Excellent short film by Ringling students Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis.
http://defective-detective.com/
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/detective.html
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=993347
Excellent short film by Ringling students Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis.
http://defective-detective.com/
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/detective.html
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=993347
Nominee: Day & Night
Studio: Pixar
Director: Teddy Newton
Nominee: The Gruffalo
Studio: Magic Light Pictures
Directors: Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Nominee: Let’s Pollute
Studio: Geefwee Boedoe Production
Director: Geefwee Boedoe
*WINNER: The Lost Thing
Studio: Passion Pictures Australia
Directors: Nick Batzias, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Nominee: Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)
Studio: Sacrebleu
Director: Bastien Dubois
Iron Baby Short Film on YouTube in HD
Loving the CG work (and the evil enemy bunnies!) on the excellent animated Iron Baby short by French Canadian animator and director Patrick Boivin The CG/FX was handled by Strob and his 3DS Max model of the Iron Baby is available to download from Turbosquid
WINNER: Logorama
Nominee: French Roast
Nominee: Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Nominee: La dama y la muerte (The Lady and The Reaper)
Nominee: Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death
It’s no surprise that Pixar’s UP won Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, but there isn’t usually a great deal of fuss around the Best Animated Shorts. Here are the 4 nominees and overall winner. Although Logorama is very clever, after the initial novelty of seeing the world made out of corporate logos, the story doesn’t grab you as much as it could have and consequently the film could have been shorter. I thought A Matter of Loaf and Death should have won and there was unfortunately no sign of Alma which is one of the best short films of the year. It must have been overlooked by the voting panel and should have at least been given a nomination.
The Gruffalo was created by Studio Soi and Magic Light Pictures for the BBC. The short 30 minute animated film combines both CGI and Stop-Motion techniques to create a stylistic look which is faithful to the original book
Here’s a great interview with Axel Scheffler as he talks through his initial Gruffalo book illustrations.
If you don’t manage to catch it on Christmas Day, the DVD is available now.
The Gruffalo DVD
Dir: Jakob Schuh & Max Lang
Voice Cast: James Corden, Rob Brydon, Robbie Coltrane
Alma Short Film in HD on Vimeo
Excellent short animated film entitled Alma by Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas
There are two main characters in the film. Mainly the girl, but also the doll shop itself, which takes architectual influences from Gaudi’s House in Barcelona, to become something out of the ordinary.
Even though the film is beautifully animated and rendered, it just goes to show that a good story will leave you wanting to watch it over and over.
The film was recently shown at Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans and won the Jury Honorable Mention award.
Visit the Official Alma Website for an insight into the film.
Machu Picchu Post Short Animation
Screenshot From Machu Picchu Post
Machu Picchu Post is a short film created by 3 final year Supinfocom students. It tells the tale of a Peruvian boy and his pet lama and what happens when a mail plane loses some letters over the boy’s house. What stands out for me, is not only the overall design and excellent use of painterly camera mapped textures, but the cleaver direction of transitions between the normal and psychedelic worlds. The Machu Picchu Post CGsociety Article focuses on the production of the film, illustrated with concept art and wireframes. You can find more production designs on the Machu Picchu Post website.
Production Still From Pixar’s Short Film Partly Cloudy
Where do delivery storks get their babies from? This question is the basis of Partly Cloudy, the new short animated film by Pixar. The story features a stork called Peck who handles various dangerous baby animals sculptured by Gus the insecure grey cloud. Keeping with tradition, the short will be shown in cinemas proir to UP.
The CGsociety Article entitled Sky-High Talent introduces production artist Peter Sohn as a short film director at Pixar.
WALL.E Wins Best Animated Feature
Octapodi Just Loses Out On An Oscar
WALL.E deservedly received an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, but my favourites, Pixar’s Presto and Octapodi by students at Gobelins L’ecole de L’Image lose out in Best Short Film (Animated) category.
Screenshot from the short film Lost and Found
Lost and Found is an award winning childrens book by Oliver Jeffers and has been adapted by Studio AKA The 25-minute CG animation, directed by Philip Hunt and narrated by Jim Broadbent will be screened for the first time on Channel 4 in the UK at 2.30pm on Christmas Eve and repeated at 12.30pm on Boxing Day. It will also be broadcast simultaneously on Channel 4 HD.
Clip of the film posted on the Studio AKA website.
Read an interview with the ocean effects designer, Rob Chapman.
Various scenes were animated by London based freelancer Boris Kossmehl
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