Thursday, May 15, 2025

Arcane Q&A and new book reviewed

If you are a fan of the Netflix series "Arcane" or new to it like , I went to a Q&A with the creators of the show which was moderated by Amid Amidi, publisher and editor of Cartoon Brew. Please enjoy the videos below.


At this event at Netflix, they handed out  the Arcane the art and making book. Its a large book of art from the series. Here are a few pages.

 

Here is a video review of the book.


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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Bill Kroyer, Mr Inbetween

Get ready for an interview coming your way about a brand new animation book called, "Mr. Inbetween; My Life in the Middle of the Animation Revolution" by Bill Kroyer. Here is a little promo for the interview as I finish editing it together.


And now, here's the final interview...


If you like what you see, please leave a comment, a like, subscribe to animateducated on YouTube, go visit www.mrinbetween.org and take a look at some animation history or read about it, send this link to one of your animation friends, you know the one would draws a lot and is always working on something interesting, they would love to have this book and their birthday isn't too far away, what are you waiting for???? 

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Kent Melton, Animation Sculptor

Kent Melton was a character sculptor and maquette builder who worked on some of the most famous animated films -- someone had to sculpt the genie from Aladdin!

Puppetmaker Maria Andreotti was lucky enough to work as Kent's assistant on her first film, Boxtrolls, and was soon fangirling about the amazing sculptures and maquettes he had created at Disney, Laika, Dreamworks and Pixar for such movies as The Incredibles, Paranorman, Prince of Egypt, Treasure Planet, Tarzan, HerculesMulan and more.

Kent eventually became Maria's good friend and mentor and when he was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, Maria was inspired to make a documentary about him.  She created a Kickstarter campaign and has so far raised over $100,000 (and counting) to finish the film.


If you would like to make a donation to Maria's documentary, here's a link:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariaandreotti/untitled-kent-melton-documentary Also check out Maria's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariathemuppet/

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And Thanks for Reading!