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 …

Famous Balloon Movies

An independent director (who asked to remain nameless, but often works for Disney), did these sequences a few years ago for an overseas …

Ugly CG Peanuts

Good Grief! Some drawn characters just shouldn’t be rendered in 3-D. A German telecommunications company, Combots, is selling …

Ratatouille Trailer

Here’s the latest trailer for Pixar’s Ratatouille with a lot of new footage that I haven’t seen anywhere else before. (Thanks, John)

RGBXYZ

I’ll probably regret posting this in a few hours but the animation at Technicolon.com is some of the most trippy (innovative?, annoying?) …

Brad Bird on Good Morning America

In case you missed it this morning, here’s the segment on Brad Bird from ABC News. Lots of nice clips from Ratatouille. Also, after the …

Foodfight

Click here to see the large size version of this promotional image, above, from Foodfight. Can you spot the product placement? …

New BEE MOVIE trailer

This one’s even better. Click here to see the new Seinfeld Bee Movie trailer with Steven Spielberg – and some actual animation.

Zippy on CG

Last Saturday, the topic of Bill Griffith’s ZIPPY comic strip was computer animation. Click on the strip below for the full-size …

Toy Story 3 and American Dog News

During a Disney investor’s conference yesterday, John Lasseter and Ed Catmull announced some major Disney-Pixar news. Notably, that TOY …

Shane Acker’s 9

Shane Acker, the director of the atmospheric Oscar-nominated short 9, was a special guest at the ANIMATION SHOW screening in LA a couple …

The Mouse Goes Mo-Cap

“Hi! I’m Mr. Mo Cap! I’m the future of animation!” I woke up this morning to the news that Disney is entering a partnership with …

Best Comment Yet on BARNYARD

Oscar-nominated animation director Michael Sporn has a thought about all the negative reviews that the Nickelodeon feature BARNYARD is …

Canada’s Mick LaSalle

Mick LaSalle is quickly becoming a household name; in the past week, his awful MONSTER HOUSE has been picked up all over the blogosphere …

ARK by Grzegorz Jonkajtys

The ARK is a new CG animated short written and directed by Polish artist Grzegorz Jonkajtys. It is scheduled for completion by the end of …

FLUSHED AWAY trailer

This is the trailer for Aardman’s first CG film FLUSHED AWAY.Looks like the new formula is (Aardman+CG = Aardman-charm).

OLI’S CHANCE

OLI’S CHANCE is a new German short that I discovered on character designer Harald Siepermann’s blog. The film can be viewed HERE (Windows …

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