The Question of Beowulf

What to make of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. Is it to be considered a pure animated film or a digitally enhanced live action feature? Is …

Luciano Pavarotti Mo-Cap

Performance capture and opera: a match made in heaven. Quick, get Robert Zemeckis on the phone and have him follow up Beowulf with …

Now Playing: Iwerks’ Pixar Documentary

Starting today, Leslie Iwerks independent documentary The Pixar Story will begin a small Oscar-qualifying run in 14 select cities across …

Cold Rush

Cold Rush is a new French student film created by Mikael Lynen, Simon Corbaux, Tristan Urbin and Rémi Certhoux at the Supinfocom …

Looney Tunes video games

I’m sorry to say I have no interest in video games. But I’ve been curious about these new Looney Tunes titles. Today Variety reviews and …

Elk Cloner

It’s an encouraging sign for the development of CG animation that we are increasingly seeing young artists creating computer work that is …

Worst. MoCap. Ever.

I’m sorry. This is the worst thing we’ve ever posted on the Brew. I’m horrified—and yet can’t stop laughing. Thanks to …

The Making of Pencil Test

With SIGGRAPH 2007 now wrapped up, I thought it might be appropriate to link to the video below about a CG animated short that debuted …

New Ed Emshwiller Bio

Emshwiller Infinity x Two by Luis Ortiz is a new joint-biography of artists Ed and Carol Emshwiller. Carol was a fiction writer, but of …

Andrew Stanton Talks Wall-E

IGN has an interview with director Andrew Stanton about Pixar’s next feature Wall-E. The following comment from Stanton perfectly …

Postmodern Times by Joao Amorim

Postmodern Times is a new series of short animated films presenting “ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and …

Apnée by Claude Chabot

I’d heard good things about Claude Chabot’s Apnée but unfortunately missed its screening at Platform. Luckily the film is posted …

Go see “Surf’s Up”

Last night Asifa-Hollywood had a screening of Surf’s Up and I moderated an enjoyable Q&A with Ash Brannon and several key members of the …

Casper’s Scare School

I like Casper. But I hate those direct-to-video CG Casper movies. However, I just became aware of this new Casper movie which played …

Conan Capture

Conan O’Brien recently visited ILM where, among other things, he created some motion capture movement. It’s in the second half of the …

The History of CGI

While I was double-checking facts for the Seventies advertising post a couple days ago, I discovered this useful resource—A …

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