More from Gregg Kilday and Carolyn Giardina
Animation Roundtable: 6 Toon Creators on Fears, Methods and Which 2D Characters They Secretly Wish They Were
Hollywood's top animators — Pete Docter ('Inside Out'), Charlie Kaufman ('Anomalisa'), Peter Sohn ('The Good Dinosaur'), Steve Martino ('The Peanuts Movie'), Roger Allers ('Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet') and Richard Starzak ('Shaun the Sheep Movie') — discuss which emotion was cut from Pixar's Oscar frontrunner and how to approach the ratings board (when an animated film lands an R-rating).
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Cinematography Roundtable: Roger Deakins and 5 Other Top DPs on Angelina Jolie’s Directing Style, Shooting Through Hurricanes and Film vs. Digital
The visionaries behind some of the year's most visually striking movies — 'Unbroken,' 'Into the Woods,' 'Gone Girl,' 'The Theory of Everything,' 'Noah' and 'Mr. Turner' — open up about everything from how to develop a relationship with a director to high-dynamic-range technologies
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Animation Roundtable: 6 Top Filmmakers on ‘Frozen’ Lessons and Why Sequels Are “Killing” the Industry
Don't relegate these filmmakers to the kids' table, where the movie industry often forces animators to sit. Not only have their projects scored big at the box office — 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' took in $619 million worldwide, while 'The Lego Movie' collected $468 million — but they also are among the year's most inventive films. After all, they create every single frame from scratch
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