"Wander Over Yonder" Style Guides by Craig McCracken & Alex Kirwan

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Legend of Korra: Book Two

Premieres this week!

NASA

Milt Kahl

Annie

Teotl

John Gibbs - Animation Director

G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and Transformers - just some of the many animated series I grew up with, I've begun to track down the animation directors for some of these and many other TV shows like them, and for he next couple months I'll be making weekly profiles on some of these extraordinary individuals.

John Gibbs began his career as an animator in 1966, he worked for a decade in dozens of shorts, then worked as an animator steadily for various television series for another 5 years. Then, in 1981, he began is directing career.

Though from the research I've done online, it would seem he was insanely busy from 1981-1986, but afterwards there's no credits with his name found anywheres. I don't know what has happened to him, but this is his full credits list below, and thus my very small tribute to this animation director that time has forgot.


1986
Defenders of the Earth (TV series) (supervising director - 5 episodes)

1986
Solarman (TV movie) (supervising director)

1985
Robotix (TV series) (supervising director)

1985
Jem (TV series) (supervising director - 5 episodes)

1985
G.I. Joe (TV series) (supervising director - 55 episodes)

1983-1985
Dungeons & Dragons (TV series) (supervising director - 27 episodes)

1985
My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina (TV movie) (supervising director)

1985
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines (video) (supervising director)

1984
Muppet Babies (TV series) (supervising director - 13 episodes)

1984
Transformers (TV series) (supervising director - 3 episodes, sequence director - 13 episodes)

1984
My Little Pony (TV movie) (supervising director)

1982
The Incredible Hulk (TV series) (animation director - 13 episodes)

1981
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (TV series) (animation director - 24 episodes)

Leaving Earth

What it would look like to leave planet Earth? It's an easy and scary thing to imagine as you watch this video. Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung back past the Earth, eight years ago, on its way in toward the planet Mercury. Earth can be seen rotating in this time-lapse video, as it recedes into the distance. The sunlit half of Earth is so bright that background stars are not visible. The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft is now in orbit around Mercury and has recently concluded the first complete map of the surface. On occasion, MESSENGER has continued to peer back at its home world. MESSENGER is one of the few things created on the Earth that has left and will never return -- at the end of its mission MESSENGER will be crashed into Mercury's surface.

"COIN" by EXIT 73 Studios

"Carn" by Jeff Le Bar

Noctilucent Clouds and Aurora Over Scotland

Why would the sky still glow after sunset? Besides stars and the band of our Milky Way galaxy, the sky might glow because it contains either noctilucent clouds or aurora. Rare individually, both are visible in the above time lapse movie taken over Caithness, Scotland, UK taken during a single night earlier last month. First noted in 1885, many noctilucent clouds are known to correlate with atmospheric meteor trails, although details and the origins of others remain a topic of research. These meandering bright filaments of sunlight-reflecting ice crystals are the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere.

The above video captures not only a variety of noctilucent clouds, but also how their structure varies over minutes. Lower clouds typically appear dark or fast moving. About halfway through the video the clouds are joined by aurora. At times, low clouds, noctilucent clouds, and aurora are all visible simultaneously, each doing their own separate dance, and once -- see if you can find it -- even with the Big Dipper rotating across the background.

Video: Maciej Winiarczyk
Music: Jolanta Galka-Kurkowska

Talk Talk - Date Night (Academy Films)

Estelle's Story

Ghost Stories

I Will Miss You, by Dave Prosser
The Jump, by Charles Huettner
The American Dream, by Sean Buckelew
Mountain Ash, by Jake Armstrong & Erin Kilkenny
Rat Trap, by Caleb Wood
Loose Ends, by Louise Bagnall
Phantom Limb, by Alex Grigg
Asshole, by Conor Finnegan
Ombilda, by Ciaran Duffy
Post Personal, by Eamonn O'Neill
Last Lives, by Scott Benson