Sergio Pablos 2020 Interview

My first interview with Sergio Pablos was back in 2016, just before Klaus was pitched to Netflix. You can see the posted interview by clicking here.

Klaus was nominated for an Academy Award in 2020 and during the Covid-19 situation, I was able to set up a Zoom interview with Sergio from his SPA Studios in Madrid, Spain. Enjoy the interview below and please share it with a friend!

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Two Acting cousins

If you want to be an Animator, you got to have some acting skills. Think about it, if you are animating a character either in Maya or in Harmony, you need to be able to create a performance and understand how your character will act or react in different situations.

I interviewed my two cousins, who are not animators, but one is a well known Shakespearean actor in the Bay area named James Carpenter.

James was recently in an online play using Zoom. Check out the link below to this new form of online theater.
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/1_MtILep_GBLS6PsuETRULQ5Hb_Vaaa82nRN_vNYmRxhfMk7Psmf2o3_6ChLShKs?startTime=1589050830000

And then there's Jeremy Foley, who began his acting character in a SeaWorld video with Samu which lead to him escaping from Dante's Peak. He made the transition from child actor to adult filmmaker and talks more about some of the films he and his wife Sara have made together.

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The next interview will be with Sergio Pablos, the writer and director of Klaus, which was nominated for an Academy Award this year and is bringing back traditional 2d animation!

Klaus, a return to 2D?

When you think of a 2D animated movie about the beginning of Santa Claus, you might think of this...

 

This weekend, I went to a "making of" event for Klaus, the first animated production from Netflix and SPA Studios. The first started back in 2014 or so, when animation director, Sergio Pablos started working out an origin story of Santa Claus. 

Pablos created a pitch presentation and animated a preview showcasing his 2d animation using a new look which gave more details to lighting and effects animation. This new look development allowed Pablos and his team to create an animated short which combined the best 2D animation with the 3D rendering look of CG animation. Here's an interesting article about that process.

All the research and work paid off and is now become a 2D feature hybrid of animation film called "Klaus".

The animation is superb in quality, the storytelling is fun, the character designs and acting is very appealing to watch. All of this film was well worth the wait and should be a nice Holiday movie to watch this November and every November after that.

Will this be a film that returns us to 2D animation production?

If you would like to know more about Sergio Pablos, check out this 2016 interview. 

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