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12/23/2013

Cosmo Gets Animated in a Holiday Postcard from Mars

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Only Cosmo could be this merry on Mars. Our flagship character, CosmoNut, is finally in action for this animated Season's Greetings from the Worker Studio team. We've had lots of help developing Cosmo over the past year, and we're ecstatic to see him up running. 

Enjoy it, and we'd love it if you thumbs-up the video on YouTube and leave us a comment! Happy Holidays. 

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12/18/2013

Worker Studio's Michael Hemschoot: Top 5 Animated Performances - Pick #4

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Worker Studio's Founder & CEO, Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, is also our animation director, or Minister of Motion. We had Ffish pick five brilliant animated performances that influenced him creatively, and he responded with these unforgettable moments from master animators. It is these very animated performances that left an indelible influence on Ffish's youth, setting forth his own career in animation and filmmaking. This is #4 in a series of posts.

#4 Professor Ratigan - Disney's The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

Glen Keane's Animation Art of Ratigan from Disney's Great Mouse Detective
As the clip above from the Making of The Great Mouse Detective proclaims: there's nothing quite as memorable as a Disney villian. This is certainly true in the gears of inspiration that turn the creative mind of Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot. We see from his picks in Bill Tytla's Chernabog in Fantasia and Stromboli in Pinocchio, to Milt Kahl's Shere Khan in The Jungle Book and now Glen Keane's Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective, it's the villains that rule the day.   

Ratigan's personality fills the frame as a wolf in sheep's clothing... or rather a rat disguised as a mouse. Glen Keane crafted Ratigan's brilliant performance as a freelancer at Disney, well before he was staffed for the new dawn of Animated Features such as Little Mermaid, and as supervising animator on Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.  

Disney's Great Mouse Detective Ratigan Glen Keane Animation
Glen Keane's Ratigan from Disney's The Great Mouse Detective Animated Performances

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12/9/2013

Worker Studio's Barry Kooser: Top 5 Production Design Picks - #3

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Worker Studio's Chief Creative Officer, Barry Kooser was a background Artist and Supervisor for 11 years at Walt Disney Feature Animation, contributing to films such as as The Lion King, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and Brother Bear, among others.  He also ventured his painterly eye as a Fine Artist, exhibiting his work in galleries around the country. We're lucky to have this master artist inform Worker Studio's production design. We asked Barry what the Top 5 Production Designs that influenced his career in filmmaking are. As you'll see his influences range from classic Disney films to some of the most gorgeous live action films of the past 30 years. This is #3 in a series of posts. 
Road to perdition Production Design

#3 Road to Perdition (2002)
Production Designer: Dennis Gassner 
Art Direction: Richard L. Johnson

Director Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition, was a quiet masterpiece of cinematic adaptation, taken from the graphic novel of the same name. This visual crowning achievement garnered cinematographer Conrad L. Hall an Oscar, as well as a nomination for Dennis Gassner, Production Designer and Nancy Haigh, Costume Designer. Included with Art Director Richard L. Johnson, the production design team was also nominated by the Art Directors Guild, among several other awards. All the elements of design, sets, staging, lightening and cinematography, must come together for the production designer's vision to shine on screen, and Road to Perdition is a benchmark for that cohesion. 

For Barry, the production design embodies the perfect translation of a graphic novel to a film, with its compositional simplicity, concise character staging and film noir lighting. Road to Perdition was one of several collaborations between Dennis Gassner and Richard L. Johnson, including, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Big Fish, and The Truman Show. These collaborations amount to an artistically stunning body of work, with designs that adhere to the tones and characterizations on screen. 
Road to Perdition Production Design and Art Direction

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12/2/2013

Worker Studio's Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot: Top 5 Animated Performances - Pick #3

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Worker Studio's Founder & CEO, Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, is also our animation director, or Minister of Motion. We had Ffish pick five brilliant animated performances that influenced him creatively, and he responded with these unforgettable moments from master animators. It is these very animated performances that left an indelible influence on Ffish's youth, setting forth his own career in animation and filmmaking. This is #3 in a series of posts.

Shere Khan from Disney's The Jungle Book
Top - Milt Kahl Pencil Test scanned by Jamaal Bradley
Bottom - Milt Kahl Pencil Test scanned by Andreas Deja  

#3 Shere Khan - Disney's The Jungle Book (1967) 

Milt Kahl Disney Animator
Dubbed the "Animation Michelangelo," Milt Kahl brought to life some of Disney's most memorable characters. His list of characters could easily fill this space, but Ffish drew a lot inspiration from Shere Khan. The character's presence is a near-perfect blend of animal anatomy with sly mischievousness. 

Kahl certainly made his mark animating the Disney Princes in the Golden Age, along with fun-loving characters like Br'er Rabbit (seen left), Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Alice, Lady & the Tramp, Pongo & Roger and of course Tigger. Yet, with Shere Khan we see this master draftsman animate one of Disney's most complex villains. 


On animating this devious tiger, Kahl said: “The stripes helped give it shape but on every drawing I knew where the weight was coming from, and where the weight is just traveling, and where the weight is transferring to.” 





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