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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
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

Jun
24
2008
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

Apr
24
2008
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

Apr
21
2008
Making of Headcases
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Textured Model of a 3D Bruce Willis

Making of Headcases on the ITV website.

A behind the scenes look in to the development of Headcases from interviews with the writers, voice over artists and character designer Mark Reeve to an insight in to the modelling, animation and motion capture at Red Vision


Maya Wireframe Sub-D view of Sylvester Stallone

Interesting thread by modeler Jason Edwards on the Simply Maya Community Forum. Jasons CG Portfolio can be viewed here

Andy Hickinbottom modeled the Victoria Beckham character. View his portfolio here

Apr
01
2008
Headcases New CG Animated TV Series
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Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Harrison Ford depicted in 3D

Headcases starts on ITV Sunday April 6th.
The new CG animated series is in the same satirical vain as 2DTV and Spitting Image.
First impressions from the trails are quite promising. The characters resemble their counterparts, look well designed and rendered. John Culshaw and Rory Bremner lead the way providing voices for the 64 strong cast amongst a host of UK comedy talent.
The series was created and directed by the original Spitting Image writer Henry Naylor and developed by Red Vision in Manchester and London. It is said to have cost £2.5 million to make.

Feb
11
2008
Ratatouille Blu-ray DVD UK Release
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Ratatouille
Dir: Brad Bird
Co Dir: Jan Pinkava

Released today in the UK, Ratatouille on Blu-ray which features some great extras, including Pixar’s latest great animated short Lifted.

Nov
25
2007
3D Animation Bookshelf
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Screenshot From 3D Animation Bookshelf

Added a 3D Animation Bookshelf section.

I have included ‘art of’ and ‘making of film’ books from major studios including Pixar, ILM and Dreamworks. I have also included 3D animation Blu-ray DVD’s.

Oct
14
2007
Ratatouille Filmworks Digital Cinema
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Official Ratatouille UK Film Poster

After the long wait, well it was for us here in the UK, I finally got to see Pixar’s Ratatouille at The Filmworks Digital Cinema in Manchester. I think this is my favourite Pixar film, along with the original Toy Story.

May
07
2007
Pixar Ratatouille: Linguini Podcast
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Linguini à la Carte Podcast



Making Of Screenshot From The Podcast

 The latest Ratatouille podcast focuses on the main character Linguini. Includes a few behind the scenes insights.

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