Spirit Jumper Press

A few articles about Spirit Jumper went up recently.

Cartoon Brew did an interview with me about the overall film and the 5 year process behind making it.

Animation Obsessive asked me for a short paragraph about the light in the film and I ended up writing a whole article instead. So much research went into that part, trying to understand how older cel animation and film handled glow, bloom, halation, diffusion, grain, and why the light in those films feels like it’s actually inside the image.

A longer interview with Matthew Trask gets more into the behind the scenes side of it. I talk a lot about creating the texture of the world, the animatic process, and even tracking down the same paper Studio Ghibli uses for backgrounds and scanning it in to process the background art with.

I also did a 20 minute talk with legendary animator John Pomeroy (The Land Before Time, Fantasia 2000, Atlantis: The Lost Empire) about the video.

It’s been amazing seeing people’s reaction to the video. If you haven’t seen it, you can check it out below.

You can read the pieces here: Cartoon Brew, Animation Obsessive, and Matthew Trask.