. What makes a great animated character?
GLEN KEANE I think the best characters are characters that you can relate to. You see in them something of yourself, and those are the ones that audiences connect with. Even though these characters are imaginary, I have this strange belief that when you are designing an animated character, you are designing a character that s actually existing before you do the work on it. They reveal themselves to you. Our characters, we want them to touch the audience, to break that wall [so] that they are not on the screen they are in your life.
Creators Behind Wolfwalkers, Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon and Earwig and the Witch Dive Into Their Otherworldly Characters
Wolfwalkers Concept Art: Courtesy of Cartoon Saloon and ABRAMS (4)
The filmmakers break down their animated movies about magic wolves, a Studio Ghibli creature and an alien.
Wolfwalkers (APPLE TV+/GKIDS)
Set in Ireland and bathed in mythology, Cartoon Saloon s hand-animated
Wolfwalkers follows an English girl, Robyn Goodfellowe, who befriends Mebh, a member of a tribe rumored to have the ability to transform into wolves. To design Mebh and Robyn s wolf forms, the team, led by two-time Oscar-nominated director Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, started with a generic wolf and aimed to reflect each girl in her wolf persona. The central choice we decided on since the beginning was to keep the eyes the same as their human form, both in shape and color, with some minor adjustments, says character posing artist Federico Pirovano. The eyes are the mirror of
Final Golden Globes Predictions: Best Animated Feature - Soul Looks to Assert Its Frontrunner Status
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Variety s Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year s contenders in all categories. Variety s Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
This article marks the end of my first full year as
SLUG‘s resident film critic, and what a year it’s been. Movies have sustained me this year, and though I only saw one film in a darkened theater since March, they’ve kept me sane.
Without further ado, here are my entirely subjective picks for the top films of 2020. I’ve put far too much time into obsessing and stressing over these picks, and there are some I had a really hard time leaving out, like