The idea was to try some divide and conquer. The two of us worked together through the storyboard and editorial process. Did you share most duties, or divide and conquer?ĪC: On the front end, coming up with a story, coming up with the idea, it was evenly divided.
It's very common these days to have two directors on an animated film. It was wonderful to be working again with Jen because both of us are part of to at least some degree the parents of this character, and the two of us together really work well because of that.ĭS: Describe your co-directing dynamic. You really need to protect it, to save it and safeguard it from any experimental approach. When you work on a sequel, especially a sequel that is so character driven like Kung Fu Panda, you feel yourself more the steward of a character.you're of course the director, but there is also this stewardship element involved. Jen and I had worked closely together on the first movie. After I came on board, the movie changed significantly – we’d figured out a new idea together. I was working on a different project and was actually invited onto the project by Jen because the scope of the movie was getting bigger and bigger. I recently had a chance to speak with Carloni, who gave us his take on the co-directing dynamic he experienced working with Yuh as well as the challenges of leading such an important studio feature franchise production.ĭan Sarto: When did you first get involved in the production?Īlessandro Carloni: Jen had been working on Kung Fu Panda 3 already for some time. Helming the latest Panda offering are Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh, two DreamWorks veterans with many years of directing, animating, story and visual design development between them. It also marks the first time they’ve produced new facial animation specifically to sync with the Mandarin voice acting recorded for the Chinese version of the film. As the latest offering in the Jack Black-fronted Kung Fu Panda franchise, Kung Fu Panda 3 has been a solid box-office success for DreamWorks Animation, and marks their first feature co-production of sorts (collaboration may be a better word) with their Shanghai-based Chinese studio, Oriental DreamWorks.
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