Sakshaug (host)

Please e-mail us at: feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments and questions.

A few session pictures:

Animations grand old man…

…thinks he’s 16.

Natural born winner.
Sorry, no pictures of Stig. He ran off as soon as we finished the recording.

Erlend Dal Sakshaug
Host/Animator

Show notes:

First podcast up and running.
This one is a roundtable discussion between animators, touching on subjects like:

Reasons for getting in to animation,
Limitations in the medium,
Who is leading the animation business,
The animation oscars,
Kurt turns evil,
Shorts production in Norway,
What does Norwegian animation have to offer the world,
BIG vs small studios,
The Kyle Balda masterclass,
New media.

Picks of the week:
KIT KAT Commercial,
filmjunk.com,
stage6.com,
Upcoming Pixar,
drawn!
Please e-mail us at: feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, comments and questions.

Erlend Sakshaug
Host