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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
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
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.
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.
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
Poster For The Pixar Story
The Pixar Story documentary now showing in the UK on Sky Movies Family, Channel 305.
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
The Art of Wall.E
by Tim Hauser
Example Page Scan From The Art of Wall.E
The ‘Art of’ series of Pixar books should be on every 3D Artists/Animators bookshelf.
Many examples of pre-production sketches, maquette sculpts, animation thumbnails, digital paintings and digital renders are included. The book also contains development insights from some of the artists and animators 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
New Logo from Pixar’s film UP
Concept & Render Comparison
UP is directed by Monsters Inc. director Pete Docter
The film is due for release on 17th July 2009 (UK) in Disney Digital 3-D
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