Join Whitney Grace as she speaks with artist Hamid Rahmanian, who is the director, writer, and creator of Feathers of Fire. Rahmanian’s Feathers of Fire is a brilliant, animated shadow puppet stage show adapted from the Persian epic The Shahnameh.
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Rob Paulsen takes some time from his busy voice acting schedule to spend some time with host Whitney Grace and things get weird.
Hello and welcome to twenty-fifth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney had to take a short hiatus due to everything hitting the fan at once, but now she’s back with Art Brown, executive produce of DreamWorks’s How To Train Your Dragon: Dragons Race To the Edge. Dragons Race To the Edge is an exciting Netflix exclusive cartoon series and it continues with its second season. Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Snoutlout, Toothless, Stormfly, and all the other dragons are in for thrilling adventures as the protect the Edge from a duo of villainous brothers and discover more dragon species. Art Brown chats with Whitney about what to expect in Dragons Race To the Edge season two and she had a hard time controlling her laughter.
- Art Brown is an executive producer on How To Train Your Dragon: Dragons Race To the Edge.
- He says the new season will have brand new dragons, new dastardly brother villains named Viggo and Ryker, cool Astrid adventures, and some great comedy.
- Whitney is a big stiggler for continuity and Art assures her that he is constantly in contact with the franchise as whole to retain continuity with the How To Train Your Dragon Dragons Race To the Edge takes place between the first two movies.
Photo: DreamWorks Animation (DreamWorks Dragons: Race To The Edge © 2016 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved)
- Art loves working on the Dragons Race To the Edge TV series, because he gets to explore routes that the movies can’t get into due to time.
- Art and Whitney both love Fishlegs and Meatlugs’ relationship, they’re so cute and funny.
- Does Dragons Race To the Edge delve into why there is only one Nightfury? Art said it’s a “no fly zone.”
- If Art had his own dragon companion he would want either Hookfang or Meatlug. Mostly because he and Doug are huge animal fans and both have great pets.
- Doug Sloan is another executive producer on the show.
- If Art and Doug want to make people laugh on the Dragons Race To the Edge, they always cut to Meatlug and her antics.
Photo: DreamWorks Animation (DreamWorks Dragons: Race To The Edge © 2016 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved)
- To create new dragons, the Dragons Race To the Edge creative team look at the amazing creatures in the animal kingdom for inspiration. Whitney and Art both like the honey badger.
- Art Brown declares that there will be a minimum of eight new dragons in Dragons Race To the Edge.
Link
- Toon-In Talk Podcast
- Toon-In Talk Facebook
- Art Brown’s IMDB Page
- Dragons Race To the Edge Season 2 Trailer
- Nadder Attack Clip
- How To Train Your Dragon Official Website
- DreamsWorks
- Scrivener for Macs
- Scrivener for Windows computers
Hello and welcome to twenty-third episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. It’s also time for the third round of interviews for the Ladies of Animation Month, Whitney Grace’s yearly tribute to women who work in the animation industry and mission to inspire girls to pursue their animated ambitions. Kirsty Scanlan is the co-president of the Women in Animation organization. Kirsty fell into animation when she worked at Threshold Entertainment and fell in love with the medium. She is currently Technicolor’s Vice President of Business Development for Technicolor’s Animation and Games group. Whitney and Kristy discuss Kristy’s career the current state of women in the animation industry, and their hopes for the future.
- Kristy Scanlan entered the entertainment industry right of college and worked in live action script development, but when she worked at Threshold Entertainment they had an animation studio. She became more involved in the animation side of the studio and fell in love with it.
- When Kristy was at Threshold Entertainment, she worked on projects for Lego, Marvel, DC, and some theme parks.
- She currently works at Technicolor and is in charge of business development for their studio in Bangalore, India.
- One of the services her studio provides is CG outsourcing and her clients include DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, Electronic Arts, Activision, Rockstar Games, Capcom, 2K, Sony Computer Entertainment.
- Kristy’s other job was helping revamp the Women In Animation organization to give it new life and help women launch their careers in the animation industry, including networking, educational seminars, and giving them a voice.
- 70% of women in art schools want to become animators, but only 20% actually work in the animation industry.
- Women In Animation’s goal is to have a 50/50 workforce in the animation industry by 2025.
- Women In Animation has made strong movements since the organization’s revamp in October 2013.
- The entire goal is to empower women, get jobs, and succeed in a field usually dominated my men.
- Whitney and Kristy discuss old-fashioned hiring practices and how they could evolve in the future.
- Women In Animation is for more diversity not only in the animation industry, but also diversity in culture as a whole.
- Self-doubt is one of the biggest barriers that women face.
- Kristy shares her experience about females working in the animation industry. She says that things have improved since the 1950s, but there is a whole lot of room for improvement.
- Whitney points out that Lotte Reiniger, the first female animation director in the world, is usually a footnote in history books.
- Kristy talks about the Annecy International Film Festival.
- She declares 50/50 by 2025!
Links
- Toon-In Talk Podcast
- Toon-In Talk Facebook
- Women in Animation
- Women in Animation Board
- Kristy Scanlan’s IMDB page
- Kristy Scanlan’s Technicolor profile
- Drawing the Line by Tom Sito
- Animation Under the Swastika by Rolf Giesen and J.P. Storm
- Scrivener for Macs
- Scrivener for Windows computers
