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Andy Serkis on Beowulf, motion-capture animation
…use the same motion-capture technique employed for his adaptation of The Polar Express. During the conversation, Serkis explained, “I think that more motion capture is [being] used in film, and… |
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Contour improving motion-capture process
San Francisco-based Mova LLC is working to improve the motion-capture technology used in such movies as Monster House and The Polar Express, writes Yahoo! News/Associated Press. Employing a system of… |
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Stop-Mo Expo Pics
The following are ten pictures taken at last Saturday’s Stop-Mo Expo put on by Larry Loc and hosted by ASIFA-Hollywood:… |
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Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series
…and his Vulture Squadron, including the sniggering dog Muttley, attempt to stop a carrier pigeon from delivering his messages. The Sweatbox Review: 1969 saw two significant events for Hanna-Barbera: the… |
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Stop Staring, start reading
An animator’s guidebook, {{link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782141293/qid%3D1072479639//102-4687562-8010520 Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right}}, by Jason Osipa, which looks at one of the still-challenging aspects of 3D animation: namely the modeling… |
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Song of the Summer? Timberlake releases Can’t Stop the Feeling from DreamWorks’ Trolls
Justin Timberlake released Can’t Stop the Feeling today, which will be featured on the soundtrack for DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls. The video for the song includes co-stars James Corden, Anna Kendrick,… |
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Stop-Mo Expo
Reminding people that hand-drawn and computer-generated are not the only two types of animation, ASIFA-Hollywood will be hosting a Stop-Mo Expo on April 21 at Woodbury University. Organized primarily by… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…I was the original director on it. Then Ralph Zondag came on. My inspiration was the work that Phil Tippett had done. He had done some stop motion work with… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…a different look – puppets, stop motion, paper cut out and mo-cap. Each iteration came with a different team and a different way of funding. By the time the film… |
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New Boxtrolls trailer showcases amazing and detailed work behind the film
…The Whole World In His Hands,” the trailer shows how the stop motion process requires intensive focus of detail from making the puppets’ clothing to a single weed in a… |
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Academy Award-nominated director awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
…winning animated short films, announced their partnership today in Los Angeles. The duo, which will make The Better Half a stop–motion animated short film, also announced that Osborne received a… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…stop–motion masterpiece, Wendell & Wild find a home there as well. Speaking of stop–motion animation, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio [above right] was also brilliantly accomplished, in all the ways that… |
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Frankenweenie resurrected?
Last Saturday, September 29, word arrived via Ain’t It Cool News that Disney would soon announce a new stop–motion project from “the creative mastermind behind the majority of stop–motion pictures… |
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Missing Link goes missing at the box office
…the worst debut that stop–motion animation studio Laika has seen to date, grossing just $5.8 million according to studio estimates. Prior to the weekend, tracking didn’t have Missing Link faring… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…The moments between Buck and his son are somewhat touching, but there’s at least two too many of them and they have the undesired effect of stop-starting the pace of… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…The ants suddenly look a bit stop–motion animated, which apparently gives them the need to build themselves up to reach a dangling Spalko. As one ant manages to run up… |
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WALL•E wins over the critics; Brit legend Oliver Postgate RIP…
…He’s a hitherto unknown name in American animation, but was a genuine legendary pioneer of stop–motion in Britain, famous for his many long-running animated series that would inspire the likes… |
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Su and Mo poke "crude, rude and lewd" fun at the Film Festival experience
…Night at Club Hippendale’s and O Brother, Where Fart Thou? set up the characters as popular exotic dancers, earning tip money to fund their films. The stop motion idea carried… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…many fans, but astounding to see “on the page”, as it were. Eadweard Muybridge’s Animals In Motion sits under glass for close inspection alongside his The Human Figure In Motion… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…Broadway icon Ken Page, Kris Kristofferson, and Oscar-winning stop–motion director Mark Gustafson, among others. A special shout-out must be made for Disney Legend Richard Sherman, half of the iconic Sherman… |
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Animation at Newport Beach Film Fest 2007
…it was advised that animators start prepping their entries for submission. The Newport Beach Film Fest supports all varieties of animation, including hand-drawn, computer-generated, stop motion, motion capture, and puppetry…. |
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Character Animation Panel Discussion
…(Stop Motion Animation) Dave Barclay, Perform FX (Puppet Capture Technology) Michelle Papandrew, Cartoon Network (Flash Animation) Ken McDonald, Sony Pictures Imageworks, (Motion Capture) Saturday, January 19th, 2008 11am – 1pm… |
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Sand's not just for beaches anymore
Soon to be a rival to hand-drawn, stop motion, computer-generated, and motion capture animation is . . . sand animation. The web edition of The Orange County Register features Hungarian… |
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The "world beneath the loo:" Flushed Away first look
USA Today has a first look at Aardman Animations’/DreamWorks Animation SKG’s Flushed Away, the CGI film that looks a lot like stop motion but still retains the Aardman charm. Voiced… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…with the data afterward. You can’t say it’s simply just capturing. It’s frustrating for me and the industry where we’re seen as just motion-capturing. Motion-capturing has no emotion. Performance capture… |
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Nyback's Cartoon Extravaganza now in motion
…works by Winsor McCay (Gertie the Dinosaur); Otto Messmer (Felix the Cat); Ub Iwerks; Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker); Ladislas Starevitch, the legendary Russian master of stop-action animation; and Tex Avery…. |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…Menzies, who is a motion control genius, to build for us a motion control rig that would replicate every move that a Gryphon would make, from a head turn to… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…bring Tintin and his colorful cast of companions to the screen, including a 1940s stop–motion film and two live-action features in the 60s, the only really authentic (and Hergé approved)… |
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Disney, Zemeckis form motion capture company
…Under the deal, Zemeckis, Rapke and Starkey will produce all of the films, several of which Zemeckis is expected to direct. Disney will distribute and market the motion pictures worldwide…. |
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New Kubo and the Two Strings motion poster
A new motion poster for Kubo & the Two Strings has just been released by Focus Features and can be viewed below. The movie opens everywhere this August…. |
