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Sony Pictures Animation is exploring new directions with the announcement of the stop motion/live-action hybrid feature "Superbago." The superhero-themed film will be directed by John Harvatine and Eric Towner, both veterans of "Robot Chicken" among other animated TV shows.
There are many ways to create animation, and most of them are tedious and life draining. It's pretty common to find animators incorporating some combination of chair and desk as a prison of their practice, where they trudge through their work while simultaneously wasting away. Tobias Stretch has no appetite for that lifestyle, and uses the world as his stop motion playground.
Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park," along with other early-to-mid-Nineties films like "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Toy Story," were all part of a breakthrough era in CGI filmmaking. What many people may not realize, however, is that the decision to create computer-animated dinosaurs wasn't made until the film was well into production.
As long as I've loved animation, I've been fascinated with the personal stories of people who work in the animation business. Not simply, "What character did you make?," but WHY and HOW did you make it? I became actively involved in documenting those stories when I published the print 'zine "Animation Blast," and it's something I've never stopped doing. For me, it wasn't just about talking to a handful of familiar directors and animators, but to talk with everyone, especially those who had worked quietly in the trenches and whose stories hadn't yet been told.
The NFB StopMo Studio app for the iPad provides essentially everything you need to jump into creating an animated film. You won't have any issues getting comfortable with the user interface if you've worked with animation programs before, and it seems more than approachable for newcomers young and old. Once you open up the program, you're welcomed with a short and succinct tutorial that covers the basic tools, and then opens up to allow you to explore the rest of the options available.
“Animated cinema is the demiurgic art par excellence: matter comes to life and is transformed in the hands and imaginations of the creators. They, more than anybody, know about the secret life of objects.” This description, comes from the exhibition “Metamorphosis: Fantasy Visions in Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers,” now playing at the Centre de Cultura Contemporanea (CCCB) in Barcelona, Spain, and it's a good summary of the work of these four visionary animators.
Media conglomerates export American culture throughout the world, but other countries often don't consume that culture in its intended manner. Here's a great example: a performance that took place yesterday at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It took seven years, but the bonkers South Korean animated feature "Aachi & Ssipak" has finally been made available for American audiences.
Filmmaker and artist Allison Schulnik debuts a new work at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut this month.
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner will make Netflix's first adult animated series.
We reveal the top 30 Cartoon Brew posts of the past year based on the number of pageviews each post received.
Finding the perfect gift for the animation lover in your life isn't always the easiest thing. Here's a few of our suggestions ranging from a few bucks to over a grand. Share your suggestions in the comments.
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The fifth Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival is set to take place October 18-20 at Concordia University. The event will celebrate the …
Friendship All-Stars of Friendship is a new stop-motion webseries created by Harry Chaskin, Dan Lippert and Justin Michael and executive …
Filmmaker and animator Arthur Metcalf (Fantaisie in Bubblewrap, It Took A While To Figure Shit Out) has taken a moment between short …
Every few years, a TV network launches an internal shorts program in an attempt to identify new talent and show ideas. These initiatives …
Vine, Twitter’s mobile looped video app, is less than a year old and still remains a new frontier. Not everyone is sure how to use it and …
Author and historian Amid Amidi becomes sole managing owner of Cartoon Brew.
Last May, it was announced that Guillermo del Toro and animation veteran Mark Gustafson would co-direct a stop motion adaptation of Pinocchio...