"Shrek 2" features dizzying array of in-jokes and cultural …
May 27, 2004 · What box office records HASN’T “Shrek 2” broken yet ? To date, this DreamWorks sequel has: The best opening weekend performance ever by an animated film (Earning an astounding $109 million vs. “Finding Nemo” ‘s $70.3 million).
ANNECY 2024: The Glassworker - Skwigly Animation Magazine
Jun 20, 2024 · The fact that The Glassworker exists is amazing. Produced by a studio built from the ground up, amassing around 500 employees and storyboarded solely by its director, Usman Riaz, the film is significant for being the first animated feature to come from Pakistan. Its story is grounded in the history of the country too, taking huge inspiration ...
Animation News, Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Reviews | Skwigly
Nov 8, 2024 · Skwigly, also known as Skwigly Animation Magazine, is an independent British online magazine that focuses on animation news, interviews, podcasts and more.
Interview with Ben Bocquelet, creator of ‘The Amazing World of …
Jul 7, 2014 · The Amazing World of Gumball stems from the wild mind of French-born British animator Ben Bocquelet, who created the show after joining Cartoon Network in 2007. Originally intended as a show about a remedial school for cartoons to learn how to be funny, the show was redesigned into the comedic family romp we know today featuring blue cat Gumball and his adopted brother Darwin, a goldfish, who ...
Remembering The Wombles: 50 Years of Ivor Wood’s Classic Series
Feb 15, 2023 · Coming up with little creatures called The Wombles, she based each character on members of her own family which led to the creation of Orinoco, Wellington, Bongo, Tomsk, and Uncle Bulgaria. After years as a ghostwriter for Woman’s Hour at BBC Radio and a reporter for The BBC, her children’s book was finally published in 1968, introducing ...
Ninety Five Years of Ms. Olive Oyl! - Skwigly Animation Magazine
Jan 12, 2015 · March 31, 1955. Segar’s strip was originally produced in a vaudevillian style featuring Olive, her brother Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy. Gravy was Olive’s first boyfriend until a one-eyed sailor joined the cast on January 17th, 1929. Gravy was bopped out of the picture and one of the most enduring romantic couples was born.
Interview – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
21 December 2022 // Interviews. Steve Henderson. Editor. When Charlie Mackesy’s internationally bestselling illustrated book ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ was released it soon became an international bestseller, spending 100 weeks on the Sunday Times Bestsellers List. The book was devised after author & illustrator Mackesy ...
The Debutante | Interview with Director Elizabeth Hobbs
Mar 4, 2024 · UPDATE 01/05/2024 – The Debutante is now available to watch online in full The Debutante by Elizabeth Hobbs is an experimental tour de force based on the partially biographical writing of the British-born surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. Hobbs’s new film takes the uptight world of 1930s debutante society and imbues it with an impish sense of wild freedom.
Tinga Tinga Tales: The 10th Anniversary of an African-British …
Aug 31, 2020 · Claudia Lloyd was the head of Tiger Aspect Production’s Animation and Children’s department, having produced international successes like Mr. Bean: The Animated Series and Charlie and Lola.But she was also a trustee of the charity Comic Relief and during a trip to Africa, she got her inspiration for a new television series.
10th Anniversary of Regular Show: How a Modern Classic TV …
Sep 28, 2020 · While ten years may not seem like such a long time to create a series of accomplishments, everyone who was or continues to work at Cartoon Network that played a part in Regular Show’s production should be proud to have created one of the funniest and obscure titles to have graced the silver screen throughout the past decade.. Learn more about the origins of Regular Show in our 2014 interview ...