Bill Desowitz
Bill Desowitz was previously the Awards Editor, Craft & Animation at IndieWire.
Latest by Bill Desowitz
Move Over, The Planets
Composer Rob Simonsen augmented his orchestral and synth expansiveness of space with a unique choir emanating from tiny wooden speakers in the shape of dolls.
Getting Animated
Directors Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi and producer Mary Alice Drumm explain how they improved the Pixar coming-of-age story, including the payoff for his eye patch.
Getting Animated
Directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans discuss bringing Korean demonology and K-pop to Netflix, with kick-ass female superheroes in all their glory.
Cutting Remarks
Editor Keith Fraase was inspired by "Sense and Sensibility" and the way Song critiques the Jane Austen calculation of love and social status.
Getting Animated
Director Dean DeBlois tells IndieWire about improving the beloved Night Fury and recreating "Forbidden Friendship" and "Test Drive" sequences.
Getting Animated
The Netflix/Kuku Studios animated feature, streaming this November, conjures a magical dreamscape inside a family drama.
Getting Animated
Director Dan Trachtenberg tells IndieWire about how painterly animation opened up the franchise for his time-jumping anthology about Vikings, samurai warriors, and World War II fighter pilots.
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Production designer Adam Stockhausen breaks down Zsa-Zsa's Italian-styled house, Marseille Bob's "Casablanca"-inspired nightclub, and Egyptian revival-style desert hotel.
Beyond the Final Frontier
Production VFX supervisor Sean Faden discusses the giant alien worm, Murderbot's UI POV during a fight with another robot, and the realistic LED footage for the "Star Trek" parody.
Squash-and-Stretchability
Fleischer Camp tells IndieWire about translating Stitch's flower sack shape and squash-and-stretch sensibility by adhering to "Surfing the Sanders Style."
The IndieWire Craft team picks 13 shows with the best cinematography on television.
Getting Animated
A decade after the popular animated kids series ended, creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh are back with one more preposterous summer vacation.
