Tag: built
Inside the Gates of Hell: How Vivienne Medrano and ‘Hazbin Hotel’ Built a Prime Video Phenomenon
Main Facts The adult animated musical comedy series Hazbin Hotel has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of Prime Video’s original programming. Created by independent animator Vivienne Medrano—affectionately known online as VivziePop—the series follows Charlie Morningstar, the optimistic daughter of Lucifer, as she attempts to run a rehabilitation hotel for damned souls seeking redemption from […]
The Ageless Magic of Rankin/Bass: How Stop-Motion Pioneers Built the Blueprint for Holiday Nostalgia
By IndieWire Staff Published as part of IndieWire’s inaugural Holiday Week In the spirit of the magic of the season—and in hopes of providing some warm respite from the usual end-of-the-year "best-of" deluge of stories and their attendant doldrums—IndieWire proudly presents our first-ever Holiday Week. While the cinematic landscape is saturated with features designed to […]
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Built a Soundtrack to Slay Global Pop Charts
Main Facts: A Global Cultural Juggernaut Since premiering on Netflix on June 20, the animated musical feature KPop Demon Hunters has transcended traditional media boundaries, evolving from a streaming anomaly into an international multi-platform powerhouse. Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, the film follows the high-stakes double life of Huntr/x—a fictional K-pop powerhouse trio […]
Vaporwave in the Swamps: How Julian Glander Built an Indie Animated Feature on a MacBook Using Blender
While the global animation landscape has recently celebrated breathtaking, human-free triumphs like Gints Zilbalodis’s Oscar-winning Best Animated Film Flow—crafted by a Latvian team using the free, open-source 3D creation suite Blender—an entirely different aesthetic and narrative spectrum of Blender-based filmmaking has been quietly fermenting. Enter director Julian Glander and his vaporwave coming-of-age feature, Boys Go […]
