24 Comments »   posted in Feature Film, Denmark, Kresten Vestbjerg Andersenand, Ronal The Barbarian, Thorbjørn Christoffersen

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Trailer for Alois Nebel, a new Czech animated feature directed by Tomáš Luňák. It debuts this month at the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, and opens soon afterward in the Czech Republic. The story looks engaging which is good because the graphic style that stems from the Waking Life school of floaty rotoscope doesn’t excite me at all. They combined the roto with a black-and-white palette, which has been a trendy look in recent indie animated features like Renaissance, Persepolis, Fear(s) of the Dark, and the semi-b&w Mary and Max. No word on international release dates, but stay tuned to the official website AloisNebel.cz.

Film synopsis if you want to know more:

The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station on the Czech-Polish border. He’s a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Europe.

The feature film Alois Nebel is an adaptation of the graphic novel by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99 combining animation and live-action. The authors have chosen rotoscoping as the visual approach for the film in order to remain true to the style of the original comic book.

(Thanks to Tom for pointing out the story on Twitch)

10 Comments »   posted in Feature Film, Czech Republic, Rotoscope, Tomáš Luňák

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“A Monster In Paris” English Trailer

August 30, 2011 7:30 pm

Produced by Luc Besson, Bibo Bergeron’s A Monster In Paris looks gorgeous… but the story, about a giant singing flea, seems a bit slight. Hope I’m wrong. It opens in France in October. No U.S. distributor or release date yet, but here’s the English language trailer:

26 Comments »   posted in CGI, Feature Film, A Monster In Paris, Bibo Bergeron, France, Un Monstre a Paris

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D23 Report: New Pixar Films and “Tangled Ever After”

August 20, 2011 9:28 pm

The Disney-organized D23 Expo is going on this weekend in Anaheim and there’s been a couple of big Disney announcements. Firstly, the directors of Tangled, Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, are preparing a Disney Channel TV special for next year called, get ready for this, Tangled Ever After.

Pixar announced two new films of their own: Pete Docter (Monsters Inc., UP) is working on a 2014 film that takes place inside the human mind. An Osmosis Jones for the cerebral set? As long as I don’t have to hear Chris Rock for ninety minutes, I’m on board. Also, UP co-director and funny story man Bob Peterson is striking out on his own with a film. The 2013 pic takes place in a world where dinosaurs never died out, and (presumably) mingle with humans. Currently, the only place where that fantasy is possible is in Kentucky. I smell some marketing synergy!

(Tangled Ever After poster via /film)

109 Comments »   posted in Disney, Feature Film, Pixar, Bob Peterson, Byron Howard, Nathan Greno, Pete Docter, Tangled

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The latest “Tintin” poster

August 16, 2011 11:30 am

I’m not intentionally ragging on the Tintin movie. I love the character and the original stories, worship his creator Hergé, and admire filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. And I really hope this movie is good. But this latest U.S. one-sheet poster (below) looks awful.

What a big crowded mess of ugly images. I mean really, this is how you are selling the movie to U.S. audiences – a large percentage of them who have never heard of or seen these characters before?

85 Comments »   posted in Advertising, Feature Film, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

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Digital Domain’s “The Legend of Tembo”

August 15, 2011 5:34 pm

A few months ago we reported about Digital Domain’s plans for its CG animation studio in Port St. Lucie, Florida. They announced recently that this studio, which they’ve officially dubbed Tradition, will work on The Legend of Tembo. Slated for 2014 release, the film will be directed by Disney veterans Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams.

Former Disney exec Pam Coats, who is heading up creative development at Tradition, told TCPalm that Tembo is the story of a baby African elephant who is captured and shipped to India:

“When he gets to India that’s where sort of the journey takes place, and this is a guy who becomes someone else. So, he has to transform himself into a fierce, battle elephant, which is based in truth. They did use elephants in battle in India. He has to become something he is not in order to return home.”

Check out the TCPalm website for more pre-production images from the film.

32 Comments »   posted in CGI, Feature Film, Aaron Blaise, Chuck Williams, Digital Domain, Florida, Pam Coats

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Animated Features NOT coming soon

August 12, 2011 10:30 am

As is the case each year, dozens of potentially worthy animated features from around the world do not make it to these shores. Case in point: Leafie, A Hen Into the Wild which opened late last month in Korea. The movie, which cost $2.8 million to produce, is scheduled to open next month in China.

Then there’s RPG Metanoia, which opened last December in the Philippines. It’s the first full length CG Philippine animated film presented in 3D. Will it ever open in the U.S.? Probably not – so here’s a taste:

31 Comments »   posted in CGI, Feature Film, A Hen Into The Wild, Leafie, RPG Metanoia

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