Rotoscopers

2 months ago | rotoscopers.com | Rachel Wagner

Next up in our series interviewing the Sundance animators we have a conversation with Aline Höchli  animator of the short Caries. How did you get into animation? It was an odyssey, to be honest, with many deviations. In short, the animation class with Basil Vogt in the foundation course at the Lucerne University of Arts was the crucial factor. I was truly enthusiastic by all the workshops and disciplines in the course that we were taken through in speed.

2 months ago | rotoscopers.com | Rachel Wagner

Next up in our series interviewing the Sundance animators we have a conversation with Jesse Moynihan of the short Jesus 2. We’d like to give you a chance to introduce yourself, and tell us a little bit of how you got started in animating? I just started putting all my film ideas into comics and applying for grants and stuff like that.

2 months ago | rotoscopers.com | Rachel Wagner

Next up in our series interviewing the Sundance animators we have a conversation with Jordan Michael Blake director of the short Paradise Man II. What was your journey like in getting to a point where you actually made a film or made films? Did you go to film school? I did go to film school, but, the next step was I was really into gadgets as a kid. Like Palm Pilots were a big deal at the time. And I thought that idea was so cool, or just anything that was gadgety I was into. So I asked for a camera.

2 months ago | rotoscopers.com | Rachel Wagner

Next up in our series interviewing the Sundance animators we have a conversation with Amanda Strong director of the short Inkwo for When the Starving Return. So tell us a little bit about how you got started in film…I went to school for photography and illustration at the Sheridan College. And so a lot of my training came from, I was fortunate enough to have analog camera training as well as digital as like when the switch to digital was happening.

Jan 24, 2025 | rotoscopers.com | Rachel Wagner

Next up in our series interviewing the Sundance animators we have a conversation with May Kindred-Boothby animator behind the short The Eating of an Orange. So tell us a little bit about how you got inspired to animateI started off as an illustrator and then when I found out that I could make the pictures move, it was like this magical power that had been opened up to me. And I haven’t stopped animating sinceIt feels like the closest thing to being able to show someone your dreams.