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Ryan Braund Goes over his film ‘Absolute Denial’

by Richard Schertzer May 3, 2023
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I had the opportunity to sit down and interview Ryan Braund who is the brain behind the animated feature film Absolute Denial, which centers around a brilliant programmer who builds a supercomputer with unprecedented power. 

Richard: How did you get started as a filmmaker, brother?

Ryan: I’ve been making films since I was probably around 16 and they were all mostly just animated films that I made in my bedroom because I always had these really big ideas, which were just unachievable live action because of no money, no resources, no team. So I’d always do animation, and surprisingly, some of them did quite well. And then I went on to go study TV and film at university, but I’d always wanted to make a feature film. It’d always been my end goal. I decided to quit the job I had at the time. This is after university and I used the money I had just to make an animated feature off my own back. So it took about a year. But that was a year, like, nonstop. The animating process itself was nine months, and that was 12 hours a day, seven days a week. It was pretty crazy. 

Richard: And I assume you outsourced the animation nation. 

Ryan: No, I did it all.

Richard: Oh, you did all yourself? 

Ryan: Yeah, it was all on a very crap iPad. Like a very old iPad, like the fourth generation, I think, and a stylus. Now I’ve got a new iPad. Apple pencil and everything, which is so much easier, but it was just a really crap iPad and then I edited it all on my old MacBook. It was all me and it ended up being 30,000 individual drawings all hand-drawn. It was a really unhealthy process. 

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Inside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Animation Nominees Panel

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Netflix Introduces New Animated Series ‘My Dad The Bounty Hunter’

by Chantell Hayden February 17, 2023
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A black family portrayed in an animated show voiced by an all-black cast is not something you come across often.

While Hollywood hasn’t always gotten it right when it comes to representation in media, significant improvements have been made to accurately depict different cultures, ethnicities, genders and sexualities in a positive light.

So, when shows like Netflix’s newest series My Dad The Bounty Hunter comes along, it’s certainly a breath of fresh air and a sharp pivot from the norm.

Insert it’s hilarious yet endearing family dynamic, a star-studded cast and evil celestial antagonists popping up in every galaxy, and you get a visually pleasing, action-packed 8-episode show for the whole family to enjoy.

Laz Alonso (Amazon Prime’s The Boys) and Yvonne Orji ( HBO’s Insecure) star as Terry and Tess, two divorcees that are just trying to raise their kids, Lisa and Sean, the best that they can while living in separate households.

Lisa is voiced by Netflix’s Stranger Things breakout star Priah Ferguson, the older sister to her kid brother Sean, voiced by ABC’s Home Economic’s Jecobi Swain.

When the kids are eager to accompany their dad at work they suddenly realize that he’s not who they thought he was. After sneaking in to the trunk of his car (which just so happens to be in a gigantic spaceship, no biggie) they arrive in space where they learn their dad is actually an Alien Bounty Hunter.

Space isn’t exactly a quick drive around the corner from Earth but the kids are in no hurry to go home and rightfully so. How often does the average person get a chance to go to space, right?

But after a job gone wrong, Terry, Lisa and Sean quickly become the targets of some serious intergalactic villains. Together, they must fight to save the cosmos and make it back home alive.

We sat down with the cast as well as co-creators Everett Downing and Patrick Harpin, who happen to have a long history of working on animation projects like Boss Baby, The Emoji Movie and Cartoon Network series Clarence.

See what they had to say about what they’ve learned from their characters, representation in the animation industry, the story behind the show’s creation and what their bounty hunter names would be in real life.

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The 6th edition of Animation First comes to New York

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FIAF (The French Institute Alliance Française) hosted the 6th edition of Animation First this Friday at Tinker Auditorium.

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Exclusive: Southeast Asian Influences In Disney’s ‘Raya And The Last Dragon’

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The release of Raya and the Last is just around the corner and in Part II of our coverage we are talking about the Southeast Asian influences that appear throughout the movie.

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Kelly Marie Tran On Voicing Raya in Disney’s ‘Raya And The Last Dragon’

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Exclusive: Taylor K. Shaw Talks Black Women Animate & Bringing Inclusion Into The Animation Industry

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Taylor K. Shaw is a visionary animator and CEO who has been named as part of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. We caught up with her to talk about her company, Black Women Animate, and how they are working to bring more inclusivity to the animation industry.

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TV Review: ‘Crossing Swords’

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Adult Animation in the United States can sometimes feel one-note. “Crossing Swords” is, unfortunately, a wooden comedy.

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