Boasting an imaginative storyline complemented by equally imaginative animation, the film was created utilizing the software TVPaint and is primarily 2D with some 3D and rotoscope animation. As reported today by IndieWire, the “Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ …
Month: October 2022
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Elise Simard
In this ongoing series, we profile the most interesting independent animation filmmakers working today — the artists who, through short films and other projects, change our ideas of what the medium can do. Says: “I’m so bored when I’m locked into …
The Youth and Colossal Animate the Feeling of Havaianas
The Brazilian team of prodco The Youth and animation studio Colossal (who were both behind this Doritos insanity) return with a wave of character chaos in this film for Havaianas and their ubiquitous flip-flop sandals. Agency: AlmapBBDOCCO: PernilCreative Directors: Antonia …
Disney Is Developing An ‘Immersive Experience’ That Will Tour Globally
Here’s what we know about the project: Walt Disney Animation Studios is teaming with Toronto-based Lighthouse Immersive Studios to develop Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, a traveling experience of Disney animation which will world premiere in Toronto this December before heading …
Doing Hard VFX Time on ‘Spiderhead’
After collaborating with filmmaker Joseph Kosinski on the high-flying Top Gun: Maverick, visual effects supervisor Ryan Tudhope paired again with the director, this time shifting gears to explore the impact of behavior altering drugs on inmates in the Netflix …
Mobile Learning Platform Duolingo Acquires Gunner Design and Animation Studio
Gunner has been an integral animation and design partner for Duolingo since 2020 and produces art and animations that show up in Duolingo’s flagship language app and early childhood literacy app, Duolingo ABC. The studio also produces elements of Duolingo’s …
‘Encanto,’ ‘Maya And The Three’ Win Best Directing Honors At Imagen Awards Over Live-Action Productions
Best Youth Programming In each of the categories, in fact, the directors and their films were up against mostly live-action fare, but managed to come out on top with voters recognizing that the work was exemplary by any standard, and …
Call for Entries: 20th Edition of ‘24 HOURS Animation Contest’
“Although this contest sounds crazy — the model seems to work. The top films are as good as some completed student films that take several months to produce. I think it’s their chance to set personal goals and work outside …
A Journey Through Paradise Ends In Disappointment In ‘Au Revoir Jérôme!’
Au revoir Jérôme! (Goodbye Jerome!), a short film from the Gobelins trio of Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet, and Adam Sillard, has wrapped an incredible festival run and is now available to view online. In the film, Jérôme, recently deceased, arrives …