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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Wallace and Gromit Trailer

New feature length stop motion animation Teaser Trailer for Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Aardman and Dreamworks.

Edit: DVD now available here from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

Featurette for the movie. Andy Symanowski (shown in red and grey t-shirt alongside Nick Park) was on my animation degree course at S.I.A.D. He has also worked on Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit: Cracking Contraptions and Rex the Runt.

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Pixar Digital Artist

Website for Pixar digital artist - Suzanne Slatcher

Suzanne was on my animation degree course at S.I.A.D. and has been lucky enough to work on Ratatouille, Cars, The Incredibles and Finding Nemo.

Her website can be found here

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Pixar Cars Teaser Trailer

First look at Pixar's latest film entitled Cars. The teaser trailer is quite disappointing for Pixar. I think this is down to the rather flat middle section of the trailer. I have faith though, that Pixar will deliver, as usual, a visually stunning feature film.

Download trailer here (right click > save as)

Sunday, May 01, 2005

New Domain Name Registration

It has been taken for years, but I finally managed to register the andywhiteley.co.uk domain name with UKReg.co.uk This will redirect to my .com domain name.

Sunday, Apr 24, 2005

Vanishing Species Short Film

My first ever animated character.

Shortlisted in the RSA (The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts) 'Vanishing Species' animation competition while at S.I.A.D. (Surrey Institute of Art and Design) The film was created 10 years ago using Lightwave 4.5.

1995 was a time when you had to buy your own computer (yes, even at Art School) in my case a Commodore Amiga, to be able to do anything half decent, even then it only had a 20mHz processor, 14mb of memory, 500mb hard drive and took hours to render even a simple frame! Full length animated feature films were only a dream.

Sorry for the quality as it is transferred from poor quality VHS.

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Corpse Bride Trailer

New Quicktime trailer for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Download here

The film initially looks CGI but is stop motion (thankfully). One of the main reasons for this is down to new filming techniques. Canon Digital SLR cameras were utilised instead of 35mm film and was edited on Apple Macs in Final Cut Pro.

The look is also down to the ability to fine tune facial expressions instead of using head replacements. This is due to the minaturisation of mechanical gears. Models and sets created by Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester UK. The film was created at Three Mills Studios in London.

Edit: DVD now available here from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com