Annecy: Netflix Kids & Family Animation's Centaurworld Trailer; New images for "Karma's World", "Back to the Outback" and "Vivo"

Netflix today started his busy Annecy festival program (www.annecy.org) with his own Focus on the animation study for children and families, featuring a series of conversations with creators and new material debuts for a quartet of diverse and bubbly projects. The session was hosted by James baxter, the studio's head of character animation, whose storied career spanned titles loved by Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The beauty and the Beast e The Lion King for The Prince of Egypt, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and many others - most recently, wolfwalkers e Klaus.

Creator / executive producer / showrunenr Megan Nicole Dong (one of the 2021 Animation Magazine Rising Stars) and co-executive producer Dominic Bisignano (Star against the forces of evil) presented the trailer and the first images for the next series Centaurworld, premiered on July 30. Using different animation styles and original songs in different genres, the show follows a warhorse being transported from its crenellated world to a strange land inhabited by silly singing centaurs of all species, shapes and sizes. The series features the voices of Kimiko Glenn (Horse), Jessie Mueller (Rider), Megan Hilty (Wammawink), Parvesh Cheena (Zulius), Josh Radnor (Durpleton), Megan Nicole Dong (Glendale) and Chris Diamantopoulos (Ched).

"When I was developing the story on my own, I knew it was going to be incredibly ambitious," recalled Dong. “We would have had more characters, and on top of that we would have had two styles of animation and two very different settings. We have the world that Horse comes from, which is much more than an action, a kind of anime, a more serious setting with a lot of action scenes and sets. And then Centaurworld, which will be like a huge world, very colorful and extravagant. And we wanted these worlds to feel distinct, but you could still have the characters interact with each other and they would fit into both of those worlds. "

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Director / co-writer Kirk DeMicco and set designer Carlos Zaragoza revealed a new still for Sony Pictures Animation Animation live, which will premiere in streaming this summer. The photo features the owner kinkajou (voiced by Lin-Manuel Miranda) and the bizarre interpolation that helps him in his research, Gabi (Ynairaly Simo). The musical film follows Vivo as she sets out from Havana to Miami on a mission to deliver a song to the long-lost love of its owner Andrés (Juan de Marcos González) (Gloria Estefan).

"The only thing I remember when we started talking about it was that this is a musical di music. And so, we wanted everything, every piece of design to have this lyrical quality. Right from the start with Carlos' first drawings, if I had to look closely, the balconies of Andrés's building also sound like musical notes, "DeMicco revealed." When we started talking about the camera, the thing that became so exciting - well, it was exciting for me ... a challenge for Carlos, but scary for production! - was when we were like, oh, we would have 10 musical numbers and each will look different! .. It didn't happen, but what happened is that Carlos has found incredible ways to meet that challenge.

Clare Knight e Harry Cripps took viewers for a stroll through their directorial debut Return to the hinterland, coming this fall. Starring Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Miranda Tapsell, Angus Imrie and Diesel Cash La Torraca, the film follows a messy group of Australia's deadliest creatures as they plan a daring escape from their Sydney zoo in the 'Outback, a place where they will adapt without being judged for their scales and fangs. But things take a turn when their cute and cuddly nemesis koala joins the zookeepers in pursuit!

"I was really drawn to the whole story because he plays the guy," Knight noted. “Maddie [the venomous snake voiced by Fisher] is like this young teenager whose fangs are like braces, and so she often covers her mouth, because she's embarrassed - people call her a monster. While Pretty Boy [the koala, voiced by Minchin] is this spoiled celebrity… I think it's really important in this day and age that characters accept themselves as beautiful, regardless of shape, color, gender or place of origin. [ [Out of the hinterland] is like a love letter to anyone who has ever been a stranger. "

An extra big surprise was delivered by the creators of The world of karma, which released several new stills leading us to this sweet and inspiring musical series by the award-winning rapper, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, who named and modeled the coming-of-age story of a young black girl who finds her voice and uses it to change her world on the eldest daughter. Bridges was joined by Alcione person, Series Head Writer for 9 Story Media Group (the series is animated by 9 Story's Brown Bag Films).

"When we all grew up, there was something that was like a staple of our childhood, that helped shape who we are as individuals ... There have been some shows that have helped build us, build our trust, that we have looked at - as a form of entertainment, but just to brighten up our entire life, "said Bridges," and I think that's exactly what I want The world of karma to do for many children and many people in this new generation. And I just think it will be something that will remain a lasting impression on their whole soul… something that has changed the world for the better. "

"Something [Bridges] told me that I think the first time we met it was that the purpose of this show was to carry on hip hop culture, and I really feel we did," Person noted. “We have incredible music; music that every person, child, adult, will want to hear over and over ... We have stories that I think are groundbreaking, that have never been seen before - certainly not for this age group and this audience. And we have a main character in Karma that I think the world will fall in love with. "