Animation

I don't think I've seen that show, Kevin Jackson, but I'm looking forward to watching the new special!

Maurice Vaughan If you ever get a chance, check it out. Classic Jim Henson animatronics. Sparked the childhood imagination back in the 80's.

Kevin Jackson it's too early in the week to be getting emotional about my childhood lol. Thanks for sharing! Always nice to take a walk down memory lane.

You're welcome, G.R. Barnett.

Maurice Vaughan is the ghost an actual roach? The animation is a short, micro? animation. Something to go on social media, nothing too complex or crazy. We are focusing on more short form content for social media.

G.R. Barnett congrats on finishing the pilot for your animation series. Funding is always an interesting ride, I've been doing research this year into funding, pitching, etc. Sorry to hear about the hotel internet. Hopefully it all gets resolved. What is your series about?

Yeah, the ghost is an actual roach, Cyrus Sales. Ghost Roach is a micro-budget live-action short script right now. I was gonna turn it into an adult animated series, but I might keep pitching it as a short script or turn it into a feature script (live-action or animated).

Looking forward to seeing the Thanksgiving animation!

Maurice Vaughan a lot of different options to choose from, I look forward to future update on how things go with your animation. Absolutely, once it goes live on social I'm going to share it here as well.

Jackie Tarascio Actually, yes. I am planning to add previows scenes to add more important context, with that people should unerstand better the character of Kevin and how and why he interacts that way with the world. Thank you for the comment by the way, I really appreciate these kind of observations since it helps me to know and choose better what scenes do next.

Kevin Jackson Thank you, more than a finished job it's more of a concept test. I'm not a director at all, all I know is from the movies I've watched, despite that I wanted to test emotion, rithm and show how certain moments should feel. I have very limited resources, nithing more than free to use stock sounds and music borrowed from other movies, so I tried to do my literal best to convey the point of the film.

In the future I'll add more scene to keep testing and obtaining more material for a pitch bible, since I want to present this to someone who can help me take it to a real project. The script is fully finished too, so I'm just trying to breath a little more life to it.

Looks like a lot of work, are you at all inspired by the Iron Giant? Who is the boy, who would play him if you could cast someone or find a voice for the character? Who would play the robot?

Terence Daniels It was actually a lot of work, I haven't thought of acting jet, since the point of this is to just test how the events I wrote on the script actually work. I used music borrowed from other movies and I used free stock sound effects. I did what I could with the few materials I had at hand.

And funnily enough I was inspired by Terminator 2, when I was a child I loved the relation between Jhon Conor and the T-800 and I imagine the robot having a deep voice like the T-800 too.

Thanks for watching by the way.

Sylvia Melanson Thank you really. I did my best with the drawing. I'm not very good at drawing I had to teach myself to draw propperly to do this. But I'm glad you liked it.

Appreciate that, Langley! You’re right — every turkey needs a dragon. Let’s just say this one’s about to find his in the kitchen… and it’s wearing an apron.

Charmane Wedderburn Every turkey does need a dragon XD!~ Sounds like you've got it figured out. Can I suggest then that you work on your logline? Opinions vary, but I'm of the firm opinion that a logline should tell the "whole" story. The audience never sees them, loglines are just for filmmakers to communicate to each other and to other business in shorthand - just bc we have to talk about sooo many stories all the time. I think loglines need to clearly spell out the A to B journey your character is going to go on, that way another filmmaker knows if they want to come along.

Appreciate that, Langley — great point about clarity in loglines. I wanted to keep this one tight since it’s a short concept, but I see what you mean about charting that A-to-B journey more clearly. I’ll experiment with that in the expanded version — maybe “every turkey needs a dragon,” right? Thanks again for the insight!

G'day, Charmane Wedderburn - your concept sounds like a ton of fun!!! I'm taking my animation through 2D. Since it's drawn that way, I can't imagine it in 3D... but anything's possible with passion at the wheel.

“Thanks so much, Marina! I love that — 2D really does have a certain heartbeat, doesn’t it? There’s something about the hand-drawn energy that gives comedy extra charm. I’ll take a look at your project too — sounds like we’re both cooking up something animated with passion at the wheel!”

That's pretty cool, Ashley Renee Smith! I'm looking forward to seeing The Quinta’s Ghost! I haven't used VR technology, but I've written VR scripts mixed with traditional scripts and 1st-person POV/regular POV scripts that could work as VR movies.

Thanks for sharing Ashley Renee Smith. Our goal as a company is to eventually get into the VR space. I did my first VR game and interaction this year and I can definitely see how it's the future. For us though, we are currently focused on other aspect of business but look forward to entering into the VR realm at some point.

Anything Rebecca Sugar touches turns to gold! It's so cool to see her in working the AR space

I'm looking forward to seeing Ne Zha 2, Pat Alexander! I don't know a lot about the story, but the film looks incredible! I don't think I've seen that kind of animation style, which makes me want to see the movie even more.

I started to watch this animation but haven't had a chance to release. I look forward to seeing what insight Michelle has to share. Thanks for sharing Pat Alexander .

Marc Jaytin I'm looking forward to the new Simpsons Movie. What are you working on?

I'm looking forward to the new Simpsons Movie too, Bob Harper!

I still consider "Allegro non troppo" the best of adult films.

Josephine Yar. Great choice!

Zee Risek " It's like adult animation means juvenile animation," I couldn't agree more. In small doses it's fine however when every adult show does the same thing then I'm over it. I haven't seen all the adult animation you've mentioned but I'm willing to give them a watch.

I think it's better to be more creative, James Woodland. The animation movies that stand out to me and I really enjoy are the ones that are really creative/take risks.

I believe audiences have become tired of formulaic content and are embracing material that surprises and challenges them.

This is a good arrangement. I hope it doesn't impact hiring and number of productions.

Just to clarify, artists were already unionized. This is for the production workers. Remote workers in all categories are unionizing. Still great news!

Cyrus Sales This really is a landmark moment for the industry. The protections and benefits in this agreement don’t just help current DreamWorks employees, they set a precedent that other studios will have to acknowledge for their production workers. The push from remote artists is especially significant, since so much of the animation workforce is no longer centralized in L.A. or big studio hubs.

If these standards ripple outward, it could lead to stronger bargaining positions across the industry, which may help address long-standing issues like wage disparity, burnout, and project-to-project instability.

Maurice Vaughan I look forward to seeing how this impact remote artist across the US. Kevin Jackson I honestly didn't think about that, we will see though. Bob Harper I'm still on the "newer," side of learning about the union and how it works so I appreciate the clarification. Anyone here have experience with unions?

Ashley Renee Smith I appreciate the insight on how this will impact the industry. I do hope it is the start of a bigger movement and other studios follow suite. I know the animation industry can be a bit challenging to navigate but I do feel like this is a great start with protection and benefits.

Cyrus Sales I have experience with The Animation Guild

That's great, Kevin Jackson! I hope more organizations do this, and I hope it has an impact on AI use in the Animation industry and entertaining industry!

Maurice Vaughan I hope so too. Don't get me wrong AI has a time and a place but I 100% stand with the creatives. There has to be a protection for the creative and the art. Shout out to those French filmmakers , maybe they can create a section for all the AI creators to mingle amongst each other?

Pat Alexander thank you for sharing!

Dean is such a great person on top of being talented. Fun fact he was also a co-director on the animated LILO AND STITCH which had a live action remake release this year --(which made over a billion dollars at the box office)

I loved the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon! It was breathtakingly beautiful!

Thank you!