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 …
Conan O’Brien recently visited ILM where, among other things, he created some motion capture movement. It’s in the second half of the …
While I was double-checking facts for the Seventies advertising post a couple days ago, I discovered this useful resource—A …
An independent director (who asked to remain nameless, but often works for Disney), did these sequences a few years ago for an overseas …
Good Grief! Some drawn characters just shouldn’t be rendered in 3-D. A German telecommunications company, Combots, is selling …
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)
I’ll probably regret posting this in a few hours but the animation at Technicolon.com is some of the most trippy (innovative?, annoying?) …
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 …
Click here to see the large size version of this promotional image, above, from Foodfight. Can you spot the product placement? …
This one’s even better. Click here to see the new Seinfeld Bee Movie trailer with Steven Spielberg – and some actual animation.
Last Saturday, the topic of Bill Griffith’s ZIPPY comic strip was computer animation. Click on the strip below for the full-size …
During a Disney investor’s conference yesterday, John Lasseter and Ed Catmull announced some major Disney-Pixar news. Notably, that TOY …
Shane Acker, the director of the atmospheric Oscar-nominated short 9, was a special guest at the ANIMATION SHOW screening in LA a couple …
“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 …
Oscar-nominated animation director Michael Sporn has a thought about all the negative reviews that the Nickelodeon feature BARNYARD is …
Mick LaSalle is quickly becoming a household name; in the past week, his awful MONSTER HOUSE has been picked up all over the blogosphere …
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 …
Mark Mayerson has a short but insightful commentary about the (sad) state of CG feature animation in the US and the hope that exists …
The new trailer for Warner Bros.’s upcoming ANT BULLY is posted HERE. It looks like a pretty good CG film…especially if it was …
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 is a new German short that I discovered on character designer Harald Siepermann’s blog. The film can be viewed HERE (Windows …