The press conference for Wolfwalkers was conducted on Tuesday, February 2nd, and featured three sessions with the artists and crew. I found myself as the first person to pose a question and asked if there was a style that connects Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore Trilogy; The Secret of Kells (2009), Song of the Sea (2014), and Wolfwalkers. Maria Pareja is the Production Designer and Co-Art Director of the film. She said, “I think the style of this movie was very inspired by the line cut style.” Svend Rothmann Bonde is the Rough Animation Supervisor, he added, “I think there is something about the hand drawn [animation style], that it is more free, I feel like you can play more with the style and push the style more even though we see more 3D animation films looking more different. I think there is something unique, organic, about the hand drawn style.”
The Wolfvision scenes put the viewer in teh eyes of a wolf following colorful scents in an incredible wolrd. Animation and Wolfvision Supervisor, Eimhim McNamara, spoke about the movie, “We did the Wolfvision sequences for this [film] which involved 3D so there really is a blurrying of lines between what is 3D versus what is 2D.” Character Designer, Federico Pirovano, discussed the different styles seen in Wolfwalkers with the town of Kilkenny and the forest of the Wolfwalkers, “The idea from the very beginning from Tomm [Moore] and Ross [Stewart] discussing at the beginning of the script, that’s very doable in 2D animation, to make very symbolic, contrasting styles, for what was the town and what was the forest because that is helping visually what is the central conflict, so what is considered ordered and civilization and what is considered the wilderness.”
The second session featured personnel who dealt with the sound of the movie. Sebastien Marquilly discussed the beginning of sound editing work on films, “At the start of the project, you have discussions with Tomm and Ross, just what you see what they have to request, then you see the movie and make a list to make the sound of the film.” Sound Editor Phillipe Fontaine continued, “The most important part is that we had refence which took everything that I did and all the other editors did, we had the recording mixer who mixed everything together that sounded like one score, so all of the sounds don’t fight with each other.” Brian Seznec, Sound Supervisor, spoke about the differences watching Wolfwalkers in the theaters in comparison to television and other devices, “The thing about Dolby Atmos is that we created it in this format from the beginning. Whatever the platform that you’re seeing it on, you will get the sensation of it because we process the technical part where we mix even for the stereo, the smallest way of watching the movie."
The third session had composer, Bruno Coulais, and editors, Darren Holmes, Richie Cody, and Darragh Byrne. I posed the second question about the common threads of the Irish Folklore Trilogy. Bruno Coulais replied, “I think the link is Kíla, an Irish band that I love, it’s the best moment that I record with Kíla. I worked with three films of Tomm Moore and it was really interesting to me.” Editor Darren Holmes also said, “In regards to the editorial connection between the films, I think it comes from the graphic nature of the art that Cartoon Saloon brings.” Darragh Bryne discussed the innovations in the movie, “If you notice in some scenes there is tryptches, three things going on at the same time, that’s kind of new, some of the transitions are amazing in the film.” Ritchie Cody spoke about the recording sessions representing the people of Kilkenny, Ireland, “We actually ended up recording a lot of local people around Kilkenny, the studio is from Kilkenny, the film is set in Kilkenny, so we wanted to get a lot of local voices in there as possible.” Wolfwalkers is a movie that calls on the talents of many artists to craft this cinematic work of art.
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