#ethan stan

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@donsaladino: There is still time to sign up for July’s Challenge feat. @imsebastianstan ! 🦾 Get the four week program, weekly zoom calls, and daily videos where I answer your questions. As well as my good friend Sebastian Stan will be coming on to one of our calls as a guest speaker. Comment “July” For the link 🔗 What better way to kick off your summer? ☀️ I can’t wait to coach you this month as well as raise money for @rmhnewyork which we hold so close to our heart.

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Tom Cruise gives Major Twink Energy in every fucking movie. Like.

In Top Gun? He's very twinky with Ice.

In Mission Impossibly? He's twinky with Benji.

In Legends? He's just plain twinky.

Tom Cruise is the God of Twink and i will not hear any objections to this.

(I mean all of this in the best fucking possibly way ILY Tom Cruise)

[phoenix--flying]

"how can you like Ethan he STABBED Annabeth-" womp womp

[tylchristine]

i love watching 2016-2019 youtube

[fullcaps-ethan]

doodle dump!!!!!!!!!!

[lassie-farce]

oh no! seems like i took your hyper-masculine tv show protagonist and made him trans

[rosiespokemontwitterau]

Stan Penny.

[huntmavs]

hollywood royalty tom cruise!

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grayson dolan

i would risk it all for this man

[mrs-stans]

@donsaladino via Instagram Story (June 13, 2024)

[asexual-squidward]

The original broadway cast of SpongeBob really do stay winning.

Stephanie Hsu was nominated for a goddamn Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Wesley Taylor was a main character in the latest series of Only Murders in the Building

Gavin Lee has gone on to play Lumiere, Fagin, featured alongside Bernadette Peters in a Sondheim concert, and has just been cast as Thenardier in an international tour.

Lilli Cooper has continued to star on broadway and is a voice actor on Hazbin Hotel (I know theres discourse about that show, but I’m happy she’s working)

Vasthy Mompoint has been in and choreographed a number of Hollywood movies

The ensemble cast are continuing to feature in ensemble and leading roles on broadway, touring and smaller productions

And Ethan Slater has… uhhhh-

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at my birthday sleepover with my besties, we all learned we stan ethan hawke and call him “peepaw.” so we decided to watch glass onion, we all screamed “PEEPAWWWW” at the tops of our lungs

[hkthatgffan]

NEW VIDEO ON MY CHANNEL!!

I recently had the chance to talk with Ethan Marak of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, about his work on the Gravity Falls episode Little Gift Shop of Horrors.

He shared some great new info on the stop motion process and never before seen photos from the set.

Below is a transcript of what I asked and his answers...

1. How did you get involved with Gravity Falls and were you a fan of the show beforehand?

I was working as an Animation Director at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios when this project came my way. The studio producers would cast Animation Directors to projects that were a good fit, and my known love of classic stop-motion animation in the Ray Harryhausen style made them consider me for this job.

2. Alex Hirsch mentioned in the GF box set that they contacted you directly about working on the show? What was that process like?

As I recall Alex was very into the idea of using stop-motion for this episode and he was very enthusiastic and excited visiting the set and seeing all the puppets and sets. When we translate an established 2d animation to stop-motion, there are a lot of creative considerations and decisions that need to be made for the designs and animation style to work. As I remember Alex trusted us to guide that process, and was flexible with any small limitations that came up. 

3. Additionally, he mentioned that Disney originally did not want to do stop motion due to the cost and so Alex said he inquired about frame by frame costs and looked through everything that was done to see if it would fit the budget. How did that whole situation affect the filming and in turn, what was it like working with Alex and the GF team?

I wasn’t involved in any aspect of the budgeting for the project so I’m not sure what give-and-take with Disney occurred to make the numbers work for stop-motion. I don’t remember feeling like the shoot was under-funded.

4. How much creative freedom did you have in regards to the episode? Were things planned out beforehand or did the crew let you come up with ideas for the stop motion as you went along?

The team from GF provided character designs, storyboards and backgrounds. It was our job to create the puppets and shoot the animation in a way that fit into the background plates convincingly. I can’t remember for sure, but I think GF did the final compositing themselves. Everything is meticulously planned out in stop-motion animation, so that we don’t spend time building or shooting anything that isn’t going to be on screen. We had a lot of freedom as far as the style of the animation, and we were going for a cartoony look that worked for GF but also paid homage to Harryhausen, which meant paying more attention to the weight and subtleties than we might on other projects.

5. Were there any scrapped/deleted or cut aspects of the animation that did not make it into the episode? These can be scenes either planned out or animated that never made the final episode.

Not that I recall, no.

6. Would you be okay with sharing any behind the scenes photos, videos, memories, stories or more from your work on the episode that would be okay to be public now? These can be of the shoot, interesting stories or trivia about it, crew reactions, set up, etc. I understand completely if that is not possible but it would be great to learn about/see the animation process for this episode, the sets, characters, etc.

I’ll let you know if I ever find the behind the scenes photos I took. 

Side note: Ethan did find a ton of photos to send to me that you can access here or as I shared below...

However, there were several I was asked to not share, such as behind the scenes images of the character designs and storyboards of the animated version of the monsters that was used to help map out the movement of the stop motion. Those are internal works that are not allowed to be shared and I will sadly not be able to. That said, @robertryancory shared these designs of the character publicly years back that look very similar to what I was sent. But what I was shown were colorized versions and almost final looks of the characters.

7. Do you still own the models or sets made for this episode? If so, what condition are they in (and if possible could a photo(s) be provided)? 

I checked with the studio and as far as I can tell the puppets were given back to Disney at some point. There was a brief period where I remember the puppets were displayed in the lobby at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.

8. Overall, what were your thoughts on working on Gravity Falls, the episode overall and the show later on? If Alex Hirsch or another GF crew member from it were to ask about helping in work on a new project, be it for GF or another show, would you do it?  

I really enjoyed working on the episode and it is a stand-out project for me! It came out really beautifully and the GF team was really kind and respectful to us, and genuinely interested in our process. I’d absolutely partner with Alex on something else if it came up. 

9. One extra question; Did you work on the mini stop motion bumper for Disney XD as well? If so, what was that like and what ideas were made for it that perhaps did not make the final promo?

Yes I directed that spot. It was another really cool project that gave us the ability to bring GF to life in stop-motion. The Stan puppet was amazing and looked so good- and our animators really brought him to life. We went though an extensive design process for the XD logo creature before deciding on the version you see in the spot. The goal was to make it look convincing as a taxidermy creation that Stan would have built, and to work in as many little eyeballs and body parts as possible that could move around.

BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE OF THAT PROMO!

A huge thank you to Ethan for sharing this info and photos with me. Please do go check out his personal work on his Instagram, as it's some really cool retro stuff that I really loved checking out.

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VALENTINE snippet from RUSH! (ARE U COMING?)

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it's crazy that this is the first time we see a vampire on screen...how they got Disney to distribute this movie I'll never know

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(80') Haroldinho (assist Vikkstar)