Congratulations to Brad Bird, Pixar, and Disney! Keeping the momentum going, The Incredibles collected two more awards last night. The Disney/Pixar film which had four Academy Award nominations, won two of the four categories it was entered in. The action-packed superhero film won the Oscars for Animated Feature Film and Sound Editing. Add these to [...]
Not quite Minority Report, The Time Machine, or Back to the Future but certainly intriguing. Check out this link. More on the project can be found here. For the skeptics, this article, with one of the project members dismisses the prediction notions. As suggested by some, if the ‘device’ can’t provide any usable information before [...]
I wonder how many people actually remember to do this on their wireless-enabled laptop computers? Though it refers to Mac OS 9, I’m assuming it should be the same idea under Mac OS X and Windows.
Click here for the Dr. Tran Valentine Card! Flash required. See a clip of the infamous Dr. Tran at Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Gallery. “Noooooooo….” While you’re at it, head on over The Official Here Comes Dr. Tran website and order the DVD!!
The insightful DVD news and review site The Digital Bits, features an interview with the legendary master of stop-motion animation and special effects pioneer. The First Voyage of Ray Harryhausen lets Ray discuss the recently released DVD that showcases much of his early work. You can also read Adam Jahnke’s review of the disc here.
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I’m a big Ray Harryhausen fan. His painstaking work has given us so many memorable fantasy films and characters, encompassing fairy tales, classical myths, and futuristic visions. From the epic tale of Jason and the Argonauts, to the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, to alien invaders in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, no filmmaker with [...]
You may have heard about the passing of Dan Lee, a character designer and animator at Pixar Animation Studios. Sadly, he was taken by cancer, something which shouldn’t claim anyone. Dan was instrumental in designing not only ‘Nemo’ and his father in Finding Nemo, but other characters in Monsters, Inc. and A Bug’s Life. He [...]
If you know me, you also know I love movies. There’s almost nothing more enjoyable than sitting in a theater with friends and family enjoying the ‘big’ movies of the year. I’m like a 12-year old kid who goes into ‘geek’ mode when I’m thrilled about a movie. The hair on the back of my [...]
