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1+3+5=The Making of 9

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Title: 1+3+5=The Making of 9
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted June 2010
Length 45 min
You don’t want to miss this rare opportunity to meet up with the front end creative team  from the ground breaking Focus Features film “9″ .
This informal discussion with the creative team takes us from the independent pioneering [...]

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Anatomy of a Hit Animated Series

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Title: Anatomy of a Hit Animated Series
Sponsored by Animation Magazine
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted Aug 2010
Length 45 min

What are some of the key ingredients of creating and producing a hit TV animated series in an ever-changing entertainment landscape?  Swampy Marsh and Dan Povenmire, creators of the hugely popular animated show “Phineas and Ferb” (currently airing [...]

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Andy Gaskill Art Director Sony Image Works

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Title: Andy Gaskill Art Director Sony Image Works
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted June 2010
Length 20 min

Andy Gaskill was drafted out of art school to work at the Disney studio when he was twenty-one.   He flew out to Los Angeles from Philadelphia and he has lived in the movie capital ever [...]

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Animation Mentor – An Animation Career Snapshot

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Title: An Animation Career Snapshot
Sponsored by Animation Mentor
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 45 min
Join Animation Mentor and guests at CTN-X for a conversation about “An Animation Career Snapshot”. Panel Description: Just as the animation industry is constantly evolving, so does your career in animation!
AnimationMentor.com has gathered top animators in all areas of the [...]

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Comedy Wanted Drawn or Alive

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Title: Comedy Wanted Drawn or Alive
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted Aug 2010
Length 60 min

Join Yvette Kaplan and her panel of 5 accomplished bi-genre writers for “Comedy Wanted: Drawn or Alive”, a discussion about the creative and procedural differences between writing Animated or Live Action Comedy.
Comedy has traditionally been the King [...]

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Directing Animation vs Live Action

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Title: Director for Animation vs Live Action
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted August 2010
Length 45 min

Bill Kroyer is an award-winning director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles and theatrical films. Trained in classic hand-drawn animation at the Disney Studio, Bill was one of the first animators [...]

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Glenn Litwak Attorney Litwak & Havkin

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Title: Glenn Litwak Attorney Litwak & Havkin
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted August 2010
Length 45 min

“Animators are often asked to work as independent contractors.  This lecture will discuss the various provisions of an independent contractor agreement, including the term of the agreement, compensation, warranties and representations, duties and obligations as well [...]

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How to Break Into Animation Steve Hickner Dreamworks Director

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Title: How to break into Animation and How to Stay There!
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted April 2010
Length 20 min

Description:  Director/Producer Steve Hickner gives practical advice and hints on how to get into the animation industry and pitfalls to avoid once in it.
Steve Hickner has spent the past thirty years working [...]

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Indy Studio Owners

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Title:Indy Studio Owners
Sponsored by Animation Magazine
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted Aug 2010
Length 45 min

The production model has changed in the past 10-15 years. The inclusion of downsizing and outsourcing by the large production studios has given fuel to the startups and smaller independent studio owner. Find out about starting up, growing and surviving an independent [...]

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Kathy Altieri Dreamworks Production Designer

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Title: Production Design: A Look Inside the Process
Sponsored by Dreamworks Animation
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted August 2010
Length 45 min

KATHY ALTIERI is Production Designer on one of DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming 2010 releases, “How To Train Your Dragon,” based on the children’s book by Cressida Cowell.  Prior to “How to Train Your Dragon,” Altieri was Production Designer [...]

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Marketing from the Right Side of the Brain

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Title: Marketing from the Right Side of the Brain
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted August 2010
Length 45 min

LEE SILBER, affectionately known as “Creative Lee” is the best-selling author of 14 books including “Self-Promotion For The Creative Person”, “Organizing From The Right Side Of The Brain”, “Rock To Riches”, and “The Wild [...]

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Matt Jones on Ronald Searle

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Title: Matt Jones on Ronald Searle
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 45 min

Matt Jones has worked in the animation industry for 14 years, initially in commercials in London & lately on feature animated productions.  He’s currently a senior Story Artist on Aardman/Sony’s ‘Arthur Christmas’. While working on BiboFilms’ [...]

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Mike Mignola American Comic Artist and Writer

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Title: One on One Spotlight with Mike Mignola
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted April 2010
Length 47 min

Moderated by animation Producer and Director Don Hahn  this one on one interview  with An American Cartoonist Mike Mignola is a rare moment in time as these two giants in the industry speak casually about [...]

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One on One Spotlight with Dave Master

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Title: One on One Spotlight with Dave Master
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted August 2010
Length 45 min

Moderator Henk Dawson:
I started my Seattle, Washington-based illustration and animation business in 1989. Since then, I have been working with clients such as Apple, ESPN, Fox, FedEx, IBM, Hasbro, Intel, Microsoft, Nintendo, Pepsi, Taco Bell, [...]

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Peter de Sève Legendary New York Illustrator

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Title: A Spotlight Career Interview with Peter de Sève
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted Sept 2010
Length 20 min

PETER de SÈVE’S  illustration and character designs are known throughout the world.  His work spans three decades and various media, including magazines, books, print and television advertising, animated feature films and magazines.  Best recognized [...]

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Pilar Alessandra Crafting the Pitch

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Title: Pilar Alessandra Crafting the Pitch
Sponsored by Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 40 mins

PILAR ALESSANDRA
Writing Instructor/Script Consultant: On the Page
www.onthepage.tv
PILAR ALESSANDRA is the director of the Los Angeles writing program “On the Page, Inc.®.” She’s worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar Pictures and covered additional projects [...]

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Pixar Is In the House | Story Story Story

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Title: Pixar is in the House: Story Story Story
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted April 2010
Length 45 min

Join award winner animation director Roger Allers and Pixar Story Artists Ted Mathot, Scott Morse, Bill Presing, and Derek Thompson, in this rare opportunity as they discuss Pixar’s unique and exciting Story Development process.

Moderator [...]

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The Broad Appeal of Animation

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Title: The Broad Appeal of Animation
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 45 min

The number of females working in the animation industry has dramatically increased in the past quarter century. What began mostly as a male-dominated profession has evolved into an arena full of women  animators, directors, story artists, designers [...]

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The Future Has Arrived

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Title: The Future Has Arrived
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted August 2010
Length 45 min

Chris Oatley has worked as a visual development artist and a content creator in the entertainment industries for six years. Chris has worked in visual development on films at Disney and The Weinstein Company. He has developed music [...]

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The History of the Maquette

Title: The History of the Maquette
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted April 2010
Length 45 min
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Join Kent Melton,  Ruben Procopio and other maquette sculptors in a relaxed and informal setting while they discuss the history of the [...]

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The Pioneer Series: Those Who Paved The Way

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Title: The Pioneer Series: Those Who Paved the Way
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted April 2010
Length 45 min

Moderated by Animation Historian Jerry Beck this round table discussion with Don Bluth and Gary Goldman centers on the pioneering spirit.   Hear first hand about the passion and drive that drove these great talents [...]

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The Power of Improv

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Title: The Power of Improvisation
Sponsored by Animation Magazine
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted Aug 2010
Length 45 min

Ezra, a native of New Jersey, left home to study theater at California Institute of the Arts.  After graduating in 1994 with a B.F.A., he moved to the greater Los Angeles area to better pursue his career in the theater [...]

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The Relevance of Mime in Animation: Character Movement

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Title: The Relevance of Mime in Animation: Character Movement
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted May 2010
Length 20 min

Lorin Eric Salm is the creator of Character Movement for Animation, a series of workshops using concepts and techniques from the art of Theatrical Mime to expand animators’ insight into the ways in which [...]

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The Studio Has No Walls: The Virtual Production Model

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Title: The Studio Has No Walls: The Virtual Production Model
Sponsored by The Animation World Network
CTNX09: Filmed Nov 2009; Posted June 2010
Length 45 min

A moderated round table overview of where animation production is headed for both studio owners and artists. Along with the internet came a direct connection with talent outside studio walls and around the [...]