Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has achieved remarkable commercial success, selling 3.5 million copies in its first month, showcasing how innovative projects can thrive on lower budgets.
The audio clips are from interviews he gave before his 1966 death, talking about his early days in animation: his first business going broke, losing the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and ultimately sketching Mickey Mouse and "Steamboat Willie," which set him on a path to create "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the first feature-length animated motion picture, and, eventually, Disneyland.
"African comics have exploded in the past five years," says Paul Louise-Julie, creator of Yohance, an African space opera comic and soon-to-be-unveiled animated short film.
The new animated music video for 'Rock Co. Kane Flow' features De La Soul as a superhero team battling wack MCs commanded by space aliens, blending comedy and nostalgia.
The Wimbledon animation was created by the London-based 2D animation specialists A+C Studios and directed by Jess Deacon for BBC Sport. It was made entirely from paper textures in a custom studio in Margate.
The series introduces preschoolers to Iron Man and friends with engaging adventures, emphasizing friendship and intelligence while featuring a soundtrack by Mark Hoppus from blink-182.
"Last summer Stephen wrote our screenplay, adapting it himself from one of his earliest stories ever, Here There Be Tygers, which he actually wrote when he was in high school," Scalzitti explains.