Issue #183 April 2008

Feature - How co-directors Steve martino and Jimmy Hayward and the team at Blue Sky Studios came up with a great-looking CG adaptation of "Horton Hears A Who"; Shinji Takagi's 40-minute "SOS! Tokyo metro Explorers: The Next" puts a new spin on the familiar boys' adventure story; Innovative japanese helmer mamoru Hosoda discusses his award-winning animated feature "The Girl Who Leapt". Television - What's hot, what's not and what's having a hard time surviving in the Japanese TV animation landscape in 2008. VFX - VFX supervisor Karen Goulekas discusses the wild and wooly world of Roland Emmerich's "10,000 B.C."