The Looking Planet - [2014, Eric Law Anderson]

16min | Animation, Short, Adventure | 26 April 2014 (USA)

Enjoy this CGI animated short film and winner of over 50 film festival jury and audience awards including Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Animated Film, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Design. During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Cosmos Corps of Engineers decides to break some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression.

Produced on a 2007 Mac Pro home computer. Very special thanks to the Kaingang of Brazil. Thanks also to Solid Angle SL, Marcos Fajardo, Kathy Smith, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. 
http://www.thelookingplanet.com
http://www.facebook.com/thelookingplanet 

Written, Produced and Directed by
ERIC LAW ANDERSON

Producer - ANNE M. UEMURA
Edited by - ANUJ MAJUMDAR
Line Producer -THOM SOUTHERLAND

Voices
SAMUEL HERY
JOE CAPPELLETTI
CINDY ROBINSON
PETER OLDRING
CG Supervisor

DIMITRI LOGINOWSKI

Additional Technical Animation and Compositing

BRYAN COX

RISTO PUUKKO

Animators

ERIC LAW ANDERSON

SARA SMILNAK

SHELBI CAUDILL

JOHN SASSER

Modeler

TIMMOTHY CLEARY

Additional Modeling

DARYL STEFANSKI

Additional Character Rigging

CINTHIA FUJII

Additional Design

CAMERON GRAY

CGI Animated Shorts HD: "Fortress/Крепость"HD: - by Dima Fedotof - [2015]

Check out this Sci-Fi CGI Animated short film by the talented Dima Fedotof! "Fortress" is cartoon parable. Despite the fact that most of mankind has been killed off, the war still continues because of an automated system left by people. One of the last surviving bombers still performs it's task to destroy a city long since dead. The war wages on until the last echo of humanity has been completely destroyed. However, life will always find a way to survive. 

Contact Email d.s.fedotof@gmail.com

/Project page/

mr-absinth.com/ru

                 music in the end is Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" movement 4, finale

Sources: mr-absinth.com, The CG Bros youtube ch.

Hi! my name is Dima Fedotof, I'm an CG artist and computer short animaton director. I am an CG artist for a long time, and I prefer not to count by the years (I do not remember them) but by 3dmax versions. When I started working, actual version was 3dmax 3.2. At first my computer, who had already 32 megabytes of RAM, and hade big anough vinchester for windows and max or windows and 1 game. So I had to constantly reinstall them. Yes, long ago it was. Then I decided for myself what is CG. This is a new art form, underrated and misunderstood. Now CG is highly valued, but the era of post-modernism has made computer graphics mechanical art, which undoubtedly sad. However, postmodernism did not spare anyone, so that's all right. No one is offended.

Starting with a 3D painting, I gradually moved to create a short animations. In 2013, I made the animated short "Fortress" who suddenly liked people. Given that I do not have professional education, it probably indicates a certain abilities, maybe even talent! I like to think so. For the moment I'm doing the development of these skills by working on a new project, the working title of which - "the last day of the war." Here on the site you can see my work, if you have any questions, feel free to write me d.s.fedotof@gmail.com Сейчас я живу в прекрасном городе Санкт-Петербурге, планирую полнометражные мультфильмы и анимационный сериалы, пишу сценарии, рисую концепты, в общем без дела не сижу

Time Trap - [Michael Shanks, 2014]

After losing control of his engines, bumbling spaceman Fripp finds himself at the mercy of his spaceship. A thrilling descent through an asteroid belt ensues, after which he finds himself marooned on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Without a working spacecraft, the interstellar time-traveler must dip into the dead planet’s history in order to find a way home.

Writer/Director: Michael Shanks

Producer: Chris Hocking

Co-Producers: Louie McNamara & Michael Shanks

Executive Producers: Nicholas Colla & Craig Jansson

Production Design: Nick Issell

Costume/Props Design: Rowan Wills

Editor/VFX: Michael Shanks

Cinematographer: Edward Goldner

First Assistant Camera: John Maloney

Steadicam Operator: Glenn Clayton

Production Assistant: Jackson McInerney

Rocket Construction: Louie McNamara, Michael Shanks, Nick Issell & Chris Hocking

Composer: Michael Shanks

Additional VFX: Chris Hocking

Matte Painter: Dave Tipper

Sound Designer: Craig Jansson @ The Magic Sound Company

Colourist: CJ Dobson @ Pocket Post

Costume Construction: Rowan Wills @ AusFX

Camera Supplier: Inspiration Rentals

Special Thanks: Cail Young, Pete Wells & Ben Plazzer

Additional Props: The Prop Store

Shot on Location at Heathcote & Yarraville.

CAST

Fripp: Mark Taylor
Young Couple: Ben Ridgwell & Lelda Kapsis
Little Girl: Leica Quinlan
Kids in Park: Ollie & Scout Jansson
Angry Father: Craig Jansson
Dreadlocked Busker: Nick Major

AWARDS

• Audience Award – Best Short (Fantastic Planet 2014)
• Best Foreign Short (California International Shorts Festival 2014)

Envoy: David Weinstein’s Short Sci Fi Must Become Full Feature Film

E N V O Y is a science fiction, action adventure, short film to be used as a proof of concept for a larger full-length motion picture.  It is the story of a troubled young boy who befriends a deadly alien creature, and embarks on a life changing journey.  A love-letter to many of the classic action-adventure and science fiction films of the ’80s & ’90s, ENVOY is a passion-project created by Director DAVID WEINSTEIN and Visual Effects Supervisor ADAM COGGIN.

The story has an Iron Giant kind of feel to it, as the story centers on a young boy who comes across a giant robot. The two share a little moment together before the military comes in to take out the robot. The design of the robot is really cool, and it is incredible to see this get picked up by a studio because it's pretty damn impressive. 

Weinstein and his team combined traditional film-making techniques with cutting-edge visual effects and animation to meticulously craft the nine-minute short film.  The goal is to introduce the story and concept of ENVOY to fans and financiers while demonstrating the teams ability to craft high-budget content for a fraction of the cost.

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Written & Directed by:  DAVID WEINSTEIN

Produced by:  MARIAM PRICE, DAVID WEINSTEIN, ADAM COGGIN

Visual Effects Supervisor:  ADAM COGGIN

Director of Photography:  MARIO CONTINI

Edited by:  PHIL BUCCI

Music Composer:  EDWIN WENDLER

Starring:  WILL SPENCER, JAYSON ZIEGENHAGEN, PAUL THOMAS ARNOLD, MURDOCK TIMMONS, ELIJAH ALLEN-BLITZ

Envoy Official Site: www.envoyfilm.com

Envoy Facebook: www.facebook.com/EnvoyFilm

Follow Director David Weinstein: @dw78nov

H. R. Giger - Art in Motion

Sources: wiki/H._R._Giger

Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger (/ˈɡiːɡər/ ghee-gur; German: [ˈgiːgɐ]; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer.^[1] He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for their design work on the film Alien.^[2][3] He was named to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013.^[4][5]

Production Companies Deep Side Production Naked Dog
Directed by 
Petr Luksan 
Produced by 
Ondrej Prusa ... producer
Music by 
David N. Jahn 
Film Editing by 
Petr Luksan 
Animation Department 
Martin Hasek ... animator
Bohous Kral ... animator
Tomas Kral ... animator
Zbynek Krulich ... animator
Simon Kubec ... animator
Petr Luksan ... animator
Filip Novy ... animator
Michal Suchanek ... animator
Henry Wielgus ... animator

Early life

Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, capital city of Graubünden, the largest and easternmost Swiss canton. His father, a chemist, viewed art as a "breadless profession" and strongly encouraged him to enter pharmaceutics, Giger recalls. Yet he moved in 1962 to Zürich, where he studied Architecture andindustrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970.^[6]

Career

Giger's style and thematic execution were influential. His design for the Alienwas inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980. His books of paintings, particularly Necronomicon and Necronomicon II (1985) and the frequent appearance of his art in Omni magazine continued his rise to international prominence.^[6] Giger is also well known for artwork on several music recording albums.

In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H.R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.^[7]

Personal life

The artist lived and worked in Zürich with his second wife, Carmen Maria Scheifele Giger, who is the Director of the H.R. Giger Museum.^[8]

Giger had a relationship with Swiss actress and muse Li Tobler until she committed suicide in 1975.^[9] He married Mia Bonzanigo in 1979; they separated a year and a half later.

Death

On 12 May 2014, Giger died in a hospital in Zürich after having suffered injuries in a fall.^{[1][10][11][12]}

Style

Giger started with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger had worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes. However, he then largely abandoned large airbrush works in favor of works with pastels, markers or ink.^[6]

Giger's most distinctive stylistic innovation was that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, he described as "biomechanical". His main influences were painters Dado,^[13] Ernst Fuchs andSalvador Dalí. He met Salvador Dalí, to whom he was introduced by painter Robert Venosa. He was also a personal friend of Timothy Leary. Giger studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich (from 1962 to 1965) and made his first paintings as a means of art therapy.^[6]

Other works

In the 1960s and 1970s, Giger directed a number of films, including Swiss Made(1968), Tagtraum (1973), Giger's Necronomicon (1975) and Giger's Alien(1979).

Giger created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for a movie of the novel Dune that was to be directed byAlejandro Jodorowsky. Many years later,David Lynch directed the film, using only rough concepts by Giger. Giger had wished to work with Lynch,^[14] as he stated in one of his books that Lynch's film Eraserhead was closer than even Giger's own films to realizing his vision.^[6]

Giger applied his biomechanical style to interior design. One "Giger Bar" sprang up in Tokyo, but the realization of his designs were a great disappointment to the artist, since the Japanese organization behind the venture did not wait for his final designs, but decided to move ahead with nothing more than Giger's rough preliminary sketches. For that reason, Giger disowned the Tokyo Giger Bar and never set foot inside. Within a few years, the establishment was out of business.^[15] The two Giger Bars in his native Switzerland (in Gruyères and Chur), however, were built under Giger's close personal supervision and reflect his original concepts for them accurately. At The Limelight in Manhattan, Giger's artwork was licensed to decorate the VIP room, the uppermost chapel of the landmarked church, but it was never intended to be a permanent installation and bore no similarity to the real Giger Bars in Switzerland. The arrangement was terminated after two years when the Limelight closed its doors.^[16] As of 2009 only the two authentic Swiss Giger Bars remain.^{[citation needed]}

Giger's art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. Under a licensing deal Ibanez guitars released an H. R. Giger signature series: the Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features "NY City VI", the Ibanez RGTHRG1 has "NY City XI" printed on it, the S Series SHRG1Z has a metal-coated engraving of "Biomechanical Matrix" on it, and a 4-string SRX bass, SRXHRG1, has "N.Y. City X" on it.^[6]

Giger is often referred to in popular culture, especially in science fiction and cyberpunk. William Gibson (who wrote an early script for Alien 3) seems particularly fascinated: A minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

Films

• Dune (designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel; the movie Dune was later made in an adaptation by David Lynch.)^[17]
• Alien (designed, among other things, the Alien creature, "The Derelict" and the "Space Jockey")^[18]
• Aliens (credited for the creation of the creature only)
• Alien 3 (designed the dog-like Alien bodyshape, plus a number of unused concepts, many mentioned on the special features disc of Alien 3, despite not credited at the generic of the movie theater version)
• Alien: Resurrection (credited for the creation of the creature only)
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side
• Killer Condom
• Species (designed Sil, and the Ghost Train in a dream sequence)
• Batman Forever (designed radically different envisioning of the Batmobile; design was not used in the film)^[19]
• Future-Kill (designed artwork for the movie poster)
• Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (creature designs)^[20]
• Prometheus (the film includes "The Derelict" spacecraft and the "Space Jockey" designs from the first Alien film, as well as a "Temple" design from the failed Jodorowsky Dune project and original extraterrestrial murals created exclusively forPrometheus, based in conceptual art from Alien. Unlike Alien: Resurrection, the Prometheus film credited H. R. Giger with the original designs).^[21]

Kantai Collection - [Kan Colle] - [2015]

Sources: animenewsnetwork.com, 0takomu

Alternative title:

Flee Girls Collection KanColle Animation Sequence

Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- (Japanese)

艦隊これくしょん -艦これ- (Japanese)

Genres: action, science fiction

Themes: battleships, military, moe, war

Plot Summary: A mysterious fleet known as "Abyssals" appeared from the depths of ocean and attacked randomly. Fleet Girls are the only one who can stand against the Abyssals. Together with Tornado Squadron and others, they set to counterattack. Upon seeing Akagi fought, Fubuki earned admiration towards her and aimed to fight with her

Vintage:

2014-12-27 (theatrical screening)

2015-01-07 (TV broadcast)

Opening Theme:

"Miiro" (;海色) by AKINO from bless4

Ending Theme:

"Fubuki" (吹雪; Snowstorm) by Shiena Nishizawa

Insert song:

"Let's not say 'good-bye'" by Kan Musume Tokubetsu Kantai

Official website:

アニメ「艦隊これくしょん -艦これ-」公式サイト (Japanese)

Reviews:

KanColle ‒ Episode 12 (Mar 26, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 11 (Mar 18, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 10 (Mar 11, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 9 (Mar 4, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 8 (Feb 25, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 7 (Feb 18, 2015)

KanColle - Episode 6 (Feb 11, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 5 (Feb 4, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 4 (Jan 28, 2015)

KanColle ‒ Episode 3 (Jan 21, 2015)

News:

KanColle Television Anime Gets Sequel (Mar 25, 2015)

Crunchyroll Announces KanColle TV Anime Streaming Schedule (Jan 6, 2015)

Crunchyroll to Stream KanColle TV Anime (Jan 3, 2015)

KanColle Anime's 1st Blu-Ray/DVD Release Promo Streamed (Dec 22, 2014)

Madman's Final Day of Christmas Brings Five New Acquisitions (Dec 22, 2014)

Kantai Collection Commercial Previews Opening Theme (Dec 5, 2014)

Girls & Panzer, KanColle, Strike Witches Promote Brad Pitt's Fury Film (Oct 9, 2014)

Kantai Collection Anime's 1st Promo Previews Animation (Aug 4, 2014)

Kantai Collection Anime's Staff, January 2015 Premiere Unveiled (Aug 3, 2014)

J-Cast: Kantai Collection TV Anime Slated for Summer (Apr 25, 2014)

Other articles:

Exec. Producer: 'New, Big Developments Coming For KanColle' (Feb 1, 2015)

Anime Spotlight - KanColle – Fleet Girls Collection (Kantai Collection) (Jan 8, 2015)

The Winter 2015 Anime Preview Guide - KanColle (Jan 7, 2015)

KanColle Anime Listed With 6 50-Minute Blu-ray/DVD Volumes (Dec 18, 2014)

Keizou Kusakawa (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?) is directing the anime of Kadokawa Games' moe-character card battle game at the studio Diomedea (Squid Girl, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?).Jukki Hanada (Love Live! School idol project, Steins;Gate) is in charge of the series scripts.

Kadokawa Games launched the original free-to-play browser game with the service providerDMM.com in April 2013. In the game, players compete with cards featuring female moe characters inspired by Japanese World War II warships such as aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Players build, organize, and repair their anthropomorphized fleet to progress through maps.

Director: Keizou Kusakawa

Series Composition: Jukki Hanada

Unit Director:

Keizou Kusakawa (OP)

Shingo Tamaki (ED)

Music: Natsumi Kameoka

Original Concept: Kensuke Tanaka

Original story: Kensuke Tanaka

Character Design:

Mayuko Matsumoto

Naomi Ide

Art Director: Maho Takahashi

Chief Animation Director:

Mayuko Matsumoto

Naomi Ide

Mechanical design:

Kōta Moroishi

Tsutomu Miyazawa

Sound Director:

Toshiki Kameyama (Groove)

Cgi Director: Eiji Inomoto

Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Itou

Executive producer: Takeshi Yasuda

Producer:

Jun'ichirō Tamura (Kadokawa)

Satoshi Motonaga

Animation Direction: Synod (ep 5)

Animation Direction Assistance: Synod (ep 12)

Animation Production: Diomedea

Background Art: Studio Tulip

Casting Management: Production Ace

CG Modeling Assistance:

Cursor Studio

Mirai Eizo Lab

Tsanghao Animation

CG Production: Orange

Production:

Kadokawa Corporation

Kan Colle Production Committee