The Animation Conversation Podcast

Annecy 2011 Daily Coverage: Final day

erlend — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:33:10 +0000

And the winners are… The Annecy 2011 daily coverage is presented by Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Saturday is the final day of the festival. There are only a few screenings and a lot of people are already on their way home. I did however stay, to catch a last buzz. I saw one of the first [...]

Annecy 2011 Daily Coverage: Day 5

erlend — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:06:21 +0000

Annecy + day. The Annecy 2011 daily coverage is presented by Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Friday is the last ordinary day at The Annecy Animation Festival in France. They screen the last program of shorts and features and people are slightly less enthusiastic. But Annecy is far from over! In the evening, Nancy Phelps and Bill [...]

Annecy 2011 Daily Coverage: Day 4

erlend — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:41:23 +0000

Cybernight. The Annecy 2011 daily coverage is presented by Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Yet another great day at the Annecy 2011 festival in France. I wouldn’t say any that the animation I saw today was anything special, but I did enjoy the Bill Plympton talk a whole lot. Also this was the Cybernight here at Annecy, [...]

Annecy 2011 Daily Coverage: Day 3

erlend — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:05:11 +0000

The Show goes on. The Annecy 2011 daily coverage is presented by Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Day 3 at the Annecy festival turned out to be quite interesting. I managed to pull my self through nearly 8 hours of shorts, presentations and documentaries. The highlight of the day was possibly seeing the world premier of the [...]

Annecy 2011 Daily Coverage: Day 2

erlend — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:45:29 +0000

Festival season! The Annecy 2011 daily coverage is presented by Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Still at the scene of the crime, we continue to cover the annual animation festival in Annecy, France. Day 2, tuesday, is the day when most of our friends from the business has landed. It’s great to see those familiar faces, and [...]

Annecy 2011 Daily Coverage: Day 1

erlend — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:31:22 +0000

Festival season! The Annecy 2011 daily coverage is presented by Erlend Dal Sakshaug. It’s summer, it’s 2011 and it’s once again the annual Annecy festival in France. You may not be there, but the ACP-crew is. So again, we are your only “live” coverage source of the festival. We will be summing up the program [...]

ACP 74: Early summer jam

erlend — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:17:59 +0000

Doin’ a whole lot of nothing. The ACP podcast is presented by Carl F. Corneil and Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Great week for doing next to nothing. Carl god shit canned from his work place and Erlend chooses to stay home and watch trailers on youtube (inbetween killing hens and walking his dog). This week we [...]

ACP 73: The Megaminds of the South

erlend — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:30:06 +0000

Another week of double trouble with Will & Erlend. The ACP podcast is presented by Will Ashurst and Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Not a great news week, but we try to compensate by reviewing two movies this week. Starting off with a Disney Classic™ from 1946 that is maybe not so classic, “Song of the south”, [...]

ACP 72: Double trouble

erlend — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:40:05 +0000

Another week, another cast. Podcast that is. The ACP podcast is presented by our dream team: Will Ashurst and Erlend Dal Sakshaug. So this week was Frame by Frame 9 in Oslo, and we got to see two great animated 2D features on the big screen. 35mm and all. That doesn’t happen every week, and [...]

ACP 71: Carlpunzel – unbraided

erlend — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:09:36 +0000

Oh, great (sigh!) They’re back. The ACP podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Carl Corneil and Erlend Dal Sakshaug. What a great week to return to podcasting. We are no longer caught up doing nothing, and again able to bring you all kinds of old man’s rants and general complaining. And then there is Carl: [...]

ACP 70: Nik, Nancy & Alexey

erlend — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:41:53 +0000

Interview with Nik Phelps, Nancy Denney-Phelps & Alexey Alexeev. This weeks ACP podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Morten Øverlie and Erlend Dal Sakshaug. This week we bring you our talk with legendary festival goers Nik & Nancy, pluss their old friend, animator Alexey Alexeev. Composer Nik Phelps lives in Gent, Belgium with his wife, [...]

ACP 69: The Paul Dutton interview.

erlend — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:02:02 +0000

Interview with Paul Dutton, REPOST. This weeks ACP podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Morten Øverlie and Erlend Dal Sakshaug. No regular scheduled show this week, but no worries, cause we have a special treat for you: This fall, at FAF 2010 we sat down with assistant director and animation director on The Illusionist, Paul Dutton. All though jet-lagged, [...]

ACP 68: Will’s big break

erlend — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:50:10 +0000

Award season The ACP podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Carl Corneil and Erlend Dal Sakshaug. Again, the week where we all gather around our radio-sets to hear this years Oscar and Bafta nominations. Will is disappointed with Shrek 4 not showing up on the list and Carl is rooting for his favorite, “The day [...]

ACP 67: The Skype Plague

erlend — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:23:51 +0000

It’s a new year of ACP. The ACP podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Carl Corneil and Erlend Sakshaug. Another year, another podcast! This week we review The movie The Plague Dogs, and talk about the year that went by. There is also some elaboration going on around the technique of elongated inbetweens. And as [...]

ACP 66: 2010 Derezzed

erlend — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:33:16 +0000

The Christmas episode. The ACP podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Carl Corneil and apprentice of the week: Trygve Bjellvåg. This week, The new, improved ACP crew talks about what movies we can expect in 2011. There is also room for news and a couple of rants on the new Tron movie. Happy new year [...]

ACP 65: A Jizzmas Carol

erlend — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:24:35 +0000

Back to reality. The ACP podcast is presented by: Carl, Morten and Erlend. This is the week we talk about the Dreamworks, the Annie Awards, the Arthur Christmas, and we have plenty of penis jokes. This weeks movie: Richard Williams “A Christmas Carol”! ACP News: New Rio Trailer Dreamworks planning 6 Kung Fu Panda movies [...]

ACP Biweekly 64

erlend — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:35:21 +0000

Back to reality. The ACP podcast is presented by: Carl, Will and Erlend. We are back from Fredrikstad animation festival, but Morten is still hung over, so we had to bring in his nemesis, Carl. This is the week we talk about the 2011 Oscar contenders, The Toy Story 3 that never was, Pixar’s “it [...]

Day 5: Fredrikstad Animation Festival

erlend — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:54:45 +0000

Day 5 at Fredrikstad was mainly about packing down our stuff and heading home. But we did manage to fit in a breakfast interview with Nik Phelps, Nancy Denney-Phelps and Alexeev Alexey (Creator of Log Jam) which will be available later this fall. Thanks to everyone who listened to us thoughout these 5 days, and of [...]

Day 4: Fredrikstad Animation Festival

erlend — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:14:47 +0000

Saturday was another exciting day at the festival. We got to do some interesting and eye opening interviews which you will get to enjoy later this fall. The day ended with a fun prize ceremony and a great party!

Day 3: Fredrikstad Animation Festival

morten — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:53:44 +0000

The ACP-team are having a blast at the festival. Day 3 was another great day in Fredrikstad with fascinating and diverse seminars and a fantastic atmosphere. Great talks on “the Illusionist”, “Shrek forever after”, “Madame Tutli-Putli” and “Higglety Pigglety Pop!” and still two more days to go! Paul Dutton during his fascinating talk on “the [...]

Day 2: Fredrikstad Animation Festival

morten — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:44:17 +0000

Day 2 Today was a hard day, too much tequila yesterday seriously depleted our ability to take photographs… No Flash! Bright lights! So we spent all day in the dark cinema/lecture halls listening to Nordic companies present their work and what their future projects will be. Tor Anders talking about making animated features in Norway [...]

Day 1: Fredrikstad Animation Festival

morten — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:53:19 +0000

DAY 1: Check out our daily podcasts from the Fredrikstad Animation Festival. The opening was a blast. We´re looking forward to the rest of the festival. Don´t forget to check back tomorrow for another update.

ACP Bi-Weekly 63

erlend — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:50:52 +0000

Putting awesome back in animation! The ACP podcast is presented by: Morten, Carl, Will and Erlend. ACP News: “The Incredbles” coming to Blu-Ray First look at “the Lorax” “The Animation Blog” highlight the short films of Adam Elliot Classic Movie Review: This week we review: ”Despicable Me“, directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud “It’s so fluffy I’m [...]

ACP Bi-Weekly 62

morten — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:57:03 +0000

Get your dose of animation action! The ACP podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie, Will Ashurst and Erlend Saksehaug. ACP News: More info on the sequel to “How to train your dragon The Norwegian “The Trollhunters” “Doomed” from co-creators of “Pocoyo” The Simpsons opening sequence directed by Banksy Beavis & Butthead comeback in “Jackass 3D” [...]

ACP Weekly 61

erlend — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:03:37 +0000

Get your podcast on b**tches! The ACP podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Will Ashurst. ACP News: Yogi Bear trailer Waterskiing squirrel Guillermo del Toro to write and direct Trollhunters for Dreamworks Animation Top 3 list of the week: Erlends worst Top 3 choices of films to review on the animation podcast Classic Movie [...]

ACP Weekly 60

erlend — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:27:25 +0000

The podcast is back! The ACP podcast is presented by: Erlend Dal Sakshaug, Morten Øverlie & Will Ashurst. ACP News: Dreamworks are out with a new “Megamind” trailer New feature “No Pets Allowed” Satoshi Kon – director of “Tokyo Godfather” passed away Top 3 list of the week: Top 3 childrens books made into animated [...]

ACP Weekly 59

morten — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:11:30 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 58

erlend — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:30:23 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 57

erlend — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:18:48 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Annecy 2010 Day 6 coverage

erlend — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:38:42 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Annecy 2010 Day 4-5 coverage

erlend — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:54:10 +0000

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 [...]

Annecy 2010: Don Hahn Interview

erlend — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:43:36 +0000

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, [...]

ACP Annecy 2010 Day 2 coverage

erlend — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:42:40 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 56

erlend — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:15:38 +0000

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 _ 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 [...]

ACP Weekly 55

erlend — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:33:02 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 54

Will — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:50:05 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 53

erlend — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:25:09 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 52

erlend — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:12:46 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 51

morten — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:02:22 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 50

morten — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:43:45 +0000

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: [...]

ACP Weekly 49

morten — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:04:47 +0000

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 – [...]

ACP Weekly 48

erlend — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:54:06 +0000

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), [...]

ACP Weekly 47

morten — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:21:53 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 46

erlend — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:40:52 +0000

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” [...]

ACP Weekly 45

erlend — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:32:44 +0000

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. Info: Please e-mail us at: feedback@animationconversation.com with suggestions, [...]

ACP Weekly 44

morten — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:53:23 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 43

morten — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:41:40 +0000

Animation Conversation Weekly nr. 43 The weekly podcast is presented by: Will Ashurst, Yaprak Morali and Morten Øverlie. AC43: Animation Conversation Weekly <— Right click and download To listen, click the link above, or go to the iTunes music store and search for “Animation Conversation”. ACP News: Trailer for the documentary “Waking Sleeping Beauty”, directed by [...]

ACP Weekly 42

erlend — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:18:43 +0000

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 & [...]

ACP Weekly 41

erlend — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:12:33 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 40

erlend — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:15:03 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 39

morten — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:23:23 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 38

erlend — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:17:04 +0000

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. “Fantastic Mr. Fox’s Oscar chances by Disney Execs.” Classic movie review of the week: “the Resuers“, from 1977. [...]

ACP Weekly 37

morten — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:17:59 +0000

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. Next weeks classic movie is: The Rescuers (1977) Directed by John Lunsbery, Wollie Reitherman and Art Stevens. Written by Margery Sharp ACP Summary of 2009: [...]

ACP Weekly 36

erlend — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:50:30 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 35

erlend — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:57:50 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 34

morten — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:04:05 +0000

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, [...]

ACP Weekly 33

morten — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:26:09 +0000

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 [...]

ACP Weekly 32

erlend — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:09:51 +0000

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 Next weeks classic movie is: Mr Magoo Christmas [...]

ACP Weekly 31

morten — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:40 +0000

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. [...]

ACP Weekly 30!

morten — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:57:38 +0000

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 Docter not directing Monsters Inc 2. New trailer out for “Despicable me.” Movie Review: We take a closer look at the Danish animated [...]

ACP 29 Weekly

erlend — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:03:53 +0000

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 [...]

ACP 28 Weekly

morten — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:36:27 +0000

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 [...]

ACP 27: Weekly

morten — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:09:51 +0000

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: [...]

ACP 26: Weekly

erlend — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:51:44 +0000

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 [...]

ACP 25: Weekly

morten — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:25:26 +0000

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 BiographyArticle about Edmond Kiraz Book recommendation 1 Book recommendation 2 Interview: [...]

AC 24: Weekly

erlend — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:38:06 +0000

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, [...]

AC 23: Weekly

erlend — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:19:44 +0000

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 [...]

AC 22: Weekly

erlend — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:57:06 +0000

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: [...]

AC 21: Weekly

erlend — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:40:09 +0000

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. [...]

AC 20: Weekly

morten — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:07:25 +0000

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. [...]

AC 19: Weekly

morten — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:56:03 +0000

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 [...]

AC 18: Weekly

morten — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:53:58 +0000

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 [...]

AC 17: Weekly

erlend — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:22:27 +0000

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. Review of Ghibli’s “Ponyo” “Ponyo” [...]

AC 16: Weekly

morten — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:25:09 +0000

Animation Conversation Weekly nr16! The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug ACPNews: Trailer: The Fantastic Mr. Fox Rapunzel artwork Short: Boys night out Futurama dispute ends Short film: Please say something Behind the scenes: Please say something Walt & Grupo Walt Disney bio Where to buy the book Bookreview with [...]

AC 15: Weekly

morten — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:37:15 +0000

Animation Conversation Weekly nr15! The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug ACPNews: Trailer: Despicable Me Lassie goes 3D Artwork: How to train your dragon Toon Boom release 5 Animation breakdown from Ice Age 3 Astro Boy feature from Imagi IMDB top 50 animated features: Kirikou et la sorcière Info: Please [...]

AC14: Weekly

morten — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:36:25 +0000

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: Coraline available on Blu Ray and Digital [...]

AC13: Interview with Stein Løtveit

erlend — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:56:07 +0000

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

Competition:

The winner of last weeks competition is Carlos Fraiha!

Carlos, you can expect a Proco Rosso DVD in the mail.

Thanks to the generous people over at norsk animasjon for sponsoring the DVD.

Info:

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

Leave us a voicemail via Skype. Username: AnimationConversation

Enjoy the show!

Erlend & Morten
Hosts

AC12: Weekly

morten — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:26 +0000

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!

News Links:

UP, UP and away!

Oscars x 10

Paul McCartney to score animated movie?

Spongebob Squarepants celebrated

Trippy Spongebob (via Cartoon brew)

Dreamworks up for grabs?

Competition:

Thanks to the generous people over at norsk animsjon we’re able to give away a DVD of Porco Rosso. If you can answer this question the DVD could be yours: What is the direct English translation of “Kurenai no buta”, the Japanese title of Porco Rosso. Send the answer to: feedback@animationconversation.com

Movie Review:

Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Book reviews:
(Featuring Yaprak Morali)

Brilliant web site about Ghibli studio:

www.ghibliworld.com

Some ghibli art books:

The art of Porco Rosso

My Neighbor Totoro

Example of storyboard book:

Princess Mononoke

Oga Kazuo:

Oga Kazuo Animation Artworks II

Day Dream Data Notes:

Hayao Miyazaki’s Daydream

Movie of the week:

Porco Rosso

Info:

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

Leave us a voicemail via Skype. Username: AnimationConversation

Enjoy the show!

Erlend & Morten
Hosts

AC11: AC Weekly Premiers!

erlend — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:47:35 +0000

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.

Annecy Links:

Annecy animation festival

Selected shorts:

The Man In The Blue Gordini

Selected features:

Brendan & the Secret of Kells

Norwegian films at Annecy:

Kurt blir Grusom

Shrug

Gurin Gursjen og Gursjan Gru

Construction workers

Hubert

Movie of the week:

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

Leave us a voicemail via Skype. Username: AnimationConversation

Enjoy the show!

Erlend Dal Sakshaug
Host/Animator

AC10: Interview with Hans Gunnar Brekke

erlend — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:36:55 +0000

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 [...]

AC09: Interview with Keith Lango Part 2

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:15:42 +0000

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 [...]

AC08: Interview with Keith Lango Part 1

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:12:47 +0000

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: [...]

AC07: Making Animation Your Career

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:11:30 +0000

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 [...]

AC06: Interview with Tomm Moore

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:09:32 +0000

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 [...]

AC04: News and Movie predictions

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:03:28 +0000

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 [...]

AC03: Roundtable 2, part 2/2. ‘Acting’

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:57:19 +0000

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: [...]

AC02: Roundtable 2, part 1/2. ‘Acting’

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:51:06 +0000

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. [...]

AC01: Roundtable 1

erlend — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:47:55 +0000

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 [...]