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Jill Culton is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and screenwriter. With her directorial debut on Sony's first animated film, Open Season, she became the first female principal director of a big budget, computer-generated feature.
Writer: Abominable. Jill Culton is known for Abominable (2019), Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Open Season (2006).
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Sep 25, 2019 · Abominable director Jill Culton on the trials and rewards of 30 years in animation. From scrappy days at Pixar to getting Sony’s animation department off the ground, Culton has seen it all
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Jill Culton isn't just a leader in the world of Animation in Hollywood, she's also a trailblazer. Having navigated the waters at both Sony and Pixar, her l...
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Abominableoffers lots for families to talk about. At its heart is a teenage heroine who struggles with the death of her father, the expectations of her grandmother and mother and juggling part time jobs that leave her out of the cool crowd. There’s a sense of loss, isolation and heartbreak so dear it’s almost difficult to touch. Culton said her own...
From Yi’s point of view, Culton’s work dives into these personal themes fearlessly. “When you’re a storyteller, you have to be vulnerable enough to dive deep into these characters and pull out the honesty and pull out the hardships and how they deal with them,” Culton said. And Yi (Chloe Bennet) deals. She finds reconnection through unlikely friend...
By crafting fiction, Culton finds truth, and always has. “I lived in a world of imagination as a kid,” she said. Culton recalls having a drawer full of plastic animals. She said she’d pull out the toy elephants and Tyrannosaurus rex and make up stories about them. Culton eventually went on to bring stories to the silver screen when she studied at t...
For AbominableCulton and her team worked to ground fiction in reality. The result is a movie that makes real places feel larger than life. DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio brought together a crew with an international presence, including in the United States and China. They invested in “trying to get that authenticity down to the details.” “Th...
Abominable captures details inspired by a particular place, but its characters ring true elsewhere too. “Whatever literal walls that are being threatened to go up, story is the thing that brings us all together. Even though this movie’s set in China, we’re all so similar,” Culton said. “I hope it relates with people all over the world and no matter...
Nov 18, 2019 · 'Abominable' director Jill Culton spoke with Deadline about her awards-contending DreamWorks pic, centered on a young woman and a Yeti.
Oct 11, 2019 · Director Jill Culton on the Evolution of ‘Abominable,’ Working With Pearl Studio. By Terry Flores. Courtesy of DreamWorks Animation. It took several years, but writer-director Jill Culton has...
