Bill Desowitz

Editor

Bill Desowitz has been covering the Animation industry since the early 2000s for Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, IndieWire, and Animation Scoop. He is also the author of James Bond Unmasked (Spies Publishing), which chronicles the first 50 years of 007’s evolution, and includes exclusive interviews with all six Bond actors.

Articles By Bill Desowitz

‘I AM Frankelda’: How the Ambriz Brothers Made Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Movie into a Dark Horror Musical

Roy and Arturo Ambriz had a dream to make Mexico's first stop-motion animated feature, and, after nearly a decade, despite numerous financial setbacks, including the mortgaging of two homes, the brothers finally succeeded with the help of their mentor, Guillermo del Toro.

How Skydance’s ‘Swapped’ Created a Whole Ecosystem of Predator/Prey and Then Disrupted It With Empathy

Nathan Greno's Swapped (from Skydance Animation, streaming May 1st on Netflix) is a body-switching movie with a difference: there are no humans.

DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology

The trailer dropped today for DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island (Universal, September 25), the studio’s first embrace of Filipino culture about friendship and memory. The comedy-adventure follows two lifelong friends who grow up together in the ’90s in the Philippines — Jo (singer H.E.R./Gabriella Wilson) and Raissa (Liza Soberano) — and the stakes of potentially growing […]

How the Wild Car Chase in Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ was inspired by ‘Mad Max,’ ‘Jaws,’ and ‘The Birds’

Daniel Chong's "Hoppers" is Pixar on steroids. That's where teenage activist Mabel “hops” into a robotic beaver to save the local animal population and their glade from becoming greedy Mayor Jerry's highway construction project.

‘GOAT’: How Director Tyree Dillihay Got Animated About Basketball

For director Tyree Dillihay (Bob's Burgers), GOAT began as an animal basketball concept in 2018 at Sony Pictures Animation. It grew into his passion project about roarball.

Bill Desowitz

Editor

Articles By Bill Desowitz

‘I AM Frankelda’: How the Ambriz Brothers Made Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Movie into a Dark Horror Musical

How Skydance’s ‘Swapped’ Created a Whole Ecosystem of Predator/Prey and Then Disrupted It With Empathy

DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology

How the Wild Car Chase in Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ was inspired by ‘Mad Max,’ ‘Jaws,’ and ‘The Birds’

‘GOAT’: How Director Tyree Dillihay Got Animated About Basketball

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