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Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Monday, 26 January 2015
Feast (Trailer) - [Disney Animated Short, 2014]
Source: wiki/Feast, disneyanimation.com
Feast is a 2014 3D hand-drawn/computer-animated romantic comedy short film directed by Patrick Osborne, and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It made its world premiere on June 10, 2014, at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and debuted in theaters with Big Hero 6on November 7, 2014.[2]
Plot
Winston is a Boston Terrier[3] that loves to eat. His master James spoils him with various junk food and leftovers topped over his dog food. One day, James develops a relationship with a waitress at the local restaurant, who has him take up a healthier diet and lifestyle. This upsets Winston, since he refuses to eat vegetables. When the couple break up, James and Winston return to eating junk food until Winston realizes James' depression over the break-up, with a piece of parsley as his only reminder. Winston grabs the parsley and rushes out of the apartment, leading James to the restaurant to reconcile with his girlfriend and marry her.
Over a year after moving to a new home, Winston spots a meatball on the floor and follows the trail to the couple's infant son. The film ends with Winston feasting on dozens of cupcakes thrown off a table during the son's first birthday party.
Animation and style
Feast was animated using the Meander system developed for Paperman, and was the first time the tool was used in color.[6][8] Feast was rendered using Hyperion, the rendering system built for Big Hero 6.[8][9]
The characters and environment feature a line-free style with solid blocks of color.[10] The camera focused on Winston and the food while leaving the human characters generally out of focus. Because the film consists of a series of very brief scenes cut together, the foods portrayed had to be appetizing and recognizable at first glance.[11]
Winston was made a Boston Terrier for three main reasons. The filmmakers wanted a breed that does not appear in any prior Disney film. The breed is small so that he can be shown being promoted to a chair at the table and demoted back to the floor. Because of the flat style of the film, a breed with distinct markings like the Boston Terrier helps cue the audience to subtle movements.[8]
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Jerky Turkey - [1945]
Jerky Turkey is an animated theatrical short, directed by Tex Avery, released on 7 April 1945 by MGM. The story for this cartoon was written by Heck Allen, the music by Scott Bradley, and the animation was done by Preston Blair, Ed Love and Ray Abrams. Voices were provided by radio actors Harry Lang, who appeared on the Cisco Kid, and Leone LeDoux,[1] who specialised in baby cries. Internet sources claiming Daws Butler provided a voice are incorrect, as he did not arrive in Hollywood until after World War II.[2]
The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock and found a colony. A very large number of Pilgrims (some of them caricatures of Avery's animation crew) can be seen standing in line... for their cigarette rations. A Pilgrim goes hunting for a turkey for Thanksgivingdinner. The turkey outsmarts the pilgrim many times and eventually the two make up and decide to eat at "Joe's restaurant" which is being advertised by a bear, at the end the bear has eaten the two and reveals that he is Joe and the two complain inside the bear's stomach. Many of the gags revolve around life on the home front in the United States during WWII, rationing and the black market. The turkey is a caricature of the comedian Jimmy Durante.
Some Cartoon Network and TBS showings remove the "half breed" scene, depicting an American Indian who is dressed in native garb on one half of his body and a suit and tie on the other side. TNT aired this scene uncut.
Sunday, 5 October 2014
The Boxtrolls - [Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi] - [Laika, 2014]
The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American 3D stop motion animated fantasy-comedy film based on the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow. Produced by Laika, it was directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi. The Boxtrolls follows the adventures of Eggs, a human boy raised by trash-collecting trolls, as he attempts to save them from Archibald Snatcher, a pest exterminator. The film stars Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan.[5] It was released on September 26, 2014, to generally positive reviews.[6]
more on ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxtrolls
Plot
In the European town of Cheesebridge, rumors abound that subterranean trolls known as Boxtrolls kidnap and kill young children. Pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher strikes a deal with Lord Portley-Rind, offering to exterminate every Boxtroll in exchange for membership in the White Hats, a group of cheese-loving aristocrats led by Lord Portley-Rind that serves as the town council.
In actuality, the Boxtrolls prove to be peaceful creatures, wearing cardboard boxes, who emerge from underground at night to scavenge through the trash for items they can use to make inventions. A baby boy named Eggs lives among them, cared for by a Boxtroll named Fish. As Eggs grows up over a period of ten years, he becomes dismayed over the disappearing Boxtrolls due to Snatcher's capture of them.
Lord Portley-Rind’s neglected daughter Winnie grows frustrated at being ignored and throws his white hat out a window. Leaving the house to retrieve it, she sees Eggs rummaging through trash with two Boxtrolls. Snatcher and his men chase the trio and capture Fish. Devastated, Eggs puts together a disguise and sneaks back up to the surface to find him. Eggs emerges in the midst of an annual fair to commemorate the disappearance of the Trubshaw Baby eleven years earlier – presumably kidnapped and killed by Boxtrolls. Disgusted by the town’s inaccurate portrayal of the creatures, he follows Winnie away from the fair. She recognizes him as the boy she saw the previous night and directs him to Snatcher’s headquarters, an abandoned factory.
Sneaking into the factory, Eggs finds Fish locked in a cage and frees him. Meanwhile, Snatcher holds a cheese tasting with his henchmen, Mr. Gristle, Mr. Trout, and Mr. Pickles, as preparation for becoming a White Hat but, seemingly having no sense of irony,suffers a severe allergic reaction that causes grotesque swelling. Eggs and Fish try to sneak out of the factory only to be caught by Mr. Gristle. Snatcher recognizes Eggs as the Trubshaw Baby and reveals that all the captured Boxtrolls are still alive and building a machine. Winnie overhears this exchange, having followed Eggs to the factory. They and Fish escape from Snatcher and take shelter in the Boxtrolls’ underground cavern.
Winnie is surprised to learn the truth about the Boxtrolls, and convinces Eggs that he is not one of them. His father had given him to them as a baby in order to keep him safe from Snatcher. Winnie agrees to help Eggs tell Portley-Rind the truth. At a ball that night, held to commemorate the purchase of a giant cheese wheel, Eggs tries to confront Portley-Rind. He narrowly avoids capture by a disguised Snatcher, but inadvertently knocks the cheese down the stairs so that it rolls into a river. Eggs announces himself to the crowd as the Trubshaw Baby, but no one believes him and Lord Portley-Rind throws him out in a fury over losing his beloved cheese.
Eggs returns to the cavern and tries to persuade the remaining Boxtrolls that they need to flee for their own safety. Snatcher digs into the cavern using his machine, captures the entire group, and takes them back to the factory. Eggs, imprisoned in a cage in the basement, awakens to find his real father, Herbert Trubshaw - captured years ago by Snatcher and held prisoner ever since - hanging upside down next to him. He sees the Boxtrolls stacked in a crusher and begs them to run, but the crusher activates and flattens all the boxes.
Snatcher drives his machine to Lord Portley-Rind’s house, shows him the flattened boxes as proof of the Boxtrolls’ deaths, and demands Portley-Rind’s white hat once he kills the last one (actually Eggs dressed up as a Boxtroll). Winnie persuades Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles, who initially believed that their actions were justified due to the infamous reputation of the Boxtrolls, to redeem themselves by not killing Eggs. The Boxtrolls suddenly arrive with Herbert, having sneaked out of their boxes just before the crusher activated, and free Eggs. An infuriated Snatcher tries to take Portley-Rind’s hat by force, but Eggs, Herbert, and the Boxtrolls disable the machine. Eggs and Snatcher are thrown clear and land on the giant cheese wheel, freshly fished out of the river. Snatcher swells into a hideous giant and forces Lord Portley-Rind to give up his hat in exchange for Winnie's safety. Snatcher triumphantly enters the cheese tasting room, but unconcerned about his allergy, explodes after taking one bite of a rare cheese.
The townspeople no longer see the Boxtrolls as monsters and come to live peacefully with them. Winnie tells the tale of Snatcher's end to a crowd of people, while Eggs and Fish drive off in one of Herbert’s contraptions.
Italian:
Boxtrolls - Le scatole magiche (The Boxtrolls) è un film d'animazione del 2014 realizzato in stop-motion, diretto da Graham Annable e Anthony Stacchi.
Il film si basa sul romanzo illustrato Arrivano i mostri! (Here Be Monsters!) di Alan Snow.
Trama
“Boxtrolls" si svolge a Cheesebridge, un’elegante città dell’epoca vittoriana ossessionata dalla ricchezza, dalle classi e da puzzolenti formaggi. Sotto le sue strade dimorano i Boxtrolls, dei troll immondi che strisciano fuori dalle fogne di notte per rubare ciò che gli abitanti hanno di più caro: i loro figli e i loro formaggi. Almeno, questo è quello che i residenti hanno sempre creduto. In verità, i Boxtrolls sono una comunità sotterranea di eccentrici, stravaganti e adorabili omini che indossano scatole di cartone riciclato come se fossero gusci di tartaruga. Hanno anche allevato un ragazzo orfano umano fin dall’infanzia come uno di loro. Quando i Boxtrolls saranno minacciati dallo sterminatore Archibald Arraffa (Archibald Snatcher, voce di Ben Kingsley), si faranno aiutare da un’avventurosa ricca ragazza Winnie (Fanning) per aiutare a collegare due mondi.”
External links
- Official website
- The Boxtrolls at Focus Features
- The Boxtrolls at the Internet Movie Database
- The Boxtrolls at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- The Boxtrolls at Box Office Mojo
- The Boxtrolls at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Boxtrolls at Metacritic
The Boxtrolls Officials Teasers Trailers
Sunday, 21 September 2014
Meta: Join The Creative League - [Creative League, Los Angeles area ]
http://animationresources.org/creativeleague/
The Animation Creative League Clubhouse
The Animation Creative League is a group of cartoonists, film makers and other like-minded creative folks who are interested in building a community to support independent animation in the Los Angeles area.
The Animation Creative League Clubhouse
The Creative League currently meets once a month for networking, informal discussion, screenings, friendly critique of work in progress, and guest speakers. The topics of the meetings will cover the full spectrum of creativity- music, art, cartooning, dance, filmmaking, animation, comedy and drama. The goal is to inspire and empower independent animation creators. Because of space limitations in our screening room, as well as to facilitate open discussion, attendance at the meetings is strictly limited to just 12 people. As the group grows, we will add additional Saturday meetings during the month to accomodate more people.
The calendar of Creative League events is posted in the sidebar of this site to the left, and also on the Facebook group page titled “Animation Creative League”. Attendance at Creative League meetings is by invitation only. To reserve a confirmation to attend, you must email the group administrator Taber Dunnipace at creativeleague@animationarts.org for information. Space is limited. As a courtesy to the rest of the members of our group, do not request a confirmation if you do not plan to attend, and let us know immediately if your plans change so we can offer your space to another member.
If you are interested in participating in this group, please contact the group administrator, Taber Dunnipace at…
…and join the Animation Creative League Facebook Group to get notifications of all calendar dates.
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Stephen Worth
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