Space Battleship Yamato trailer
It’s going to be a Happy New Year for fans of Star Blazers and cheesy Japanese live action science fiction flicks (which I am):
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Donato Giancola, the renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator that I wrote about previously last year and in 2005 , has a new instructional DVD (more details here ), published by Massive Black Media, in which the camera follows him through the creation of “ The Mechanic ” (larger version here ), an painting that was created...
Many non-Japanese fans are probably not very familiar with the various Japanese school festivals and events that are held throughout the year. Perhaps the most iconic of these is the Traditional Festival, or Bunkasai.
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In 2007, you’ll recall Madame Tutli Putli ’s disturbing and effective use of live action eyes composited onto the animated puppets. A few years earlier, British filmmaker Lizzie Oxby combined stop-motion animation, live action performance (placing a live action head on a stop-mo puppet) and digital effects for her film Extn. 21 . The...
Animation can be used to inform, educate, advertise and express emotions just as live action can by using the same techniques; such as the use of colour, film language and sound. The NSPCC advert by Russell Brooke on television is a good example of how animation can be more effective than live action. There is no limit to how much a situation or an...
Your worst nightmare comes true: Zartog Strikes Back! Opens tomorrow in the UK. (Thanks, Iain)
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In drawing, particularly pen and ink drawing, stipple refers to the painstaking technique of creating tones by laying down areas of dots, the density of which creates areas of varying tone. It’s almost a handmade analog to photographic screening of photographs, though the technique long preceded photography. Stipple was important to classic...
This little live action/animation horror film was made in 2001 and has been around the internet for a year or two. I just found it online today, and figure it’s worth a post as I will be heading over to Monsterpalooza this afternoon. (Thanks, Tim Hodge)
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Another live action filmmaker tries his hand at directing an animated film. Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300) brings Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’hoole novels to the screen this fall when Warner Bros. releases Legend of the Guardians on September 24th. Animal Logic (Happy Feet) in Australia produced the animation. Here’s the trailer:...
Always on the outlook for animated features, good or bad, to post about – I came across this flick which was independently produced by a small post-production and animation studio in Glendale, California, Hyper Image . Animated in 3D Max and aimed towards gamers and Star Wars: Clone Wars fans (It’s rated PG-13 for “some suggestive...
Animation in live action means integrating real life characters with animated characters. It started way back in 1940 during the black & White era where Disney movies had not even taken shape. ‘Gertie the Dinosaur’ was a first movie made where live action & animation were used in collaboration. This was the silent film era. Disney...
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