Karen Idelson

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Features

‘The Emoji Movie’: A New Dimension

Karen Idelson - July 27, 2017

This story originally appeared in the August-September issue of Animation Magazine. Columbia Pictures releases The Emoji Movie in theaters Friday, July 28. Emojis are smiling,...

Features

Hitting a High Note

Karen Idelson - January 8, 2017

The journey is everything for the talent on screen and off in Illumination Entertainment’s heartfelt musical-competition comedy Sing. Shows like The Voice and America’s Got...

Features

Persevering, with Delicacy

Karen Idelson - December 18, 2016

Director Claude Barras faced technical and emotional challenges in adapting a heartfelt and sensitive tale into the award-winning feature My Life as a Zucchini. It...

People

View from the Top

Karen Idelson - November 13, 2016

With so many features defining a diverse year for the industry, directors of some of the top films of 2016 weigh in on the...

Features

Impromptu Delivery

Karen Idelson - October 9, 2016

The makers of Warner Bros. Animation’s Storks tapped into the improv skills of its voice actors and animators to find the right tone. In the...

Television

Upholding the Law

Karen Idelson - October 9, 2016

Phineas and Ferb creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh return with new Disney XD series called Milo Murphy’s Law, about optimism in the...

Features

Rovio’s Maiden Flight

Karen Idelson - June 12, 2016

Finnish game developer pecks out a space in the animated feature market with The Angry Birds Movie. As a wildly popular game, Angry Birds was...

Publishing

Books We Love – Issue #258

Karen Idelson - February 21, 2016

The Art of Kung Fu Panda 3 By Tracey Miller-Zarneke (Insight Editions, $45.00) This book takes readers through the charming art created for the third installment in...

Television

No Limits

Karen Idelson - February 21, 2016

Fox’s new comedy Bordertown swings for the fences with the kind of hot-button humor only animation makes possible. As a writer for Family Guy and...

Features

Home on the Range

Karen Idelson - January 3, 2016

Environment plays a key role in a tale that puts a twist on the classic boy-and-his-dog premise in Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur. The tragic loss...

Features

20 Years of Toy Story

Karen Idelson - January 3, 2016

The first all-digital animated feature — and the people who worked on it — is still shaping the future of animation. Twenty years down the road...

Features

Melting Pot Recipe Cooks Up ‘Sanjay’s Super Team’

Karen Idelson - December 30, 2015

It’s a scene we’ve all been part of – on one end or the other. A child is hypnotized by a favorite cartoon show...

Television

Inside CBBC’s ‘Scream Street’

Karen Idelson - December 29, 2015

This story originally appeared in the December 2015 issue of Animation Magazine Inside an unassuming red brick building on the outskirts of Manchester, England, a...

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