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KIM FAY is the Managing Editor of Keyframe. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Kate & Frida; the national bestseller Love & Saffron; the Edgar Award-nominated The Map of Lost Memories; and the food memoir, Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam. She has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years and lives in Los Angeles.  

Articles by Kim Fay

Final Note

A complex integration of hand drawing and CG created seamless scenes like this one with Pocahontas and Grandmother Willow.

Blending In

On the 30th anniversary of Pocahontas, Disney Veteran Steve Goldberg reflects on merging hand-drawn art with early CG imagery.

Winter 2025

Art & Craft

Artist: Michele Graybeal | Title:  A Family Gathering | Medium: Acrylic | Size: 30” x 48”

Getting Candid

Visual Development Lead Michele Graybeal uses her paintings to explore the art of storytelling.

Winter 2025

Features

Balancing Acts

Balancing Acts

For Dog Man, Plankton, and The Day the Earth Blew Up, TAG artists gathered to discuss the craft of making animated features.

Winter 2025

Final Note

Marlon West and Floyd Norman at The World Animation Summit.

Eyes on the Prize

The chance discovery of stolen awards connected a string of animation workers with an industry legend.

Winter 2024

Frame x Frame

Pages from Cook Like Your Ancestors illustrate Marie’s welcoming approach to cooking.

Feeding the Soul

With her new illustrated cookbook, Storyboard Artist Mariah-Rose Marie inspires home cooks to take an intuitive approach in the kitchen.

Winter 2024

Art & Craft

Artist: Aaron Spurgeon | Title:  Microcosm of Los Angeles | Medium: Gouache on watercolor paper | Size: 13” x 24”

Object Lessons

Working in gouache, Aaron Spurgeon explores architecture and its relationship to the world around it.

Winter 2024

Features

Isn’t It Marvelous!

Isn’t It Marvelous!

As Marvel celebrates its 85th birthday, we look at the history of its animated TV series and TAG members who worked on these shows along the way.

Winter 2024

Features

Lighting played a key role in creating nuanced shadows in Gotham City.

The Bat Is Back

Thirty years after the trailblazing Batman: The Animated Series, Bruce Timm joins James Tucker to break new ground-again-with Batman: Caped Crusader.

Fall 2024

Final Note

Hip to Be Square

Hip to Be Square

As SpongeBob SquarePants turns 25, series veterans Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller look back on gags, outlines, and keeping things surreal.

Fall 2024
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