INTERVIEW WITH ISABEL HERGUERA
Isabel Herguera, visual artist, director and animation producer from San Sebastian, will receive the Animac 2024 Honorary Award, the first Spaniard to be awarded this award. From San Sebastián, Herguera, who directed Animac from 2003 to 2011, talks about her cinema and her experience at the festival. Animac will dedicate a retrospective to Isabel Herguera […]
Read moreWE WANT DIVERSITY AND WE WANT IT NOW
The animation of films, series and video games is not only an extraordinary creative territory, but, like all art, it also has great educational and exemplary potential as a social engineer. When we see that animated films and series normalize a gay wedding (Steven Universe), a racialized princess (Tiana and the Frog), a trans protagonist […]
Read moreSCOTT PILGRIM: 20 YEARS OF HAPPY PILGRIMAGE
The character Scott Pilgrim, who turns 20 this year, has enjoyed a long and fruitful pilgrimage, as befits his surname, from his birth in the form of a graphic novel to his latest successful animated series released by Netflix. His creator, the Canadian Bryan Lee O’Malley, was born in 1979 in London, Ontario. After studying […]
Read moreINTERVIEW ROCIO ÁLVAREZ
1.- How did you get into the world of illustration? Since I was little I always liked to draw and do creative things. I studied Fine Arts in Valencia and there I tried a lot of different techniques, from clay modeling to engraving or the basics of animation. In the beginning the teaching of drawing […]
Read moreInterview with Ben Locket, composer of Gumball and Revolting Rhymes
Ben Locket is an Australian composer based in London with over 10 years of experience creating music for film and TV. His work in animation includes Cartoon Network’s BAFTA and Emmy winning series, “The Amazing World of Gumball”, for he was nominated for ‘Best Music in a TV Production’ at the 2012 Annie Awards in Los Angeles and the […]
Read moreInterview with Glen Keane
During this latest Annecy International Animation Festival, we had the incredible opportunity to interview animation legend Glen Keane, who presented his latest short, “Dear Basketball”! Animac Magazine: You started at Disney in the ’70s. How did it evolve and change during your time there, and what were some of your favorite moments? Glen Keane: When […]
Read moreInterview with Zacarías Martínez de la Riva, 2018’s Lifetime Award
This year, Animac 2018’s Lifetime Award goes to a musical goldsmith, as this is the main theme starring our present edition: the composer Zacarías Martínez de la Riva. His exemplary career busts the myth that an artistic path always comes by vocation or is something innate. If anything, it illustrates that one can always forge […]
Read moreInterview with stop motion filmmakers Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels
Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels are a stop motion animator duo based in Ghent, Belgium. His brilliant short film Oh Willy… (selected at Animac 2013) traveled the festival circuit around the world, and its animation on wool inspired a new wave of stop motion filmmakers and animators. In celebration of the theme of […]
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