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• Comic-Con Preview: 20 Minutes of Beowulf 3D

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:35 pm

  Tags: Adaptation, Paramount Pictures, Movie Marketing, Animation, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Beowulf, Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary

  instantly impressive. The animation in Beowulf’s face, and the skin imperfections is the most realistic human facial animation to date. But you still have that weird motion capture movement. Which I’ve always found really odd since logically motion capture should result in more realistic movement, right? But instead you get some

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• Bus Photos: Spaceballs Animated Series and WarGames: The Dead Code

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:27 am

  Tags: Direct To Dvd, Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Television, Images, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci Fi Fantasy, Sequels And Remakes, Spaceballs, Wargames The Dead Code

  While waiting outside of Comic Con , we ran into two busses decked out in full promotion for the upcoming Spaceballs animated series and the WarGames direct to DVD sequel. We were able to snap off a couple photos before they drove away. We’ve written at lengths about our disgust for movie studios raping some of our favorite films for a few

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• New Wall-E Photo

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Images, Disney Pixar, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Drama, Animation, Wall E

  USA Today published a new photo of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E (Trailer, Photos). The year is 2700. WALL E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for. From Academy Award -winning director, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), WALL E is the story of one robot's comic adventures as he

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• Marco Torres @ BLC: Products of passion

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Marco Torres, San Fernando, Blc07

  Marco teaches in a school with 5000 students, with 40% staff turnover in two years in San Fernando, and captures his students' minds with multimedia to get them thinking about storytelling, telling their stories, the stories that are important to them, and studying the science of decision-making. Their films are incredible. Communication:A two

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• Plotting the floods with multimedia in MyMaps

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:39 am

  Tags: Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Tags

  Swathes of England devastated by floods, 24 hour news providing unrelenting images of flooded high streets and most of us left with only the vaguest of ideas of where this is all going on. Not now. Google Maps allow any individual to plot points on a map to tell a story. BBC Berkshire do this is tremendous style, illustrating the extent of this

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• Comic-Con: Indepth Wall-E Details Revealed

  Published: July 28, 2007, 11:31 pm

  Tags: Disney Pixar, Video Clips, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Action Adventure, Andrew Stanton, Wall E

  in Pixar’s opening animation), and also by a pair of binoculars that Andrew was playing with during an A’s game. “The Luxo was always an inspiration because of all the life it gave an inanimate object.” Actually, the panel began with the Pixar opening logo sequence but Luxo’s bulb burn out and WALL-E rolled in

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• BuyNLarge Releases WALL-E Character Posters

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:39 pm

  Tags: Disney Pixar, Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Animation, Poster, Andrew Stanton, Wall E

  Kino-Govno have posted five postcards from the BuyNLarge corporation which were passed out at Comic-Con in promotion of Disney’s WALL-E. We posted extensive coverage of the Saturday afternoon Pixar panel held at the convention, which includes a ton of new plot and character details (you can see the characters in the posters below). WALL-E is

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• The Simpsons Movie

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Family, Summer2007, Comedy, Animation, Recommended, Reviews

  What a great coincidence that my 500th post to this blog is the long-awaited big screen bow of those five funny members of the four fingered family and their pals in Springfield. Matt Groening, James Brooks, Al Jean and their massive creative crew took 18 years to get this flick done and the result is really good though falling just short of

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• The Simpsons - Tetris

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:08 pm

  Tags: Animation

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• Dreamworks to release Shrek 4 in May 2010

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:30 pm

  Tags: Dreamworks, Paramount Pictures, Adaptation, Family Films, Comedy, Sequels Remakes, Action Adventure, Animation, Release Dates, Shrek 4

  Animation and Paramount have officially announced that they will release Shrek 4 on May 10th 2010, according to Variety. Earlier this year, Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced that there will be a Shrek 4 and Shrek 5, but THAT IS IT! It's a finite story, has been from the beginning and I think that's part of its

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• Stephen Lang and Michelle Rodriguez Cast in James Cameron's Avatar

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: 20th Century Fox, Sci Fi Fantasy, Animation, Action Adventure, Casting, Avatar, James Cameron, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldana

  action/animation hybrid sci-fi film Avatar. Written by Cameron eleven years ago as an 80-page treatment, Avatar follows a wounded ex-marine who is unwillingly sent to settle and exploit the faraway planet Pandora. When he gets caught up in battle for survival by the planet’s inhabitants (called Na’vis) he

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• What is the Intended Audience for Pixar's WALL-E?

  Published: August 4, 2007, 4:21 am

  Tags: Disney Pixar, Sci Fi Fantasy, Romance, Animation, Action Adventure, Andrew Stanton, Wall E

  Pixar’s WALL-E is one of my most anticipated films of 2008. It’s a sci-fi film unlike anything ever seen before. The computer animated movie takes place sometime in the future, when overpopulation and rampant consumerism literally buries the world in trash. And mankind, the entire population is forced to re-colonize for a mandatory

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• Plotting the floods with multimedia in MyMaps

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:39 am

  Tags: Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Tags

  Swathes of England devastated by floods, 24 hour news providing unrelenting images of flooded high streets and most of us left with only the vaguest of ideas of where this is all going on. Not now. Google Maps allow any individual to plot points on a map to tell a story. BBC Berkshire do this is tremendous style, illustrating the extent of this

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• A Gentleman's Duel

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:36 am

  Tags: Animation

  (via Drawn)

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• The Dark Knight's Direct-to-DVD Anime

  Published: August 4, 2007, 4:42 pm

  Tags: Dvd, Warner Brothers, Animation, Action Adventure, Sequels Remakes, Comic Book Superhero, Rumors, Brian Azzarello, David Goyer, Josh Olsen, The Dark Knight

  Batmanonfilm has gotten their hands on a leaked info sheet for an yet-to-be-announced Batman anime project. The project would function much in the way that the Animatrix did for The Matrix films (which coincidentally was also released by Warner Bros). The memo says that the project would consist of sic short stories which help bridge the gap

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