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Because of John Lasseter, There Was Almost No ‘Frozen’
The Laughing Place has an interesting blurb and clip from Zachary Levi concerning how Frozen was almost did make it to screen.
From the article:
Zachary Levi, the voice of Flynn in Tangled, recently sat down to talk to Entertainment Tonight about the new Tangled TV series and the possibility of a Chuck reunion.
But perhaps the most interesting thing he said was he was told by John Lasseter, the Chief Creative Officer for all of Disney animation, that Tangled would be Disney’s last fairy tale movie.
“He said, ‘Alright guys, this is it. This is the last one,’†the 35-year-old actor recalled Lasseter saying. “Then he made Tangled and we did really well and it was enough to buoy that for them to go and make Frozen.â€
“So I will say to the Frozen people, ‘You’re welcome. You are welcome,’†Levi joked.
You can read the entire thing here.
‘R-Type’ Fan Made animated short
Forbes has an article about a fan based animated short based on the classic side scrolling game R-Type. Personally I never heard of it but the animation Paul Johnson did is pretty sweet!
From the site:
For anyone that grew up with the brilliant side scrolling shoot-em-up R-Type, then the recent work of animator Paul Johnson will fill your heart with joy. This new animated short for Mashed, which is a programme on Channel 4 in Britain, covers the scenario of a smack talking gamer that is sucked into the first level of R-Type to prove his skills. The short specifically covers the first level of the first R-Type, up until the level’s boss fight. From the enemy spawn patterns to the layout of the level, it’s all been brilliantly done.
DISNEY XD LAUNCHES NEW ANIMATED COMEDY COUNTERFEIT CAT
DISNEY XD LAUNCHES NEW ANIMATED COMEDYÂ COUNTERFEIT CAT
The story of an unconventional friendship between a lazy, selfish house cat and an excitable, naive alien with a mysterious destiny and a homemade purple cat suit.
Counterfeit Cat premieres on Disney XD on 12th May 2016 at 4.30pm.
Disney XD is launching its brand new animated comedy series Counterfeit Cat, which follows the adventures of Max and Gark. Gark is not a real cat, he’s a Counterfeit Cat. He’s a small blue alien in a purple cat costume. Max is a real cat: fat, fluffy, yellow and constantly pampered by his elderly rap-battling, kung-fu fighting, cat loving owner Betty. Armed with an array of super-cool powers, a handful of weird and whacky ideas and Gark’s delusional spaceship called Throckmorton, who crash landed into Betty’s laundry room, the intergalactic possibilities are endless for our over-excited alien and reluctant house cat duo.
The voice cast includes Marc Wootton (“Nativityâ€) as Max, Alex Kelly (“Frankenstein’s Catâ€) as Gark and Kayvan Novak (“Fonejackerâ€) as Betty and Throckmorton. Plus a whole host of other voices including comedian Katherine Ryan as pedigree cat, Ranceford and sweet but not very smart pigeon, Nelson, and Poldark’s Kyle Soller as wisecracking squirrel, The Kid.
Counterfeit Cat is co-produced by Wildseed Kids and Tricon Kids & Family.
Son of Zorn official trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPnlQTi8heM
This looks like it could be good. It seems to have a bit of an Archer vibe. Like Archer meets Conan meet Anchorman.
Looking forward to a full episode! You?
The Art of Storyboarding with Ridley Scott
A fascinating look into the mind of Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise, The Martian) and how he uses storyboards in his process. And this unlike many other interviews is interesting to me at least because the whole thing is about storyboards. Scott is an artist himself and works out his own boards and thumbnails for his films.
When I draw, I get sucked into the scene, and when I get sucked into the scene I start to visualize other opportunities which aren’t just pictures but suggestions for actors, how the scene can go and how you can adjust and maybe even find how the words are used.
The storyboard becomes rather like a sophisticated comic strip well in act now comic strips are really sophisticated and ideally that’s what storyboards should be, because you’re seeing the dynamics of,… and if it’s really well drawn, then you can follow the dynamics of the sequence and even if it’s dialog you always do something that isn’t just two talking heads but then of course two talking heads can also be interesting.
