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Ford Uses Hollywood Motion-Capture Software Behind ‘Avatar’ to Improve Vehicle Designs
Ford Motor Company is the only automaker to use the same type of motion-capture software in its virtual engineering labs as Hollywood employs to create such motion pictures as “Avatar,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and “Polar Express” Ford uses motion-capture software for a variety of automotive applications including the study [...]
Continue reading...Box Office Main Event: The Fantastic Mr. Fox vs. A Christmas Carol
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
For the past few months, we have been conditioned to always look for big fantasy flicks with life-like graphics and special effects. This November, Twentieth Century Fox will prove Hollywood that they don’t have to make a film look realistic to make it look fantastic. The film, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”, based from Roald Dahl’s children’s [...]
Continue reading...Live Music to Debut with Planet 51
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Mass Animation, Sony Pictures and Intel Corporation today announced that the ground-breaking 3D animation short film “Live Music,” a worldwide collaboration by animators using a unique application built on the Facebook Platform, will be attached to TriStar Pictures’ animated feature “Planet 51,” scheduled for a Nov. 20 wide theatrical release in North America. “Live Music” is [...]
Continue reading...SIGGRAPH Announces Stereoscopic 3-D Cinema and Home Theater Trends
Monday, July 13, 2009
For the Computer 3D animation Festival, SIGGRAPH 2009 will present a dynamic line-up of speakers and sessions that will discuss trends and future directions for stereoscopic 3-D both for the Hollywood movie industry as well as for the general public home theater experience. “Stereoscopic visuals are a hot topic right now. The Computer Animation Festival programming [...]
Continue reading...An Iron Man’s Heart: Reasons Why 3D Animation Is In for the Long Haul
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Technically, 3D animation is not a groundbreaking technology. It has been in development since the early decades of the 20th century and has been successfully integrated in some films – mostly B-movie theatrical releases concerning horror stories. But lately, the entire world has been seeing a continuous spate of 3D animated movies which have been [...]
Continue reading...Interpretations of Cyborgs in Sci-Fi Films
Thursday, June 4, 2009
One of the more colorful elements of science fiction films in Hollywood is the introduction of robots. However, in trying to take the futuristic appeal to a higher level, most science fiction films portay these robots in a more humanistic manner – through the introduction of cybernetic organisms or more popularly known as cyborgs. Through the [...]
Continue reading...The Motif of Time Travel as 3D Animation Visual Effects
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
As confusing as time travel may be as a device for narratives, it has been one of the hallmarks of special effects by 3D animation studios for full-length feature films. At its core, time travel constitutes a bending of the laws of physics by enabling people and objects to move forward or backward in the [...]
Continue reading...Science Fiction: The Engine behind Summer Blockbusters
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The tradition of anticipating (Western) summertime full-length feature films with the best special effects spectacle from the top 3D animation studios of Hollywood will never establish a deep following if not for the invention of the literature genre science fiction. Sci-fi, as it is more fondly called by movie and literature fans, encompasses a broad [...]
Continue reading...Bazooka Joe: From Bubble Gums to Movie Theaters
Monday, May 25, 2009
Bazooka Joe, the black eye-patched cartoon character from the bubble gum of the same name, will be having his own cartoon animation full-length feature. Anything is possible in Hollywood. Presently, the copyright of Bazooka Joe is in the possession of Michael Eisner after he purchased the Topps trading card company for a whopping $380 million. Now [...]
Continue reading...Full Metal Panic set for a Live-Action Movie Adaptation, Zac Efron Interested
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The popular Japanese anime series Full Metal Panic is now set to become a live-action movie after Mandalay Pictures acquired its theatrical rights. In what is becoming a fast trend in Hollywood, another marquee celebrity, Zac Efron, has expressed interest to appear in the movie. Created by Shoji Gatoh, Full Metal Panic tells us the story [...]
Continue reading...Dragonball Movie
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Dragonball is an upcoming 2009 American live-action film adaptation of the Dragon Ball media franchise. The story centers around the adventures of the lead character, Goku, from his childhood into adulthood. The film began development in 2002, and is directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow. It is scheduled for release on April [...]
Continue reading...Kungfu Panda Scores in China, But …
Monday, July 7, 2008
Reuters – Saturday, July 5By Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING – More than just a box-office hit in China, animated Hollywood comedy “Kung Fu Panda” has led Chinese artists to find fault with their own film industry and call for fewer government controls on culture. The movie, which tells the story of a fat panda who dreams of martial [...]
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