Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Disney is soon to be releasing a new film entitled: The Princess and The Frog. It is a gorgeous looking film which marks Disney’s triumphant return to traditional animation. And while that should be the focus of media attention, it appears that more and more stories are popping up around the topic [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS, Movies on Apr 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
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Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Movies on Mar 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
A fantastic video mashup for those who like their Wall-E films with a little more drama.
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Movies on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Pixar released a new trailer for UP! and it is fantastic. The “Squirrel Moment” had my wife and I laughing so hard and apparently it is a re-occurring joke in the film.
The first trailer did little to get people excited for this movie. Apparently an old guy floating around in the sky [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
CGSociety has a great article which describes the unique process the filmmakers under took to create the beautiful film Coraline. Perhaps one of the most interesting innovations was that the replacement heads for each character were created on a 3-D printer.
It is actually a very odd yet wonderful concept. A characters head is [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Iona.LABS, Movies, Reviews, Work on Mar 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
On this weeks show I am joined by Dave Rogers. (@deddoc) Dave is a freelance artist who is helping to create some of the more complex effects on the film. He joins me to discuss the merits of Wall-E and Kung-Fu Panda. Listen as I awkwardly fumble for the words to explain why I [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Annabelle's Bistro, Artwork, Bradley Multimedia, Community, General, Iona.LABS, Reviews, Work on Feb 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Hello all,
In this weeks installment of the Annabelle’s Bistro Podcast, the class gathers to discuss Coraline. What does this have to do with Annabelle’s Bistro? Absolutely nothing!
Enjoy!
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Bradley Multimedia, Community on Feb 7th, 2009 No Comments »
In celebration of the release of Coraline, slashfilm brings us an amazing article chronicling the history of stopmotion animation. Along with well researched information, the article contains some fantastic videos including the following:
Check it out today, and be sure to support this wonderful medium by seeing Coraline while it is still in theaters!
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Bradley Multimedia, Community, Illustration, Iona.LABS, Movies on Feb 2nd, 2009 4 Comments »
Some interesting wins from this years Annie Awards Show:
Kung Fu Panda beats out WALL-E for best picture!
Robot Chicken Star Wars II takes the win for best television production.
WALL-E not nominated for Character Design? Interesting…
Ben Burt nominated for voice acting in WALL-E! (I always thought the animators who worked on King Kong should have [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, General, Iona.LABS, Strange Tales on Jan 9th, 2009 No Comments »
The new viral site for Monsters Vs. Aliens is up now, and it is a lot of fun. As a big fan of UFO’s, Hidden Creatures, and Government Conspiracy, I get a real kick out of this site. Check it out!
Matt Forcum
Currently employed as a Motion Graphics Artist at The Iona Group and as an Instructor in Character Animation at Bradley University
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