Aug 1, 2023

-Mutant Mayhem - Director Jeff Lowe uses the buzz of the film to promote artists who have worked on the film.

While it's not new for filmmakers to use social media to promote upcoming films, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem director Jeff Rowe is using his time in the spotlight to share his attention with artists and technologists who have spent the last few years working on the film.

While it is important that the name of the artist appears on the film's credit reels, this extra exposure means a lot for the artist and can be a huge help in securing future work.

For months now, Lowe has been using his Instagram to support his lower-line colleagues. Back in May, he shared a group of stills and works by mutant Mayhem artists Gabe Lin, Yashar Kassai, Sean Sevestre, and the lighting team at Mikros Animation, where most of the films were animated, and Cinesite in Vancouver also animated some of the films.

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When the movie's trailer fell, he was joined by screenwriters Seth Logan and Evan Goldberg, co-directors Kyler Spears, art directors Arthur Von and Tiffany Lam Almac, and cinematographer Kevin Hart. "I'm not going to let that happen again," he said.

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In late May, the film's mixing crew wrapped up and Rowe took to Instagram to pay tribute to a dozen artists and technicians who were once again working on the film's sound, music and dialogue.

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Rowe used his Twitter account to promote the standout work of animator Christine Sévigny, explaining exactly why the work she did was so impressive. His thread explained:

Here's a 41-second long take animated by the incredible Christine Sévigny. It's incredible. It's not flashy with its camera blocking, so four characters acting for 41 seconds, completely natural, with shots of length you probably won't notice. why?-

Long takes are always difficult, but they require special attention in animation. It is so technically demanding and time consuming. But when we first met the character, we wanted to show the audience to hang out with the turtle and introduce it as a foursome, not an individual.

Cutting into coverage could accentuate a character that is on top of another or ruin the fly-on-the-wall feeling of watching a joke around them hanging in your best bud. We had to establish a naturalistic style of filmmaking early on. Christine rose to the challenge and crushed this.

In the second half of the film, there are shots at least twice as long as this, but this was the creative foundation on which the rest of the film was built. Teens hang out and joke like a b-roll shot in a skate video. Christine made the dream a reality.

In other tweets, he praised the work of Mikros Animation director Arnaud Philippe Giroux:

Arnaud is a magician. he's an innovator, a genius in painting. Without him, the film would not have looked half as good. We were a matt painting heavy show, but it took a unique talent like Arnaud to fully unleash and express our show style. https://t.co/a6ynkEUACD

- Jeff Rowe(@Roweyourboatz)2023/7/27

and storyboard artist Hannah Cho:

Dear God I love these baby turtles and I love this music from Trent and Atticus.Emotionally devastating and beautiful in the film, not everyone can wait to see the beautiful backstory of this family. The moment boarded by @Hannahannac9Thttps://t.co/rSo9oYyDVq

- Jeff Rowe(@Roweyourboatz)2023年7月18日

Also, in a reply to a tweet about the score of the film composed by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor, Rowe will not forget to mention the scene's storyboard artist Adel Sabi and concept artist Keikan It was.

Directed by Turtle Tottenham Hotspur. Original baby of oozing concept painting by @Kaye_bin

-Jefflow(@Roweyourboatz)2023年7月18日

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