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Piper – First Look – Official Disney Pixar

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In Piper, “a hungry sandpiper hatchling discovers that finding food without mom’s help isn’t so easy.” What I love about this short film is that it takes the best of Pixar’s character-based animation and blends it with the narrow depth of field, with the almost photo-real cinematography emulating macro photography.

Barillaro has been with Pixar for some time, acting as a supervising animator on Wall-E, Brave and The Incredibles. Piperis his directorial debut, and I hope we see more from him. I also hope that Disney Consumer Products Group doesn’t drop the ball again and not make some cute plushes based on this animated short, as I’m sure they’d sell well in Disney stores worldwide. Pixar and Disney’s animated shorts always seem to get the shaft from the merchandising departments.

The score for the short was composed by Adrian Belew, who is best known for his work as a guitarist and vocalist of the progressive rock group King Crimson. His songs have appeared in a bunch of movies and television shows, but this is his first attempt at composing an original score. This came about as Barillaro used Belew’s compositions as temp music while he was developing the short film. Finding Dory director/Pixar brain trust member Andrew Stanton knew the musician and made the introduction.

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Disney’s Moana Teaser Trailer

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Dwayne Johnson stars as demi-god Moana in Disney’s new animated film Moana, that is slated for a Thanksgiving release this year.

The official trailer of Walt Disney Studios’ latest animation film Moana is here and it features the voice of global superstar Dwayne Johnson in the role of Maui, a legendary demi-god. Moana is an animated 3D-musical-adventure-fantasy film based on South Pacific folklore. The film also features the voice of Auli’i Cravalho in the titular role of Moana. The film features computer-generated animation as well as traditional animation. Maui’s tattoos, in the film, as you will see in the trailer, are hand-drawn and traditionally animated. This is the second time that the Furious 7 actor will provide voice for an animated film. His earlier animated venture was the moderately successful Planet 51.

Moana is set to release on November 23 this year, during Thanksgiving.

 

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“Chaud Lapin”

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Razor-sharp detail, texturing, and lighting are standard — and this video upholds those standards to an impressive degree. It’s a testament to the exquisite craft in this gripping short, directed by a team of five students, that we totally buy into the tense domestic drama-love of a snake, rabbit, and boar.

CHAUD LAPIN – Graduation Film from Supinfocom Arles.

Directed by :
Géraldine Gaston : geraldinegaston.blogspot.com
Alexis Magaud : horoux.blogspot.fr
Flora Andrivon: florandrivon.blogspot.fr
Maël Berreur : flavors.me/maelberreur
Soline Bejuy: bejuysoline.blogspot.fr

© Supinfocom Arles 2014 – Autour de Minuit

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How Rooster Teeth’s “Summer Of Animation” Is Going To Forever Reshape Its Future

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Rooster-teethFastcocreate has an article about the emergence of Rooster Teeth which has gone from 5 employees to 70 in 5 years.

Gray Haddock, the head of Rooster Teeth Animation, is still staggered when he talks about it. “About five years ago, it turned into a little over a dozen people, maybe 15, at the start of season 10 of RvB. By the time we move into our own space, Rooster Teeth Animation will be bigger than the company as a whole was when Rooster Teeth moved onto the Austin Studios lot two years ago,” he says. “Just to give you a sense of how quickly we’ve exploded.”
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INK & PIXEL: MONSTERS UNIVERSITY

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Ink and Pixel has an interesting article up about Disney/Pixar’s Monster’s University with some nice development art.

From the site:

There’s no doubt in my mind that MONSTERS UNIVERSITY had the chips stacked against it from the moment of its conception. I say this because I remember the vehement reaction to the announcement of the film via social media – and just how much of a three-ring-circus that turned out to be. I think that part of the reason for the anti-MONSTERS U sentiment is that after the roaring success of 2010’s TOY STORY 3, Pixar experienced its first true misfire with the release of CARS 2 in June of 2011. As a sequel to the 2006 original, CARS 2 seemed to cast a spell of disenchantment over critics and audience members alike with its uninspired plot and cast of lackluster character leads. Oh sure, the film still made a fair bit of coin with a worldwide return of $559,852,396 in box office receipts, but fans’ once-resilient faith in the Pixar brand had been shaken none the less.