Lost and Found DVD
Dir: Philip Hunt
Narrator: Jim Broadbent
Lost and Found: The Story of The Film
by Oliver Jeffers
Lost and Found
by Oliver Jeffers
Lost and Found DVD
Dir: Philip Hunt
Narrator: Jim Broadbent
Lost and Found: The Story of The Film
by Oliver Jeffers
Lost and Found
by Oliver Jeffers
Fame and Fortune animated short on YouTube
Excellent animation created and sung by Nick Pitera at Ringling College of Art in Florida. Nick has deservedly landed an animation position at Pixar
Poster For The 3D Short Big Buck Bunny
Low-Res YouTube Video. Download Hi-Res 1080p Movie here
Big Buck Bunny could easily be mistaken for a production by Blue Sky or Dreamworks, with brilliant character design, animation, lighting and above all, an excellent comedic storyline. I found this movie to be much more appealing than Blender Foundation’s previous work Elephants Dream although it is still a very well produced piece of work.
The entire production was created with the 3D Open Source Software Blender This proves that feature film quality can now be achieved by 8 guys in a room using free community based software.
Blender Foundation have released the character and scene production files for users to mess around with here
Textured Model of a 3D Bruce Willis
Making of Headcases on the ITV website.
A behind the scenes look in to the development of Headcases from interviews with the writers, voice over artists and character designer Mark Reeve to an insight in to the modelling, animation and motion capture at Red Vision
Maya Wireframe Sub-D view of Sylvester Stallone
Interesting thread by modeler Jason Edwards on the Simply Maya Community Forum. Jasons CG Portfolio can be viewed here
Andy Hickinbottom modeled the Victoria Beckham character. View his portfolio here
Ratatouille
Dir: Brad Bird
Co Dir: Jan Pinkava
Released today in the UK, Ratatouille on Blu-ray which features some great extras, including Pixar’s latest great animated short Lifted.
Poster For Pixar’s Animated Feature Cars
Finally seen Pixar’s latest film Cars, directed by John Lassetter, in fantastic digital format at The Light Vue Cinema. After the initial disappointment of the first teaser trailer, I am pleased to say that Pixar have come up with the goods yet again. Oh, apart from the exception of Jeremy Clarkson as the voice of Lightning McQueen’s agent. I wish directors wouldn’t insist on using localised celebrity voice talent for each country. It instantly shatters the illusion. I’ll definitely be buying the original US version of the DVD. Look out for the hilarious tractor tipping scene and the equally superb end credits.
Screenshot From The Short Film One Man Band
As a bonus, the new short film One Man Band written and directed by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews was also shown before the main film. The film has a beautiful European style, somewhat of a departure for Pixar and has a nice simple storyline with well developed characters.
The Deadline CG Animation By Aardman
Excellent CG short film directed by Stefan Marjoram at Aardman Animation.
The multi award winning short film preceded a series of episodes for Nicktoons.
The Deadline Making of Images In After Effects and Maya
‘Making of’ screenshots accompanied by the CG Society article Looming Deadlines
The Sandman Stop-Motion Animation
The Sandman is an excellent stop motion film by Paul Berry with models and sets by Ian Mackinnon at Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester UK. Paul Berry is no longer with us, but continues to be an inspiration to animators everywhere. He also worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. The Sandman is one of the main reasons why I decided to study for an animation degree.
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