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Jun
15
2006
Cars CG Society Article
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CG Society’s Road Trip Article


Wireframe, Diffuse and Occlusion/Reflection Render Layers From Cars

Click Here to view the CG Society article detailing Pixar’s Production Focus on Cars

Jun
14
2006
Ratatouille Teaser Trailer
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Screenshot from Pixar’s film Ratatouille

Ratatouille Teaser Trailer now available to download from the Apple Quicktime trailer site in excellent HD quality. Pixar’s latest film directed by Brad Bird. Release date Summer 2007.

Jun
07
2006
Pixar Art of Cars
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The Art of Cars
by Michael Wallis


Example Page From The Art of Cars

Another excellent ‘art of’ book from Pixar. Included are many examples of pre-production sketches, maquette sculpts, animation thumbnails, digital paintings and digital renders amongst others. The book also includes fascinating development insights from some of the key artists and animators at Pixar.

Jun
06
2006
Puffs Tissues Commercials
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Screenshots From US Commercial For Puffs Tissues

US commercials for Puffs Tissues. Similar style to The Sandman as the characters were also created by Mackinnon and Saunders the people behind the film.

May
21
2005
Pixar Cars Teaser Trailer
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Screenshot From Cars Trailer

First look at Pixar’s latest film entitled Cars.

The quicktime 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.

May
18
2005
Wallace and Gromit Trailer
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Curse of the Were-Rabbit Screenshot

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


Stop-Motion Animator Andy Symanowski With Nick Park

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.

May
13
2005
Pixar Digital Artist
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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

May
12
2005
Corpse Bride Trailer
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Screenshot From 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.

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

May
01
2005
New Domain Name Registration
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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.

Nov
21
2004
The Incredibles At The Filmworks
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Official The Incredibles Poster

Just seen The Incredibles in glorious digital format at The Filmworks in Manchester. The clarity of the images is so clear, I won’t be watching a blurry low quality film from now on, it’s digital or nothing at all.

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