Looks good to me! I particularly like Kristen Bell’s voice! Looking forward to it.
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Promote Yourself: Chris Patton to attend AniMinneapolis
Chris Patton to attend AniMinneapolis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Minneapolis, MN -Â September 25, 2013Â – Prolific voice actor Chris Patton will be appearing at the fourth annual Anime Minneapolis convention in May in downtown Minneapolis. Convention attendees can come to the convention to see him in various panels, get free autographs, and participate in various Q&A sessions.
Chris Patton has been acting professionally for well over fifteen years, with over twelve of those years dedicated to voice acting and anime, including work for ADV Films, FUNimation Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks, and Okratron 5000. Some of his more well-known roles are Sousuke Sagara in all the Full Metal Panic series, Greed in Fullmetal Alchemist and Brotherhood, Asura in Soul Eater, Akuto Sai in Demon King Daimao, Keima in The World God Only Knows, Ikki in Air gear, Sho in Guyver, Fakir in Princess Tutu, Nishi in Gantz, and Turles in Dagonball Z: The Tree of Might. Other Anime credits include: Inu X Boku SS, Phi Brain: Puzzle of God, Hajime in Ghost Stories, Ayato in RahXephon, Daley Wong in Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Ranmaru in The Wallflower, Eiji in Gravion and Gravion Zwei, Haruka in Tactics, Graham Spector in Baccano, Komyo Sanzo in Saiyuki, Gintoki in the Gintama movie, Hiroki in The Place Promised in Our Early Days, and tons and tons more! Chris is also a stage performer, a music freak, a horror film nerd, a roller coaster guru, and a huge fan of Sharon Needles, Freddie Mercury, and Aleister Crowley.
AniMinneapolis is a fan-run anime convention held in Minneapolis, spanning three days from May 23-25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Minneapolis. The convention combines a fan-friendly attitude with a big exhibit hall, a ton of events, and an exceptional guest list. Over 3,000 cosplayers and anime fans are expected to come to the fourth year of this event.
Admission for the entire weekend costs $40 through December 31, and can be found online at http://animinneapolis.com/
Vendor registration is also now open for the convention, online at http://animinneapolis.com/
Promote Yourself: Giant Wheel Animation debuts at MIPCOM with ‘Lily & Friends’
***Press release***
Giant Wheel Animation debuts at MIPCOM with ‘Lily & Friends’
(25th September 2013 – London) Giant Wheel Animation the Anglo-Indian CGI animation studio today announced it is debuting a new pre-school animation show at MIPCOM.
‘Lily & Friends’ will be an original 52 x 11’ animation series created by Giant Wheel’s London studio and features a curious little girl called Lily whose imagination leads her on a series of adventures in her garden.
The series will also a host of adorable creature characters with each episode featuring a positive lesson in sharing, helping, love, tolerance or respect.
Giant Wheel is unveiling the show in Cannes to co production partners, broadcasters and distributors for the first time. Clark Irving (‘Marvo the Wonder Chicken’ – Disney XD) will direct the series.
Soumyashree Mohapatra, Creative Director of Giant Wheel Animation said: “We excited to be debuting our IP ‘Lily & Friends’ at MIPCOM. We have had an extremely positive reaction to the property so far and we’re confident partners from around the world will be impressed when they see the show in Cannes.â€
Giant Wheel Animation is an artist led company comprising of designers and animators who have years of experience in developing popular animated shows and feature films. 2013 marks company’s first visit to MIPCOM.
The studio also recently announced the appointment of Atlantyca Entertainment as distributor for ‘Taka & Maka’, a 40 x 1’ co production with French animation house Tiktak Production, and series director Ulrich Boyer’s Techtonik Productions.
The business’s London HQ develops original IP and also specialises on character design and storyboarding whilst the Indian studio focuses on servicing projects, both for Giant Wheel’s own properties and other clients including ‘Dear Dracula’, recently aired on Cartoon Network.Â
For more information about Giant Wheel Animation please contact Justin Crosby on 0203 176 6688/ 07966 228361
Promote Yourself: “Tools to improve free video reference site”
[video src="http://www.animationinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/RR_Kickstarter.mp4" /]
We’re launching a Kickstarter project to implement a new variety of tools for animators, we will create and install on our website a new video player for our 1.800+ online video references, presented on referencereference.com, that allows scrubbing videos frame-by-frame. Also, we’re going to update our website to run properly on feature/smart phones and tablets. We have some great awards, including ad plans and sponsorship in our site exclusively for schools and companies in the animation and game fields.  And ALL OVER 1800 videos on our wesite are completely free and available to the whole community of animators in the world.
:: See our project page on Kickstarter! ::Â http://kck.st/182arYg
Share it with your friends, classmates and students! If we don’t fund the project in Kickstater, the site will continue as it is … without videos frame-by-frame, without working well on tablets, and without being able to download the videos. In addition, several new videos that we have to up-load will stay on the desk. If you support us by sponsoring our project from $1, you will help us helping the whole animation community in the world!
JOIN US IN THIS ENDEAVOR!
Thank you!
Model Sheet Monday: Pepe’ Le Pew
Click the image to see the full sized model sheet!
Today’s model sheet comes from the classic Warner Bros division run by Darrell Van Citters back in the early 1990’s. Pepe Le’ Pew was an interesting character who would not take no for an answer. He wasn’t my favorite but I admittedly did enjoy him lackadaisically chasing the cat around and the quick cutting, her panicked and him playfully hopping to catch up. Of course at the time I had no idea he was essentially a stalker and that she probably had a restraining order on him! I don’t think you could get away with a  cartoon like this today, except maybe on Family Guy. I have in the past worked with hygienically challenged people who left a waft of stench behind them so I would argue that the science is solid surrounding his scent cloud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lsQfTaStcsI was fortunate enough to be able to animate Pepe in a Marshall’s commercial back in the early 90’s myself while working at Warner Bros. Animation.
[video src="http://www.milowerx.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/Marshals.mp4" /]This particular model sheet was drawn by Shawn Keller.
Here’s more information via Wikipedia about our love starved rodent Pepe’ Le Pew:
Pepé Le Pew storylines typically involve Pepé in pursuit of what appears to be a female skunk (“la belle femme skunk fatale”). But, usually, the supposed female skunk is actually a black cat (retroactively named Penelope Pussycat) who has had a white stripe painted down her back, often by accident (as by squeezing under a fence with wet white paint). Usually Penelope runs away from him anyway because of his putrid odor or because of his overly assertive manner. As Penelope frantically races to get away from Pepé, he hops after her at a leisurely pace.
Here’s Chuck Jones talking about creating Pepe’ Le Pew.
Software: A comprehensive List of Free Software
You now have no excuse to say you can’t make that film due to lack of funds for software!
3D Graphics:
3Delight Free – http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis – http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender – http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) – http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Now3D – http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX – http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray – http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP – http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen – http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic – http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D – http://www.wings3d.com/Anti-Virus:
a-squared – http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir – http://www.free-av.com/
Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG – http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender – http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin – http://www.clamwin.com/
3Delight Free – http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis – http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender – http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) – http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Now3D – http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX – http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray – http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP – http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen – http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic – http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D – http://www.wings3d.com/Anti-Virus:
a-squared – http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir – http://www.free-av.com/
Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG – http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender – http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin – http://www.clamwin.com/
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