Matt Burnett and Ben Levin are bringing their online series RDCCDX: Digital Pirates of Dark Water Saga to a close at Otakon 2009, which runs from July 17th-19th at the Baltimore Convention Center. The finale will premiere at the For Tax Reasons panel, but in the meantime we’ve got another installment. In episode 3.5, You Are (Not) Loved, Dad busts the boys out of jail, but Mark and Barry might have preferred if he didn’t….
Michael Hickox’ stop motion video game shorts are pretty damn popular over at your neighborhood YouTube outlet; he’s got 3 shorts that have seen over 1 million views. Hickox’ latest Lego short, Lego Arcade, seems destined for the same view count status, as he takes us down video game memory lane…
Mike Wellins, a director at LAIKA/house in Portland helmed these three stop-motion spots for Hormel Foods canned precooked meat product Spam. The agency leading the effort was BBDO Minneapolis.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is still a couple months away, but while you wait - feast your eyes on this second trailer. You’d think this was an NBC production, what with all the Saturday Night Live cast members involved. Bill Hader, Andy Samberg and Tracy Morgan all came to the table for Sony Pictures Animation’s newest CG feature - and so did Mr. T. You hear him in around the 1:00 minute mark. Cloudy hits theaters on September 18, 2009.
I’ll begin with a confession. I’ve never been a lover of 3D animation. I’m not fundamentally opposed to it but it sometimes leaves me cold and being a bit of a technophobe the process scares the pants off me. I’m an ink and paper man, handmade, lo-fi, homespun tinkering away in a dusty old shed. (Actually I have a nice studio, but you get the picture.)
However, occasionally a piece of work comes along that transcends the technique, something that warms the cockles of my heart.
And so when I came across Michael J Dowswell’s work in progress project While they Slept the temperature of those cockles rose a few degrees. It has such elegant timing and the colouring is subtle and wonderful. It has an intriguing sense of calm about it and I really want to see more.
Ilion Studios’Planet 51 is still on track for a November 20, 2009 release, and a second trailer has been revealed. This $60 million CG feature about a reverse alien invasion is being released by TriStar Pictures.
