The Original Spline Doctor

Adam Burke and I did a great interview with Ed Catmull. Thanks to everyone who sent us questions. Special thanks to Ed for doing the interview and to Adam for setting it up. The fact that Ed made time to do this interview says alot about him and the kind of company he runs

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Upcoming Spline Cast

Our next Spline Cast is pretty exciting if I say so myself… Dr Burke set this one up. Our guest will be Ed Catmull, founder and President of Pixar and Disney Feature Animation. Anyway, I am posting this so that readers can send in some questions. We will pick a few of the best ones. Just send them to the comments section with your name or if you want to remain anonymous, that’s fine. Obviously, we are not gonna ask him any questions that deal with upcoming films or company stuff.

Thanks to Dr. Burke and to Ed for doing this.

-Andrew

Art Department Roundtable!!!!

We’re proud to announce the next splinecast in our Animation Roundtable series. Andrew and I were very fortunate to gather an amazing group of some of Pixar’s art department A-listers for our Art Department Roundtable. In this podcast we are joined by production designers Harley Jessup and Bob Pauley, director of photography Sharon Calahan, art director Tia Kratter, and character designer Teddy Newton. Andrew and I can’t thank them all enough for their participation. We had a great, anecdotal conversation about the development process from art’s point of view with some of the most talented designers working in animation today. Below is an mp4 and wav file of the recording. Andrew and I will do our best to publish a polished version with recorded wraps and slideshow up on iTunes as soon as we’re able. Till then take a listen to a group of people who have had a hand in creating some of the most stunning visuals in film’s recent history. We hope you enjoy it.

-Adam

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Whats up, Doc?

Finally, The Pete Docter Spline Cast is up on Itunes. I’ll be tweaking it a bit, but the interview is done and hopefully the audio is ok. We did it with a special microphone at Pixar.

Enjoy!

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Story Spline Cast with Mark Andrews and Ted Mathot

I finally got around to editing a version good enough to post. This is an interview I did with Mark Andrews and Ted Mathot in the Lucky 7 lounge at Pixar. Mark was the head of Story on the Incredibles and Ratatouille and Ted is a veteran story artist who will be working with Brad on his next project. I hope you enjoy the Podcast. Expect a version with chapters and images on iTunes soon. I wanted to get this one up ASAP. The audio quality could be better, and it will be with the next Spline Cast! I just finished one with Pete Doctor. Expect that one in the next few weeks.

Hope you enjoy the Spline Cast.. Please send your feedback

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Download: Andrews_Mathot Splinecast

-Andrew