A fundraiser has been launched on GoFundMe within the wake of the sudden loss of life of Vahe Haytaian, an completed animation technical assistant who helped convey beloved sequence to screens throughout his lengthy profession at Disney Tv Animation and extra not too long ago at Fox-owned Bento Field Leisure. The marketing campaign is searching for donations to assist help Haytaian’s spouse and two youngsters, whom he sadly left behind within the early morning of April 26.
Haytaian labored for Disney TVA from 2011-2020, shepherding tasks scene-by-scene to 60 editors and knowledge to 35 technical administrators for over 20 animated sequence, together with episodes of award-winning, critically acclaimed and fan-favorite toons resembling Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb, Wander Over Yonder, DuckTales, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Large Metropolis Greens, Mickey Mouse, The Owl Home and Amphibia. At Bento Field, he labored on primetime hits like Bob’s Burgers and The Nice North for Fox in addition to Loren Bouchard’s musical comedy Central Park for Apple TV+.
Haytaian’s longtime Disney TVA colleague Alex Teslik organized the marketing campaign, writing on the GoFundMe web page:
“Vahe was a beautiful father and husband, and labored laborious elevating his sons together with his spouse [Emily] whereas she continued working towards finishing her pharmaceutical diploma. They have been a gorgeous staff decided to make the most effective future for his or her household.
“… He can be so missed by the animation group to which he gave a lot of his time and data. His job was troublesome and complicated and he made it look easy by his talent and talent to multitask. He was as dependable as he was pleasant and sort to everybody he knew, and we are going to miss him a lot.”
Click on right here to donate to assist Haytaian’s household through GoFundMe.
Flying Bark Productions (an entirely owned subsidiary of Studio 100) has right this moment appointed Hugh Baldwin to the place of Govt Producer of Improvement of its manufacturing arm, After Bark. He’ll oversee the outfit’s slate, which is able to give attention to content material for older audiences, together with mature animation tasks and each scripted and unscripted reside motion.
“The After Bark slate represents an thrilling new part for Flying Bark Productions because it expands its manufacturing scope into live-action sequence and occasions for TV and streaming, in addition to edgier animation tasks,” stated Baldwin. “It’s such an incredible alternative to be requested to forge this path for one in every of Australia’s most revered worldwide manufacturing corporations. I look ahead to uncovering tasks from creators with a transparent artistic imaginative and prescient for grownup audiences on the youthful finish of the spectrum.”
Having spent 15 years main the content material and programming technique for Nickelodeon in Australia and New Zealand and below the Paramount banner, Baldwin was the pinnacle of programming for MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Spike & 10Shake Youngsters. At Nickelodeon, he exec producer two Logie-nominated sequence in addition to a number of reside music occasions and sequence. Most not too long ago, Baldwin was EP for PostMatch, a sport-focused artistic company and manufacturing home, in addition to working as a non-public guide for tech corporations. Final 12 months, he produced the music video for Noiseworks’ “Coronary heart and Soul”. Presently on the board of proptech firm Vennu, Baldwin has sat on the board of Display Tasmania and labored as a author, producer and journalist.
Portland Artwork Museum’s PAM CUT // Middle for an Untold Tomorrow introduced the honorees for the fourth annual Cinema Unbound Awards. Honoring creative innovators not content material to be contained, the awards “rejoice multi-faceted people working on the intersection of artwork and cinema who’re pushing the boundaries of what’s potential.” This 12 months’s recipients can be honored at an in-person occasion on the Oregon museum — one in every of just some spotlighting cinematic storytelling and new media creativity — on June 22. Native animation studio LAIKA is one in every of this 12 months’s key sponsors.
Amongst this 12 months’s awardees is “Artistic Polymath” Guillermo del Toro, whose stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio (additionally produced in Portland, at ShadowMachine’s northern outpost) swept awards season this 12 months. Per PAM CUT:
The winner of three Academy Awards, Guillermo del Toro is among the many most artistic and visionary artists of his technology, whose distinctive type is showcased by his work as a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and writer. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, del Toro first gained worldwide recognition for the 1993 Mexican-American co manufacturing Cronos, a supernatural horror movie, which he directed from his personal screenplay after starting his profession working as a particular results make-up artist. Del Toro went on to earn worldwide acclaim with the Academy Award-winning movies Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), The Form of Water (2017) and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022).
In animation, del Toro government produced the DreamWorks movies Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3, Puss in Boots 1 & 2 and Rise of the Guardians, and produced The Ebook of Life. His DreamWorks/Netflix animated sequence Trollhunters has been each a vital and viewers success. Along with his film tasks, del Toro co-authored The New York Instances bestselling vampire horror trilogy The Pressure, which has additionally been was successful sequence on FX Community. His subsequent animated function would be the stop-motion mission primarily based on Nobel Prize–profitable writer Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Buried Big.
Additionally being honored this 12 months are Jacqueline Stewart, Director and President of the Academy Museum of Movement Photos (“The Groundbreaker” award, sponsored by LAIKA); chef, writer & TV persona Gregory Gourdet (“Tastemaking Trailblazer”); comic, author, producer & musician Fred Armisen (“Multi-Gifted Maestro”); writer Jon Raymond (“Spectacular Storyteller”); and actress-producer Tessa Thompson (“Astonishing Artist”).
