Polycloud.ru, a website for computer animation and visual effects professionals, published an interview with Toonbox creative team. The meeting itself took place during the Multimatograf festival. Therefore it was carried out as a round table discussion with Toonbox key teammates from different continents. The participants included:
- Vladimir Ponomarev – Toonbox creative director, film director;
- Mike de Seve – Toonbox consultant, film director and scriptwriter;
- Anatoly Dobrozhan – Mr. Freeman scriptwriter;
- Vasily Filatov – Toonbox Sound director, composer, sound-designer.
Alexander Lipilin, Polycloud.ru editor-in-chief presented the discussion. In the introductory part of the interview he claimed that the discussion was profound and long so the material will be published step-by-step. At the moment two parts of the discussion out of three were already published.
Read the first part of the discussion in which Mr. Ponomarev tells about his career, shares his opinion on how to create catchy characters and answers the question if Mr. Freeman had a real prototype.
In the second part of the round table Mike de Seve, Anatoly Dobrozhan and Vasily Filatov joined the conversation so a lot of various issues were discussed, from sound tracking to postmodernism.
