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Interview with Senior 3d Artist Steven Stahlberg

This week I caught up with Steven Stahlberg, an artist with 21 years of professional image making (11 years in digital form) experience and a forerunner when it came to 3d Character Modeling but also an exceptional 2d Artist in … Continue reading

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Dreamworks Aims for More Sequels

It looks like Dreamworks Animation is going into the sequel business. Hollywood Reporter has a story today about Dreamworks’ upcoming film “Madagascar: Return 2 Africa”, in which Jeffrey Katzenberg is quoted as calling it the “second chapter in one story,” … Continue reading

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July Artist Spotlight: Jon Finch

This month’s Artist Spotlight is on Jon Finch, currently a Character and Environment Look Development Artist/TD on the film “Astro Boy” for Imagi Animation Studios! Check out his step-by-step process for modeling a CG character for a tv pilot, and … Continue reading

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Sony Imageworks Announces Slate

AWN is reporting that Sony Pictures Imageworks has announced its films for 2008/2009 that are currently in production. Starting with Hancock, coming out this holiday weekend, there will be six other films to follow. The films include: –Action thriller EAGLE … Continue reading

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Trailer for Disney’s ‘Bolt’ released

Ever since Pixar and Disney made nice again, many animation fans have been waiting to see if John Lasseter, founder of Pixar and now head honcho at Disney can change that studios reputation from being a sequel factory, to the … Continue reading

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‘Astro Boy’ gets distributor

Animation Magazine reports that ‘Astro Boy’ the upcoming CG movie has just found a distributor in Summit Entertainment. The film is being created by Imagi Animation Studios who produced last year’s “TMNT”. “Astro Boy” is based on the popular manga … Continue reading

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Designer Marlet Finds His Inner Panda

Variety has an exclusive story on Nicolas Marlet, the sole character designer for Dreamworks’ newest animated feature film to be released next week, “Kung Fu Panda”. Since animation is such a collaborative process, rarely do you see only one designer’s … Continue reading

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Stan Lee Strikes Again

According to the Vancouver Sun, Stan Lee struck a deal with Rainmaker Animation, based in Vancouver, to create what they hope to be a CG series of movies based around Lee’s ‘Legion of 5′. The deal is estimated around $24 … Continue reading

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Disney/Pixar to 2012 and Beyond

Reuters reports that Walt Disney Studios announced their upcoming films slated through 2012. One of the biggest parts of the announcement was that all films released after Pixar’s Wall-E (June 28) and Disney’s hand-drawn The Princess and the Frog (Christmas … Continue reading

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Pixar Co-Founder to Speak at Siggraph 08

VFXWorld reports that Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and a pioneer in the film industry will be speaking at SIGGRAPH 2008. Catmull has worked over 30 years in a major role of inventing many of today’s present computer … Continue reading

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