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secretary donald rumsfeld about allegations of torture by u.s. troops in iraq. those are the headlines on the saturday but do stay with us next spotlight plays a host to a russian cartoonist and director now working in the united states who explains why america's most successful animated shows including the simpsons and i actually have a slight russian accent and stick with us. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello again and welcome to the spotlight million figure show and party i'll bring up and play my guest is me three. the simpsons has become so popular in the

united states it made it to the big screen but only few people know that this typical american family actually has russian roots so are several other super popular animated show in the u.s. how could this happen are they russian still coming or are they already there we're asking the simpsons are death might. even watch it was a part of the award winning any nation's two year called pilot but after the fall of the soviet union he moved to america only to help create the country's best animated cartoons to join his friend and colleague david going off another teligent russian at a cost animation studio together they created one of the most successful animated the ninety's called rug rats the movie has also been our director for the simpsons movie and the television serious of the simpsons.

the show thank you thank you very much for being with us well first of all even russia as we just heard you worked in the best cartoon studio that that we had at that time and maybe maybe that. still is so why did you decide to move and start working in the u.s. for economic reasons for political reasons certainly not political ones. probably the canonical reason so at the time of ninety four i was part of the job for probably more than a year i was thirty it was already building economically so when i got the invitation from the president of the class kitchen governorship and definitely a group of insisted. on having me over there so i

gladly accepted his invitation and at the time it was just invitation to come over for a year probably two and to see if i like it or not and we'll go from there was the decision and we. went to los angeles. one year past another one and i'm still there. it makes make stuff which is pretty different from what you were making when you were working here in russia and they knew that so why do you think if you have an opinion on this matter why do you think they decided to invite you they wanted they wanted you to somehow change the the the the image the face of the. american cartoons or what i believe the reason was that since our governor and his wife eileen claussen they started their own studio basically in the bedroom of their partner and that's how they started the series. so probably governor's

business model was to. i have a studio which is not like any other studio so our he wanted a constant the vision of the probe out of the fresh blood and him being an artist himself he really liked or what did and what sort of animation. he was a huge fan of it so all he constantly infused fresh blood from western europe i believe that was the reason and at the time and that was pretty successful. later his policy changed he lost a little bit of interest in animation itself. and the studio started to stall when it. technically official it still exists but the start of the business let's take a look at some of the recent russian animation success stories in

a report by spotlighting in a do neither. impressionist painting is moving that hard while xander petrov's cartoons are often described the artist is drawn release fingertips on gloss that he can equal in international recognition and the highest possible award an oscar russian cartoons have lately been more often nominated for the academy awards than russian morris the latest nominee was a simplistic black and white animation by constantine brown's eat and although the oscar risky team then runs it again still goes through at least twenty international awards for his cartoons what might make russian animation particular interest in to western audiences is their idea of the clinics and which cartoons are done during the times of the saudi children the russian animation industry enjoyed substantial state support which allowed for creativity and although russian coolness had to go through harsh adaptation to the market economy rules their

creativity survived it was demonstrated to the full in the ninety nine days when the moscow animations to do christmas did the series were known as the animated shakespeare for the going to see half hour educations of shakespeare's plays produced using different animation depicts injured international success. russia's biggest success an animation so far is the sea response machinery keep the popularity of the little round bellied characters is so huge the decision was made to distribute it to an international. still the real pride of russian animation and non commercial projects reworked so what like the recently released high regard in stop motion the ugly duckling with tchaikovsky's music as the soundtrack on the for you should make in soft money are currently being made at the world is trying to

make you company so use my film. and i think you are the best people to ask what's the main difference between russian and american approaches to generation well all the examples what we just saw. we can talk about success when. those are really deeply individual business been made by great artists and. targeted towards. kill mass production of the same episode of the same kind of episode like we've got a week after week and a bunch of their imitation is really great and it is great only and mainly because of that he does what he feels he has to do and exactly the way. he feels it has to be done i can easily imagine that if it was. really on

a production level or you ever saw it every several weeks could be so much different so of course of. first of all kind of animation is very much different from. the imation which is done for cartoon network so there are so so many of them i've talked to a number of people working working in animation and this is strange they are usually not the people working in the movies but people working in cartoons in russia say here they have more freedom then they would have had in that they probably have people like you who work for big studios in the west do you agree. probably probably again it really depends on the project because there are projects . where a certain level of freedom is really welcome but again only a certain level when we talk about russian emitters working on

their own pieces which may be not targeted directly to bring commercial success money the more freedom is there but it's very well that's always the you know necessity is mother of invention so yeah when you. have a lot of limitations you really have to be extremely and inventive so that really pushes you to words more and more creativity you said you said if he petra had to do an episode every week yes are you envious to people that you don't have to do an episode every week would you prefer to work this way rather than during commercial success and i had a chance to compare working on the production. emission and on like really individual. testable oriented pieces by. of course from

creative standpoint it's much more interesting and. there are really no boundaries for creativity on the project the problem is that they happen like once every five years. they last for six months or they do not pay much so. your project like it was happening every other month i would be stable about that but it just can't happen. we are of the same generation you remember like in the seventy's i think in the so you can in. your honor appeared but her tunes for the adults and i feel middle of the garden for adults and this was something need to do you think this is that it could have curtains for children for help for snow white and the seven dwarfs i watched it the other day i think it's for absolutely for adults and only for the kids love it. good information of

course you know if it's all the edges. i i really don't like this approach when sometimes a lot of owners being caught because there's an explanation this is for kids it is to be simple it has to be. maybe not that much you know creative and again it would be extremely simple because kids are rather stupid and they don't understand the difference between good and really good so it can be simple i don't buy into this theory so if. animation piece is done for kids but. it's done with a great effort the art and creativity of everybody going to like it because like in america it is extremely important even when the project is oriented towards the kids are kids not going to go to the theater by themselves they're going to go with parents so it is very important so that the parents not going to get bored in the

first fifteen minutes and want to walk out of the theater and so they want to have those parents stay throughout the movie so it has to have some elements which will be of interest of interest to parents as well but at last i have somebody who understands me because i have to go to the movies with my son and when i have to well when i have to go i have to go and watch with them movies like avatar and he he's ecstatic about it i mean i mean i can't stand this is different for me but the only the i agree that there are great for kids and edible edible for adults and this is this is i think great ok we're talking to dmitry melon that you just reminded he is the i our director of the simpsons movie spotlight will be back shortly we'll talk more about his work in a minute after a break so don't go. well

. bringing you the latest in science technology from the ground. we've got the future covered. welcome back to spotlight time i'll get off and just reminded of my guest in the studio today is the meet the milan each of the our director of the simpsons movie

and also he worked on the rug rats yes that's from yes well. actually what you made of the simpsons the series he made it into a full size widescreen movie what was the hardest part time while i'm working on that because we all we all are used to simpsons being like a series like like like like little nothing like a smile you know that said but you made a movie what what was it wasn't really hot i was really hard because two main challenges were about first of all of course translate the format which is familiar to a majority of paying audience been seen on a black twenty inch screen and then you have to splash it over one hundred fifty of those and screen in a movie theater and if you will just about. projected on such a huge screen it's not going to hold up to the. just even physics of human vision

because we too much of your color are and it's been with this terribly you had to learn new book and also the technique that the technique that you're throwing it. all their profession is going to be visible so you have to use a lot of enhanced moments to basically fill out that it was up to us as an object and to gets to change it to come up with ideas but the second challenge which pretty much cancels out the first challenge was to make it in such a way so that nobody would notice it again simpsons is such an icon in american culture are you do not treat it with such a freedom so that it changes its look and starts to look like something different that was the main goal of the creators of the movie not to make it like a one huge extended episode but it has to state through to the origins of the t.v.

series and what about another thing did you did you ask yourself a question is anybody going to go to the movies and buy a ticket to watch this from two hours to know that you know had i had no dog there no i have no doubt at all. the biggest challenge was you know knowing that expectations were so high is what the expectation is is not to disappoint and take the nothingness well again the biggest fear was that it would look just as overly extended t.v. and so. we just you know had no right to make that mistake so the stakes were really hard. and this year expects the rate of success where will the movie. it wasn't just it was just not disillusioning people in a disappointed but it was real success wasn't yes well i was seriously i was

certainly hoping for that i was surprised what a big but it's of i have read in one of the. interviews that you grant to one of the american papers that you work so hard and you were so much occupied. when you work that movie that you were sort of depressed after it all finished after the work was terminated is that true while not depressed probably is not the right word. it's human nature you are getting used to extremely high pressure pretty much you know becomes your. way of life the way of thinking you start thinking yellow a senior fellow in your dreams or nightmares so when the whole thing starts it really is very abrupt and bizarre feeling because the world goes back to what

it used to have. you need some time to there for that because you described it the work work on this and this piece you describe you have as working under restrictive conditions but very stripped of all the charlatans that was mostly that very beginning of the project because of course our we started working on a project and the script was not still there are it was changing changing pretty much on a daily basis and creators they didn't quite know what to do with visuals of a movie it was not their main concern at that point so they wanted something by they didn't quite know what they want at some point the consensus on their side was that it's probably going to be safer just to go with what we used to

have for the t.v. series and not do anything because again we start tampering with it and we lose some i think decency of the show and we might lose something it's not going to be quite the same as it used to be. and that was a little bit. stands for quite some time. later when we actually be were we to busy with the visuals and that was really a blessing in disguise because they just forgot even to think about the way the movie is going to look so at that time i was watching much free to come up with solutions that i in the end of it to them and they were very happy about that. lots of russians work and movies in the united states lots of russians in hollywood. but we never see them working as a teen i mean as

a russian teen. it occurred to me when i when i read about these sciences the guys are good nobel prize and physically see they have a russian floor like a whole whole floor or all the rooms they're all russians with the oh this is the russian why but it doesn't happen in movies in the united states why russians represent a great school cinematography why don't you flock together why don't you work as a team because because you quit it you want to do it to make american movies in america or because the producers try to keep your point and not the cheer there are not those you've won i buy i wouldn't say that there is a there is an attempt to really spread people around depending on their ethnicity actually at the class teachable there was some moment where the group of three or four maybe five russians were working together as a deal but. i don't know it's just my variation probably it's not very welcomed to

have people of the same cultural group be in a looked out from from the rest because initially i guess that in live action movies it's the same communication is the key it's extremely important to communicate with all the other people and when the people start to being locked out and being isolated in a small group of their own something goes wrong communication wise that usually is a really bad science so you think that you have to keep keep it multicultural and give this we're giving back the curtains nickelodeon a great channel a great a great. market for for for a cartel you think russia needs a channel like nicolas absolutely absolutely and. of course from my not indicated standpoint that russia desperately needs an image that we do have the

context you know that's the problem because there's there's tons of content they comported content. claudian these neha and searched thousands of projects which could easily fill out the space on the such channels i strongly believe that russia needs its own content and nickelodeon has a very very strict requirements for animators for example they don't allow cartoons events of the past and that is not true why was that used to be because when i was describing the situation in one of my interviews that was the end of the ninety's quite likely this. time this policy has changed at that point of yes a bet was one of the rules which were not pardoned still but we've been told several times that some projects that it was working on and let's say all the events were

taken place in kind of like seventeenth century. nickelodeon advised not to do so because they preferred to have. all the action take place in either you know present time or in the future. you call it eagle colorado said in one of his interviews i quote i like to draw like children do in primitive techniques what do you think makes such technique so so so so so tracked for contemporary artists in animation while our ego is very strong artists and. yeah he might wish that you know he will draw like a kid even though he really admires the drawings that my daughter made when she was like three years old he still has a few of them are his war. kids they may think different they are different

they have such a freedom in their life and at the same time they are not burdened with years of training in their lines and not straight or really thought out they just draw from hard and that what probably eager means because he wants to play kids are you know really coming from your soul and from your heart the way kids do it is the reason why my son when he was about three four five years of age he did wonderful drawings i have them as you said on the wall but now he's like eleven and they and they tried to teach him to draw at school he's awfully he had any he is worse than anybody i've ever seen the same happened to my daughter i was absolutely sure that i have a genius on my hands because she was doing absolutely amazing drawings when she was like three fighting five year olds freedom yeah they're going to come because you know several years passed and all you could see you know those princes. you know

little dragons and extremely steve. is that it does that mean that an artist a true artist is the man that it is somebody who managed to sustain his keep his freedom while growing up. yes of course even going to see him since you know the simpsons becoming bigger louder brighter the huge change even from technical standpoint and persistence standpoint happened about two years ago when the show was switched to high definition format. again the typical normal of t.v. screen in the average american household it's not a twenty inch tube anymore it's like a fifty inch plasma so a lot of information has to fill out this screen so with the transition to the high definition the show became much more sophisticated visual wise yet at the same time

i have really strong the style just for the very first years of sin since when it was really clumsy cruel. and beautiful at the same time it was not so clearly drawn perspective prize it was not sophisticated yet it had a really strong sense of passion which was coming from creators thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was neatly maligned ha ha director of the simpsons movie and also the rug rats that's it for now from all of us here if you don't have your sense part like just drop me a line we'll be back with more first hand comments on what's going on in and outside this country until then stay on our team and take care.

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