Tag: Issue 350

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Director Dean DeBlois Details the Making of His Live-Action Flight of Fantasy

Entrusted with the daunting task of guiding DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon’s Viking clan and its winged beasts from the animation dimension into...

Jeff Spry - May 27, 2025

‘Phineas and Ferb’ Creators Discuss the Fun Summer Return of Disney’s Beloved Step-Bros!

“I would like to see people embrace that ‘no jerks and idiots’ type of storytelling because our world could really use a good dose...

Ramin Zahed - May 23, 2025

‘Lost in Starlight’ Director Han Ji-won Charts Her Cosmic Animated Romance

Set in a futuristic Seoul, the new Korean animated film Lost in Starlight is a romantic intergenerational, interplanetary story that feels fascinatingly optimistic about...

Kambole Campbell - May 23, 2025

‘Death Does Not Exist’ Director Félix Dufour-Laperrière Gives Insight into His Existential Annecy Feature

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian writer/director/animator Félix Dufour-Laperrière is no stranger to Annecy and other prestigious animation festivals. His striking and highly original shorts (M, The Day...

Ramin Zahed - May 20, 2025

Flower Power: ‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ Director Momoko Seto Discusses Her Emotional Animated Adventure

EXCLUSIVE: You know you’re in for a treat when the main characters in an animated movie are dandelion seeds, firefly squids, a giant tree...

Ramin Zahed - May 19, 2025

‘Love, Death + Robots’ Vol. 4: More Adventures in Mind-Expanding Sci-Fi

***This article was written for the May/June '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 350)*** Netflix’s Love, Death + Robots — the five-time Emmy-winning animated anthology series that...

Jeff Spry - May 14, 2025