Now here’s something genuinely different. Bugs and Heroes is a Serbian film by director Petar Pasic which features two parallel stories. One is set in the “real” world with live actors, while the other stars CG bugs in handmade miniature sets. More images at the link.
Here are the first ten minutes of Studio 4C’s animated film Beserk Golden Age Arc 1: Egg of the Supreme Ruler. Follow the link for a number of other videos connected with the film. There’s some very impressive 2D/3D hybrid work going on here.
Watch The First Ten Minutes Of 1st Animated Film BERSERK UPDATE.
Here’s a trailer for Adventures in Plymptoons, a documentary about one of the best known indie animators in the US.
via Adventures in Plymptoons! A documentary on Bill Plympton trailer on Vimeo.
Joseph Pierce’s previous short A Family Portrait screened at the Sydney International Animation Festival and revealed him to be a sharp-edged social satirist. This new piece, using a similar rotoscope technique looks to be carrying on that approach very effectively.
Vi Hart shows via mathematical analysis of the spirals on the exterior of the house, that Spongebob’s house is not a true representation of an actual pineapple, and challenges Nickelodeon’s portrayal of the universe.
Here’s the trailer for Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver’s freaky Canadian roadtrip animated feature Asphalt Watches. They have completed a large portion of the film but are seeking to crowfund the finishing of it.
Lovely item on Drawn with a set of sweet little pencil characters for a book project by Seo Kim.
Joe Strike at AWN discusses the new animated series based on 2004 cult film Napoleon Dynamite.
Sunday Night with Napoleon Dynamite: A Cult Series Turns Toony | AWN | Animation World Network.
Animation World Network has an interview with director Fernando Trueba about his wonderful animated feature Chico & Rita, co-directed with legendary designer Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando.
The film celebrates the jazz world of 1950s Cuba, New York and Paris, with gorgeous vibrant design and fabulous music, telling a passionate story of love and loss.
Fernando Trueba Talks Chico & Rita | AWN | Animation World Network.
Watch the spectacular crowd-sourced version of Star Wars. The film was split into hundreds of short segments and each was re-made by ordinary folks in whatever style or technique appealed to them. The best of the resulting clips have been edited together to create a complete version of the film. This has been burning up the interwebs just lately. You can watch it here or download from Vimeo if you have an account.
Writer Patrick Sean Smith, creator of TV series Greek, has been tapped to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of Jeff Smith’s comic Bone.
Australian director P J Hogan is attached and the film is being produced by Dan Lin in conjunction with Animal Logic.
Follow the link below for more info.
(via Heat Vision)
The Vancouver Sun has an interesting article where Andrew Stanton discusses the mix of live action and animation, location shooting and CGI, in the new Disney fantasy epic John Carter.
I particularly like Stanton’s excitement, as an animation director, at being able to see the day’s shooting immediately in the live action world.
The massive budget adaptation of Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1912 novel Princess of Mars, is due out in March.
The very talented Nick Cross, who previously gave us The Pig Farmer and Yellow Cake, has uploaded a new trailer for his in-production feature Black Sunrise. Nick claims to have completed about 10 minutes of the film, but is also still working on the storyboards. The film has no dialogue.
Salma Hayek has reportedly signed Lion King director Roger Allers to direct the framing story for her animated adaptation of Khalil Ghibran’s The Prophet.
Hayek, who is drawing on the Lebanese part of her family history in developing the project, has already signed, or is in discussions with, a stellar list of animation talent to direct the various sequences. These include Tomm Moore (The Secret Of Kells ), Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets Of Belleville), John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), Chris Landreth (Oscar-winning short Ryan), Nina Paley (Sita Sings The Blues), Bill Plympton (Guard Dog And Your Face) and Kunio Kato (Oscar-winning short Tsumiki No Ie).
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