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Nov
20
2008
Monsters vs Aliens Trailer 2 HD
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Screenshot From The Film Monsters Vs. Aliens

Dreamworks latest CG animated feature film Monsters Vs. Aliens
View the HD 1080p Quicktime Trailer 2

Nov
10
2008
Kit Kat Ultimate Break Advert
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Kit Kat Ultimate Break CG Animation advert on YouTube

The extended length commercial is reminicant of Pixar’s Incredibles office scene in terms of excellent animation, lighting and character design. The ad was created by Akama Studio in Paris.

Nov
08
2008
Pixar UP Trailer 2 HD
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Screenshot From The Film UP

From what I have seen, UP looks amazing, especially as is it Pixar’s first feature film to be shown in Disney Digital 3-D View the Quicktime Trailer 2 in HD 1080p.

Oct
12
2008
Lloyds TSB For the Journey Adverts
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Lloyds TSB ‘Savvy Saver’ For the Journey Ad Part 11

Directed by Marc Craste and created by his team at Studio AKA The first time I saw the series of animations on TV I was in awe. Quirky animation, excellent character design, beautiful lighting and wonderful story telling all come together to make this a magical viewing experience. Animated by Studio AKA and freelance animator Boris Kossmehl

Oct
01
2008
Fame and Fortune Animation By Nick Pitera
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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

Sep
26
2008
Coraline: New Stop Motion Feature Film
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Screenshot from the film.

Featurette on YouTube. Download 640×360 version


Behind the Scenes with more making of images and videos

Currently in post production is the new stop-motion film Coraline produced by Laika Entertainment (The name Laika incidentally, was named after the Russian cosmonaut dog) The film is written and directed by Henry Selick using his unique vision and style as with his other great movies The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach

Coraline is adapted from the novel by Neil Gaiman and follows the story of a curious young girl who unlocks a secret door in her family’s new home and discovers a more exciting alternate version of her life. Although it seems better at first, she must eventually have to return home and save her family.

Some people are saying “Why not do it in CG as it looks so refined?” Well my answer would be that we are seeing a different art form. We know the stop motion puppets and sets are ‘real’ and the suspension of belief is heightened. As the viewer, we are constantly reminded and drawn back to that fact throughout the film.

The film is due for a cinema release in the US on 6th February 2009 and on 8th May 2009 in UK.

Sep
04
2008
Gore Zoid 3D Animation
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Screenshot From Gore Zoid 3D Animation Click For Hi-Res Image

3D Gore Zoid Animation on YouTube

Added Sound FX and uploaded hi-res 3D Gore Zoid Animation to andywhiteley.com The animation was created using Maya, Mental Ray and Final Render. Composited in After Effects. See how I achieved flicker free global illumination and other methods including compositing techniques in the Making of 3D Gore Zoid section.

Aug
01
2008
The Tale of Despereaux Trailer
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Screenshot From The Tale of Despereaux


Screenshot From The Film


Artwork From The Film

(Above) Low-Res YouTube Trailer. Download HD Trailer here

The Tale of Despereaux is adapted from the children’s book by American author Kate DiCamillo and is the first sole film project for the Framestore-CFC Feature Animation Division.

What first strikes you about the trailer is the cinematography and lighting. Although stylistically different to Pixar’s Ratatouille, it looks simply stunning with beautiful environment and character textures created in part by artist and CG Society moderator Leigh van der Byl

The original childrens story book is available from Amazon.


The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

Jul
23
2008
The Pixar Story Documentary
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Poster For The Pixar Story

The Pixar Story documentary now showing in the UK on Sky Movies Family, Channel 305.

Jul
18
2008
WALL.E Released In Cinemas Today
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Poster For Pixar’s Film WALL.E


Screenshot From For Pixar’s Short Film Presto

Pixar’s latest feature film WALL.E is released in cinemas today.

I was a little sceptical when the teaser trailer was first released, although as it turns out, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Oh except for Pixar’s first Nuke The Fridge moment. My jaw hit the floor as cheesy live action (yes, live action) was used to portray the utopian humans aboard the Axiom, very out of character for Pixar. The reasoning behind this is that Andrew Stanton wanted the humans to be in keeping with the Hello Dolly sequence.

As always, Pixar screened their latest animated short before the main film, entitled Presto which as it turns out, is one of the funniest shorts Pixar has created.

Interesting CG Society article on WALL.E entitled The Little Robot That Could covering Pixar’s CG character creation and modeling methods. There’s also an article covering Presto entitled Chaos Theory Behind Pixar’s Presto

Click Here to watch the WALL.E HD 1080p Quicktime Trailers.

The entire WALL.E script is available to download in .pdf format here

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