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
AT-AT Day Afternoon HD Short Film on Vimeo
Not entirely CG related but definitely worth a mention, the animated short film entitled AT-AT Day Afternoon by French Canadian animator and director Patrick Boivin who incidentally also created the CG short Iron Baby.
Making Of AT-AT Day Afternoon on Vimeo
The majority of the film is composited using elements from live action puppetry, where the wider shots are acheived through stop-motion.
The film looks to have been shot in full HD 1080p on a Digital SLR camera such as the Canon 5D MkII
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
Avatar
Dir: James Cameron
Dreamworks new animated feature film How To Train Your Dragon is out in UK cinemas today and will be available to watch in IMAX 3-D
Watch The How To Train Your Dragon Trailer in full Quicktime HD 1080
Should be a great one as it is currently getting some fantastic reviews.
IMDB currently 8.3/10! Rotten Tomatoes currently 97%!
Behind-the-scenes of How To Train Your Dragon on Making of.com (above)
Animation Mentor graduate Mike Stern worked on the film.
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Wee Brian who was one of the three animators on Aardman’s The Deadline also worked as an Animator.
Interesting Production Videos collated on the CGsociety Forums.
Animation World Network interview with Directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, also includes interview with Head of Character Animation Simon Otto entitled DreamWorks Unleashes the Dragons
Avatar Blu-ray
Dir: James Cameron
It has been confirmed today that Avatar will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK on April 26th 2010. As yet there is no word of a release date for the 3-D version of the film which will probably be announced when 3-D technology becomes mainstream and more affordable in the home, so it could be a while yet.
UP
Dir: Pete Docter
Pixar’s latest film Up is released on Blu-ray today in the UK. I was looking forward to seeing this as I missed it at the cinema. Written and directed by Monsters Inc. director and veteran Toy Story animator Pete Docter Also includes Pixar’s latest animated short Partly Cloudy
An interesting section in the making of documentary, describes how the story department fleshed out Carl and Ellie’s developing relationship. One idea shows them trading ’punches’ throughout the years to gain one-upmanship over each other! The idea was unsurprisingly discarded as the ‘cross your heart’ concept was deemed more prominent. It just shows that Pixar develop their stories to the full, exploring every possible avenue, while going through many rewrites before deciding on the final draft.
District 9
Dir: Neill Blomkamp
Released on Blu-ray today in the UK. Believe the reviews, District 9 employs some groundbreaking film making from first time feature director Neill Blomkamp Behind the scenes info District 9: Making Of
Coraline
Dir: Henry Selick
If you are interested in animation in any way at all, CG or otherwise, I recommend that you buy Coraline on Blu-ray. The film is a masterpiece of animation.
Monsters Inc.
Dir: Pete Docter
Finally, released today in the UK, Monsters Inc. on Blu-ray.
Includes full DTS-HD uncompressed sound.
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