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44 CINEMONTAGE / Q1 2019 And then, when the characters turned 80, Disney rebooted DuckTales 30 years after the original series. The reboot includes many hen and drake characters, such as the triplet's lady friend Webbigail "Webby" Vanderquack and chauffeur/pilot Launchpad McQuack, joining them in their in misadventures in Duckberg. Produced by Disney Television Animation, DuckTales premiered in August 2017 with a 44-minute special on the Disney Channel. The second season premiered in October 2018 and a new episode is set to air March 9. Over at Disney Television Animation in Glendale, it is fittingly a trio of animation editors who are hard at work on DuckTales: Jasmine Bocz, Barbara Ann Duffy and Mike Williamson (each works individually on an episode) — along with assistant editor Susan Odjakjian. Here are their origin stories: Becoming an animation editor usually happens one of two ways: either falling in love with animation at an early age and finding a path to fulfill that dream, or falling into it by serendipity and finding it a comfortable home. Bocz reveals that she belongs in the former category. As a child in the 1980s, she was obsessed with the original DuckTales on TV. "I taped the episodes on VHS every day and rushed home to watch them," she recalls. "I fell in love with the craft of animation and started to teach myself how to draw." She learned to edit on an Avid in high school and, when she went to Pasadena's ArtCenter College of Design to study film, she interned for four summers with Disney Television Animation. Upon graduation, one of her film teachers hired her to be his assistant editor on Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004). It was her experience with that film, as well as the four summers interning at Disney that cemented her desire to work in animation. After some twists and turns, she became an assistant editor on the animated series TRON: Uprising (2012-2013). Duffy actually grew up in a family of animators — both her parents worked for Klasky Csupo — but after film school, she intended to pursue a career in live-action editing. "As fate would have it, I was between jobs and a live-action assistant editor job for a commercial came up at Klasky," she says. "I jumped on that and was an assistant on a McDonald's short called The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly [1998]." Her animation credits include stints as an animatic editor on the TV series Rocket Power (1999-2004) and As Told by Ginger (2000-2006) Williamson is solidly in the second category. He started out his editing career cutting live-action and transitioned from assistant to editor working on scripted and unscripted television, including Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove (2016). "I was a bit burned out on unscripted and found myself looking to move into another kind of editing," he concedes. He ran into a friend who worked at Disney Jasmine Bocz. DuckTales' editors say there is no single animation editing workflow, which differs by studio and by show.