{"id":14446,"date":"2025-03-10T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/?p=14446"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:24:02","slug":"rising-stars-of-animation-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/2025\/03\/10\/rising-stars-of-animation-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Stars of Animation 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Joyce Colson<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Production Designer,\u00a0<em>Lucy Lost<\/em>\u00a0(Xilam)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong>\u00a040<br \/>\n<strong>Birthplace:\u00a0<\/strong>Lyon, France<br \/>\n<strong>I knew I wanted to work in animation when:<\/strong>\u00a0When I first started work 20 years ago, it was for the animated series\u00a0<em>Shuriken School<\/em>\u00a0at Xilam\u2019s studio. I didn\u2019t know anything about animation then, but the working atmosphere in the studio was so great that it just made me want to carry on this activity!<br \/>\n<strong>First job in animation:<\/strong>\u00a0Xilam was looking for a line and color background artist for\u00a0<em>Shuriken School<\/em>, so I just sent my artist\u2019s book of illustrations, and they decided to bring me on board.<br \/>\n<strong>What I love about my job:\u00a0<\/strong>Being a production designer is different to my previous work in animation \u2014 before I was mostly focusing on background illustration, but now I have to get a more rounded vision of the animation, and I have more meetings and exchanges with the team on this.<br \/>\n<strong>Toughest part of the job:<\/strong>\u00a0This job requires good time management!<br \/>\n<strong>Favorite toons:<\/strong>\u00a0I remember watching with my parents\u00a0<em>The Snow Queen\u00a0<\/em>(1957), a Russian animated feature film directed by Lev Atamanov. I loved the design!<br \/>\n<strong>Best advice:<\/strong>\u00a0Never stop drawing and love teamwork.<br \/>\n<strong>Future plans:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m looking forward to continuing to combine my two passions \u2014 working in an animation studio and carrying on my children\u2019s illustrations that originally sparked my love for drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Animation Magazine article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animationmagazine.net\/2025\/03\/rising-stars-of-animation-2025\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Colson Production Designer,\u00a0Lucy Lost\u00a0(Xilam) Age:\u00a040 Birthplace:\u00a0Lyon, France I knew I wanted to work in animation when:\u00a0When I first started work 20 years ago, it was for the animated series\u00a0Shuriken&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19726,"featured_media":14442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,155,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-bis","category-2025-en","category-actualites-en","category-158","category-155","category-51","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14448,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446\/revisions\/14448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xilam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}