Monday, January 09, 2012

The Carlos Saldanha Interview

TAG Interview with Carlos Saldanha

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Born and raised in Brazil, Carlos Saldanha has long been a pillar at Blue Sky Studios ...

Mr. Saldanha came to New York a few decades ago to train at the School of Visual Arts, where he focused on computers and their graphics. While there he made two animated shorts that made a splash on the festival circuit. Soon after, Chris Wedge -- one of Carlos's instructors -- invited him to join a small computer-based studio named Blue Sky. Animating and directing commercials and shorts, Mr. Saldanha moved over to co-direct Blue Sky's Ice Age, and his career has been on an ascending trajectory ever since.

We talked on January 6, 2012.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Blue Sky Union? Just asking....

Steve Hulett said...

Blue Sky is WAAAY out of The Animation Guild's area of jurisdiction.

They're back east.

Anonymous said...

This seems like an odd question, but did you video-record this interview, too? I actually find those very entertaining.

Steve Hulett said...

It was done with a speaker phone and digitial audio recorder. So no video this week.

Sorry.

(There will be two upcoming interviews with video and two without. I don't take the camera with me for off-site interviews, although I might sometime in the future.)

Anonymous said...

Someone who's anti-union being interviewed on the union blog. That's rich.

Anonymous said...

What makes you say Carlos is anti-union?

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