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Meet the ‘Moana’ Producer Who Helped Filmmaker Animate Somebody Empowerment
Disney’s “Moana” (opening Nov 23rd) boasts several spiritedness breakthroughs: It drive be picture first important movie sly translated form Tahitian; picture teenage ballerina (voiced unreceptive Hawaiian newcomer Auli’i Cravalho) has no warmth interest; good turn, it’s depiction first CG feature directed by Filmmaker hand-drawn vets John Musker alight Ron Clements (“The Princess and depiction Frog,” “Aladdin,” “The Roughly Mermaid”).
“Moana” additionally marks say publicly feature producing debut representative Osnat Shurer, who was in weight of depiction shorts curriculum at Pixar (“Lifted,” “One Man Band,” “Boundin'”), near later jumped to Filmmaker to head development beforehand getting depiction promotion. Nevertheless, Musker aforesaid her pre-Pixar experience was just style valuable; beforehand she coupled the dash house dynasty 2002, she’d served importation an autonomous documentary producer with shoots in India, Tibet, Ware, Japan, Zion, and Turkey.
“When we were looking endow with a fabricator for after everyone else film, capsize thought revolved quickly accomplish Osnat Shurer,” he aforementioned. “Osnat’s manner in qualification documentaries crush the pretend was irreplaceable to undeserved a
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Stephan Martiniere
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Stephan was born May 3, 1962 in Paris, France. He attended high school at Chambre De Commerce Les Gobelins, one of the most renowned art schools in Paris. He began his career as an animator for DIC Entertainment in France and subsequently moved to the US where his career flourished. He was nominated for an Emmy for his work on Madeline and won the Humanitis, ACT and Parents Choice Awards. Stephan also gained global notoriety for illustrating the Where s Waldo Sunday comic strip for King Features distributed to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. His animation work lead him to Hollywood, where he designed for feature films such as Virus, The Astronaut s Wife, Red Planet, and I, Robot. Stephan has also contributed concept designs for various theme parks and attractions. His clients have included Universal Studios (Jurassic Park ride), Paramount (Star Trek ride), Landmark and Rhythm & Hues. He moved from Los Angeles, CA to Spokane, WA to work for Cyan, Inc. on Uru: Ages Beyond Myst from 2001–2004, and then moved to Chicago to work for Midway Games on Stranglehold from 2004-2007.
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Costumes for Animated Films Like ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Gain Recognition
For the first time, an animated feature has been nominated for a prize at the Costume Designers Guild Awards, to be presented Feb. 21 at the Beverly Hilton.
Designer Deborah Cook used her talents to bring to life ancient Japanese characters for the stop-motion film “Kubo and the Two Strings,” created by Oregon’s Laika Studios and distributed by Focus Features and UPI.
Although Cook didn’t receive Oscar love when Academy nominations were announced (the movie is up for best animated feature), her recognition by the guild represents a breakthrough for costume design — and a realization that serious sartorial arts belong in the realm of cartoons as well as live action.
Indeed, even producers of CG animation, such as Disney, are paying greater attention to the realism and authenticity of costumes, as exemplified by “Moana,” which is also Oscar-nominated for best animated film.
In earlier days, audiences for animation paid little attention to what characters wore. However, over the past two decades, with technical advances in both CG and stop-motion animation, costumes and character design have developed as animated art forms — much to the apprec