05.02.10

The Can

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , , , — Alex Amelines @ 11:35 pm

I just bumped into this great ani­ma­tion I saw a cou­ple of years ago and I thought I should share it here in case some of you haven’t seen it. It was writ­ten and ani­mated by Car­los Las­cano as part of the Red Bull pro­gram organ­ised together with the Uni­ver­sity of Applied Arts in Vienna, col­lect­ing cre­atives from around the world.

It beau­ti­fully com­bines mul­ti­ple ani­ma­tion tech­niques, like using real human eyes for the main char­ac­ter, just as Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczer­bowski did on Madame Tutli-Putli . Pup­pet style ani­ma­tion in After Effects (pre­sum­ably), touches of frame by frame ani­ma­tion, lots of very detailed tex­tur­ing and a suc­cess­ful colour grad­ing in post-production.

It got fea­tured on Motiono­g­ra­pher and Drawn back in 2008 and it was awarded a Hon­or­able Men­tion in 2D ani­mated film at The Hyde Tube Fes­ti­val 2009 in Paris.


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12.11.09

Justice League: ‘Crisis On Two Earths’

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , — Alex Amelines @ 11:16 pm

Crisis On Two Earths © Warner Home Video

The trailer for Warner Home Video lat­est ani­mated ven­ture has been released.

The story is based on the 1999 Grant Mor­ri­son JLA: Earth 2 story, where a heroic Lex Luthor from an alter­nate uni­verse com­ing to the Jus­tice League for help against the Crime Syn­di­cate. This is the sev­enth video in the line of the DC Uni­verse Orig­i­nal Ani­mated Movies line released by Warner Pre­miere and Warner Bros. Ani­ma­tion. Writ­ten by Dwayne McDuffie of the Jus­tice League (TV Series) fame, it is a mod­i­fied script by McDuffie for a pre­vi­ously can­celed Jus­tice League Unlim­ited pre­quel. The film is not a DCAU pro­duc­tion in any way, nor is it con­nected in any way to the pre­vi­ously released Jus­tice League ani­mated film; Jus­tice League: The New Fron­tier.

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20.10.09

Storek studio joins FX factory

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , — Alex Amelines @ 10:43 pm

nVeil © Storek Studio

Noise Indus­tries, devel­oper of visual effects tools for the post­pro­duc­tion and broad­cast mar­kets, announced that new devel­op­ment part­ner, Storek Stu­dio, has released an update to its widely pop­u­lar nVeil video plug-in exclu­sively for the FxFac­tory plat­form. nVeil cre­ates unique kalei­do­scopic visual effects by fil­ter­ing source imagery through vec­tor graphic veils. nVeil’s expand­ing library comes pre­loaded with custom-designed veils and keyframe­able para­me­ters for user cus­tomi­sa­tion. FxFac­tory® pow­ered plug-ins extend the visual effects capa­bil­i­ties of Adobe® After Effects® CS3 / CS4, Apple® Final Cut Stu­dio®, Apple Motion® and Apple Final Cut® Express applications.

“The FxFac­tory effects engine and its con­nec­tion to the cre­ative motion graph­ics world is a per­fect fit for us,” said Rich Storek, chief archi­tect, Storek Studio.

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