Trolls World Tour, the Walt Dohrn-directed follow-up to 2016’s
Trolls, the filmmaking team embraced the challenge of creating not one but six colorful and completely original Trolls landscapes. They aspired to expand the world of the original film, especially in the lyrical and sonic landscape, so they created an entire map of lands based on musical genres. “We didn’t want to follow the same template,” says producer Gina Shay.
Each landscape was devoted to a different kind of music: techno, hard rock, classical, country, funk, and pop. Below, key members of the team talk Cartoon Brew through the visual references used to create the different worlds, touching on some of the creative and technical challenges that arose along the way.
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Lucky Helmet Agency to Represent Aniplex USA in N. America
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Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train
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Cartoon Brew reported on Tuesday that the newly formed entertainment agency Lucky Helmet will represent Aniplex of America in North America. The company will support licensing and merchandising around Aniplex of America and Funimation s upcoming release of
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train in the United States.
Founder of Lucky Helmet Marc Harrington made a statement about the film:
Demon Slayer s box-office success overseas, in the middle of a pandemic, is nothing less than extraordinary. We are incredibly excited to have the opportunity to support Aniplex on its licensing and merchandising efforts in North America, and we are confident that the film will further excite fans, and that there will be great potential for new licensing partners ac
Doug Crane, who drew Spider-Man, She-Ra and He-Man cartoons and worked on films including
Heavy Metal and
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America during his six-decade career in animation, has died. He was 85. Crane died Thursday after a short battle with cancer, his daughter Rose-Ellen reported. His wife of 61 years, Maureen, an inker/painter whom he had met at Terrytoons in 1956 on his and her first day there, died two days earlier.
A Clio Award recipient, Crane also worked for Hanna-Barbera, Paramount, MTV, Filmation, Oriolo Films and Zander Animation Parlour and served as a professor of animation at his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, for 15 years. His credits also included the features
Doug Crane, who drew Spider-Man, She-Ra and He-Man cartoons and worked on films including
Heavy Metal and
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America during his six-decade career in animation, has died. He was 85.
Crane died Thursday in Stuart, Florida, after a short battle with cancer, his daughter Rose-Ellen reported. His wife of 61 years, Maureen, an inker/painter whom he had met at Terrytoons in 1956 on his and her first day there, died two days earlier.
A Clio Award recipient, Crane also worked for Hanna-Barbera, Paramount, MTV, Filmation, Oriolo Films and Zander Animation Parlour and served as a professor of animation at his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, for 15 years.
In Memoriam: Remembering The Animation Industry Figures Who Died In 2020
The past 12 months, in which the spectre of disease and death loomed over everything, saw Cartoon Brew chalk up a sad record: we have never published so many obituaries in one year.
None of these deaths were attributed to Covid-19. Yet during a period when light relief was needed more than ever, we instead found ourselves mourning a stream of departed talents who left their mark on our industry animators and cartoonists, directors and producers, voice artists, dancers, and basketball players; famous and under-appreciated; old and young.
Here are the deaths we documented in 2020: