ANNECY, France — Five years ago Sarah Smith and Julie Lockhart founded Locksmith Animation. Smith was coming off her feature directorial debut on Aardman Animations’ “Arthur Christmas.” Lockh…
. Smith was coming off her feature directorial debut on Aardman Animations’ “Arthur Christmas.” Lockhart was a long-time Aardman producer whose credits include Oscar-nominated fare such as “Shaun the Sheep” and “The Pirates! Band of Misfits.”
“I’ve spent a lot of time stalking talent, there are probably people in this room I’ve stalked,” she joked. “Although we had a business plan, what we needed was really good people.”“When we make a film we want story to go to layout, animators to talk with designers. We want everyone in the same place, the same building, as much as we can so that everyone is together making the film,” she said.
Co-directors JP Vine and Octavio Rodriguez, production designer Aurelien Predal, VFX supervisor Philippe Denis, DOP David Peers, chief technology officer and VFX supervisor Doug Ikeler, animation director Eric Leighton and art director Justin Hutchinson-Chatburn took turns sharing concept art, brief animations and behind the scenes technical details for the film, and the studio’s in-progress pipeline.
We had such a strong desire to build a new, high-end CG Studio in the heart of London where there’s access to tremendous talent and where some of the best stories originate. We couldn’t imagine doing it anywhere else. London is also the home of the U.K.’s exceptional CG VFX industry, which is where the digital pipelines are. It’s a fantastic creative city with a world class film industry.
You’ve said you want your films to compete with the big studios, do you think that features need theatrical releases, or could you imagine putting them on a digital platform?
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