500 Strong: The Joint Effort in Making 20th Century Fox’s Epic

How do you oversee the work of more than 500 people over the course of several years on a giant 3D animated film without losing your mind? Producer Jerry Davis of Blue Sky Studios, who helped shepherd the production of Twentieth Century Fox's Epic along with his producing partner Lori Forte, gives us the scoop.

Epic, which features characters inspired by William Joyce’s children’s book 

From Making Hats to 3D Cats: Self-Taught Animator TJ Nabors Helps Create The Croods

TJ Nabors has taken your typical road to becoming a top animator in Hollywood—she started out designing hats. She was in theater at the University of Texas, and was focusing on textiles and costume, when she took a particular shine to the creation of hats. "There was a distilled and theatrical power to transform the wearer," she says. The power to transform one thing into another would become a theme in Nabors professional life, as she transformed herself into a self-taught animator,

Meet the Team That Gave Tim Burton’s Labor of Love, Frankenweenie, a Third Dimension

Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, a likely nominee for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, is a marvel of filmmaking. It finds Burton at the top of his game, helming a film that clearly was a labor of love. The question we were interested in was: how did Burton get his black-and-white, stop motion comedy horror from 2D to 3D?

So we inquired about the collaboration between Walt Disney Pictures,

Disney Gets Awesomely Technical on Latest Wonder Wreck-It Ralph

To satisfy today’s sophisticated audiences, the technical demands of animation continue to grow exponentially. With the hit film Wreck-It Ralph in theaters now, The Credits takes a look at animation technology today at the studio that’s been a leader in the field for over 85 years, Walt Disney Animation Studios.

From Steamboat Willie and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Lion King and Tangled,

The Art of the Trailer: Movie Marketing in the Digital Era

Now appearing on every-sized screen near you: A trailer for an upcoming movie. In this YouTube age of multiple platforms and ubiquitous screens, movie trailers—once seen only in actual movie theaters—have taken on a life of their own. They are distributed more widely than ever; they are studied at film schools; and they are recognized for their creativity with industry awards. In short, they are more important than ever to a film’s marketing and release.