Martial Arts Deep Dive with Sifu Kisu and Bryan Konietzko
Avatar: Braving the Elements
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How to Animate a Kung Fu Series
There was a trend to, I think there's montages on YouTube of like, how many animated shows and properties have copied that one motorcycle slide from Akira. "I wanted this to be a Kung Fu series," says Avatar creator James Cameron. In order to do that very soon after we pitched it to Nickelodeon, even before we had a contract, he said, 'I'm going to be the Robert De Niro of TV animators'
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