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Jul 18, 2026 1 hr 41 min

Going Behind the Scenes on AcceleRacers: Ignition

from The Squared Corner Hosted by JayCee Squared

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 🚨 Thank you LAP24Coffee for sponsoring! *while supplies lasts, Offers subject to change ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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