It’s always great to get a peek inside Pixar Animation Studios and the creative minds that power the engine. While I’m envious of all the people I know that work at that amazing wonderland of entertainment production, I also realize they take it to the max everyday, pushing past their own personal and professional boundaries [...]
This simulated-version video showcases some potentially very, very cool uses of 3D projection on buildings. It’s not really a new idea, but seeing how this could look on a large scale is intriguing. Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo. Clearly, the projections have been recreated using effects for the purposes of the [...]
A dark, but beautiful paper art animation produced by Colenso BBDO and Animated by Andersen M Studio for the New Zealand Book Council. Thanks to Marty for the link!
Talented electronic music artist, Pogo has created his latest magical audio/video remix featuring samples from Disney•Pixar’s film “Up” and you can listen to it and watch the video right here!
October Sky Trailer: The Iron Giant Trailer: You could also also pair up October Sky with Apollo 13 or even Field of Dreams, both very inspiring films, but somehow The Iron Giant, with it’s space-related themes (including homage to Sputnik 1), small-town stories, and hope for something bigger and better seems to make it the [...]
One of the best things about Halloween is working your way through the candy and treats throughout the year. In addition to this year’s haul, be sure to check out my 2005 blog post for a bunch of tasty Halloween leftovers from last year! AUDIO GOODIES: Characters © Mike Mignola. Art © 2006 Starz Media, [...]
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas © Walt Disney Pictures. Catch a glimpse of how the wizards at Industrial Light and Magic and Disney transformed Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas into a 3-D film format in this video. Photo: Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY. Tim Burton discusses the impact of the film at this [...]
Here’s Part 2 of the interview I conducted with author/illustrator extraordinaire Mark Schultz regarding his career, influences, and future projects. Once again, thanks to both Mark and Palaeoblog creator, Dr. Michael Ryan for making this possible. Enjoy! – Mark, thanks again for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer some questions. We discussed [...]
As the 2D version is one of my all-time favorite films, I’m really looking forward to seeing this… Image: Copyright 2006 Walt Disney Pictures. Trailer available at this link. Image: Copyright 2006 Joel Fletcher For a taste of what the film might look like, be sure to grab your red and blue anaglyph 3-D glasses [...]
Ray Harryhausen tribute painting © Jim Dallmeier. Stop-motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen will be helping to develop a series of new features, TV movies, video games, and merchandising under the Ray Harryhausen Presents banner for Mindfire Entertainment according to Reuters and the Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo! News. From the article: Producer Mindfire Entertainment, which joined [...]
As you’re probably well aware, I’m a big King Kong fan. It remains one of the most engrossing variations of the Beauty and the Beast story. Almost no film today has matched the lushness of Kong‘s jungles, fierce Skull Island creatures, or emotion exuded by an animated lead character. King Kong is also a movie [...]
Carole Horst with Variety reports on the charming effect of clay animation on movie-going audiences: Computer generated 3D images dominate the short history of the animation Oscar. But this year, two front-runners — DreamWorks’ Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride from Warner Bros. — both use film’s [...]
Thanks to Cartoon Brew for bringing animation fans this news: the original puppets of Santa Claus and Rudolph (from the treasured Rankin/Bass holiday special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) have been found. Long thought lost, the puppets were found among the holiday decor of a former Rankin/Bass employee. The puppets have been purchased by TimeandSpaceToys.com and [...]
There’s a good interview by Mark Zimmer with stop-motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen at digitallyOBSESSED.com. “Harryhausen: I always worked by myself, because I like to concentrate. I prefer not to have people around. So every inch of film is usually the first take. We never had time to do retakes. dOc: How did you remember [...]
