Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Aug 7th, 2008 5 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community on Jul 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Anyone sick and tired of posts about WALL-E yet? Good, ’cause neither am I.
CGSociety has an excellent article detailing the techniques used to model and rig the little yellow guy. The complexity of the model is surprising. I doubt many of us paid much attention to WALL-E’s treads, but there was [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community on Jul 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
Andrew Stanton talks with Christianity Today about the religious themes that can be found in Wall•E.
Stanton: They tell you that as a storyteller, it’s vital to just stick with and be honest with your values system. The last thing I want to do is go to a movie and feel like I’m being preached to [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, General, Illustration, Iona.LABS, LEGO on Jun 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
(It’s rare that animation and LEGO come together so nicely, so this post has me excited!)
If your looking for a slightly different take on WALL-E, The Brothers Brick (one of my favorite sites on the net) has a nice interview with Pixar animator and LEGO fan Angus MacLane.
Mostly I build with LEGO [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Jun 27th, 2008 10 Comments »
Did you see WALL•E yet? Did you love it? Was it a great movie? Or the greatest movie? Sound off with your opinion!
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community on Jun 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
“My hats off to anyone that can write a Dreamworks Animation film. They have a unique process. ” -Dan Harmon
(Note to reader: The views expressed in this post do not nessicarily reflect those of The House of Move. It should be said that Kung-Fu Panda has received very glowing reviews and is currently doing [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, General, Iona.LABS on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
First Showing has an interview with Andrew Stanton about Wall-E. And its not the typical fluff that your likely to find when it comes to animated feature interviews.
The only thing I did that was a little unconventional, is the manner in which I formatted the script. I was very inspired by Dan O’Bannon’s script [...]
Posted in Animated Features, Animation, Community, Iona.LABS on Jun 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Kung Fu Panda currently has an impressive 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Here is some of what people are saying:
… Dreamworks Animation has finally managed to touch the brass ring of animated storytelling that has been exclusively in Pixar’s reach for over a decade. -Kevin A Ranson, Moviecrypt.com
There’s an old saying about how [...]
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