Chainsaw Maid
Posted in Animation, Community on Aug 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
This stopmotion animation is horrific, hilarious and not suitable for children. Those three things put together make it a must watch!
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Teaser trailer for Pixar’s Up.
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I know, I know. This is old news, but I am still trying to get caught up from being out of the country for two weeks.
Here is the teaser for Pixar’s next blockbuster: Up.
The Princess and the Frog cocept art
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Slashfilm has some very lovely concept art from The Princess and the Frog. I gotta say that I love the more traditional feel that this film brings to the increasingly tired genre of animated features. It’s very refreshing.
Be sure to check out their site for more images.
Hellboy 2: The Golden Effects
Posted in Animation, Community, Movies on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
If you are like me, and you can’t get enough of Hellboy, then head on over to CGSociety and check out the article featuring the story behind the CG creature effects from the second film about that big lovable red guy.
Video interview with Syd Mead
Posted in Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS, Movies on Aug 8th, 2008 No Comments »
A while back, BoingBoingTV interviewed Syd Mead. Syd is a brilliant futurist artist with a long and distinguished career. He is probably best known for his work as the lead concept designer on the film Blade Runner. In this three part interview, Syd talks about the evolution of conceptual design, the creative [...]
The Princess and the Frog teaser bores me to tears.
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Aug 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
After the flop that was the 2004 film: Home on the Range, Disney announced that it would be dropping 2-D animated films in favor of 3-D. The thinking internally was that Disney’s recent string of flops could be attributed to the audiences general dislike of the “old techniques”. Animation fans around the world [...]
We’re Hiring!
Posted in Animation, Community, General, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Jul 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Interested in working with a great group of people? We have the job for you!
Job description and details are available after the jump.
Even more of Andrew Stanton
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Jul 16th, 2008 No Comments »
NPR has a nice, long audio interview with Director Andrew Stanton. About half way through the interview he speaks on the brilliant use of the song Put On Your Sunday Clothes as the introduction to WALL-E. He also mentions that his original concept for the humans of the future was that we would [...]
Pixar Hates Fat People
Posted in Animated Features, Community, General, Strange Tales on Jul 16th, 2008 4 Comments »
This post contains possible spoiler information for the film WALL-E.
Alrighty, I just learned that Pixar apparently hates fat people.
Here is the problem people seem to be having with the film:
The difference I see between a movie like Idiocracy (or classics like Player Piano, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and 1984) is that [...]
Totoro Forrest Project
Posted in Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Jul 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Despite my best efforts, I am starting to go green. Recycling, carpooling, CF bulbs, etc. I have concerns about carbon emissions, and ground water contamination. But most importantly, I am concerned with the effects of deforestation.
We only have so much land on this earth, and we are quickly using it all [...]
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