Hollywood Reporter Berlin: Wim Wenders on How 3D is Drowning 'in a Lack of Imagination' (Q&A) Hollywood Reporter Wenders made a similar jump forward with Pina, his 3D dance film about the life and work of the late, legendary choreographer Pina...
Art house icon Wim Wenders has always been on the cutting edge of new cinema tech. His Oscar-nominated documentaryBuena Vista Social Club (1999) was the first feature-length doc shot entirely in digital. Wenders made a similar jump forward with Pina, his 3D dance film about the life and work of the late, legendary choreographer Pina Bausch. The first 3D documentary, Pina premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011 and went on to earn some $15 million worldwide -- and secured Wenders his second Oscar nomination for best documentary.
New York Daily News 'The Monuments Men,' movie review New York Daily News The front lines of “The Monuments Men” are filled with artistry and a willingness to fall in line behind great military-movie tradition.
In late 1944 and early ’45, as the tide is turning against the Axis, the Nazis are still pillaging Europe’s greatest paintings and sculptures to fill Hitler’s hoped-for “Führer Museum.” New York art historian Frank Stokes (Clooney) convinces FDR to let him assemble a small team of architects and scholars to rescue whatever culture they can from the Third Reich.
Busy times for the big guy on the boat that saves us all as Darren Aronofsky tells THR that the film is being post converted to 3D for Russia, Continental Europe and South America.
Synopsis: When Noah gets a message from God to build and ark to save humanity from a big flood, he picks up a spear and fends it off the only way that Russell Crowe knows how…
NOAH releases in AUSTRALIA on MARCH 27, 2014 through PARAMOUNT PICTURES
French artist Béatrice Coron creates stories from cut paper. And while this one—told in stunning 3D, with a soundscape—contains castles and fire-breathing dr...
French artist Béatrice Coron creates stories from cut paper. And while this one—told in stunning 3D, with a soundscape—contains castles and fire-breathing dragons, it tells a tale we all can relate to: of the constant, everyday battles we face. Says Coron, "It seems there is always a dragon to slay, a kingdom to be won, a Holy Grail to find ... I win some battles but the war is never over." This short film premiered at TED2013.
"When things get too heavy just call me helium--the lightest known gas to man." - Jimi Hendrix The final interview. London, 9/11/1970 Interview by Keith Alth...
Produced by DSK Supinfocom Animation School in Pune, India. (#StudentWork: Have a look at one of the students of DSK Supinfocom International Campus Animation School's work....
Times of India Animation films steal Mumbai International Film Festival show this year Daily News & Analysis It's the world's largest non-feature documentary film festival and yet the predominant genre seems to be animation.
It’s the world’s largest non-feature documentary film festival and yet the predominant genre seems to be animation. Apart from 18 animation short films, 112 animation films from countries like France, Bulgaria, Estonia and Canada will be showcased at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF 2014). Over 400 films from 35 countries will be showed at fest.
This is so great. Famous movies you know and love—like Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, The Shining and others—are re-imagined and re-told in the form of a 30 second animation movie trailer. So E.T. becomes a horror flick, The Big Lebowski is now a Kung Fu tale and Citizen Kane becomes a story about a Gross Butt and not Rosebud. It's fun as hell to watch these great films become jokey animation movie teasers. I'd watch all of these new animated versions.
All these newly animated old movies are part of a series called the "Trailer Project" by The Animation Workshop in Denmark.
It's a student exercise where Character Animators and CG Artists at The Animation Workshop are tasked to make their own animated movie trailers inspired from famous movies. They would be presented with a movie like Alien or The Graduate and have to do their own take on it with animation.
There are six expressions for six basic emotions – anger, happy, surprise, sad, fear and disgust. To draw or illustrate these emotions, we use the eyebrows, eyelids, and mouth. Just by changing these lines we will get very different expressions. We must also understand how these parts move and their limitations. Many other emotions such as bored, shock, devious, confused, contempt, etc. can also be achieved through various permutation and combinations of the eyebrow line, lips, and eyes.
New York International Children's Film Festival Announces Its 2014 Slate Indie Wire (blog) We are proud to announce the full animation programming slate for the upcoming New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) which runs from March...
The Festival will present 100 new animated and live action shorts and features, opening and closing night parties, studio showcases, retrospectives, filmmaker Q&As, filmmaking workshops, audience voting and the NYICFF Awards Ceremony.
“Chimpnology”, the latest brilliantly disturbing animated short by Cyriak, features a series of mutating chimpanzees using clips from the 1963 short film “BflOggGX = STwWcfl x 2s4″. The song is available for download on ...
The chimps are from a short 1963 film called BflOggGX = STwWcfl x 2s4, which is probably chimpanzee for "stop dressing me in clothes and making me do stuff!"
These vinyl records hide secret music videos The Verge Audio-visual group Sculpture creates vinyl picture records that appear to animate when viewed unders the correct conditions, and its latest is gorgeous.
Audio-visual group Sculpture creates vinyl picture records that appear to animate when viewed unders the correct conditions, and its latest is gorgeous. When you start "Plastic Infinite" spinning, the images on the record just look like a blur. Apply a strobing light to the record, or film it at 25fps with a high shutter speed, and the record is transformed into a giant zoetrope disc.
The Week Magazine 10 brutal reviews from the January movie dump The Week Magazine anuary has a well-earned reputation as the month when the dregs of Hollywood movies get unceremoniously released and quickly forgotten.
January has a well-earned reputation as the month when the dregs of Hollywood movies get unceremoniously released and quickly forgotten.
The studios use the post-holidays, pre-Oscars limbo to burn off the overblown action movies, unfunny comedies, and rejected Oscar bait they have sitting on their shelves, some of which were pushed back from a higher-profile release once it became clear that the finished product was unsalvageable.
This January managed to produce at least one well-received, popular movie that ushered in the New Year: Lone Survivor. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the rest of the month was any less terrible. Here are 10 of the most scathingly reviewed movies from January, in the words of the critics who hated them most: Click above.
Hollywood Reporter Local 3D Horror Film 'Viy' Opens Big in Russia Hollywood Reporter Local language fare is continuing its strong start to 2014 at the Russian box office, as director Oleg Stephcehnko's horror adaptation, Viy, is reportedly on-track...
A faithful adaptation of Nikolay Gogol's classic Russian horror story, starring an international cast that includes Jason Flemyng and Charles Dance, as well as Russia’s Alexey Chadov, the film opened to $2.5 million, before adding $3.2 million Friday and $6 million Saturday.
Project Homeless 2014 is a Challenge run by Screen My Shorts Inc & UWA in partnership with and sponsored by the Parramatta City Council.We invite entrants of all ages, cultures and ability to submit original creative digital content (conventional film and/or machinima) and win a share of the AUD 10,000 (L$2.28 Million) cash and prizes (with at least AUD 700 reserved for Machinima), and have their works exposed on the international stage.
PRIZES Parramatta Prize for Best Film – AUD$5,000.00 1st Finalist – AUD$500.00 2nd Finalist – AUD$500.00
Best Cinematography – AUD$300.00 Best Editing – AUD$300.00 Best Script – AUD$300.00 Best Music/Sound – AUD$300.00 Best Performer (Male or Female Actor) – AUD$500.00 Best Student Film Under 14 – $300.00
Parramatta Prize for Best Machinima Film – AUD$300.00 1st Finalist – AUD$250.00 2nd Finalist – AUD$150.00
Parramatta Prize for Best Documentary – AUD$1000.00 1st Finalist – AUD$300.00
OVERVIEWProject Homeless 2014 is a Challenge run by Screen My Shorts Inc & UWA in partnership with and sponsored by the Parramatta City Council.We invite entrants of all ages, cultures and ability to submit original creative digital content (conventional film and/or machinima) and win a share of the AUD 10,000 (L$2.28 Million) cash and prizes (with at least AUD 700 reserved for Machinima), and have their works exposed on the international stage. Entry fees for machinima style film are being sponsored by the University of Western Australia.
Project Homeless is a worldwide initiative for filmmakers to help raise global awareness through stories on film. Those who register are asked to nominate 2 of the themes, and the organisers will allocate one of the 2 nominated themes to entrants on the 11th of April 2014. The entrant will be given full freedom to explore and interpret the theme allocated (you may be as creative as possible in your interpretation).
The closing date for all entries will be the 11th of May 2014, we urge registrations to be submitted before the 11th of April 2014 (as your final theme will be allocated on the 11th of April). Register via the Screen My Shorts Website, or details could be emailed to jay.jay@uwa.edu.au.
The overall competition is open to both conventional film and machinima. Machinima entries are in the running for the overall prizes, however special prizes are also set aside for Machinima entries only.
UW-Stout students get taste of 3D animation careers on LA field trip Pioneer Press Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout recently got a taste of careers in 3D animation during a visit to the Jim Henson Company in Los Angeles.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout recently got a taste of careers in 3D animation during a visit to the Jim Henson Company in Los Angeles.
The 22 students were members of a new class -- Digital Puppetry Workshop and Studio Experience -- that conceptualized and designed components for 3D animated shows, which were presented in mock pitches to the company.
New York Daily News The slow movie month of February is a great time to see good films you've missed New York Daily News February is Hollywood's cinematic dumping ground, as anyone who has been to the movies recently can attest.
February is Hollywood’s cinematic dumping ground, as anyone who has been to the movies recently can attest.
But this is in some ways the best time of the year for movie lovers. With almost nothing but junk coming out, you can finally focus on the high-quality stuff you’ve missed.
LAS VEGAS — Your future contact lenses could give you superhuman vision Just one year after eyewear startup Innovega announced a prototype of its high-tech iOptik lenses, the company is showing off the product at this year's International CES.
The Innovega eyewear system is made up of two parts: glasses and contact lenses. The contact lenses give you enhanced focusing abilities, so you can see near and far at levels beyond what the normal eye can see. For example, if you put a finger up to your eye while wearing the contacts, you can actually see the fine details of your fingerprint; whereas, the natural eye can't focus on an object so close up.
"A lot of companies are trying to do that right now with hardware, and there are limitations: It creates a tiny field of view," an iOptik spokesperson told Mashable. "Google Glass is the equivalent of having your smartphone about 24 inches in front of you. The iOptik system is six times the resolution and 20 times the area. It's like looking at a big TV projection, and you can see so much more."
Rachel Baran is an extraordinarily talented U.S.-based photographer who creates amazing surreal and conceptual portraits that thousands of people have fallen in love with. And she's only 20 years old. One of the best things about Baran's work is that it's constantly evolving and growing. As ...
One of the best things about Baran’s work is that it’s constantly evolving and growing. As such a young photographer, she’s still trying out different styles and inspirations. Some of her images are dark, introverted and full of suffering, while others encapsulate the young and artistic photographer’s youth and joy. What’s most important, however, is that all of them are creative and very well-done.
A showcase and community for TheSims3 photography and machinima makers (RT @Simatography: If you are entering #machinima into #SIFF you can now start sharing your film posters http://t.co/JwhJqLDgvJ)...
It's time to start promoting your SIFF films and one great way to do that is to participate in the Film Poster Challenge to start creating buzz and anticipation for your film.
Fast Forward to December 2013 and my purchase of Crazy Talk Animator 2 (Pipeline edition). After spending a few weeks over Christmas and New Years learning CTA2 I decided to revisit Cool Froyd and discovered that ...
"In the space of an evening I had ad-libbed a short animation, created with CTA Pro, featuring Cool Froyd, for my previous blog post about AVSoft's Voice Changer Software. I was really happy with the result but not the script and I also knew CTA Pro characters can be imported into CTA2."
Thank you for your interest in Nickelodeon's Animated Comedy Shorts Program!
We are always looking for new creative talent, innovative concepts, funny characters, and original designs. Most of all, we are thrilled to hear your ideas.
Guidelines:
Animated shorts must be: comedic, character driven, and have kid appeal.
We look for ideas that feature an original, funny lead character – with about 2 or 3 characters in total. Be prepared to show either through designs, thumbnail storyboards or script, how funny and unique your characters are.
Characters must be relatable to kids ages 6 to 11 and appeal to both boys and girls.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/1927?cpg=yt -Now your drawings can go in three dimensions. -Draw with plastic with this handheld 3D printing pen. -Two speeds, plus ...
-Now your drawings can go in three dimensions. -Draw with plastic with this handheld 3D printing pen. -Two speeds, plus eject (so you can quickly and easily switch colors). -Two temperature settings for use with ABS and PLA refills (sold separately). -Quick heat up time (approx. 1 min) with LED indicator. -For both right and left hand use. -Extra-bonus super-maker features: A mounting bracket is built into the back of the pen, and requires two 3mm screws. Also, there is a three-pin control port that controls the speed buttons without actually touching the 3Doodler.
Screen Rant Building 'The Lego Movie,' One Brick at a Time Wall Street Journal "The Lego Movie" explores what may be the essential question of Lego building as it applies to life: Must you dutifully follow the instructions, or can you combine...
"The Lego Movie" explores what may be the essential question of Lego building as it applies to life: Must you dutifully follow the instructions, or can you combine pieces creatively to make anything you dream up?
In the animated children's comedy, a repressive overlord (voiced by Will Ferrell) is so maniacal about controlling the residents of Bricksburg that he has a weapon designed to glue all the pieces of their world together, putting an end to freestyle play.
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Art house icon Wim Wenders has always been on the cutting edge of new cinema tech. His Oscar-nominated documentaryBuena Vista Social Club (1999) was the first feature-length doc shot entirely in digital. Wenders made a similar jump forward with Pina, his 3D dance film about the life and work of the late, legendary choreographer Pina Bausch. The first 3D documentary, Pina premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011 and went on to earn some $15 million worldwide -- and secured Wenders his second Oscar nomination for best documentary.
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