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Brie Larson hails 'Captain Marvel' as chance to diversify roles for women

TORONTO -- A year after blowing away audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival with "Room," Brie Larson made a triumphant return to the city this week as an Oscar winner determined to push for more diverse female roles on-screen.

"It's really important to me that we start to see different colours of women in film, we start to see different body shapes ... we see people from different backgrounds," Larson said Friday during an interview for the shootout comedy "Free Fire," which made its world premiere at the fest.

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Who is rocking the bowtie best…Peridot, Darwin, Panda, or PepBut? 

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NICK ANIMATION PODCAST

EPISODE #18: LAUREN FAUST

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic creator Lauren Faust hated the My Little Pony TV show as a kid. Why can’t girl cartoons be badass too? After honing her storytelling skills on Iron Giant, Powerpuff Girls, and Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Lauren got her chance to make My Little Pony the way she always wanted. You’re welcome all you girls and Bronies!

Listen on:

iTunes

SoundCloud

YouTube

Enormous thanks to Lauren for joining us! Keep up with her on Twitter. 

Keep up with our intrepid host Hector on his own Twitter and Instagram pages. And stay tuned to NickAnimation25 for next week’s podcast featuring Scott Schultz & Christian Jacobs!

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Want to take the mystery out of developing and selling your animated comedy series? Join Women in Animation Founder and Development Exec Rita Street on 9/15 from 7-9 pm for Rita Street's Secret Guide to Developing Series That Sell! More info here #WomenInAnimation #RitaStreet#CartoonNetwork

When15 Sep 2016

6:30 PM - 10:00 PM (PDT)

LocationThe Animation Guild, 1105 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505

Registration

Non-Member – $15.00 (USD)$15 at the door. Please know that WIA cannot accept cash payments.

WIA Member – FreeFree for WIA Members.

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Love Nickelodeon Style

And now random not-really-random Nicktoons kissing or being cute together.

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Staying true to tradition, our NICKterns got the sliming of their lives to celebrate the conclusion of their internship! 

Congratulations class of Summer 2016! We love you and will miss you! 

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Nickelodeon was proud to host the “She Made That: Women in Animation” panel this year at San Diego Comic Con. Here are some of the gems our panelists had to offer. To read all the wit and wisdom they gave check out our Twitter feed!

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Artists in Action!

Meet Ashlyn, a storyboard artist on Harvey Beaks! We loved hearing about her experience going to school in Canada, her advice to constantly create, and her love for a nice, warm slice of pie.

Read on about this incredibly talented artist!

1) Tell us a bit about yourself!  My name is Ashlyn, and I’m a storyboard artist on Harvey Beaks! I also write and illustrate picture books, and eat cookies.

2) How did you get your start? I started drawing in my teens, and then I went to Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada for a bachelors in animation. I was very cold. Then, four years ago, I moved to LA to get a great tan and have been doing animation ever since.

3) What do your day-to-day tasks look like? My board partner, Anna, and I work on an episode every 5 weeks. Usually I come in, drink a whole bunch of coffee, look at dresses on the internet for 10 minutes, and then spend the rest of the day drawing or writing. Sometimes we have a meeting! Sometimes not.

4) Favorite parts of the job? My favorite part is that feeling of presenting a joke or something emotional and seeing a reaction. Something lives inside your head for so long, the first time you see someone react to it is really fulfilling.

5) Advice you’d give to aspiring artists in this industry? Make as much stuff and stories as you can, and show it to everyone. You have to work out a lot of rougher stuff before you can start feeling good about the work you create, and showing it to people gives you valuable feedback.

6) What tools have helped you get to where you are? I am a traditionalist! I use the computer so much for work that when I do personal work, I experiment a lot. I find switching up tools and not getting too comfortable helps me a lot. I love acrylic gouache, too.

7) What inspires you? I teach kids’ workshops sometimes, and I’m constantly astounded by the ideas that come out of them. They’re usually much more creative than anything I can come up with.

8) What are some of your favorite hobbies? I run a ladies craft night once a month, and I read a lot. To counterbalance the hobbies of an elderly woman, I also love seeing weird shows around LA, there are a lot of fun ones!

9) What is your biggest responsibility? I have to finish the board. If I don’t, they tie me to a tree and throw marshmallows at me.

10) What is one of the most challenging aspects of your job? It’s hard to see the whole picture of the episode when you’re working drawing by drawing. Stringing everything together feels sometimes like a feat of magic. When it comes together though, it’s really satisfying!

11) Tell me about a project or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career. Sometimes I feel like each drawing I finish is a miracle, like “LOOK I CAN’T BELIEVE I FINISHED THIS”, and then five minutes later I’m on to the next thing. I’m proud that my first picture book came out this summer, though! That’s probably the biggest single thing I’ve worked on.

12) Where would you go in a time machine? Great scott, I’d probably go to back to the prehistoric years when they had Giant Wombats and other megafauna.

13) Choice of superpower/ability? Flying!! Or the ability to swim underwater forever and touch a giant squid. I am sensing a giant animal theme.

14) Spirit animal? Probably an otter, they’re the sassiest sea creature.

15) Favorite ice cream/dessert? HMMMM I would never turn down a well made slice of pie. Ever. Warm strawberry rhubarb pie from the oven.

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Follow Ashlyn to get more of her amazing work:  Tumblr: @ashlynanstee​ Twitter: @ashlynanstee​ Instagram : @ashlynanstee

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Why the second movie is the biggest hurdle to becoming a filmmaker — especially for women and minorities

As first-time director, Anna Rose Holmer is in an elite group. Her movie, “The Fits,” about an 11-year-old tomboy trying to fit in, was one of the fewer than 1% of submitted featuresSundance Film Festival programmers chose last year, an acceptance rate tougher than that of an Ivy League college. She received some of the best reviews of the festival, and secured a distribution deal, a manager and an agent.

And yet, amid this success, Holmer, 31, now faces what is possibly the greatest barrier to a sustainable career as a filmmaker -- her second movie.

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Turtle power is strong today at San Diego Comic Con! Check out some panel highlights from today’s live tweet session. For more be sure to follow Nick Animation on Twitter!

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It’s. Almost. Here. ✨🎩✨  Steven’s Summer Adventure starts next week!

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Every. Time. 🙃

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Why Women Are Becoming an Increasing Force in the Gaming Industry

STEM PopCap’s Cara Ely and Heather Hazen explain how they climbed the ladder in the gaming industry—and have an idea for how more young girls can, too.

Gaming has long been thought of as a “boys’ club,” not just off limits to women but a hobby in which men are simply more interested. However, data from the Pew Research Center suggests about as many women game as do men: Of those surveyed in 2015, 48 compared with 50 percent, respectively. The same survey suggested the majority of American adults, 60 percent, believe that most people who play video games are men.

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i’ll have this as a print at ECCC next week! Stop by my table, AA-09

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Treasures from Nickelodeon Animation Studio’s archives! Discovered some awesome Danny Phantom concept art, boards from the title sequence, and character construction. 

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Barn Mates! Part one of board drawings. 

This episode has a lot of memories attached to it. 

I’m super happy to have been able to write and draw an interaction between Peridot and Lapis. It’s an interesting dynamic…

and the line reads were great. I gotchyo number!