Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec’s 2008 film Escale is finally available online, after being selected in 2009 for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The painterly 2D animated short follows a lovelorn sailor and his passion for a port-of-call prostitute. The film was produced by Nostromo.
This year I notice a pretty significant drop in animated spots accompanying the Super Bowl. Last year we had Coca-Cola’s CG Heist spot, Chevron’s stop-motion talking cars, the Bridgestone Tires spot featuring Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and ads for Monsters vs. Aliens and Up. This year it was the Coca-Cola ad featuring Mr. Burns slide into financial insecurity, the video game ad for Dante’s Inferno and the Honda Squirrel spot. No aniamted movie trailers and almost no comedic animation. Boooooo!
In the run-up to the March 26th release of How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation has released a number of behind-the-scenes interviews. Here’s an interesting one with Production Designer Kathy Altieri, who has worked on The Lion King, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.
Today, a nation of fans await the biggest TV moment of the year…. the season 9 premiere of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, tonight at midnight. After that one football game thing, ATHF returns, and Carl has a thought or two about his gridiron lead-in. This is Carl’s Lock: Super Bowl XLIV.
Elastic has delivered yet another CG spot for the Honda Accord Crosstour campaign, featuring more of that stylish polygonal design and animation. This one, titled Squirrel, will air in the 4th quarter of this weekend’s Super Bowl. The agency behind the effort was RPA.
Mekanism, the creative shop with offices in SF and NYC, produced this new ad for DKNY. Tony Benna directed the stop-motion spot, which is titled The Candy Shop.
The 9th season of Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force kicks off at midnight on Sunday with a new episode titled Rabbot Redux. In the last year’s season finale, live-action sequences were introduced, and the town’s water was infected – with fire! Find out how it all sorts out. Two teasers below:
