Metegol (Foosball)

Academy award winner Juan Jose Campanella directs this state-of-the-art 3D CGI feature film based on a short story by acclaimed writer Roberto Fontanarrosa. Campanella's 100 Bares Producciones & Catmandu Entertainment develop and executive produce one of the largest co-productions between Europe and Latin America to date.
More Info:
Campanella IMDB
catmandu.biz
Spa

FridayFun - Earth Hour 2012

Here you can find one of the ad for the campaign that WWF canada is doing to remind us all that we need to swich off the lights. All you need to do is switch off your lights from 8:30PM – 9:30 PM on Saturday, March 31st (local time).

More Info:
WWF 
I Will If You Will challenge 

more spots:
Security Guard
Clapper

ParaNorman

Another Trailer, looking good this movie!!! I like it!


More Info:
paranorman.com
laika.com

Tedsday - Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face

Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt's face for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

At Digital Domain, Ed Ulbrich works at the leading edge of computer-generated visuals. On a recent project, filmmakers, artists, and technologists have been working at a breakthrough point where reality and digitally created worlds collide. Full bio »

"The difference offered by [this] technology is in the detail. Standard motion-capture systems are generally limited in resolution to several hundred points on a human face, while this system can recreate facial images at a resolution of 200,000 pixels. The digital video images produced by the system are startlingly realistic."

New York Times

Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians, formerly titled The Guardians of Childhood, is an upcoming 3D computer-animated epic adventure film which will be based on William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood book series. It will be produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and is set for release on November 21, 2012. The film stars Chris Pine, Isla Fisher, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law and Dakota Goyo. It is being directed by Peter Ramsey and co-directed by Joyce, the creator of Rolie Polie Olie and Disney's 2007 film Meet the Robinsons. The film is being described as "a contemporary fairytale based on existing fairytale characters".


More Info:
riseoftheguardians.com
theguardiansofchildhoodbooks.com
Imdb

Making of Pirates Band of Misfits

Quite impressive all the work that is needed to make a stop motion movie.


More Info:  
thepirates-movie.com
aardman.com

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania is an upcoming computer-animated 3D film produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Columbia Pictures and set to release on September 28, 2012. It is being directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, best known for his work on Cartoon Network's Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory, and Sym-Bionic Titan, and produced by Michelle Murdocca.


More Info: Imdb

Glen Keane Left Disney

It’s the end of an era. Let see if he can keep doing great stuff, we will wait to hear more news. Disney won´t be the same without him.
Here the letter in exlusive that Cartoon Brew publish:

 This is the full text of Glen Keane’s letter sent out to his Disney co-workers within the last hour:

March 23, 2012
Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Walt Disney Animation Studio,
After long and thoughtful consideration, I have decided to leave Disney Animation.
I am convinced that animation really is the ultimate art form of our time with endless new territories to explore. I can’t resist it’s siren call to step out and discover them.
Disney has been my artistic home since September 9,1974. I owe so much to those great animators who mentored me—Eric Larson, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston—as well as to the many other wonderful people at Disney whom I have been fortunate to work with in the past nearly 38 years.
Over these four decades I have seen so many changes, but the one thing that remains the same is that we all do this because we love it.
I am humbled and deeply honored to have worked side by side so many artists, producers and directors during my career here at Disney, and I am tremendously proud of the films which together we have created. I will deeply miss working with you.
With my most sincere and heartfelt good wishes for your and Disney’s continued artistic growth and success,
Glen

MoreInfo:
wikipedia
cartoonbrew

Sony Xperia™

Director Wes Anderson and Laika/house turned to the imaginations of children to piece together just what's inside Sony smartphones that makes them so special.


you also need to watch this making of:

More Info: 
Wes Anderson 
LAIKA/House

FridayFun - Little Boxes

Walk off the Earth is a Canadian indie band formed in 2006 in Burlington, Ontario.
I like a lot the creativity they put on their videos, very inspiring and fun!
Don't forgett to click the link for the makig off at the end of the video, so cool as well.


More Info: www.walkofftheearth.com

 "Somebody That I Used to Know" using only one guitar went viral in early 2012 and garnered over 75 million hits on YouTube. 

Tedsday - Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face

At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.

Paul Debevec's digital inventions have powered the breathtaking visual effects in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Full bio »

"By creating more accurate artificial lighting on a computer, he says, his team is "giving filmmakers more flexibility" in their shots and more efficient ways to generate effects. Which means time and money saved on shooting, editing, and drawing graphics-not to mention more convincing results."

Gregory T. Huang, Technology Review

LLOYDS TSB 'SMART'

This is the number 40 of these immensely popular spots for Lloyds TSB & Agency RKCR/Y&R, featuring an ever expanding cast of characters... including the TRAIN SPOTTER..
Here you can find the first one, "For The Journey"
and here the rest: "lloyds tsb campaign"



More Info: StudioAka 
Agency RKCR/Y&R
Director & Designer: Marc Craste

Madagascar 3 Europe's Most Wanted Trailer 2

Looking better than the other two.
The film is directed by Eric Darnell and Conrad Vernon. and is set to be released on June 8, 2012.


More Info: www.madagascarmovie.com

MY FAMILY AND THE WOLF

Another great project from this studio in Spain:


More Info: headless

Good Books "Metamorphosis"

very interesting pice....


More Info: antfood
goodbooks

Client: Good Books
Agency: String Theory
Director: Buck
Music & Sound Design: Antfood

Ruin

very impresive work of oddball!!


More Info: www.oddballanimation.com

Friday Fun - Tipsy

I like this one!
Psyop presents Tipsy, a puppeteered wine bottle character enhanced with photo real animation that sings about the film festival in Sonoma. He loves film. He loves good food. And he loves to drink – a little too much.



More Info: psyop.tv

Tedsday - James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy

James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," "Titanic" and "Avatar."

James Cameron is the director of Avatar, Titanic, Terminator, The Abyss and many other blockbusters. While his outsize films push the bounds of technology, they're always anchored in human stories with heart and soul. Full bio »

 "Don't put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you -- don't do it to yourself, don't bet against yourself, and take risks."

James Cameron

Paranorman

Here you can find some nice pics of the behind the scenes from the Paranorman Team via Instagram:

and here the second trailer:



More Info: paranorman.com

The Chase

A short movie directed by Philippe Gamer at Space patrol.
A crazy, irresistible, intense, spectacular car chase between police and four unlikely accomplices :)


More Info: thechase.fr
spacepatrol.fr

Project Re: Brief - Introduction

2011, Google partnered with four global brands in an advertising experiment. The goal was simple - how can the ideas that defined the advertising industry in its infancy, inspire a whole new generation of creatives and marketers? We re-imagined and remade their most iconic ad campaigns from the 1960's and 1970's with today's technology, led by the creative legends who made these campaigns.


More Info: www.projectrebrief.com

Fresh Guacamole

Here another short by PES.
PES is one person, not a film collective or a production company.
"Clicking on a PES film is to open a safe and suddenly see a million ideas glittering and exploding," says Director Michel Gondry. "The only reason you close the door is to re-open it just after and discover what will pop this time." - Paste Magazine



More Info: http://www.eatpes.com/

MOEBIUS - R.I.P. 08/05/1938 – 10/03/2012

FRENCH comic-book artist and designer Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, died overnight aged 74 after a long illness.



More Info: bbc.co.uk/news/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud

Introducing Google Play

Your favorite entertainment is now all in one place, always accessible on the web and across your Android devices.




Learn more at http://play.google.com/about

Friday Fun - CocaCola

Great campaign for CocaCola by Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam

1- Falling Dominoes
2- Blowing Bubbles in the Sky
3- A Beach Bonfire
4- One Billion Smiles

The Internet Movie Script Database

Interesting place with a big collection of movie scripts for free.

Tedsday - Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

Filmmaker Andrew Stanton ("Toy Story," "WALL-E") shares what he knows about storytelling -- starting at the end and working back to the beginning. (Contains graphic language ...)

Andrew Stanton has made you laugh and cry. The writer behind the three "Toy Story" movies and the writer/director of "WALL-E," he releases his new film, "John Carter," in March. Full bio

 

"I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure."

Andrew Stanton

The Artists

The Artists is a short film about two rival painters who fail to see the bigger picture.



Director: Sean Mullen
 more info: Giant Creative

"Chico and Rita" - the processes

Here a clip of the processes of a sequence for "Chico and Rita" the film of Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal


more info:
imdb.com
chicoandrita.com
mariscal.com

Ice Age Continental Drift Trailer

The Story of Animation

What is "The Story of Animation"?
The Story of Animation is an educational film about the process of animation. Although aimed primarily at potential animation clients, the film has something for everyone - animation students, animation artists, animation producers, and anyone who has ever wondered about how animation is made.

for more info visit: thestoryofanimation.com

Friday Fun - Tarantino FROM BELOW

:)

Lernz tiny tutorials

Do you whant to lear animation? The guys from Animade are creating a super short animation tutorials with an emphasis on simple effective movement. They  will be producing a hole bunch of these over the next 12 months so please follow them on twitter to stay up to date.

#01 - EYES
#02 - WALK
#03 - BIRD
and here #4: BOOM

Despicable Me 2

Cool


Release Date: July 3, 2013
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Screenwriter: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Starring: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Russell Brand, Al Pacino
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Plot Summary: Not Available
Official Websites: http://www.despicableme.com/

Tedsday - Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

I like a lot Ted's talks, so I decided to dedicate one day of the week to publish my favorite ones.
So for now on Thursday will be Ted's day.
To start one of my favorites of Ken Robinson.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Full bio »

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

Ken Robinson