Explore " computer animation" with insightful episodes like "Barbie in the Nutcracker: Batty & Plum", "Season 2, Ep. 3: "You've Got a Friend in Me"", "Toy Story: Nostalgic & Manslaughter", "TechStuff Tidbits: Exploring the Uncanny Valley" and "Episode 23: Thaddeus Maharaj, From Atheist to Christian Creative (Trinidad)" from podcasts like ""Tossed Popcorn", "Action!", "Tossed Popcorn", "TechStuff" and "One80"" and more!
Merry Christmas, Barbie! Travel back in time with us to an era before Barbenheimer and well before computer animation could truly render human expression successfully. The person most confused by the film this week was: Marzipan when the animators made her snack on fucken dirt.
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This week on Action! we venture "to infinity and beyond" to discover how the first ever computer animated film was made. Toy Story brought about amazing technological advancements and a new way to create stories for the big screen. Tune in to discover just how Toy Story and the technology for computer animation came to be.
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*The poooooood* Fly to infinity (and beyond!) for confrontational cowboys, peeved-off potatoes, distressed dinos, stumped space rangers, awestruck aliens, and kreative kids. The person most confused by the movie this week was: the crane with the legs of a woman?
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What is the uncanny valley? What causes that feeling of uneasiness we get when we see certain robots or CGI characters? What makes them creepy?
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Raised in Trinidad, Thaddeus Maharaj led a typical Christian life. As career pursuits brought him to Toronto, Thad found himself drawn to the world and away from his faith. He started pursuing apologetics as a way to disprove Christianity and find justification for his life choices. But instead, he discovered compelling arguments that prove Christianity to be truth and was drawn to a fresh faith in Jesus. He is now an apologist and Christian creative with Theotivity, a thoughtful place where theology and creativity come together.
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This week, Misha and Tyler check out the baffling film Meet the Robinsons from 2007.
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The second season of Magic by Design comes to a close as Ken and Gar pull on the tuxedos and struggle with their bow ties for the Best of Pixar Awards. Which films will snag the top awards? Download to find out!
Featuring a reprise of her award winning cover of "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. We hereby declare that we do not own the rights to this music/song(s). All rights belong to the owner. No copyright infringement intended.
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Ken and Gar are dipping back into the world of Disney features this week with a review of the studio’s 60th animated feature, Encanto, in theatres now! The brothers visit Casita Madrigal to break down the latest film in the Disney animated canon to see if there's any magic to be found.
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Ken and Gar attempt to silencio their Brunos to live their dream of reviewing Pixar's 24th, and most recent, Luca this week. The brothers try to put their finger on why Enrico Casarosa's feature directorial debut feels so different to anything the studio has done before and what makes the story's themes so universally appealing to audiences of all ages.
Featuring a beautiful rendition of "O Mio Babbino Caro" featured in Luca by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh.
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Act One Podcast - Episode 23 - Interview with Filmmaker, Kirby Atkins.
Kirby Atkins has written feature film scripts for Robert De Niro, MIRAMAX, and 20th CENTURY FOX. He has worked with some of the most recognizable names in cinema across animation and visual effects such as Sony Animation, Weta Digital, and Steven Spielberg. His short film "Mutt" won BEST ANIMATED SHORT at the HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL and he has directed the TV show "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius" for NICKELODEON. In 2019 Kirby wrote and directed the first New Zealand/China Film Group co-production of MOSLEY which was nominated for “Best Animated Feature Film” at the 2019 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, The Burbank International Film Festival, The Festival of Cinema, NYC, and the 2020 Ottawa International Animation Festival. MOSLEY won the Golden Dolphin Award for Best Animated Feature Film at China's 13th Xiamen International Animation Festival. The film will be released worldwide 2021. Kirby wrote the screenplay and plays the title role, starring with the all Kiwi cast of John Rhys-Davies (LOTR), Lucy Lawless (Xena, Warrior Princess), Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords), and Termuera Morrison (Star Wars).
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Ken and Gar getting existential this week with a review of Pixar's 23rd animated feature, Soul, first released as a Disney+ exclusive on Christmas Day 2020. The brothers ponder the meaning of life and how the most recent effort from Director, Pete Docter, stacks up to his magnum opus, Inside Out (Episode 74).
Featuring a cover of "It's All Right" featured in Soul by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. The song choice changed last minute. We wonder if you'll notice the edit...
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Ken and Gar cast a spell to conjure up a review of Pixar's 22nd animated feature, Onward, this week. The brothers embark on an epic quest to uncover the ancient mystery of why this fantasy road movie sticks the landing but ultimately, falters along the journey.
Featuring a cover of "Carried Me With You" from Onward by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. We hereby declare that we do not own the rights to this music/song(s). All rights belong to the owner. No copyright infringement intended.
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Ken and Gar join Woody, Buzz and the gang for one last adventure this week in their review of Toy Story 4 first released in 2019. The brothers cap off their series on Pixar's original and most famous franchise by breaking down how each installment continues to deliver the very best of animated storytelling, bucking the trend of diminishing returns for sequels.
Featuring a cover of "You've Got A Friend In Me" from the Toy Story franchise by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. We hereby declare that we do not own the rights to this music/song(s). All rights belong to the owner. No copyright infringement intended.
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Ken and Gar are pulling on the spandex and dusting off their cowls for a review of Pixar's 20th animated feature, Incredibles 2, first released in 2018. Will the Parr family save the day again or will their return be resigned to the Superhero scrap heap with the likes Batman and Robin? Tune in to find out!
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Ken and Gar celebrating the holiday in appropriate fashion with our review of Pixar's 19th animated feature, Coco. Will this Day of the Dead inspired tale be a trick or treat? Tune in to find out, if you dare....
Featuring an other-worldly cover of "Remember Me" from Coco by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. We hereby declare that we do not own the rights to this music/song(s). All rights belong to the owner. No copyright infringement intended.
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Ken and Gar return to the race track one more time this week. The brothers are racing to the finish line of their series on the Cars trilogy with a review of Cars 3, first released in 2017. Will this third instalment take the chequered flag? Tune in to find out!
Featuring a reprise of "Life is a Highway" from the original Cars movie all the way back in Episode 66 by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. We hereby declare that we do not own the rights to this music/song(s). All rights belong to the owner. No copyright infringement intended.
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Ken and Gar try not to forget their takes on Finding Dory while overcoming disruption caused by a tiny Chihuahua named Honey who was intent on chiming in on their review of this follow up to the beloved 2003 mega hit, Finding Nemo.
Featuring a cover of "What a Wonderful World" from the thrilling climax of Finding Dory by Magic by Design's resident singer, Nicole McDonagh. We hereby declare that we do not own the rights to this music/song(s). All rights belong to the owner. No copyright infringement intended.
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Ken and Gar attempt to make their mark this week with a review of Pixar's 16th animated feature, The Good Dinosaur, first released in 2015.
The brothers break down what is considered to be the studio's first flop to find out what went wrong at the box office and if all the hate for this prehistoric tale is warranted.
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Ken and Gar dive deep into the recesses of the human mind this week for a review of Pixar's 15th animated feature, Inside Out first released in 2015. The brothers explore their feelings about Director Pete Docter's masterpiece and chat about how important it is for the children of today to see this movie.
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I am over the moon to kick off Series 3 with the incredible Alvy Ray Smith – co-founder of Pixar.
Dr Alvy Ray Smith is a computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer graphics. After starting his career in academia, Alvy had an epiphany following a serious skiing accident. He decided to move to California to combine his two passions - art and computers - in a place where he felt something good was about to happen.
Alvy was always a pioneer. From creating his first computer graphic in 1965, Alvy became an original member of the Computer Graphics Lab at the New York Institute of Technology, he witnessed the birth of the personal computer at Xerox PARC, and he was the first director of computer graphics at George Lucas’s Lucasfilm. It was there that Alvy gathered some of the smartest people he knew to develop computer graphics software, including early renderer technology. He and colleague Ed Catmull then spun out to co-found the famous Pixar, soon followed by the hiring of Lucasfilm colleague John Lasseter, and Steve Jobs as an investor. It was at Pixar that Toy Story would be made - the very first, entirely computer-animated, feature film. In 2006, Pixar was sold to Disney for $7.4 billion.
Alvy also co-founded Altamira Software and has created a number of computer art pieces including the famous Sunstone with Ed Emshwiller which featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Alvy was also the first Graphics Fellow at Microsoft.
In this interview, Alvy recounts his career from the early days at Xerox PARC to how Pixar got started. We discuss the Pixar journey in detail, as well as his new book – A Biography of the Pixel including how innovation is born from three strands:
An idea, chaos and a tyrant. And how Steve jobs was both the saviour and the tyrant in the incredible Pixar story.
Alvy has combined his two passions – art and computer science – to spend his career showing the world what computers and moreover, what computer graphics can do.
A true pioneer, this is one of my favourite conversations.
I hope you enjoy it too.
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This episode was hosted by me - Danielle Newnham, a recovering founder, author and writer who has been interviewing tech founders and innovators for ten years - and produced by Jolin Cheng.
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