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January 12, 2012 12:05 am
Harmony Bouchard, Raphael Cenzi, Joakim Riedinger and Andy Le Cocq, students at France’s ESMA School of the Arts (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques), wanted to make a film dealing with racism “through the music in New York of the 30s”. Swing of Change is that film: 8 Comments » posted in CGI, Student, Andy Le Cocq, ESMA, France, Harmony Bouchard, Joakim Riedinger, Raphael Cenzi 
October 22, 2011 3:00 am
Just in time for Halloween, UK’s A Large Evil Corporation produced this spooky retro-cool puppet-like CG sample piece, The Gawper: (Thanks, Brian Lonano) 19 Comments » posted in CGI, A Large Evil Corporation
October 7, 2011 9:24 am
If my diet of computer animation existed solely of the work being produced by mainstream commercial studios, I might come to the conclusion that CG is a graphically stagnant, artistic dead end. Thankfully, I know better than that. I know that there’s plenty of amazing, forward-thinking pieces of computer animation being produced around the world. A lot of it exists on the fringes and doesn’t garner as much attention as commercial CG, but the animation points towards a truly original form of expression that is unique to the toolset and not reliant on mimicking earlier forms of graphic art. Below are four such pieces that explore the possibilities and potential of computer animation: Topologies—Tiepolo (Excerpt) by Quayola (UK) Pico by Takcom (Japan) Prismatic Planes by Alex McLeod (Canada) Chiral by Robert Seidel (Germany) 8 Comments » posted in CGI, Experimental, Alex McLeod, Canada, Germany, Japan, Quayola, Robert Seidel, Takcom, UK
September 29, 2011 7:00 pm
To hell with Foodfight! Here’s a teaser trailer for a proposed CG animated sci-fi Blaxploitation feature film called Soul Man. French director Guillaume Ivernel (Dragon Hunters) has prepared this piece to help find funding. It certainly looks hot: (Thanks, Ben Price) 36 Comments » posted in CGI, Guillaume Ivernel
September 28, 2011 2:00 am
Someone on the Chinese video site Sina posted this work-in-progress trailer for The Lorax from Illumination Entertainment, whose earlier films were Despicable Me and Hop. Some shots are incomplete and unfinished, but it’s worth a look:
The Lorax, which is slated to open March 2nd, 2012, is directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. It’s the second Seuss adapation for Illumination founder Chris Meledandri, who previously produced Horton Hears a Who! while running 20th Century Fox Animation. Danny DeVito voices the Lorax, and Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms and Betty White provide additional voices. UPDATE: Universal Pictures has had the trailer removed from the original host site in China. We look forward to the finished version and will post that when it appears online. 69 Comments » posted in CGI, Feature Film, chris meledandri, Chris Renaud, Dr. Seuss, Illumination, Kyle Balda, The Lorax
September 22, 2011 1:46 pm
The inevitable has happened: CG provocateur David OReilly has partnered with Taiwan’s Next Media Animation, whose mocap news reports are at least as truthful as anything you’ll see in the mainstream media. The resulting short, Children’s Medium Used for Dissemination of Truth, is exactly what you’d expect of a collaboration between these two non sequitur aficionados in that it’s totally unexpected. 13 Comments » posted in CGI, Shorts, David OReilly, Next Media Animation, NMA, Taiwan
September 17, 2011 2:47 pm
Mainstream motion capture performances have the paradoxical effect of looking both flawlessly perfect and utterly unconvincing and unnatural. The problem is that the directors who use motion capture aren’t interested in exploring the artistic possibilities of the tool they’re using so much as wanting an off-the-shelf technical solution for recreating something that already exists—human actors. Thankfully, there are artists like Ian Cheng and his fascinating mo-cap experiment This Papaya Tastes Perfect. In it, he explores a more honest form of motion capture that hasn’t yet been cleaned up into a sterile imitation of live-action, and in the process he discovers a more expressive and intimate use of the technology. Cheng described the film to us as such:
Credits 7 Comments » posted in CGI, Experimental, Ian Cheng, Mo-Cap, motion capture
September 17, 2011 12:30 pm
Why do producers insist on remaking Tom & Jerry in CG? There is supposedly a feature in development at Warner Bros. – but as these foreign TV spots will attest it isn’t so easy to accomplish (the Israeli milk spot below – which we posted about in 2006 – is about as good as it gets): |
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