Animation Guild

SPRING/SUMMER 2018 7 E D I T O R ' S N O T E Thank you to all the amazing feedback we received from members. We value your voices and look forward to continuing conversations. And, thank you to all the artists who have agreed to be included in the pages of this magazine. Sometimes it's hard to get in front of a camera or share your story—please know we appreciate your willingness to welcome us into your lives. With our second issue, we hope to continue to serve and entertain, bringing you stories on a wide range of topics and highlighting work at a myriad of studios. You'll go behind the scenes of Bento Box's Paradise P.D (p. 13) and enter the stop-motion world of Nickelodeon's latest short (p. 26). You'll learn about the visual challenges of taking a monster family on vacation in Sony Animations's Hotel Transylvania 3 (p.38) and what a Color Stylist's job really entails (p.14). These stories are just a sampling of what you'll find inside this issue. But you'll discover a few common threads throughout—passion, inspiration, perseverance, and problem solving—key ingredients for any successful venture. Cheers, Alexandra Drosu I WANT TO START THIS NOTE BY SAYING, THANK YOU! COMMON THREADS CONTRIBUTORS WHITNEY FRIEDLANDER ("Into the Night") is an entertainment journalist who lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son and infamously ornery cat. A former staff writer at Los Angeles Times and Variety, she has also written for Esquire, Marie Claire and The Washington Post. Art director PAULA SPENCE ("Pixel Vision") is marking two full decades in the animation industry this year. She regularly bites off more than she can chew, and depends on her husband, friends, family and five cats to remind her of what's important in life. JEAN BENTLEY ("Creative Tastes", "And the Winner Is...") is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer who loves TV and all things pop culture. Her work has appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, Rotten Tomatoes, Cosmopolitan.com, MarieClaire.com, Nerdist, and more. DAVID YEH has been a fan of animation all of his life, but found his career calling in the field of still- photography. He recently photographed the Annie Awards and the 50th Annual Academy of Magical Arts Awards Show and can usually be found having a cocktail at a nearby tiki bar. CORRECTION: In the last issue's article— Striking Gold—we mistakenly wrote that Robert Alvarez was nominated for 17 Emmy's and won six. He was nominated 23 times. Also, it was Alvarez's friend Steve McAdam who helped him get his first job in animation, not Tim Walker.

• 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.