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“Coda” by And Maps and Plans

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A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

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Director: Alan Holly – qlqn.ie
Producer: Ciaran Deeney – elzorrerofilms.ie
Writers: Alan Holly and Rory Byrne – rorybyrne.ie
Art direction & backgrounds: Ronan McMeel – ronanmcmeel.blogspot.ie
Music: Shane Holly – shaneholly.ie
Animation: Alan Holly, Rory Byrne and Eoghan Dalton – studiopowwow.com
Colouring and shadows: Eimhin McNamara – paperpanther.ie
Backrgounds: Áine McGuinness – ainemcguinness.ie
Starring: Brian Gleeson, Orla Fitgerald, Donie Ryan and Joseph Dermody
Music recording: Paul Finan
Voice recording: Tony Kiernan
Sound design: Michelle Fingleton
Sound editing: Andy Kirwan
Sound mixing: Garret Farrell – screenscene.ie
Musicians: Shane Holly, Aoife Dowdall, Katie O’Connor, Larissa O’Grady, Jenny Dowdall
Emma Scott: Production Executive for the Irish Film Board
Pauline McNamara: Executive Producer – RTE
Fionnuala Sweeney: Film Specialist – Arts Council
Jill McGregor: Schemes & Applications Co-ordinator for the Irish Film Board
Thanks to Sean McCarron & Jennifer Evans

Funded under the Irish FIlm Board’s Frameworks scheme
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AWARDS

Shortlisted for the 87th Academy Awards
Nominated for the 42nd Annual Annie Awards

Great Animation Award – Mecal 17th Festival International of Short Film & Animation of Barcelona, Spain, Mar 2015
Bronze Statue for the third animation – 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, Mar 2015
Jury special mention Р6th Roanne animation film festival Cin̩ Court Anim̩, France, Mar 2015
Best Animated Film – Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, USA, Dec 2014
Young Peoples Jury – Marcin Prize for best short film for young people, at Inernational Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! PoznaÅ„, Poland, Dec 2014
International Special Jury Prize at Animpact Animation Festival 2014, Seoul, South Korea, Nov 2014
KuanDog Prize: International Short Film Special Mention at KDIAF, Taipei, Taiwan 2014
Jury’s Special Award at Cinanima 2014
Best Animation & Best of Fest at Aesthetica Short Film Fest 2014
Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short at 50th Chicago International Film Festival 2014
2nd Place for the Audience Choice Award at the 3rd Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational, Baltimore 2014
Joint Best Irish Short Film prize with ‘The Ledge End of Phil’ at the Dublin Animation Film Festival 2014
Winner Best Short Animation at SXSW – Austin, USA 2014
Best Animation at Kino Fest – Bucharest, Romania 2014
Audience Choice SICAF – Seoul, South Korea 2014
Best in Show at Animation Block Party – New York 2014
Joint Best Animated Film Award with ‘Pandas’ at Kratkofil Plus – Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina 2014
Winner of the Anča Award, Fest Anča – Zilina, Slovakia 2014
Most Creative Short Award, Edinburgh Short Film Festival – Edinburgh, Scotland 2014
FICC Don Quijote Prize +Special Mention Best Animation, Galway Film Fleadh – Galway, Ireland 2013

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Show off you Workspace!

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My last post about Japanese artists showing off their workspaces got me to thinking it would be cool for animators around the world to do the same. So, if you’re interested in doing so, snap a pic of your workstation either at work or at home (or both) and email it to mike@animationinsider.com or link to it in the comments and I’ll gather them together and make one big post. Animators represent! As a start here’s mine:

Mike-Milo-workspace

#showoffyourworkspace

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Batz, a Shortfilm by Max Maleo & Aurelien Prédal

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A truly GORGEOUS animated and designed short funded entirely by Kickstarter! I would MUCH rather see a full length feature in this style than yet another fully rendered realistic one.

Batz, a Shortfilm by Max Maleo & Aurelien Prédal

Website : batz-themovie.com
Facebook : facebook.com/KawaBATZ

Production : Kawanimation Paris

Written by Max Maleo, Aurélien Predal, Pierre Razetto & Dimitri Cohen Tanugi

FR: Vamp et Rouss sont deux chauve-souris que tout semble opposer. Leur rencontre explosive va les propulser dans une aventure déjantée qui va mettre leur vie sens dessus dessous !

UK: Vamp and Rouss are two bats that everything seems to oppose. Their explosive meeting will propel them into a crazy adventure that will put their lives upside down!

All rights reserved – Kawanimation Paris – June 2013

Created by
Max Maleo & Aurélien Predal

Director
Max Maleo

Art director
Aurélien Predal

Producerz
Pierre Razetto & Dimitri Cohen Tanugi

Written by
Max Maleo
Aurélien Predal
Pierre Razetto
Dimitri Cohen Tanugi

Head of Production
Alexis Laffaille

Production Assistant
Eugény Couture
Morgane Souris
Marion Vermogen
Anne De Valors

Voice of Batz
Martial Le Minoux (ROUSS)
Antoine Schoumsky (VAMP)

Technical director
Thomas Liebert

Character Modeling
Martin Coustenoble

Character Rigging
Damien Gautron

Light & Rendering
Jean Marc Lepretre

Assistant Director
Guillaume Bonnaire

FX
Pascal Gaubertier
Thibaud Petitpas

Sound Design & Mixed by
Gautier de Faultrier
Clément Maleo

Music By
Jerome Bessout
Ghislain Fracapane
Florian Jamelot
Matthieu Fisson

Score
Victor Belin

Animatorz
Emmanuel Asquier-Brassart
Eve Guastella
Yoann Bomal
Jeanne Irzenski Gueye
Guillaume Bonnaire
Helene Leroux
Julien Bouquet
Max Maleo
Daniel Callaby
Gael Matchabelli
Marie Celaya
Bart Maunoury
Julie Cervantès
David Nasser
Augustin Clermont
Gwenolé Oul’chen
Paolo Cogliati
Thibaud Petitpas
Jean philipe Descoins
Jean Michel Ponthieux
Moze Essame
Sylvain Rohart
Karina Gazizova
Marion Roussel
Jean-Charles Gonin
Pierre Rutz
Romain Vacher
Manu Vergne

CG Internship
Charles Lemor
Rebecca Joly

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Fur technology makes Zootopia’s bunnies believable

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Engadget has an interesting article up about creating fur for Zootopia. Apparently the amount of fur each character has climbs easily into the millions!

To make the animals look realistic, Disney’s trusty team of engineers introduced iGroom, a fur-controlling tool that had never been used before. The software helped shape about 2.5 million hairs on the leading bunny and about the same on the fox. A giraffe in the movie walks around with 9 million hairs, while a gerbil has about 480,000 (even the rodent in the movie beats Elsa’s 400,000 strands in Frozen).

You can read the entire article here.

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Chris Bailey

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Chris Bailey, Animation Director.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Hah..great question. I have asked that of colleagues in the past. I think the craziest job, or furthest job from animation was working in a steel warehouse for my dad the summer before attending Cal Arts. I loaded steel I-beams onto trucks, drove a huge forklift, learned to weld and use a cutting torch. I caught myself on fire twice! In the warehouse were rows of 20′ and 40′ I-beams stacked to the ceiling. We’d leap from stack to stack looking for the right ones to fill orders and they’d sometimes rock back and forth threatening to fall. I felt like Daredevil.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’ve been pretty lucky and worked on some great projects. It’s hard to pick, but if I were to list a few highlights, I would start with the Marvel Productions Logo. It featured a chrome Spider-Man doing a flip and landing on the big MP. I was at the beginning of my career and thrilled to animate Spider-Man, even if it was only for one little shot. Next up is The Little Mermaid. It was a great film and broke animation out of the animated film ghetto and into a mainstream audience. I was a little fish swimming in a big pond and trying to learn as much as I could… Runaway Brain with Mickey Mouse for letting me play with the corporate icon and the resulting Oscar nod, Disney’s Mighty Joe Young for it’s groundbreaking CG animation, X-Men II because it’s such a great movie I’m a huge Marvel Comics fan, Kim Possible because it was as much fun to make as it was to watch and finally, the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem 3D Ride because the minions are so damned funny and I love theme park rides.  The Pepfar (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) Shorts for WB were interesting too. The shorts were done to advertise an educational action videogame for Kenya’s youth centers. I got to travel to Washington and pitch the boards to the State Department. Unlike in Hollywood where the costume of a director is shorts and t-shirt, I was pitching cartoon storyboards in a formal conference room wearing a suit! Ha!  The Judy short in particular was a way to experiment with Kim Possible style animation and design in 3D. It was boarded by one of my favorite Kim board artists and Batman comics artist, Dave Bullock.
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Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I grew up in Portland Oregon and went to Reynolds High School. I always liked comic books and wanted to draw them since I was 10 years old. Later in High School, I read an article in The Comics Journal that mentioned Continue reading

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Homer Simpson will broadcast live, with some motion-capture help

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simpsonsThe Wrap is reporting that Homer Simpson will broadcast live, with some motion-capture help!

In the episode, Marge, Lisa and Bart will turn the show over to the family’s patriarch, who will take a break from stuffing his face to comment on the events of the day live during both the East Coast and West Coast broadcasts, Fox revealed on Tuesday. Executive Producer Al Jean told us much more on a phone call immediately following the announcement — for example, how in the world they plan to pull this thing off.

You can read the whole article here.