Animation Guild

38 KEYFRAME INTO THE All artwork from Sony Pictures Animation, © 2018 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved 38 KEYFRAME IT WAS A DARK AND EERIE NIGHT… BUT THEN WHEN IS IT NOT IN HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA? AFTER ALL, THE PREMISE OF THE SONY PICTURES ANIMATION FILMS IS THAT COUNT DRACULA HAS GOTTEN INTO THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY BECAUSE MONSTERS NEED VACATIONS TOO. AND WHEN YOUR LEAD IS THE MOST FAMOUS VAMPIRE OF ALL TIME, THERE WILL BE A LOT OF NIGHT SHOTS — NECESSARY EVILS THAT MAY MAKE FOR MURKY STORYTELLING WHEN IT COMES TO ANIMATING THIS WORLD ON FILM. The artists behind Hotel Transylvania 3 discuss creating a summer blockbuster without using sunlight F E AT U R E

• Cover
• PRESIDENT'S LETTER
• EDITOR'S NOTE
• ART & CRAFTAko Castuera's dynamic ceramics
• AFTER HOURS DWA's Abarcaon the sweet sideof animation
• IN PRODUCTION How Paradise, P.D.runs its show
• ON THE JOB Character Designers at different studios
• SPACE INVADERS Get lost in Ben Balistreri's home studio
• PERSPECTIVE Surviving pixel vision
• DIALOGUE Artists onthe show that inspired them
• THE LOCAL Color Stylists ask for your support, our convention delegates
• SOCIAL HOURT oasting our members around town
• MUSIC IN MOTION For Cosmo Segurson, his Nickelodeon short, The Prince and Mr. Whiskers, brings together influences from hispast. Inspired by hot jazz, 1930'scartoons and his father, he creates amusical battle in a stop-motion world.
• AND THE WINNER IS…We look back at eight Primetime Emmy winners over the last five decades, highlighting shows that impacted the industry. From The Flintstones to SpongeBob SquarePants, these unforgettable characters continue to live on.
• INTO THE NIGHT How do you design a summer vacation film without sunlight? That was one big challenge for the production of Hotel Transylvania 3.Learn how the artists behind the filmcreated a bright destination for Dracand his family.