Recorded: January 6, 2025 - Episode 29

We GO FULL INDEPTH ON the Movie In depth Acceleracers: IGNITION, WATCH to have your mind blown!!

Andrew Duncan is the voice actor of Monkey from AcceleRacers... OH and the Director of some of World Race Highway 35... OH and the series director of AcceleRacers... OH and the MOCAP Of Shirako, Monkey, and Nolo... OH and he is the guest on today's PART 1 podcast, super excited to have him on and share a little about his time working on Hot Wheels World Race with William Lau. Please enjoy Episode 29 of the Squared Corner Podcast!

Find Andrew Duncan here:

https://www.andrewmonkeyduncan.com

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1433999/

https://x.com/Monkey_Duncan

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TimeStamps:

0:00 - Intro and Teaser

1:16 - Kadeem and Banjee were coming back for a REDEMPTION?

3:44 - The New Darker Tone and Risk

9:04 - The Intros were an Homage to World Race

10:56 - The Curious Case of the Redesigned Characters

17:07 - Vert's Arc was Planned

19:16 - The change to Gelorum and CLYP

22:43 - The Battle for Hot Wheels City

24:52 - Jeff Gomez Connection

26:32 - I Would Pick Up AcceleRacers Tomorrow

27:26 - Storage issues in 2004

30:55 - How long did it take to Animate

33:39 - Ian Richter makes Andrew Series Director

36:03 - The Best Action came from William Lau

37:16 - AcceleRacers still looks good!

38:52 - ORANGE Track STAYS

41:37 - Car Redesigns like DEORA II

44:08 - How does Kadeem Survive the Storm Realm?

46:14 - How does Banjee escape? + Silencerz Lore

50:13 - Gig! The Lore and Mocap

52:03 - Being the Mocap Director

56:02 - HE INVENTED THE SHIRAKO DANCE

57:29 - Performative Capture

1:00:37 - Becoming MONKEY

1:07:14 - Balancing Monkey's Comedic Side and his lore

1:09:40 - Ignition

1:11:03 - Helmets and Broadcast Standards

1:14:48 - What happened between World Race and AcceleRacers

1:19:08 - Designing the Acceledrome

1:22:03 - Its too Canadian

1:24:46 - Make it Make sense

1:26:13 - How they shot AcceleRacers differently

1:28:09 - How Realms would look in 3D

1:32:15 - Making the Big Pay Off Moments

1:35:09 - The Last Shot in Ignition

1:36:33 - Andrew created Sparky

1:37:43 - Was Anything Cut from Ignition

1:39:42 - Where to Find Andrew and JayCee + Credits