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
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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Big Buck Bunny 3D Animation
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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 Images of Pixar’s UP
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New Logo from Pixar’s film UP


Concept & Render Comparison

Original Images here and here

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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