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Spyro’s Adventure Theatrical Game Trailer

Aaron — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:54:49 +0000

The multiplatform game Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure launched a couple weeks back, and I just watched this elaborate CG trailer below. If you saw Puss in Boots, you may have also seen it play before the movie. It was directed by Jorma Taccone at PandaPanther.

Dorian Conquers Age of Empires Trailer

Aaron — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:35:56 +0000

Flaunt Productiions’ Dana Dorian directed this action-packed trailer for the recently launched Age of Empires Online effort.

CG Aperture Spot Helps Promote Valve 2 Release

Aaron — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:32:22 +0000

To support their upcoming launch of Portal 2, Valve Corportation has produced a series of CG spots, including this cheeky, commercial-within-a-commercial for Aperture Laboratories below. The cross-platform game is due out on April 19th. This piece is titled Aperture Investment Opportunity #1: “Panels”.

PRA’s Trailer For de Blob 2

Aaron — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:27:04 +0000

James Calvert at PRA (The People’s Republic of Animation) directed this new promotional spot for the upcoming multi-platform video game de Blob 2. This CG piece is titled Air Traffic Controller.

Rabbids Get Raves For New Animated Short

Aaron — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:15:33 +0000

Here’s a longer-format CG piece from the world of Raving Rabbids. This piece was created for E3, and it was animated at Akama in France. They won the Best Advertising Award at this year’s Imagina event.

Angry Birds Series Ready For Production

Aaron — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:35:13 +0000

With 50 million downloads, Rovio’s Angry Birds is an undoubted smash hit, but can it make the leap into TV and film? So many video games have tried and failed, but if Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride can become a huge movie franchise, why not, right? The latest word out of Rovio is that they are ready to go into production, but whether that’s for TV or the web, we will have to wait and see. Here’s a recent animated piece they created titled Angry Birds & the Mighty Eagle, which has been seen over 5 million times on YouTube alone.

Early Disney Animation Recreated in CG For Epic Mickey

Aaron — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:47:49 +0000

The team behind the upcoming video game Epic Mickey appear to have done their homework. In this promo clip below, titled The Anatomy of the Animation, we see how much study the crew did to help translate Mickey Mouse’s movements from 2D into a CG video game. In this embedded video below I’m jumping us forward to the 2-minute mark where we see an example of how the team recreated Mickey animation from some of the early shorts. The game arrives in the US on November 30th.

Dance Fortress 2 – A TF2 Mod

Aaron — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:50:03 +0000

The UK’s James Benson, who works by day at Lionshead Studios, created this animated dance video using a Gmod (Garry’s Mod) of the Valve video game Team Fortress 2. People have been creating animation in this manner for years now, but they’ve rarely been this well animated. Here’s Dance Fortress 2, which was animated in 3DS Max.

via Sean McKenzie

Latest Raving Rabbids Travel in Time Trailer

Aaron — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:22:50 +0000

Here’s the latest CG spot for the upcoming Ubisoft game Raving Rabbids Travel in Time. The Rabbids use their makeshift time machine to visit prehistoric times, Julius Caesar and the wild, wild west. The game hits shelves on November 25th.

A Grickle Game – Puzzle Agent

Aaron — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:57:49 +0000

Graham Annable has teamed up with Telltale Games to create a new iPhone and iPad game – Puzzle Agent. The game ended up winning the award for Best iPhone Game at E3. Here’s a humorous trailer:

And I also spotted several behind-the-scenes pieces focusing on Annable and his craft, including this one that discusses Annable’s inspirations.