Animation Guild

F E AT U R E 40 KEYFRAME A BON VOYAGE TO FILMGOERS Story artist Chris Reccardi wrote, storyboarded and designed the film's 2D end credits, which Tartakovsky gave him carte blanche to do in the style of Saul Bass's iconic opening credits for The Pink Panther. "It's super fun to do the … kind of thing where you get to ignore normal continuity and mechanics, and just morph stuff from scene to scene." He says that once he got his rough storyboards approved, he designed the final key pose layouts "complete with tight 'thick and thin' ink lines" in a nod to the vintage United Productions of America [Toon Boom] animated designs. He says these were hand-drawn in StoryBoard Pro and PhotoShop before they were sent to be completed at animation house Rough Draft. "It's fun taking 3D characters and 'characaturing' them for 2D [because] you can take liberties," he says. Artwork by Scott Wills

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• 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.