Joeri Christiaen, an animator on The Triplets of Belleville, has cooked up a high-minded web series that imagines a tiny army of plankton helping global warming take over our planet. He designed, wrote, directed and animated each of the six episodes of Plankton Invasion, and now his creation is being turned into a TV series for Canal+. Here’s an episode titled The North Sea Crab:
Yes – lead with the fart joke. Noone can resist the fart joke. I did laugh at this new TV trailer for Despicable Me, the new feature from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment. The film is being directed by Chris Renaud, and it hits theaters on July 9, 2010.
A few months back we interviewed Dean Lennert about his quest to finish his traditionally animated short film, Dear Anna Olson, , which is a story based on a true life experience, about a lonely woman in a nursing home, who reaches out to the world by tying notes to balloons, and letting them go out her window. The film follows a red balloon released by Anna, as it passes on to three other characters, who are experiencing their own form of personal isolation.
We’re following up with this post to show out support for Dean and getting the film finished by letting you all know that, Dear Anna Olson has been accepted as part of the PEPSI REFRESH EVERYTHING Project for a possible $25K grant! When you go to the Refresh Everything link for Dean’s film, you can check out some clips, get info about the film, as well as information on how he plans on using the grant money to finish the film. All you need to do is cast your vote, which you can do ONCE DAILY throughout the month, to show your support. Voting ends May 31st, so go VOTE, and good luck to Dean!
Passion Pictures director Darren Walsh recently teamed up with East Coast Trains, the UK transporation company that recently launched a Miniature Prices campaign, thus the miniature stop-motion characters. The agency leading the creative was Dentsu London. Here’s the spot titled Museum.
… and here’s a short “Making Of” video featuring interviews with director Darren Walsh and animation director Gary Cureton.
In honor of Disney/Pixar’s UP landing 5 Oscar nominations this morning, I’ve cast eternal lovers Carl and Ellie in a new Valentine’s Day JibJab Sendable. It’s titled Romeo and Juliet, and I believe this was written by Andy Ochiltree.
via Alan Cook
To promote his new live-action feature film Extract, Mike Judge has resurected Beavis & Butt-head. They make fun of Jason Bateman’s name, talk about boobs and say things like “butt wagon.” Rare form, rare form (except Beavis’ voice – sounds a little off, no?). Extract is in theaters on September 4th.
Jennifer Guthrie, a SCAD graduate in Kentucky, went above and beyond the parental obligation this year to create a WALL•E costume for her youngest. The year before, Guthrie’s oldest got to go as a Mechwarrior, a costume that was also elaborately designed. Don’t worry, this year the oldest got a good costume too. He went as another WALL•E character: a passenger from The Axiom.
The WALL-E DVD comes out November 18th.
