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disneytva · 1 year

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Disney Legends Pete Docter And Craig McCracken Awarded With Winsor McCay Award Achievement At 50th Edition Of Annie Awards.

ASIFA-Hollywood has just released nominations for its 50th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.

This year, the ceremony is scheduled to be held live, in-person on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Juried Awards will be presented during the ceremony, honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. The Winsor McCay Award in recognition of lifetime or career contributions are being presented to three recipients:

Pete Docter - Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios

Docter is American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer, voice actor mostly know for Directing the Academy Award & Annie Award winning films Monsters Inc,Up,Inside Out & Soul and being the Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios since 2018, Docter has lead the future Director of Storytelling at Pixar and bringing diversity with more POC,Queer and Female voices to direct their own shorts and films at the studio with upcoming talent like Aphton Corbin, Brian Fee, Kristen Lester, and Rosana Sullivan who have been working on their respective untitled feature films

Additionaly Docter has provided creative consultant on Monsters At Work from Disney Television Animation and got a special thanks credit on Walt Disney Animation Studios Frozen II and was going to helm the production of the canceled Pixar film Newt to step down to make Inside Out.

Craig McCracken - Creator And Animator Disney Television Animation 2011-2018

Craig McCracken is an American animator, writer, producer, director, storyboard artist, and designer known for creating The Powerpuff Girls,Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends at Cartoon Network Studios,Wander Over Yonder for Disney Television Animation and Kid Cosmic for Netflix Animation, McCracken has been credited as "a staple of American modern animated television" on 2021.

Besides working on his most notable works McCracken has pivoted character desings,art direction and storyboarding for other projects at CN like Two Stupid Dogs, Dexter’s Laboratory, Dumb And Dumber,Chowder additionaly he helped on CN Development with the pilots of Diggs Tailwagger: Galactic Rover and Enter Mode 5 and was Executive Producer for the pilot of Regular Show from J.G Quintel.

Currently McCracken is in development for a Powerpuff Girls Reboot for Cartoon Network and WarnerMax and a preschool reboot of Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends for Cartoonito and WarnerMax with Hanna Barbera Studios Europe.

Despite leaving Disney on 2018, McCracken on late 2022 revealed on Twitter that he didn’t felt burn with Disney and would like to make more original shows for them, given the chance with the new Disney Channel’s Worldwide CEO Ayo Davis

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 1 year

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Some Further Thoughts: TOY STORY 5, FROZEN III, ZOOTOPIA 2

The dust has settled for a bit…

These are some theories on who I think will be in charge of the three animated movie sequels announced by The Walt Disney Company the other day, because that’s always a concern of sorts for me when it comes to these movies… And also when they could possibly be released…

Why don’t we get the big one out of the way? That’s right… TOY STORY 5…

The announcement of TOY STORY 5 was unusual in that it didn’t give us any idea who is spearheading it. Now, TOY STORY 4 was similarly announced during an earnings call in October of 2014. It was the first official announcement of the movie’s existence following years of rumors coming from dubious sources… And on that day, we learned right away that it had a director (John Lasseter, who stepped down as director in mid-2017 prior to his prolonged ouster from the Disney company), two writers (Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, who left around that time as well), and was going to be a love story… But during that February earnings call, Bob Iger only stated that it was in the works, along with the two Disney Animation sequel films FROZEN III and ZOOTOPIA 2. No info on those, either… Just, they exist… It wasn’t too dissimilar to the March 2014 shareholder earnings call that officially confirmed that CARS 3 and INCREDIBLES 2 were in the works. Info was sparse on both…

In my previous post on the TOY STORY 5 announcement, I thought of who was part of the main crew of all four of the movies. Lasseter’s been out of Disney altogether since mid-2018, Pete Docter never directed a TOY STORY movie and is currently the Chief Creative Officer of Pixar, Andrew Stanton has been off directing live-action stuff and trying to get live-action features off the ground elsewhere, Lee Unkrich retired from the business entirely, and Josh Cooley is presumably still directing an animated TRANSFORMERS movie for Paramount… I’d imagine Docter and Stanton will at least write or contribute story material to the fifth TOY STORY, but I don’t see them being involved in other levels of the production. Does Unkrich un-retire (he’s not particularly old) and write, possibly even direct? Not sure. Perhaps another promising upstart director gets this one, much like how Josh Cooley got the TOY STORY 4 gig after years of story artist/supervisor work dating back to CARS. But who… Is the question. All the directors confirmed to make new Pixar features - Brian Fee, Kristen Lester, Rosana Sullivan, Aphton Corbin, Enrico Casarosa, and Domee Shi - are working on original stories… Maybe a short film director who has yet to get a gig - such as Brian Larsen or Bobby Rubio - will be director. Maybe someone I’ve never heard of before or even considered… After all, no one outside the walls of the studio knew that Enrico Casarosa had an original film in the works (LUCA), or that Adrian Molina was tackling a movie of his own after COCO (ELIO), or that Kelsey Mann was set to direct something, let alone an INSIDE OUT sequel. There’s a lot they don’t say, as much as they do say…

Release… Pixar currently has these dates locked for releases, post-INSIDE OUT 2:

06/13/2025 03/06/2026 06/19/2026

I’m thinking… Should production go smoothly, and not go through multiple writer changes like TOY STORY 4 did, it gets the June 2026 slot. That puts it… Seven years after TOY STORY 4. When TOY STORY 4 was announced, it was slated for summer 2017… That would’ve been seven years after TOY STORY 3, but again, those delays pushed it to summer 2019. TOY STORY 3, by contrast, took four years to come together. Development began following Disney’s acquisition of Pixar in early 2006 (erasing the old anti-sequel terms of the original contract between the two companies), was at first slated for summer 2009, but was released in summer 2010. TOY STORY 2 debuted four years after the first TOY STORY… Seven years is long, both TOY STORY 3 and TOY STORY 4 took what seemed like eons to come out.

As for those other release dates? I think those go to originals, of course. They’re the only other Pixar films we know about, and more originals is a good thing.

Now while we know what Pixar are releasing in 2024, original ELIO and sequel INSIDE OUT 2… We know next to nothing about what Walt Disney Animation Studios has on the horizon for after WISH’s holiday 2023 bow… And WISH wasn’t known to the public until this past autumn… Barely a year away from release. Outside of the two recently-announced sequels? Nothing. No hints on anything that’s cooking. We’ve known for a while - read: since November 2019 - that filmmakers Josie Trinidad, Suzi Yoonessi, and Marc Smith had original movies in production. If those are still a priority, then I’d imagine we’d be hearing about them soon. Walt Disney Animation Studios runs differently from Pixar now, what with Jennifer Lee as Chief Creative Officer, not how John Lasseter used to oversee both WDAS and Pixar… Don Hall, for example, was curiously whisked off of his STRANGE WORLD to take over RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON from its previous directors, ditto Carlos Lopez Estrada. Estrada had an original of his own in the works at the time, until he was assigned to RAYA. He left Disney altogether after that, meaning that his original is either dead (reportedly titled FOSTER, which shared the name with a cancelled Blue Sky musical) or it was given to another director. Hall later resumed STRANGE WORLD and the movie debuted nearly two years after RAYA. (Worth noting, RAYA was originally supposed to be a fall 2020 release, with ENCANTO following fall 2021, and then STRANGE WORLD fall 2022.)

So, which movie bows first? And when?

FROZEN III was inevitable given the billion dollar success of both movies, individually. FROZEN II came out six years after the first one, in fact it wasn’t announced that it existed until a year and a half after the first FROZEN came out. FROZEN II is now 3 1/2 years old, so they took a while to even confirm that this movie exists. Do Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee return to direct? Definitely no on the latter, as Lee is busy running the studio. Chris Buck is director of WISH, so if Buck’s directing, it won’t be out for a little while then. If neither are directing, and they gave it to someone else (maybe one of the directors of the half-hour OLAF’S FROZEN ADVENTURE), then it could come sooner than later… Again, with such little information, it is hard to gauge.

Ditto ZOOTOPIA 2. Byron Howard directed the first film alongside Rich Moore, the latter left Disney a while ago. Howard, and ZOOTOPIA co-director Jared Bush, took on ENCANTO afterwards. Is Howard returning? Or is he pursuing another original project? Jared Bush is involved in ZOOTOPIA 2, and it’s possibly he could direct, or he has an original lined up for himself as well. I’d imagine they’d both at least write it or contribute story material. Josie Trinidad has an original movie lined up, but given her story work on the first ZOOTOPIA and that she directed most of ZOOTOPIA+. Trent Correy, who also directed on ZOOTOPIA+ and directed the Short Circuit short DROP, could be the director, too. Or he has an original lined up…

Release dates? Well, here is Walt Disney Animation Studio’s post-WISH slate so far…

11/20/2024 11/26/2025 11/25/2026

While Pixar has smoothly moved into doing two features every other year, WDAS still does one movie a year… And two sequels being on the boards makes thing a little complicated for the originals. Do we semi-repeat 2018-2019, where we went a whole four years without a new not-sequel Disney animated movie? Or does WDAS wrangle another movie into a doable slot?

Pixar, as said before, releases two movies in both 2024 and 2026… 2025, just one… Who’s to say Disney can’t take one of their placeholder dates for a “live-action” movie and gave it to a WDAS movie? Like, I can imagine one of those two sequels - likely ZOOTOPIA 2, since FROZEN is always more of a wintery sort of thing for obvious reasons - taking such a date… Say, March 2025? That’s the earliest feasible date, though…

FROZEN III, if it were truly coming out next year, than they’ve kept a hell of a tight lip on it… I don’t think it’ll be next year’s WDAS movie, nor ZOOTOPIA 2…

Earliest I can see either is sometime in 2025. It’s harder to gauge because originals exist, and WDAS only does one a year as of now. Again, that could change. They could surprise and say that they’re doing two in 2025 or so, and one of those two is a sequel.

As I said in the previous post on this matter… Why don’t they double up their efforts so they can get more originals out without having sequels pushing them back? In a way that doesn't put pressure on the crews, and doesn't crunch anyone... I think it can be done: That Vancouver studio they recently opened... Can that be upped the same way the defunct Orlando studio was? The Orlando unit helped on features like THE LION KING, and then whole features were made in-house there starting with MULAN. By the early 2000s, Disney Feature was able to get two features out every few years because of this. Both units seemed to work well in delivering movies without much strain. It only went kablooey because of outside circumstances, but look at Pixar. They’re doing two a year just fine despite outside hardships (COVID-19, LIGHTYEAR flopping at the box office), DreamWorks is doing that just fine, too. WDAS, from my outside perspective, could possibly get two movies out in 2025. An original and a sequel - be it ZOOTOPIA 2 or FROZEN III - and make it through unscathed.

As for what makes it first out of the two WDAS sequels? I'm definitely leaning on ZOO2PIA here. The first film will be *ten years old* in 2026, and ZOOTOPIA+ recently debuted on Disney+, so I'd imagine that one arriving sooner than latter.

Who knows, but I could see this happening…

11/20/2024 - ORIGINAL WDAS (possibly Josie Trinidad's film?)

03/07/2025 - ZOOTOPIA 2

06/13/2025 - ORIGINAL PIXAR (possibly Brian Fee’s film? He said he was writing/directing an original way back in July 2017)

11/26/2025 - ORIGINAL WDAS (possibly Suzi Yoonessi's film?)

03/06/2026 - ORIGINAL PIXAR (possibly Kristin Lester’s film? Her original movie was confirmed to exist in 2018)

06/19/2026 - TOY STORY 5

11/25/2026 - FROZEN III

2027 - ORIGINAL PIXAR (possibly Rosana Sullivan's film?)

2027 - ORIGINAL WDAS (possibly Marc Smith's film?)

This might all look silly by 2026 anyways, so… Why the heck not?

#toy story 5 #toy story #pixar #speculation #unorganized thoughts #frozen iii #frozen 3 #frozen #disney animation #walt disney animation studios #zootopia #zootopia 2

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movies-to-add-to-your-tbw · 5 months

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Title: Purl

Rating: PG

Director: Kristen Lester

Cast: Bret Parker, Emily Davis, Michael Daley, Michael Frederickson, Erik Langley, Jimmy Lillard, Austin Madison, Kelsey Mann, Kyle McDaniel, Victor Navone, Michael Yates, Aphton Corbin, Mitra Shahidi, Domee Shi

Release year: 2018

Genres: comedy

Blurb: Purl, an earnest ball of yarn, gets a job at a fast-paced, male-centred startup company. Things start to unravel as Purl tries to fit in with this tight-knit group, but she must ask herself how far she is willing to go to get the acceptance she yearns for...and if, in the end, it is worth it.

#purl #pg #kristen lester #bret parker #emily davis #michael daley #michael frederickson #erik langley #2018 #comedy

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coolchevistianofficialsite · 2 years

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Gonna ask a non-insider information question and go for opinions of you personally, do you feel bad for the Disney veterans working at Skydance Animation (under scumbag Lasseter) like Brad Bird (various Pixar films), Rich Moore (various WDAS films), Nathan Greno (various WDAS films), Bobs Ganaway (various DTVA shows), Shane Prigmore (co-creator of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure), and Matt Youngberg (co-creator of DuckTales 2017)?

I will just say this when Lasseter was at Pixar, the only woman who directed a film was kicked out of her own film, reminder that woman was behind The Prince Of Egypt, and her film at Pixar was renamed to Brave.

When Lasseter left, Domee Shi was the first actual woman on direct a Pixar film and with total creative freedom later to be followed by Aphton Corbin, Kristen Lester, and Rosana Sullivan who have been working on their respective untitled feature films,aditionally Lindsey Collins was promoted alongside Shi as vice president of creative development at Pixar.

With your list see a common pattern.... they are all males..... the same kind of mentality Pixar was acussed before Pete Docter stepped in, not to diss those directors specially Bobs beacuse the show he is making at Skydance was going to be showrunned by Lauren Montgomerty (your opinions on how Voltron ended are irrelevant) Lauren left to work on Avatar Studios as well many artists who went to work at Skydance have left due Lasseter's handling.

John NEVER changed and he is going to continue this path of an all boys mentality club at Skydance

#question #anonymous

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pixarplanet · 3 years

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Twenty Something Is Something Special

Pixar’s next SparkShort Twenty Something is headed to Disney+ on September 10th, and we just reviewed it! You should all be very excited - it’s wonderful. Read our review.

#twenty something #aphton corbin #sparkshorts #pixar #disney+#articles

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everynewsnow · 3 years

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'द ग्रेट बिफोर' से पहले: डिज्नी पिक्सर की 'आत्मा' के कहानी कलाकारों के साथ एक चैट

‘द ग्रेट बिफोर’ से पहले: डिज्नी पिक्सर की ‘आत्मा’ के कहानी कलाकारों के साथ एक चैट

डिज़नी पिक्सर की नवीनतम हार्टवर्मर ‘सोल’ की अवधारणा टीम में से एक के रूप में, कहानीकार पर्यवेक्षक क्रिस्टन लेस्टर और कहानी कलाकार माइकल येट्स और एफ़टन कॉर्बिन एनिमेटेड फिल्मों के लिए विकसित कथाओं के बारे में बात करते हैं। संगीत शिक्षक जो ग��र्डनर की कहानी ‘ग्रेट बिफोर’ में गूंजती है, जो किसी भी दिशा में जा सकती है। परंतु अन्त: मन पीटर डॉकटर और केम्प पॉवर्स के पास दर्शकों की आवक दिखती है क्योंकि…

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#aphton corbin #अफ्रीकी अमेरिकी डिज्नी फिल्म #आत्मा साक्षात्कार #कहानी कलाकारों का साक्षात्कार #कहानी कलाकारों डिज्नी #कहानी का साक्षात्कार #कहानी के कलाकार पिक्सर #केम्प की शक्तियाँ #क्रिस्टेन लेस्टर #माइकल yates #याचिकाकर्ता

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yasbxxgie · 7 years

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CalArts Animation Student: “If I Don’t Draw Black Characters, Who Will?”

CalArts character animation student Aphton Corbin has been publishing an impressive series of daily comics in honor of Black History Month.

Yesterday’s piece by Corbin speaks directly to the idea of what it means for a young person of color to be creating artwork in an industry that famously cranks out homogeneous product that rarely deviates from established formulas.

Corbins’ comic is reminiscent of comments by El Tigre co-creator and Book of Life director Jorge Gutierrez, who has often spoken out about the lack of representation in the animation industry. “When is the Mexican princess going to show up?” Gutierrez used to wonder when he was a kid, before realizing that “to make something that resonates, it should always come from an honest place.”

For artists just coming into the business, it’s easy to fall into the trap of making more of what the industry already produces, but as Corbin’s comic and Gutierrez’s experiences remind us, the power to transform the industry is within the grasp of each individual artist.

+Corbin’s second and third-year films produced at CalArts:

Ajani the Brave

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The Deep End

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moonbeamsandthesuch · 7 years

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I live with ignorant people. I get by, but I live with ignorant people. My roommates to be exact. See, even in the present. Even with kids under 21, I still hear stupid shit. Stupid racist shit. And they say this racist shit because they think it’s ironic, or a form of “shock humor”. But in reality, they are racist. When I was playing matchmaker for my roommate his friend told me, “Well, I know he doesn’t like dark girls.” Excuse me? What the fuck? This one roommate “that doesn’t like dark girls” has never had a girlfriend, does he even deserve one? No. Fuck no. This was all made glaringly obvious when I read a comic by Aphton Corbin. Black women go through so much shit, especially dark skinned black girls. They get racial slurs from everyone. And they have to deal with piece of shit human beings that are racist to the point of saying that just because they have exceeded a certain melanin quota, that they’re no longer beautiful. For all the dark skinned black women, ALL of them, I want you to know you are beautiful. You are worthy, you matter, you exist. People who don’t see that are fucking stupid, and brainwashed. It makes me so sad that black women go through so much shit. You don’t deserve it! Most of humanity is fucking stupid. Dark skinned black girls deserve everything, they deserve to be protected and held up high. My wish is that all black women will be comfortable in their skin

@aphtoncorbin thank you for your comics. Thank you for sharing a very real plight.

#dark skinned #tw racial slurs #tw racism #black lives matter #black women matter #color line is real #black is beautiful #aphtoncorbin #aphton corbin

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 2 months

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The new Fine Tooning episode came out (that's an animation news/commentary podcast hosted by Jim Hill and Drew Taylor), and the word is that Pixar is actually NOT making a movie called DUCKS. Or a movie about ducks, period...

But, host Drew did say that a musical isn't off the table... That Pixar could be thinking of doing their first proper musical animated feature... But again, that's probably a ways off.

Maybe it was a case of mixed signals, which often happens in animation news rumor-milling.

I'm reminded, using one of many examples, of a movie supposedly called "The Name Game"... A Walt Disney Animation Studios adaptation of the classic Rumplestiltskin fairy tale, set in South Pacific...

These rumors floated around in approximately 2012/13-ish? It was true that Disney Animation had kicked around a Rumplestiltskin adaptation once, but that was around the early aughts. It was true that a movie set in the South Pacific was in the works at the time, as it had been quietly mentioned in mid-2012. Around the time of that year's Comic-Con, directors Ron Clements and John Musker were said to be in early development of a 2D feature and that a research trip had been taken to the South Pacific... But this "Name Game" movie never existed, nor was it ever going to be a Rumplestiltskin retelling. The picture in question turned out to be 2016's MOANA, a CG flm that did indeed begin life as a 2D film before the bean counters called it quits.

So again, some partial truths, but mixed signals and unrelated stuff being thrown into the report. That's happened plenty of times before with Disney animated films, Pixar films, etc. Remember how in 2022, right before D23, there were leaks saying that Disney was making a feature based on the story BLUEBEARD (in addition to THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA), and that Pixar was working on something called SUMER? I remember a time when Pixar was supposedly doing some soccer movie set in Spain, but there was no real evidence that corroborated such a claim. I remember A BUG'S LIFE 2 being someone's April Fool's Day joke in 2010.

Maybe there's a scene in some upcoming Pixar movie involving ducks that somebody caught a faint glimpse of, maybe not. Maybe that's what happened. Sometimes, Disney tends to lock names and domains and such for various projects. In 2009, I remember Disney trademarking things like "Finding Nemo 2" and "Tiger King". I'd imagine the latter had nothing to do with Joe Exotic. Maybe "Pixar Ducks" is just that? I don't know. It is kind of unusual. Maybe it's one of those BLUE HARVEST working titles for something else.

But I'd like to think, at this year's D23, we learn about what the next original Pixar picture is *after* the summer 2025 release of ELIO. Who is directing, ya know? The previously-announced candidates Kristen Lester (PURL), Rosana Sullivan (KITBULL), Aphton Corbin (TWENTY-SOMETHING), Daniel Chong (WE BEAR BEARS), Enrico Casarosa (LUCA), Domee Shi (TURNING RED), Brian Fee (CARS 3), and more remain on my mind. Maybe it's a director we haven't heard about... After all, Peter Sohn's ELEMENTAL snuck right up on us. He wasn't really said to be working on anything following his GOOD DINOSAUR, but turns out... He was!

It could be that kind of situation, who knows!

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