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Fantastic Mr Fox
Despite the aggravated proclamations of its animators and heavily dropped rumors that director Wes Anderson was hardly to be seen on the “set” of his latest film, a stop–motion animated… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…do it”. So, we teamed up and we did many short subjects – a couple of them were nominated for Academy Awards. Walt Disney was very interested in stop–motion at… |
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Trolls Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
…for Trolls has been released in advance of the film’s November 4 premiere. The apparent lead single, Can’t Stop the Feeling!, was released way back on May 6, and now… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…as well as traditional, computer, and motion capture animation. Born in Cambridge, England, Wells studied audio-visual design at the De Montfort University. Upon graduating, he directed commercials at Richard Williams’… |
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LDI develops motion capture alternative
A new alternative to motion capture technology has been put into production by LookAhead Decisions Incorporated reports Business Wire. ActiveMotion generates realistic motion in any environment and for any multi-articulate… |
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Dead Man's Chest, Cars win VES awards
…in an Animated Motion Picture” due to the character of Mater. THE FIFTH ANNUAL VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY AWARDS Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture Pirates of… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…against a box office take of less than $40m. Causing much embarrassment for the Studio, Disney accepted that audiences were not as embracing of ImageMovers’ style of motion-capture animation as… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the 2006 short, The Little Matchgirl, which earned Hahn his second Oscar nomination. He is currently developing the stop–motion animated feature Frankenweenie… |
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[Press release] Ratatouille 9-minute preview
…360) http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=b10088&bitrateid=342&vendorid=600 Low (320 x 240) http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=b10088&bitrateid=343&vendorid=600 Flash 8 High (640 x 480) http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=b10088&bitrateid=349&vendorid=600 Med (480 x 360) http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=b10088&bitrateid=348&vendorid=600 Low (320 x 240) http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=b10088&bitrateid=347&vendorid=600 Official Synopsis Ratatouille Release Date: June… |
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ASIFA announces Winsor McCay recipients
At a private ceremony at Comic-Con, ASIFA–Hollywood announced the recipients of the Winsor McCay Awards – given for a lifetime of achievement in animation. John Lasseter, Mike Judge, and Nick… |
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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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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…did you come to choose stop–motion to tell this story? MS: Stop–motion is one of the oldest and slowest way of doing films. But that allows to have the greatest… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…realise that The Nightmare Before Christmas is now approaching its 20th birthday and yet the stop–motion animation feature has really only recently started to breath again, much of it down… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…“replacement” stop–motion technique that he largely pioneered. It is somewhat amazing that Warner Bros. and Paramount have not yet issued any of his classic films on Blu-ray (Olive Films licensed… |
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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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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…also films by George Cukor, and by Chaplin, by Keaton and so on. All the Hollywood cinema, and the European cinema. AV: And then Disney was accepted by Hollywood itself,… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…help from his friend Walter Lantz, after moving from Hungary to run his own studio in Berlin, developing his patented stop–motion Puppetoon system. With the threat of war in Europe,… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…puppet/stop–motion master’s work, or discover these unique films for the first time. – Animated News coverage by Ben Simon. See the {{link http://www.caprino.no/en-UK/news/05/11/17_DVDTrailer_en.html Caprino DVD trailer}} in English, or {{link… |
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Classic \\Popeye\\, rare Charley Bowers shorts added to the National Film Registry
{{link http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=24545 }}Max and Dave Fleischer’s 1936 classic \\Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor\\ and a rarely seen short by (hand drawn and stop motion) animator Charley Bowers titled… |
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Not the 'hood, The 'Wood
…up Hollywood,” including a link to its preview hosted at YouTube: For Immediate Release FORGET THE HILLS AND CHECK OUT THE ‘WOOD ON STARZ Starz Introduces Six Cele-bear-ties from Hollywood… |
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Eisner era at Disney ends
…the company, the ethic, the assets, the enthusiasm were there when I arrived in 1984, and I’m proud as I leave to see that they are still there” (\\{{link http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/business/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001181975… |
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Massive Comic-Con update
…http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20750 King Kong}} panel description, with T-Rex fight footage shown – Director Bryan Singer and {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20748 Superman Returns}}, with a trailer peek and description Finally, there’s an {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20749… |
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The World's Best Independent Animated Shorts website is now live
…Keogh Creative Producer Raider Productions 7243 Braeside Dr. Burnaby BC Canada V5A-1E9 Tel: 001-604-291-7727 Fax: 001-604-291-7727 Website: {{link http://www.raiderproductions.com/ www.raiderproductions.com}} / {{link http://www.nabias.com/ www.nabias.com}} / {{link http://www.wbias.com/ www.wbias.com}} E-mail: aaronkeogh@raiderproductions.com… |
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ASIFA Madagascar screening
ASIFA–Hollywood will be holding a members-only screening (but anyone can be a member) of DreamWorks/PDI’s upcoming CGI film Madagascar on Monday, May 23rd, at Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theater. And look… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…Land (1935), A Corny Concerto (1943), The Rabbit of Seville (1950) and more. For a complete list of shorts, please visit http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2010/operadoc.html. Following the program, the Academy will hold extended… |
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WB authorized Batman signing event
…about WonderCon visit: {{link http://www.Comic-Con.org www.Comic-Con.org}} WWA art gallery is one of the world’s leading animation art galleries. WWA specializes in original animation and has an art inventory of over… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…out machine and manual labor. Shot using stop–motion animated cut-outs, the short retains the rhyming convention of the original, but it drags on for too long, becoming quickly repetitive and… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…No other Hollywood films are as well documented as Disney’s animated features. Most other Hollywood studios throw out anything of interest to scholars. Most notoriously, in 1970 MGM dumped numerous… |
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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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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…to think how much he’s affected people’s lives? And his influence just keeps going, it doesn’t stop. AD: No, it doesn’t stop. Frank . . . or Ollie, they keep… |
