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TAG FOR “Stop Motion”Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
December 20, 2010 9:55 am
New details have emerged about Henry Selick’s new San Francisco animation studio Cinderbiter Productions. A job recruitment post on CreativeHeads offered the following details:
They’re currently hiring a head of story for their first project, titled Shademaker, and if you want to work alongside Lou Romano—that’s right, Lou Romano!—here are the the requirements: 42 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, Cinderbiter, Henry Selick 
December 16, 2010 11:30 am
Here’s a rare holiday treat. Someone posted the original GE commercials, the open and end titles from the original 1964 NBC airing of Rankin Bass’ Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer on YouTube. It’s a black and white kinescope featuring Santa’s Elves showing off the latest GE appliances, and some bonus shots of the voice cast to wish you Season’s Greetings. The unidentified actors pictured are Janis Orenstein (Clarice), Paul Kliegman (Donner and The Coach) and Paul Soles (Hermey), then Paul Soles, Billie Mae Richards (Rudolph), Carl Banas and Alfie Scopp (Charlie-In-The-Box). (Thanks, Mike Nickel) 29 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, Rankin Bass, Rudolph
December 10, 2010 12:00 pm
In case you missed it last night, NBC’s Community ran its Christmas episode “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”, which was produced in stop-motion animation. Duke Johnson directed and complete production credits for this episode have been posted at 23D Films.com. Here it is, in its entirety, off Hulu.com: 26 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, Community
December 9, 2010 2:00 pm
That’s me and Amid, John Lasseter and our late friends Walt Disney and Chuck Jones in the latest “Starring You” Sendable Christmas video from our friends at JibJab. This year they secured the rights to the Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recording of Santa Claus is Coming to Town and created an original stop-motion, Rankin Bass-esque production animated by Max Winston (Flapjack) For more information on how you can send one of these to your friends, visit JibJab.com. (Thanks Evan and Greg Spiridellis) 7 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, jibjab
December 9, 2010 3:45 am
The Gruffalo, a holiday special based on a children’s book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, makes its US debut TONIGHT on ABC Family at 7pm/6c. The half-hour CG/stop motion mix was directed by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang at Germany’s Studio Soi and produced by London-based Magic Light Pictures. The film also debuts in Canada next Wednesday, December 15, at 6:30pm on TVO. The filmmakers are posting pieces of Gruffalo pre-production art on their blog every day during the month of December. I’ve yet to see the special, but have been hearing plenty of raves about it throughout the past year, and have watched it pick up award after award including Best TV Special at Annecy, Best European Program of the Year at Cartoons on the Bay, Best Short Film for Children at Anima Mundi, and Best Television Animation Made for Children at Ottawa. The film was also nominated for a BAFTA and is currently on this year’s Oscar shortlist for best animated short. If you’ve seen it already, share your thoughts in the comments. Trailer and hi-res still gallery follows the jump. 23 Comments » posted in CGI, Stop Motion, TV, Germany, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang, Studio Soi, The Gruffalo
November 26, 2010 6:13 am
Here’s something that’ll jolt you out of any post-Thanksgiving Day lethargy: a creepy and suspenseful trailer for O Apóstolo (The Apostle). The 3-D stop motion feature from northern Spain is directed and written by Fernando Cortizo. Animation director is Peggy Arel (Edison and Leo), head of the puppet department is John Craney (The Lord of the Rings), VFX supervisor is Colin Miller (Coraline), and Philip Glass composed the film’s main theme. According to ION Cinema, the story is rooted in the “folklore, traditions and history of the north of Spain” and “revolves around an ex-con who arrives to a deserted town looking for a hidden treasure, but what he will find is a coven of dead elderlies looking for souls to trade with the reaper itself.” Th film will be released in Spain next year, and Variety reports that it’ll also appear “on more than 1,000 screens across Latin America next year, with an emphasis placed on Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela.” As is often the case with animated features that skew mature, there’s no US distributor, though hopefully that will change. Another interesting bit about the production is that the filmmakers crowd-funded US$147,000 of the film’s US$9.6 million budget. Despite being a small portion of the overall budget, I’ve never heard of more money being raised via crowd funding for an animated project. A list of hundreds of donors is posted on their website. More behind-the-scenes artwork and info about O Apóstolo can be found on the film’s official website OApostolo.com. 7 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Stop Motion, Fernando Cortizo, O Apóstolo, Spain
November 24, 2010 1:30 am
NBC’s Joe McHale/Chevy Chase sitcom Community is doing a holiday themed show in faux-Rankin-Bass style stop-motion. Here’s a 13-second preview snippet from the upcoming December 9th episode: 14 Comments » posted in Stop Motion, TV
November 12, 2010 8:00 pm
The Submarine Channel posted a nice, in-depth Making Of interview with Paul Donnellon of Voodoodog, about his stop-motion end credit sequence for Nanny McPhee Returns (aka British title Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang). The interview sheds some light on the sometimes difficult working relationship between a movie director and the title designer – especially if the director is unfamiliar with the stop-motion animation process (which was the case here). But what makes this article special is the exclusive inclusion of 2 animatics, storyboard sketches and images of the paper models. Check it out here. |
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